Pretty Good

Excellent adaptation.

A lot of fun.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I've seen so far all the seasons and episodes and I love it, as Nathan says "It's so brutal!"; the animation quality isn't what we see today. but the characters and story is amazing! The songs is catchy and amazing, also brutal.This is no show for children's of course, but this is a show for brutal people and men. I love how dangerous they're just being one of the most popular band and the government want to end them because that. Like at one of the episodes so does the government and Dethklok fight and that was just amazing, so much happened and I was cheering for Dethklok.It's been a while sense I've seen it, so I don't remember how it ended that well, but I remember all the references and quotes.This series even did name most of the restaurants after bands or just did some funny pun in them and I love that. There's a lot of little details you can't see that easily, but once you do, you'll love this series even more.

I highly recommend this show. I don't qualify that by saying 'if you like metal', that's not necessary. It is, however, aimed at people who like adult cartoons. In this age of South Park and Family Guy, people shouldn't be shocked by the sight of animated gore that is found in Metalocalypse. And by gore, I don't mean simply seeing blood spattering around the screen. A dream sequence has one character having his head cleanly cleft down the middle, showing a detailed cutaway view of his cranial whatnots. The gore is one area of the show the creators are getting decidedly creative about. Gore, and inept reconstruction, like in the song 'Sewn Back Together Wrong'. It's a running theme here, ancillary characters that manage to survive their first show often reappear sporting cobbled together artificial appendages. The big draw, for me at least, is the characterization and dialogue. The show revolves around the five members of the fictional heavy metal band Dethklok, each with his own unique, and identifiable quirks. Skwisgar is my favorite, a nihilistic prima donna who just wants to live the rock star life. Murderface is repellent yet fascinating. A tension-filled ball of insecurity and self-hatred. The singer Nathan is huge and scary-looking, and an enthusiastic booster of all things dark and brutal. Toki seems perfectly innocent, still smarting from his overly strict upbringing, and Pickles seems the most normal of the bunch, providing a personality we can most easily identify with, albeit with a strange 'skullet' hairdo and a thick midwestern accent.These five are virtually inseparable, and their overlapping, back and forth dialogue provide most of the humor here. The two Scandinavians struggle with English still, making them even more quotable. Together they create a group dynamic that really feels lived in, like they've been dealing with each other for years.I first found out about this show by seeing the DVD set in the stores. I liked the idea of a metal-themed cartoon, but figured it was just pandering to the metal-heads. I made a point to see it on Adult Swim and found out how good it actually is. Brendon Small is a co-creator, and provides many of the voices and he also writes and performs the original music in the show. He clearly has a great love of metal, putting together a collection of songs good enough to make him an established artist in his own right.Adult cartoons have been improving by leaps and bounds the last 10 years. South Park is far better now than when it started out, and the other new series that come out now are usually more ambitious and creative than they used to be. It's hard to imagine that the Simpsons seemed so subversive when they started. Supposedly the Flintstones were considered a walk on the wild side back in the day. This is the state of the American cartoon art now, and it's well worth a serious look. It's smart, it's creative, and it shows us things most of us hadn't seen before. And it's really, really funny.

Metalocalypse is one of the funniest shows on television today. It offers hilarious over exaggerations of people working in Metal. Each character has a distinct personality evident throughout the show. You really get to know these characters as if they were real. The overall art of the show is very different from most cartoons, and is interesting to watch. The way characters relate and react offers the most comedy, such as Toki's various misuses of sexual terms to mean common things. Your guaranteed to relate to at least one of the characters, and it makes them almost real. It's much more than joke after joke, the comedy is in the way it reflects the music industry, different types of people, and stereotypes of metalheads into a surprisingly insightful, but still brutal and funny show.

Truly the grand master-work of comedy, animation, music and perhaps all cultural phenomena since Wagner's Ring Cycle. Small has created not only a great death metal band, but a world that we should all be so lucky to live in as metal inevitably takes over the planet. Previous pathetic attempts to inspire a global cultural revolution such as the "Holy" bible, the Koran, or Nazi Germany are petty filth compared to the absolute glory of Dethklok. Watch, behold, gaze into this magnificent 12 minute weekly late night cartoon, and become the left hand of metal! Hold your devil-horned hands high, and shout out the sacred mantra: Doodily Ding Dong Tick-Tock! Hail Dethklok! Hail Dethklok! HAIL DETHKLOK!!!!!!!!!