Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)

"Heavy Metal 2000" is a worthy successor to 1981's "Heavy Metal". Made in the style of the original, it has a strong reminiscent of the eighties. Unlike the first one that is an omnibus, this one has only one story, but the story and characters at the level of the first movie. There is a bit less nudity and violence, and the soundtrack, although weaker than the one from the '80s, has several really good tracks, performed by the great names of its time. Those who loved the first should likewise love this one.7/10

It took 19 years for this sequel to be made and it certainly wasn't worth it. This was among the worst animated movies I've ever seen. This really has nothing to do with the original, other than the fact that the plot vaguely resembles the longest segment from the original film. That movie had variety as it was an anthology film that featured several different animation styles. This just has the same direct to video quality artwork throughout the whole film. I guess we can't just blame Disney for doing this.The plot is quite weak and very clichéd. A woman whose civilization was destroyed by an evil star lord has to stop him from becoming immortal. The film is even too short, with little character development. It's mostly an excuse to show uncalled for violence and nudity. I guess the voice acting isn't that bad. For me, it just has no reason to exist at all. *1/2

Heavy Metal 2000 is the sequel to the 1981 animated-anthology film "Heavy Metal".The original Heavy Metal was a great film.It combined humor, graphic violence, sex and interesting sci-fi storyline.It was an excellent animated film and it never gets old.Being a fan of the old one, I watched the sequel as well.The sequel is fairly different from the original.While the original was told in anthology form, this one is not.I have not seen this movie in a while so I do not remember the plot that much.It is actually a bit like the final story of the original "Heavy Metal".The animation is good, the same kind as featured in the film "Titan A.E", there are a few good songs, but the soundtrack is nowhere near as good as the original film, the violence and sex are still there.Overall, it's a decent film but nowhere near as good as the first film.

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.