1981's Heavy Metal is a classic in American animation that broke new ground in animation for adults rather than pander to the children's market dominated by the latest Walt Disney and Don Bluth film. The original film was an anthology of stories adapted from the graphic novel that reveled in stories that took sci-fi and fantasy to a new level.

Heavy Metal 2000 is nothing of what that film was. Influenced by the Simon Bisley, Kevin Eastman, & Eric Talbot story "The Melting Pot" this story of a woman Julie (voiced by Julie Strain) whose home world is destroyed by Tyler (voiced by Michael Ironside) and thus starts an adventure across galaxies in the name of revenge. There's not much to the plot of the film other than that. Tyler is in search of a great powers that will allow him to become an immortal and give him unlimited power and Julie is the person that stands in his way at every turn.

The film suffers from a too simplistic plot and mediocre animation that doesn't even come close to being better than the original film in spite of the almost twenty year gap in production and advances in animation. This film also does not have the ambience of the original nor the production design afforded by the original graphic novel therefore a lot of the locations are simplified as if from a Saturday morning cartoon.

It's interesting that the filmmakers decided to do another film based on the Heavy Metal brand but what was actually produced was not worth the wait.