Heavy Metal Fakk II (1999) – Michael Coldeway / Michel Lemire.

As belated sequels to bona fide 80s cult films go, the not quite so bona fide Heavy Metal Fakk II happily doesn't skimp on the bullet-shredded mayhem, or low-ball fans with the audacious boobage and salty badinage content. I've long been a 'Michael Ironside? Take my money now, dude!!!!' kinda dude, so I'm being anything but objective when I say his murderously megalomaniacal, eternal life elixir seeking sadist Tyler is the Fakk'n bomb! Briskly paced, with lively animation, and a stridently metallic score, this pleasingly straight forward Sci-fi shoot 'em up features a memorably gutsy Amazonian heroine(Julie Strain), Julie's prodigious pluck proved admirable, being an eminently root-able, voluptuously vengeance-seeking Valkyrie! On an entirely personal note, it would be unimaginable for me to truly dislike anything that excitingly began with a sequence galvanized by psychedelically tweaked Canadian thrashers Voivod! Unfortunately, it's not all wine and roses, I was unsettled by the wholly unfeeling way the amicably Pandrogynous cyber escort was so blithely destroyed!!?? Hey!!!! Sex droids lives matter too????!!!!! Don't judge me, lady!!! as it gets mad lonely up in space! In today's more politically sensitive climate, I'd hope that synthetic sex workers would be treated with much less antagonism.