This was an animated feature film by the Canadian company Nelvana. They got people like Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Cheap Trick, and Lou Reed to write songs and be character singing voices. The animation and optical tricks they do are quite good, especially for the late 70's/early 80's. It's stuff that would just simply be done on a computer these days.

Story wise, it's not great shakes. I recently got the DVD through Netflix as it was something that I vaguely remembered as a kid. In the commentary, the director mentioned how they were always rewriting the story; and it shows. There isn't a whole lot of sense to some things that they do while others aren't really fleshed out that well.

Still, as a fan of cinema and animation, it's worth a watch. Turns out that folks have the whole damn thing up on YouTube.

Thanks to doc

I always wanted to watch Rock & Rule when it came out around 1982 or so. But it looked like a movie that might not live up to its hype, and as I recall, got very bad reviews, and so I never saw it. Although many great movies get panned unfairly by critics, and are still great. John Carpenter's 1982 remake of THE THING, for example.

I don't even recall Rock & Rule getting played after its release on cable!

But nice that I can try it here now free of charge, thank you.

The three coolest animated movies for me are the Beatles' YELLOW SUBMARINE, the 1976 film WIZARDS, and HEAVY METAL.


Of the more recent computer-animated fare, I thought WALL-E and UP were both outstanding. Warm, sentimental, playful, but also intelligent, making these two movies enjoyable for both adults as well as children.

almost two minutes before they did anything. Not for me. Sorry,doc.

the real selling point for it, I think, was the rock stars doing voices and music for it. it's like they wanted to go one step further than Heavy Metal.

Clearly so. Aside from the technical execution, which is pretty fantastic, there's not much else left. Having the main characters being post apocalypse evolved dogs seems to just be a leftover character designs from when it was originally going to be a kids film. It's a movie that I wished was cooler than it turned out to be. There are some great bits, like the Zero G club and such. The overall structure is mostly mush.