Rock & Rule

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[/POSTER][MOVIE]Title: Rock & Rule

Tagline: The Beauty... The Beast... The Beat!

Genre: [GENRE]Action[/GENRE], [GENRE]Adventure[/GENRE], [GENRE]Animation[/GENRE], [GENRE]Fantasy[/GENRE], [GENRE]Science Fiction[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Clive A. Smith[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Don Francks[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Susan Roman[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Paul Le Mat[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Samantha Langevin[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Dan Hennessey[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Chris Wiggins[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Greg Duffell[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Brent Titcomb[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Donny Burns[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Martin Lavut[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Catherine Gallant[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Keith Hampshire[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Melleny Brown[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Anna Bourque[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Nick Nichols[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]John Halfpenny[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Maurice LaMarche[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Catherine O'Hara[/ACTOR]

Release Date: [RELEASE]1983-04-15[/RELEASE]

Runtime: [RUNTIME]77[/RUNTIME]

Plot: [PLOT]Angel, a member of a punk rock band in the apocalyptic future, is kidnapped by Mok, a legendary superocker. Obsessed with a dark experiment, Mok plans to use Angel's voice to summon a demon from another dimension. The rest of the band follows Mok to Nuke York in an attempt to get her back.[/PLOT][/MOVIE][/CONTAINER]
 
Review: A movie that had a lot of production problems, and it shows. However I have to give this film a lot of credit. It's an absolutely beautiful movie, even if some of the animation and script doesn't really flow perfectly together. Some scenes seem rather clunky and a few jokes are ruined by a poor voice performance or bad editing. A lot of it is hit and miss, but... I still enjoy it. I still show it to those who have any bit of interest. I mean as far as adult animation goes this one is probably one of the better ones that you'll find in the 70s, 80s era. Ralph Bakshi seemed to be the king of that genre, yet this film is so much better than any of his. At least this one is fully animated, beautifully. They may have had buget problems, but they didn't resort to taking stock footage of an army, draw horns on everyone and call it "animation".
 
My name is Mok, thanks alot.

As a fan of the glam rock era, I loved the hell out of this movie. You just have to watch it more as an extended music video with a loose narrative like The Wall, rather than a narrative film.
 
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