Heavy Metal 2000

Infobox Film
name = Heavy Metal 2000


caption = DVD cover
director = Michael Coldewey Michel Lemire
producer =
writer = Simon Bisley R. Payne Cabeen
starring = Michael Ironside Julie Strain Billy Idol
music =
cinematography = Bruno Philip
editing =
distributor = Sony Pictures Entertainment (DVD)
Starz Network (TV)
released = 2000
runtime = 88 min.
country = United States / Canada / Germany
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "Heavy Metal" (1981)
followed_by = "" (2000)
amg_id = 1:201755
imdb_id = 0119273

"Heavy Metal 2000" is the 2000 sequel to the 1981 animated cult film "Heavy Metal", based on the fantasy magazine of the same name. The story itself is based on the graphic novel, "The Melting Pot", written by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot. The film was made by CinéGroupe, a studio based in Montreal, Quebec.

Plot

Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar (the evil orb/glowing green ball of doom from the original movie), a miner named Tyler (voice of Michael Ironside) becomes possessed by an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for immortality. On his way to a planet which has a fountain of immortality, Tyler makes a pit stop at a planet designated F.A.K.K.² (Federation-Assigned Ketogenic Killzone) because its inhabitants carry some immortality water in their bodies. Tyler abducts a few people and kills the rest, but misses one: Julie (voiced by B-movie queen Julie Strain who is also Eastman's wife). She is described by Tyler as "a 6-foot bitch with a talking rock", the sole survivor enraged by Tyler's careless rampage. She vows to avenge her family and kill Tyler before he reaches the fountain—unaware that her sister Kerrie (Sonja Ball) is actually still alive. She is aided by a mysterious alien named Odin (Billy Idol), Zeek (a.k.a. the talking rock (who always refers to Julie as "soft one")) and reluctantly by Germaine, a former member of Tyler's highjacked crew left abandoned after he attempted to protect Kerrie, Julie's Sister.

Their search takes them to a space station that appears to be a hot bed of sleaze and depravity. As Tyler prepares to rape a waitress in a strip club, Julie intervenes and attempts to kill him. However, Tyler uses a serum his doctor created to immediately regenerate even his most fatal injuries. At that point, he blows up the club with grenades.

After escaping from the explosion, Julie then tracks Tyler to a desert planet where he discovers a war-like race of reptilian beings. He challenges their leader to a deathmatch in which he is almost killed, and wins by throwing the leader into the lava pit, making him the reptiles' new lord. Julie enters the city under the guise of a woman the reptiles found for Tyler, and attempts to kill him by jamming a horn from the previous reptilian lord's skull into Tyler's throat and attempting to shove his head into a lava fountain. Her attack fails and she escapes, which only angers Tyler.

Julie infiltrates Tyler's ship when she finds out Kerrie is still alive, and discovers that Tyler has been distilling the immortality serum from her peoples' bodies.

Game adaptation

The film had a sequel, a video game titled "", in which the player assumes the role of Julie as she fights to save Eden from an evil entity called "GITH". The game is set some time after the film and features cameo appearances of several movie characters, for example, Julie's sister Kerrie, the pilot Germaine (now married to Kerrie), and resurrected Tyler.

oundtrack album

Infobox Album
Name = Heavy Metal 2000 OST
Type = soundtrack
Artist = Various artists


Released = April 18, 2000
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock, alternative metal, hard rock, heavy metal, industrial metal
Length = 73:47
Label = Restless
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfrxqwkldse~T1 link]
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kvfqxqtkldte~T1 link]
Chronology = "Heavy Metal" film soundtracks
Last album = "Heavy Metal OST
(1981)
This album = "Heavy Metal 2000 OST"
(2000)
Next album =
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Heavy Metal 2000
Type = soundtrack


Lower caption = Alternate cover used for the "clean" edition of the album. Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Heavy Metal FAKK2
Type = soundtrack


Lower caption = "Heavy Metal FAKK2" soundtrack. The "Heavy Metal 2000 OST" is the 2000 soundtrack album to the film of the same name. The album features music by bands such as Coal Chamber, Apartment 26, Billy Idol, Monster Magnet, Pantera, System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age, Puya, and other prominent hard rock and alternative metal bands. The album also features industrial-oriented selections, and one hip hop track.

Track listing

#"F.A.K.K. U" — 1:44
#"Silver Future" by Monster Magnet — 4:29
#"Missing Time" by MDFMK — 4:35
#"Immortally Insane" by Pantera — 5:11
#"Inside the Pervert Mound" by Zilch — 4:07
#"Dirt Ball" by Insane Clown Posse and Twiztid — 5:33
#"Storaged" by System Of A Down — 1:17
#"Rough Day" by Days of the New — 3:18
#"Psychosexy" by Sinisstar — 4:02
#"Infinity" by Queens Of The Stone Age — 4:40
#"Alcoholocaust" by Machine Head — 3:38
#"Green Iron Fist" by Full Devil Jacket — 3:51
#"Hit Back" by Hate Dept. — 3:52
#"Tirale" by Puya — 5:34
#"Dystopia" by Apartment 26 — 2:56
#"Buried Alive" by Billy Idol — 5:10
#"Wishes" by Coal Chamber — 3:06
#"The Dog's a Vapour" by Bauhaus — 6:44

External links

* [http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD043396052673.html Sony Picture official site for the movie]
*imdb title|id=0119273
* [http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/movieshm2000.html Heavy Metal Magazine fan page]