Heavy Metal 4K 1981

For the first few minutes after watching it, you're just in a stupor. For this cartoon does not look like anything you've seen before, but then comes the realization that just the opposite, it looks like almost everything at once. It is very much, or rather almost everything, taken from the aesthetics of silly tabloid magazines.

It doesn't matter if the fantasy or sci-fi story is happening on the screen, it will still be insane, and it will be filled with sex and violence. Both, of course, become much more epic with a soundtrack of iconic metal songs.

I certainly didn't expect anything meaningful from a cartoon for adults made in the early eighties, much less one based on comic books. But the plot of most of the stories surprised me very unpleasantly. In fact, only B-52 and Tarna can be considered meaningful stories. Everything else seems more like blanks for something bigger.

Yes, and their connection between them is very, very doubtful, of course all of them present Lok Nar but its properties and even size change from story to story completely unpredictable way. Otherwise, the stories have no more points of intersection.

But despite all the questions I had, despite a bunch of flaws, it still stuck in my memory.