heavy metal ( 1 outta 5 star ) i be very much into the heavy metal or metal hurlant magazine back in my late teen . and i think it be this movie that get me disinterested in the book for good . yes and there be some good material in the early issue but there be a lot of crap and too . too bad the crappy element of hm be all that seem to make it into this movie . a series of short sci fi or fantasy cartoon link by the lame device of some evil and sentient green jewel that set out to kill the one person that can destroy it . but first and it go to tell it victim several irrelevant story . most of the story be base on some of the best cartoon from the early year of hm . but the transition to animation doesn not do them any justice . the best cartoon of the bunch and captain stern be but a pale and pale echo of bernie wrightson original 7 page strip . every other sequence be just an endless parade of juvenile sex or drug joke and senseless bloody violence . i guess you could argue that that all the magazine ever be anyway . but at least there be an artistic vision behind it all . there be no art in this movie whatsoever . just clumsy animation and bad writing and crummy voice work and lousy inappropriate heavy metal music ( hey and the movie be call heavy metal . well cram some heavy metal music in it . ) i just recently saw the movie again to see if it be as bad a i remember . guess what . it be .