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  Review by laird ★★★★ 3

  Can't help but wonder how much better Endgame would have been if Thanos sang a song ("My Name Is Thanos") and Iron Man wore roller skates.

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★ 3

  Absolutely the kind of dystopian grime animation I would have been crazy about as a 14 year old. My fiancé loves this movie and was shocked I hadn’t seen it... we rectified that and here we are... this was totally my jam!

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  Review by mrbalihai ★★★ 8

  In the future, lip cells are harvested from Mick Jagger and Tim Curry, then gene-spliced with David Bowie's left testicle, to create a rockstar who looks like a 100-year old Steven Tyler and sings like Lou Reed.

  His name is Mok...thanks a lot.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 2

  Only in the wake of prog rock concept albums, disco cocaine, and glam rock excess would the idea of an animated rotoscoped film with a backstory involving nuclear war, mutated rats and dogs and cats, and rock'n'roll have survived to be a completed film. Why Jim Steinman wasn't somehow involved, I don't know. The people who made this must have thought they were cooler than that, but they really weren't.

  It feels like Bakshi, but it's not nearly as racist. Though everyone's a mouse or a dog person or something, so maybe I just missed the cues. The blending of animation styles (as noted elsewhere) makes the dystopian setting seem more chaotic and unruly, but the dubbing (especially during the songs) is so off it distracts. (And the soundtrack is bait-and-switch--I got very excited by those names, but none of them provided their best work.)

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  Review by RatJacko ★★★½ 4

  A horrific, actually repulsive mashup of A Goofy Movie and Heavy Metal that uses what looks like Don Bluth-style animation in rotoscope to create the most singular piece of furry nightmare fuel you've ever seen. Anyway I loved it

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  Review by Ira Brooker ★★ 7

  A rock star who talks like Dr. Klaw and sings like Lou Reed kidnaps a singer who sounds like Debbie Harry from a band that sounds like Cheap Trick in a quest for world domination. I don't know if there is a right way to watch this movie, but I can attest that stone-cold sober is not it.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 11

  34th Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch

  The Collabs keep rock & roll alive! Following Neil Young's hallucinogenic trip, we now go animated in a fantasy adventure set in an apocalyptic America where people have been wiped out and replaced with mutant humanoid creatures. The film follows a group of youthful musicians who attempt to bring an end to an old yet iconic rock singer named Monk, whose dwindling fame pushes him to destroy the planet using the power of a special voice whose frequencies may release a powerful demon from another realm.

  Needless to say, the music is amazing, both the soundtrack, which includes songs by Cheap Trick, Iggy Pop, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Debbie Harry, and the…

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  Review by COBRARocky ★★★

  Those strange first steps into "Adult Animation" resulted in bizarre films like this. Too dark for the kids and too bizarre for the adults. The character animation in particular is worthy of note, whoever animated the Mok characters mouth is going above and beyond the call of duty.

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  Review by Joshua Dysart ★★★½ 8

  “It ended up shelved for over twenty years; surfacing only as fill-in material for HBO and Showtime in the ‘80s and circulating on bootleg VHS tapes often incorrectly crediting Ralph Bakshi as the director.”

  I was that kid. That 80's HBO (and Night Flight too) kid. I didn’t know how good I had it! I saw this a lot at the age of 13 or 14. I remember loving it, but didn’t remember anything else. I had no idea how it would stand in the light of my now aged and termite invested mind. But this was very awesome indeed. I could watch two seasons of this, easy. Three if they kept it lively and did some kind of big…

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  Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★½ 2

  Viewed with the Amazing Edith's *Collab Film Group* -- rock on brah 🤙🤘

  The power of nostalgia is crippling, but I can also say I am immensely impressed with every single moment of animation here. When I was a wee lad I had an affinity for the Don Bluth vehicle Rock-a-Doodle, which is more or less, the G version of this film with perhaps a slightly better designed main character and heavy (and much sillier story). Rock and Rule is another one of those examples that reminds me of Frank Frazetta's artwork, which is always a plus.

  In a post-apocalyptic future, humanoid mice have populated the world, mutated in to their preceding man-made counterparts. Creative names like "Ohmtown" and "Nuke-York" add some great fluff…

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  Review by Meli🦭🌻🎧 ★★★★½ 5

  I literally gRABBED AND STARTED B I T I N G my hoodie when I saw Angel in the first five minutes ofc this was gonna be fire omg man i love women

  I CANT STRESS ENOUGH HOW MUCH I FUCKING LOVE ROCKSTARS AND DEMON SHIT AND ALL TOGETHER IN A SINGLE MOVIE MADE ME HAVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS ONE. I could say that the best moments were the ones were they sang but that was literally almost the whole thing so I don’t know what else to say about this movie but how cool it was and how it made me realize that even after 8 years when I first saw Bon Jovi’s…

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★★ 2

  finds a comfortable middle ground between something as crude (in aesthetic and tone) as Heavy Metal and something as decidedly 80s and corny as Xanadu, resulting in an exquisitely soundtracked 77 minute feature that feels like a stoner movie made for children -- honestly rather delightful