Day 133 - 5/13/09 - Movie #132
BEFORE: It took me a few decades to get around to watching the first "Heavy Metal" film, but only 9 years to watch its sequel - so that's progress, right? This is the third animated film I'm watching in a row with an interstellar quest for a mysterious planet, this one supposedly holds the secret of immortality...
THE PLOT: A miner becomes possessed by an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for immortality. On his way to the planet of youth, he wipes out most of a space colony and kidnaps a sexy woman. His big mistake is that he doesn't kill the woman's sister, Julie, who then sets out on a mission of rescue and revenge.
AFTER: The first "Heavy Metal" film was a collection of linked short stories, but this one is just one longer story - it's more coherent, but also less random fun. It takes place in a future with spaceships, but where people also still fight with swords and battle-axes. The villain, Tyler, has a Wolverine-like healing ability, and is being directed by an alien key (which according to the IMDB could be a piece of the Loc-Nar from the first film) towards... OK, honestly the back-story here is quite ridiculous, it just seems to exist as an excuse to show a lot of killings and topless space-chicks. Which pretty much describes the old Heavy Metal magazine too.
Cotton candy tastes great, but it's not very nutritious. Same with eye-candy.
RATING: 2 out of 10 beheadings
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Actually, I loved the first Heavy Metal film (watching it repeatedly on late night cable in the 80s), so I had to watch this film as soon as it came out. Since I knew it would never come to Japan, I bought the DVD as soon as it was available.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like on paper it captures all of what is Heavy Metal magazine, but as a film it didn't capture the teen fatasty angle which made the first film so enjoyable.