Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar

Thank you Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha.

From watching when the first season aired, I can confidently say that Doomstar was worth the wait. Finally, Dethklok fans were able to close a chapter that we all hold near and dear to our hearts.

The only thing that would make it better would be news of another run at the series or another movie... but I'm happy and content with what we have. There's nothing like seeing your favorite band release new material for the first time, now we'll be able to cherish it for forever.

Death Album IV, that goes with the film is absolutely amazing. I'm going back, yet again, to watch from Season one, all the way up to Doomstar.

This was a ok finale but I prefer the last movie over this one. This movie didn't have great songs and didn't give its story to us in a great way. The jokes were pretty lame as well. When I heard this wasn't going to be a full musical like the last movie I was hoping that they would have brought back some of the great humor but found it pretty lacking. The scene in the church was probably the best comedy bit but there was a bit too much seriousness in most scenes. The fact Nathan never even got to say his tagline 'Brutal' was pretty disappointing in the least because there was Just sooo many times just that one word could have been uttered and it probably would have got a laugh out of me but no. They needed to keep everything semi-serious just not there comedy which they kept pretty basic... although there was a 'Plug' joke that got me.

The story on the other hand was alright, I liked how all the characters were used and the cameos. The entire series wasn't really strong in this category, in fact it was pretty much a major joke until it wasn't. That said the revenge story of the last movie was much better, but taking this story as serious as they did may have been a mistake. Oh well, at least 'The Fans' got what they wanted hopefully, it was a love letter to those that kept the show alive after all as its pretty apparent they read their fan-sites.

I loved the tv series. Seasons 1 to 3 in particular I've probably seen at least 4 to 5 times each. However if you're here for a laugh you won't find it in this. It's just the "lore" of the doomstar and anything else which I feel was better when it was in the background. I'll admit this was WAY better than the "musical" ego trip they put together but this is still not very good. Maybe a die hard fan who has no sense of humor will love it. At least this was better than the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie that came out recently.

I liked it better when the series was about out of touch rockstars. Getting plastic surgery, why it's dangerous to date fans or trying to get back to their roots are three that come to mind. The episodes were mostly short but because of that we craved more. Compare that to the 4th season of The Twilight Zone where the episodes doubled in length and some of them were extremely difficult to get through.

The art style was very hit or miss. The final battle was trash. This was a great idea on paper but perhaps it was the best they could do with their budget. I found myself constantly getting bored as the story struggled to keep me involved. I love how spiteful Nathan is to the fans telling them where to go in the beginning too. This is full of boring cliches and I didn't enjoy it at all to the point I wish this was never made.

Either way. If there is little to no humor and just the "lore" it honestly that's like if half the band didn't show up to play a concert. Yeahhh pickles and toki showed up!

Well, where to start...

After the original Metalocalypse show ended and after The Doomstar Reqiuem, this was supposed to be a grand finale that would conclude the excellent series we know as Metalocalypse.

Unfortunately, this movie is not even a shadow of the former show, this is just another failure.

The characters here are now whiny shadows of what they once were. The show deserved a proper ending, but this movie is a disaster.

It just goes to show that the entertainment industry has almost nothing to do with entertainment anymore.

Dethklok was perfect as it is, fun and brutal, but that's clearly not desirable in the movie industry anymore.

Dethklok is now a group of pathetic whining losers, especially Nathan Explosion, who is now constantly whining and saying how hard it is for him. Total destruction of fun characters.

The music is good, the voice acting is solid, but that's how it should be.

What is catastrophically bad is the script, as if we are not watching Metalocalypse, but something completely different. And that's not what we wanted to see.

A complete waste of time.

This is the end, whether anyone Iikes it or not. Is it a great end? Great question!

First off for anyone who doesn't know, Metalocalypse is a now "old" TV series that just "ended" one day without warning for us, the viewers. It was about a band (Dethklok) of egotistical idiots who understood nothing in life except "brutality" (as well as drugs, sex, and heavy metal.) The show was filled with jokes of all kinds, including witty (often, from dumb characters,) one-liners, over-the-top satirical commentary on the subject of being famous (and even more isolated on music, metal, and specifically extreme metal, in general), and humor involving guts and gore. The show was also loaded with epic, death metal songs with an often power metal flavor to the instrumentation. All the while, as our 5 main heroes (the band) trudge through ridiculous antics and silly life lessons, there is a deeper meaning to the show...

Ya see, Dethklok (the extreme metal band) surpasses Belgium (yeah, the country,) in the top ten largest economies of the world (again, yeah, a band, a metal band, at that, being bigger, financially speaking, than nearly all countries)... and that's just a two second mention in the first episode. This information is presented by military and religious leaders to some dude who wears a suit and sits in a throne in the war room. It turns out, that "dude" might just be someone. Obviously, the show had deep thoughts from the get go. It's called Metalocalypse, after all.

Fast forward a few seasons (all of them, excellent,) a gap in time, an operatic movie (also, excellent,) and an even bigger gap in time, and here we are.

This movie ties up all the loose ends from everything that came before it. It tells the story of a band literally trying to end the Apocalypse by doing what they do best (music, of course). However, gone is much of the brutality and fun of the original series and the "Rock Opera," including nearly all the jokes (inside jokes included) and "zingers."

If you've never seen Metalocalypse and stumbled across this, watch the series first. If you're a fan, you likely already knew the magic was gone. See it for what it is: The End. Could it have been more fun? Absolutely! Was it still funny? Not particularly. Was it bad? Not at all. Could it have been better? Of course it could have been. Is it slower paced than usual? Yes. Does it drag? Nah. Does it tie up the loose ends? Effectively enough. Would I recommend it? Only if you were already going to watch it anyway, which is why I didn't write this review for you (the fans), because you knew what this was already...for here lies the final resting spot of Metalocalypse. May it rest in peace...finally...