{"id":18478,"date":"2016-01-11T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2016-05-31T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T03:28:21","slug":"heavy-metal-2000-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/11\/heavy-metal-2000-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boobs! Big Boobs! Big beautiful breasteses! Now that that\u2019s out of my system, \u201cHeavy Metal 2000\u201d is primarily a sequel to pay tribute to the walking Amazonian that is Julie Strain. While it is adapted from a \u201cHeavy Metal\u201d novel like its superior animated entry, this is a film very much of its decade that is hell bent on convincing you that Julie Strain is a goddess. Not that it takes much convincing, mind you, but Strain succeeds in pull off a heroine who is very sexy but also tough as nails, and doesn\u2019t mind getting her hands dirty; especially when her equally sexy sister is taken hostage.<\/p>\n

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For some reason Loc-Nar shows up again this time in the form of a green crystal shard that is the desire of everyone in the universe. Though it lacks a name and voice, it\u2019s basically the same green mcguffin, but claimed by space miner Tyler. Michael Ironside has fun as Tyler, the space miner possessed by his lust for immortality who takes over a ship and begins spanning the galaxy and conquering seemingly desolate worlds to find the location of an immortality fountain granting him unlimited power and healing ability. \u201cHeavy Metal 2000\u201d lacks the anthology form of the 1981 animated film, and follows a wider narrative that attempts an epic scope. It almost achieves its purpose with its efforts to deliver adult animation, and some awfully sub-par CGI animation.<\/p>\n

After Tyler destroys Julie\u2019s planet and kidnaps her sister, Julie follows Tyler around trying to figure out how to kill him and race against his growing power as he inches closer to immortality. \u201cHeavy Metal 2000\u201d is a sub-par follow up with the just the amount of sub-standard animation that holds back the action and momentum like the first film. Sony doesn\u2019t seem to have sunk their top dollar in to this production, holding back a lot of the attempts to suck us in to the surreal science fiction world of \u201cHeavy Metal.\u201d For the most part, the voice performances are solid, especially by Strain who knows what kind of movie she\u2019s in and delivers about the best performance as the heroine as she can.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeavy Metal 2000\u201d isn\u2019t a masterpiece, but it\u2019s an interesting diversion that carries the tradition of the magazine with exploitation, misogyny, and gore. One of the many caveats that hold the film down is that the writers seem to run out of story after the hour mark, running on auto pilot with repetitive scenes of gore, wars, and naked woman galore. Much like the original film, if you take in to mind that \u201cHeavy Metal\u201d is pretty much exploitation and simple male wet fantasies, it\u2019s an interesting animated action film and a fine guilty pleasure. Plus, Strain\u2019s sexuality seeps beautifully through the animated character she portrays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boobs! Big Boobs! Big beautiful breasteses! Now that that\u2019s out of my system, \u201cHeavy Metal 2000\u201d is primarily a sequel to pay tribute to the walking Amazonian that is Julie Strain. While it is adapted from a \u201cHeavy Metal\u201d novel like its superior animated entry, this is a film very much of its decade that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,70,71,88,99,349,438,678,906,922],"class_list":["post-18478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adult","tag-adventure","tag-aliens","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-h","tag-monsters","tag-science-fiction","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20863,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions\/20863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}