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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.
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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
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to all who posses it. Its
destructive force is then
revealed in a series of
flashbacks.
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concerns a brutal cab driver
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woman who owns a
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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.
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