10 Failed Space Operas That Bombed With Mainstream Audiences
3. The Fail Is All Around You - Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
In 1981, the boob-laden Canadian animated feature Heavy Metal met with mixed reviews and flopped at the box office. However, the sci-fi fantasy spectacle gained a cult following from midnight night showings akin to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. For nearly two decades, fans pined for a sequel. In a case of be careful what you wish for, directors Michael Coldewey and Michel Lemire finally brought fans the dire follow-up Heavy Metal 2000. The sequel abandoned the anthology structure of the first Heavy Metal in favor of telling a single story. Taken from a graphic novel, The Melting Pot, published in the Heavy Metal comic book series, Heavy Metal 2000s tells the tale of a badass warrior named Julies quest to stop a psychotic space serial killer from becoming immortal. The threadbare narrative had barely enough material and incident to fill out its meager runtime, resulting in a surprisingly dull movie given the ample amounts of violence and gore it contained. Critics pilloried the disappointing follow-up to the cult classic, giving it a whopping 0% on the review aggregator website Rottentomatoes.com. The would-be cult classic faded into obscurity, failing to find a loyal cult akin to the first Heavy Metal feature.
