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'lleflW Me Wrnmwm7 wMimmml m Sk mmmmm 1 ! i featuring the work! i Brueghel I Cezanne j Chagall ! Dali ; Degas J Gauguin ' Homer f Kandinsky ; Klee Lautrec Magritte and many more tal'ls Lightw :^mmmmamamaaaKm ( ART PRINT SALE This week Only! E s of: Miro Modigliani Monet Picasso WHERE: Rembrandt (jf rain Rousseau TIME: 1( Cai i?"tf uTrmo ?< DATE:S van Gogh bp 8 >> vermeer i f 'f wyeth ' . 1 | Spor ^ - ' Q'f russell house r) ueiflht By DOUG BELL Him Critic Ideally, Gerald Potterton's "Heavy Metal" is a sort of acid rock "Fantasia" ? an animated film in which music inspires impressively dramatic and colorful images. But where Stravinsky and Mussorgsky conjure up Umnno fKn mnein nf Uctlltlil^ mpjAJO, UIV lliuuiv VI such groups as Cheap Trick and Blue Oyster Cult ' imagines some of the most violent and disenchanted visuals in the history of animation. The plot is mediocre science-fiction. Somewhere in uie luiuic, a sciuiuc lexplorer brings home a suspicious container. Out of this Pandora's box bursts a huge, green-glowing ball that kills the scientist and thrusts his terrified daughter against a wall. To her, it proclaims it is the 4,TirJ1 Hiwi" t K o t hrinrtc Hnnm AJ V II V/IIV tliU V mgu VkWtAi to all who posses it. Its destructive force is then revealed in a series of flashbacks. ONE SUCH flashback concerns a brutal cab driver in the grim but computerized * *t?1_ r\?Un iNew iurk V/iiy ui urc iuiuic. He agrees to protect a woman who owns a miniature version of the evil green ball (which, predic Fantastic Pric Quality Art Reproductio Three Large Prir only $8.50 One Large Prints Mats Onlv S4.0 ames only $3.50 an Special Print-Mat and Fra for only $12.00 AISO i4-i?i il I rv )CdUlli Ul LdDCI IJIIULU Travel, Scenic ari Endangered spec posters only S4.C in Front of Russell t in lobby) ) a.m. -6 p.m. e%v\4- Qfh . 11fh UV2 a ivan tsored by: Russell House Union Visual Art Comn Sci-Fi tably, the mobsters are after). The next thing you know, the two are engaged in i fKn film acuvuica wiiiv.ii, 11 nit Him were live action rather than animation, might have caused it to receive a more ^ severe rating. ("Heavy Jo rot a A R \ Within lUClCIl lO 1 UiVU *.% / fTIMHH minutes, they are both dead: he murders her and the mean green sphere gets him. The succeeding flashbacks offer the same empty barrage of violence and sex, with a heavy dosage of drugs Koi'o onH thorp Rnrh now 11V& \/ U11U wava %/. -W?? ?* batch of characters is equally stale and unsympathetic, with one ex- | ception: when a slight and studious teenager is transformed into a superhuman he-man, he is genuinely funny in responding to his new strengths. "HEAVY METAL" is an ambitious film. The animation itself is often strikingly detailed and colorful, but thematically it is vapid and empty. I am not I a fan of any of the rock groups who perform on the soundtrack. Nor am I eauiDDed to dispute their artistic integrity. But if the general sense of coldness and alienation found in this film is a true reflection of their music, I am inclined to shun them. pc ! ' %.,/ jl j ns | its j 3.50 j o i id $6.50 ; I me j i i S $5.00 S d j ies I )0 j louse I 2 ! i j i * j I i University \ littee j