introduction-
i know what you're probably thinking, "heavy metal? what the fuck is that?" well, ethier that or "i wonder how big tom's dick is." ...but i really don't know why you would be thinking that...

anyway, heavy metal is a science-fiction/fantasy movie about a green orb known as "the loc-nar" and its effect across the entire universe.

the movie is made up of several stories, all of them strung together by the loc-nar.

the stories in the movie are:

Soft Landing
Grimaldi (the frame story)
Harry Canyon
Den
Captain Sternn
B-17
So Beautiful, So Dangerous
Taarna

i'm going to review each one of the stories and then give my verdict on this movie.

Soft Landing-
this isn't really so much a story as it is the intro.

it starts off with a giant space ship flying above earth, or what looks like it.

then it opens up a trap door, and a rocket car drops out with an astronaut driving it, he flys down to the earth and lands on a path infront of a cornfield that leads to a mansion, this leads to the frame story.

since this is the intro, i can't really rate it.

na/5

Grimaldi-
this story is the frame story , it takes place directly after the intro.

the astronaut walks inside his mansion and his daughter greets him, by "greets him" i mean she asks what he brought her.

the astronaut walks into the dinning room wih his child following him, he shows the girl what he brought for her: a green orb.

the green orb floats up in the air and melts the astronaut, the girl watching in horror.

the green orb reveals itself as the loc-nar, the sum of all evil, it pins the girl to the wall and tells her to gaze into him as he tells storys of the chaos and mayham he has caused across the universe.

this is the frame story, so again i can't rate it anything.

na/5.

Harry Canyon-
this is the first story the Loc-Nar tells, and the first real storie of the movie,it has a very noir-ish crime drama style, while still being set in the future, so its a future crime drama.

the story starts off with a a bunch of rat like men strip mining with a professor nearby, one of them uncovers the loc-nar, and it melts them, the professor watching in horror.

after that, the story focuses on harry canyon, a taxi-driver in future new-york, he picks up a thug looking guy, the thug asks him to go to the UN building (of course, in this future aliens have opened up relations with earth, and the entire planet is probebly under a single goverment by now, so a UN is worthless, ethier way in the movie it becomes low-rent housing.)

the thug holds a gun to harry's head, but harry seems unphased, this is the part of the movie the secert button on the floor of harry's cab is used, its a death ray, harry steps on it and veperises the thug.

he ends up picking up a girl some thugs are shooting at, and thats where the story really begins.

she reveals that shes the professor's daughter and that the thugs are a mafia after the loc-nar.

harry lets her stay at his place for the night.

the next morning he wakes up alone, two cops show up looking for the girl, he denies ever knowing her.

anyway after some threats from the mafia, the police, a message from a robot and an awesome chase scene he meets up with the girl at the statue of liberity, the girl shows harry the loc-nar, and says she just wants it gone.

she says she made a deal with the mob, they give her 30,000 space dollars and she gives them the loc-nar, but she dosen't trust them, so she asks harry to escort her.

the deal goes down perfectly, harry doesn't have to fire a single shot, harry and the girl drive away, the mafia guy tries to grab the Loc-nar, but it melts him.

while harry and the girl are driving away, the girl reveals she wants all the money, she holds a gun to his head and asks him to pull over.

harry pulls over and asks the girl "is this really what you want?" and the girl replies "positive."

then harry steps on the laser button and kills her, taking all the money for himself.

this story mixes science fiction with crime drama in a very nice way, it also makes good use of retroscoping, like the entire movie.

4/5 could have afew more fight scenes, but its one of the best stories in the movie.

----oh fuck it------

10/10

a great animated film, you xshould check it out.

buy the dvd online, becuase it rocks.

great animation, great soundtrack, great everything.