Heavy Metal
"Louder and nastier than ever"
(1981)
Director: Gerald Potterton
Writer: Daniel Goldberg & Len Blum
Genre: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
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Plot Synopsis:
Nine stories intertwine to form the animated awesomeness of Heavy Metal:
- Soft Landing - astronaut falls through space to the tunes of heavy metal
- Grimaldi - dad, the astronaut, brings home the Loc-Nar to his daughter
- Harry Canyon - New York taxi driver picks up beautiful, double-crossing babe
- Den - nerdy teen becomes buff-but-dumb dude in alternate world
- Captain Sternn - mild-mannered Hanover Fiste provides a lousy alibi for Captain Sternn
- B-17 - WWII Fighter pilots turn into zombies
- So Beautiful and So Dangerous - cocaine-loving aliens accidentally abduct an Earth secretary
- Taarna - beautiful mute warrior-goddess Taarna takes on the Loc-Nar
- Epilogue - the astronaut's daughter turns out to be someone important
Favorite Moments:
- The music! Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Devo, Sammy Hagar, Journey, and Blue Oyster Cult's Veteran of the Psychic Wars
- Den: "No hair. Mmmm. Big!"
- Captain Sternn's various sordid crimes, namely the preschooler's prostitute ring and selling dope disguised as a nun.
- So Beautiful and Dangerous robot: "I've been programmed to be fully proficient in sexual activities", years before Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Taarna: the barbarian leader winching up his bionic arm. The final reveal with Taarna and the Loc-Nar.
- South Park's spoof, Major Boobage, with heavy spoofing of Den, Taarna and Soft Landing.
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