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Bookmark this pageHeavy Metal (1981)
Director: Gerald Potterton
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From Time Out Film Guide
Among those listed in the credits are a handful of collaborators whose reputations should be rescued from the cosmic junkheap this deserves to rust on - notably writer Dan O'Bannon - but the collective animators of this dopey Disney parody (reportedly 1,000 artists working in five cities simultaneously) still have a lot to answer for. Fantasies that are gratuitously sexist and Fascist (macho whoring and warmongering), and whose roots reach all the way back to post-hippie paranoia, feed the tangled plot-lines of a movie that, given the orchestral overkill and surprisingly low profile of heavy metal music, should disappoint even the teenage wet-dreamers it's aimed at.Author: MA
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- And to think I was going said...
- Posted on Jan 24 2012 01:57 And to think I was going to talk to somonee in person about this.
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- Chris Beard said...
- Posted on Dec 18 2011 03:28 This was a great movie but what happend to the double upercut with out that one move that was tought to Atom. Atom clearly won the fight and the upercut would have been the perfect ending
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- James said...
- Posted on Oct 04 2011 21:40 As written above in another comment, I think the reviewer "MA" is an absolute idiot. This movie was made in the 80's and this individual completely missed the point. This movie is an either love it or hate it. Needs to be seen at least once by all! :D
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- Formal de Hyde said...
- Posted on Feb 13 2011 03:36 I think the reviewer rather missed the point, this film is related to Heavy Metal comics--not music! As such it does very well, bringing the artwork of the comics to life in a very convincing way and is, I believe, very amusing. Clearly if you choose to take it seriously you could criticise away, but really--to accuse it of fascism seems a bit childish. I would recommend this to anyone...
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Cast & crew
Director: Gerald Potterton
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Don Francks, Richard Romanus, John Candy, John Vernon full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 90 mins
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