Rock & Rule | FULL FEATURE | RETRO RERUN
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Channel: Retro Rerun
Views: 711,235
Rating: 4.9412031 out of 5
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Length: 78min 17sec (4697 seconds)
Published: Sat Nov 30 2019
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I am an animation fan going way back, and I used to have this movie on LaserDisc. It was always sort of a mixed bag to me. On the balance I liked it, but it also had some things that bugged me.
For example, the character designs… All of humanity wiped themselves out in World War III, so all the characters in the movie are supposed to have evolved from surviving animals. All the characters have a few goofy-looking animal-ish traits applied, so half-heartedly that it's rarely possible to match them with a species, and the result just looks like malformed humans. It seems as if they were trying to appeal to “furry” fans but had absolutely no clue how to go about it. (Omar’s nose/muzzle is particularly unfortunate.)
The soundtrack music is pretty good, and one track in particular I loved: Iggy Pop’s Pain And Suffering. Because of licensing problems, the soundtrack has never been published. It’s possible to find some of the tracks from other albums, but not all of them. For example, you can get Pain And Suffering from the Zombie Birdhouse album, but it’s not the same recording and lacks the intensity of the movie version.
EDIT: For a real post-apocalyptic animated head trip, I would suggest looking for Wizards. → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_%28film%29It’s also a flawed gem, mostly because of budget cuts, but very much a cult classic.
It’s on Amazon Prime if you want to stream it that way.
I love this movie! Evil Spelled Backwards is Live. One Voice. This makes a great double feature paired with Heavy Metal.