Metal Hurlant Chronicles: The Complete Series

Good: A hardcore, wildly creative, 21st-century re-imagining of anthology science fiction a la Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. Only one or two weak stories in the bunch. Perfectly captures the look, feel and spirit of the Metal Hurlant / Heavy Metal magazines upon which it's based - if you like the magazine, or the 1981 Heavy Metal movie, you'll like this. DVD/BR version is worth it just to lose the intrusive SyFy bugs and snipe ads.Bad: It quickly becomes obvious that we're not exactly talking Peter Jackson budgets or production values, especially when watching the Blu-Ray version. (In the future, Distressed Flat-Black Is The New Black.) Overacting is part of the panache here, but even at that the scenery-chewing can get irritating at times. Soundtrack is great, but can be overbearing at times. ONLY TWELVE EPISODES - sigh.Ugly: The aforementioned weak stories are REALLY bad.Bottom line: This collection isn't for everyone. Expect PG-13 to soft-R levels of unabashedly gratuitous language, sex and violence, along with bizarre, often-incomprehensible plots. Avant-garde SF fans will love it. Fundamentalists and pop-music fans will run screaming from it. If you're somewhere between these extremes, you owe it to your immortal soul to give this a try. Five stars, and by Ghordjazz they'd better make more.

I find that trying to explain the stories is daunting. Instead, I will give you the names of the episodes (6 each on two discs) will give you an idea of you are interested in those particular stories, or not.Disc 1:1. King's Crown2. Shelter me3. Red light/Cold hard facts4. Three on a match5. Master of destiny6. Pledge of AnyaDisc 2:1. Whiskey in the jar2. The Endomorphs3. Loyal Khondor4. Second chance5. Second son6. Back to realityObviously, this is eclectic. The rest is up to you.

Reminiscent of early ensemble shows like Playhouse 90 and such, where the same actors play different roles in the play of the week. Some of the stories are better than others., but if you enjoy SF/SciFi that likes to challenge things, and sometimes dips into darker themes, give this a run. I was a tad put off by the end of the first one story as it was a downer, and it does set the tone. However, stay with it, and the final episode wraps things up neatly, and it's worth the time. Some interesting guest stars, too. Gritty yet satisfying. Recommended.

Odd but most are fun but dark Sf done on a shoestring budget with lots of Green screen work. It remind me of some old 70's SciFi made by BBC with solid novella stories converted into a script. I understand it's based on a french SciFi magazine that was the inspiration for Heavy Metal movie and magazine so not surprise. Only a few really disappointing stories, and that just may be a difference in taste. Some episode I wished were expanded into a longer length, Cameo's by actors I have seen in other SciFi about 10 years ago esp on SciFi channel back then.

The special effects and the actors and actresses are very good but the plots are poorly written and some of them don’t make sense to me,but if you just want to see special effects and great costumes…then this short series is for you.

Delivered on time and intact. Series of shorts much akin to Twilight Zone meets Heavy Metal (the movie). Decent acting but plots are so-so. Ok but not one I'm adding to my library

Well im a huge fan of Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal 2000 and Michael Jai White...no matter how great or terrible this movie is im gonna rate it high as possible. My only gripe is that i was expecting an actual series with continuity, when in fact its just like the Heavy Metal anime where u get a bunch of random stories based on the encounter of the floating rock. The stories are ok and the acting and special effects arent bad. This is a must have for fans but movie buffs might not be impressed.

A big hunk of smoking metal ( Metal Hurlant) causes odd events on planets and spaceships as it seems to rush around the universe to no purpose. The front story tells us it`s all that remains of a wonderful planet destroyed by it`s selfish and ecologically stupid life forms......get it ?? sound familiar..?? we better wake up OR...The 12 or so episode's contained on 2 DVD`s are based on a French comic book stories , very in length and have decent if unspectacular production values and range from mildly entertaining to yawn worthy to just dumb. All are dreary, depressing messages. The English speech dubbing is decent to painful. Many stories feel disjointed, probably were longer, and cut with an axe in editing.The title screen of each disc have several short teasers of very hot and beautiful leather clad woman in spike heel boots fighting, and man - hunks in thongs on thrones...none of which actually appear in the stories. Maybe we will see another disc called " The Lost Episodes "... BTW: The cover art pictured above is nowhere to be found in any story.

Metal Hurlant es una antología de historias cortas de fantasía y ciencia ficción. Se basa en la revista Heavy Metal y respeta el formato que utilizaba esta publicación. Aunque los relatos son interesantes los valores de producción de la serie son mediocres en general, desde los efectos especiales, como el guión y la mayoría de las actuaciones. Fue muy grato encontrar a actores como Scott Adkins, Dominique Pinon, Kelly Brook, Joe Flanigan y Rutger Hauer entre otros.La calificación de 3 estrellas es debido a mi gusto personal por estos motivos, pero se debe reconocer que la calidad de la serie es inconsistente.

Would have given it 5 stars but the audio quality was poor. Bad mix on the music and dialog making it difficult to hear the dialog through the "background" music and effects. Good stories though.

Muy bien todo , en todos los aspectos

Strange show

Great DVD