juliano66 This is about as bad as it gets folks. I usually won't bother reviewing a film I only got ten minutes into and this is no exception. This is not a review but a fervent prayer. The folks at HM had long since sold out years before this 'flick' was aborted out of their greasy grimy orifices, but to see so much negativity in so short a period of time was almost heroically criminal. The spirit of the original HM was spit, shat, vomited and peed on so much in the first 10 minutes, I had to run, nay fly to my laptopper to vent my spleen. Thank goodness for IMDb, and thank the Cosmos for Karma. The perpetrators of this atrocity will pay for their crime by being forced to watch this monstrosity for years and years or at least until they hunt down and burn/erase every copy of this insult to the concept of eyes. This one was such a letdown, even the Great Space-Demon demanded his money back, and he's the one who commissioned it! :)

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.

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.