Heavy Metal (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #24 extract: Heavy metal (1981)

With shades of awesomeness and shades of stupidity, Heavy Metal is a film that has seemingly been created and written by a group of very talented fifteen-year-olds who've had some elaborate and crazy wet dreams. 

On the positive side, there is some impressive rotoscoping and manipulation of the frame to create some highly creative, even stunning, sequences. What's more, the fantastical and absurd nature of this film that pulls no punches is, in itself, pretty cool. On the negative side, this is plain dumb in a plethora of respects. 

All in all, this is good fun that could have had 10 minutes cut from it. Many won't like it. Others will. It's not a masterpiece.