lone_wolf_fenrir Alright...i was expecting something great, heavy metal, bad-ass action with crazy gorgeous women fighting big bad dudes in a sci-fi setting. Forget about the bad-ass action and welcome to crappy animation ! This sounds and looks like a bad GI Joe TV episode. I'm not sure what the hell they were thinking but i've rarely seen animation so poorly done, the movements are ridiculous and the 2D drawing part is badly integrated with the 3D scenery. It's even bad to the point that when you get a scene with only 3D stuff, it actually looks much better...and right away i thought the 3D was pretty bad. I don't even want to talk about the dubbing..."big names" don't necessarily mean they can actually dub and this movie proves it.Well that pretty much sums it up, it's animated like it came out of a kindergarten and the story isn't much better. The audio track is also lacking, which is sad for a "heavy metal" movie, it never feels like it's adequate to the "action" on the screen and overall also feels cheap.Don't watch it, you'll just waste your time.

JoeB131 Unfortunately, this film is just a rehash of the 1981 classic, particularly the last story about Tarna. (They even redid the whole "Swimming to get your battle armor" scene.) Essentially, the plot is that a guy is infected by a glowing green evil that makes him into a homicidal maniac, seeking to destroy. In the process, they slaughter the heroine's community, and she goes on a quest to hunt down the raiders and avenge them.Let's talk about sex. This film has a couple of nude shots where it looks like you are going to get some sex scenes, but then they pull out at the last minute. Coitus Interruptus! The 1981 original actually contained several graphic sex scenes. This film pulled out (pun intended) just in time.Michael Ironside does a great job as the villain, exuding menace over his character's poor animation. But overall, it's barely worth watching...

Nordicnorn Another review here mentioned the likelihood that this was a Julie Strain Ego stroke. I kind of have to agree. I find her a terrible,not-worth-the celluloid actress, although as a cartoon she is better than in real life. The storyline was really weak. So weak in fact one has to wonder if they wrote the entire script on a paper cocktail napkin while out drinking one night. True, the first Heavy Metal's storyline was a little disjointed, but it had multiple contributors and was the first of it's kind. And as the first it was good... and FUN. This one was not fun. There was no ironic/dark comedy moments. You knew where the story was going from moment one. Total formula I could not get involved with these characters either. The writing just never made me care. Lastly there was no sense of adventure. It was just very, repeat VERY, mediocre. Leave it on the shelf at the video store.

rams_lakers In the age of bad sequels, bad remakes, and wannabes.....Heavy Metal 2000 ranks (reeks?) high on the crap meter. You can't hope to equal a legend, and this one falls way short of the 1981 flick. Oh, how they try to parallel some ideas, like a warlord chick who likes to fight in bars and likes to get naked, a bad guy with an elongated jaw, and a dug up green glowing light mainly because they can't think of original ideas. Much of the nudity in this cartoon could be called "forced nudity" - where they really don't have a good reason to have it but want to add it in merely because they can. That sex-bot was totally lame, it had no place in the story other than an excuse to get nasty. The little rock alien's lines were stupid. "Ohh you're soft," he says to the femme fatale heroine. He repeats that she's soft again a minute later for those who didn't get it the first time. Great writing!! NOT!! The villain was annoying, I'd much rather have a cool steaming Darth Vader or Rutger Hauer type than some anonymous big mouth. The warlord chick couldn't act, in fact this whole cartoon fell short on acting ability. The character animation was lame, I felt like I was watching after-school cartoons from the 90s. People just DON'T move their heads around to different positions while casually talking! It's evident throughout the movie that these second-rate animators just HAD to have movement by every living thing in every scene. Sometimes a still character works in a scene, they don't have to be gyrating all the time like they were suffering from ADD. Again, the head movements while talking - highly unnecessary! Use a head thrust to accent a strong point, not every time the subject speaks! The backgrounds were awesome, the smoke was awesome, other than that - it wasn't groundbreaking at all. Characters walked as stiffly as they spoke. There were some in-betweens skipped during the walking animation. Original HM features rotoscope in the final feature, which blows this to shame. These newer animators need to study Disney. The story itself was weak. The music sucked, and did not match what was going on in the film. The animation got tired after 30 minutes. Another reason why the original worked was because before you got enough of it, the animation was passed to a different style. Billy Idol's voice - was this done just to add some sort of 80s legitimization? I give this piece O crap wannabe a 2 of 10. Avoid at all costs. Heavy Metal 2000: meet Blues Brothers 2000 - at the bottom of the Wal-Mart discount bin.