A classic animated comic-book Rock adventure! Great songs by Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Cheap Trick, Debbie Harry and others. It's a great fantasy science fiction setting with rockers, a demon, heavy ogre guards, a beautiful singer and her devoted band. It's a fun ride with mature them... read more
Don Francks,
Paul Le Mat,
Susan Roman,
Dan Hennessy,
Maurice LaMarche
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A rock & roll singer searches for eternal life in this animated musical fantasy set in a post-nuclear dystopia. Similar to the earlier Heavy Metal (1981) in tone, this film attempts to incorporate myt... read more
DVD Release Date: June 25, 1991
Stats: 236 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (236)
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July 8, 2010
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December 20, 2009
I see the appeal, just not a big of fan of this one. I do love Bakshi though.
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December 3, 2009
It was equal parts good, and equal parts bad. The voice acting was atrocious, the animation was good. The heroes were annoying, the villain was totally awesome. The story was pretty weak, the music was fantastic (seriously, if there's a soundtrack album for this movie out there, ... read more
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October 28, 2011
An alright Canadian made, poor man's Heavy Metal. Thts not to say that this isn't good, it's just not great, and throughout the whole thing I kind of wished I was watching Heaby Metal or a Ralph Bakshi flick. The story was pretty cheesy, and the music dates this movie pretty badl... read more
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July 8, 2010
Eh, it was alright. It was an excuse for me to hear old rock music to old school hand-drawn animation.
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November 12, 2008
I probably would have enjoyied it more if I liked the songs before hand, but not bad animation, a little boring at time, but then again that's just me.
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January 3, 2012
I enjoyed this one well enough, though it never really grabbed me 100% because the animation seemed to be more important than the actual storyline, which made very little sense to me as far as why the Mok character wanted to destroy the world to...destroy the world? I dunno.
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April 18, 2009
This movie is gripping and with great characters that add with the comedy and the action for this movie.
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November 12, 2008
classic animation--but what can you say about a cyberpunk rock opera with anthropomorphic characters and overtones of H.P. Lovecraft?
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November 12, 2008
Outstanding animation and music make this one to catch. Its set years after WWIII where the only survivors mutated from Dogs, Cats and Rats, and Mok a ledgendary superstar wants to raise a daemon and take over the world, but he needs a special voice to sing the song to do it. Mea... read more
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Rock & Rule is a masterpiece of outré animation and wildly ambitious vision and remains a triumph in animated feature film. Full Review
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