Post by doomedbloodwork on Jul 29, 2004 7:39:24 GMT -5
This is a stunner of a cult movie. An animated companion piece to the likes of the Manga / Pokemon movies which have seen the light of day recently and one worth seeing now that it has been resurrected for DVD.
Sandwiched between the David Cronenberg movies he produced and the more commercial collaborations with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ivan Reitman produced this collection of tales, similar in style to CREEPSHOW. Whereas that film concerns itself with a discarded comic-book as the link between the tales, HEAVY METAL (based on the successful comic book in the US) is concerned with a glowing green orb that has various propensities for destruction. It was released through Columbia Pictures in 1981.
The story opens with a young girl who encounters the orb which speaks to her and tells of the tales that unfold. There is a mix of sex, violence, gore and broad humour and the style reminded me of the recent Lucy Liu character's backstory in KILL BILL VOL.1, if you want a point of reference to watch it.
This is not Looney Tunes. Neither is it the classic TV style of Hanna-Barbera. But it is superb animation, closer in spirit to Ralph Bakski's FRITZ THE CAT adult cartoon and his 1978 version of LORD OF THE RINGS (which was never truly completed after the original release and which nobody attempted to do so until Peter Jackson and New Line came along)
There are some nice touches in the film and if you have seen sci-fi spoofs like FLESH GORDON, it is on a par with that in terms of the humour.
Sandwiched between the David Cronenberg movies he produced and the more commercial collaborations with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ivan Reitman produced this collection of tales, similar in style to CREEPSHOW. Whereas that film concerns itself with a discarded comic-book as the link between the tales, HEAVY METAL (based on the successful comic book in the US) is concerned with a glowing green orb that has various propensities for destruction. It was released through Columbia Pictures in 1981.
The story opens with a young girl who encounters the orb which speaks to her and tells of the tales that unfold. There is a mix of sex, violence, gore and broad humour and the style reminded me of the recent Lucy Liu character's backstory in KILL BILL VOL.1, if you want a point of reference to watch it.
This is not Looney Tunes. Neither is it the classic TV style of Hanna-Barbera. But it is superb animation, closer in spirit to Ralph Bakski's FRITZ THE CAT adult cartoon and his 1978 version of LORD OF THE RINGS (which was never truly completed after the original release and which nobody attempted to do so until Peter Jackson and New Line came along)
There are some nice touches in the film and if you have seen sci-fi spoofs like FLESH GORDON, it is on a par with that in terms of the humour.
