BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
mike48128
Mythical nonsense about a special magic water that drives men mad and makes them indestructible and immortal. It's held on a mysterious planet, guarded by a special crystal key and two guardians. A few naked scenes but in this semi-sequel the "nasty bits" are fuzzed out and not as sexy. Bloody, violent, a juvenile "graphic novel" as "Tyler" (the evil water "vampire") drains people of their life-giving essence and saves Julie's sister for desert. Sick. Crude dialog. All the cuss words including the big "F". Ultimately the two sisters use swordplay to chop up dozens of reptile henchmen at the temple. Yum. Probably a bit less shocking due to the fact it's a Canadian-German production and 19 years after the original, which grossed 20 million and sold a million VHS copies for Columbia. Dinosaurs "mating". Robotic sex androids for sale. A sexy bar with barely-dressed women and aliens. Too much conventional animation in the climatic battle scenes but some pretty-decent computer animation throughout much of the film. Only one storyline. Not an anthology like Heavy Metal (1981). It's unoriginal. It borrows from everybody including Star Wars and Titian A.E. Why does the symbolic rock carving at the end look like a Menorah? The rock n' roll music doesn't fit at all and is most annoying. The "key" to the waters looks like the white crystal from Superman's Fortress of Solitude and turns green at the end. The practically naked heroines barely get injured! Is it the special waters or just industrial-grade underwear? A one-time viewing for me. I did not like it at all.
mergatroid-1
Heavy Metal magazine was one of the best things growing up. I have both of the movies and still love the original, but this movie does not compare at all. The story is a little laughable. Heavy Metal has literally hundreds of stories to pick from so why they selected this one I just don't know. The animation is good, and so are the acting talents even without John Candy. They could have done so much better though.One scene is stolen directly from the first movie, almost literally. The heroin babe of the story has to dress in her sexy battle outfit, and they could have just copied and pasted the scene from the first movie considering it's almost exactly the same. Talk about lazy.If you see this on TV (Teletoon or something) it's worth a watch, but personally I wouldn't pay any more than $5 bargain bin prices for it.
japanman8913
Heavy Metal 2000...what a waste of life. The acting was abysmal, the writing was atrocious, the plot was simplistic, the animation was atrocious and a waste of production, the whole movie lacked in every respect. I had great hopes for Heavy Metal 2000, when I saw the original Heavy Metal a year or so ago, but when I finally set eyes upon the film, I I was disgusted...they could have done so much more (or less in some areas). I also felt that Heavy Metal 2000 was filthy in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. I respect them for making this film Rated R, but for fu*ks sake, do it the right way, don't just throw some filth in a scene that doesn't need it. I'd give this film a 1/10, making the worst piece of more adult animation I have ever seen. A disgrace to the original "Heavy Metal". Excuse me while I go burn this atrocity. I got it for free and I feel cheated.
krasnaya
I didn't actually watch this film in its entirety until now. During my many previous attempts, I would always fall asleep, or become distracted by something else. Finally, tonight, I was miraculously able to sit through the whole thing. After two decades have passed, how can you create a sequel worthy of the cult status garnered by the original; one that wouldn't completely disappoint fans? The answer from the creators of HM 2000 is apparently, "why bother?" Cheesy CGI is unevenly exchanged, back and forth, with hand-drawn animation, making the flow and appearance of the film choppy. Scenes resembling 2D Disney animation suddenly, without warning, cut into 3D video-game-like graphics. Were the deadlines really harsh enough to justify this kind of Adobe software abuse? The voice actors were hopelessly emotionless and deadpan. Never have I heard less inflection in a character's delivery. It sounded like they'd never actually rehearsed the lines, and were reading them for the first time. If your friend was being electrocuted in front of you, would you speak to them like you were reading out of a textbook? Also, Taarna was a MUCH better (and hotter) heroine than Julie. She actually had depth, emotion, courage, character development, and heart. She is a martyr, and her conflicts have a meaningful purpose that can be both personal and universal. All Julie does is fight. Her personality lacks dimension.... you can't empathize with her because no softer, human side is presented to the viewer. And then there's the music. One of the great things about the original was how the songs blended into the scenes, and they played a good portion of each song. In HM 2000, you hear only short blips that don't particularly pertain to the visual action. Add juvenile humor, stereotypical movie clichés ("the key has never been found.... UNTIL NOW"), and you have a recipe for cinematic disaster. Save for the title, HM 2000 had absolutely NOTHING to do with the original. They have nerve marketing it under the same name. If you are currently suffering from insomnia, this is a must-own DVD.
