Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Chris Niemeyer This movie is truly great for what it shows. It gives outsiders a look at what Metal is to people who do not understand it. I am a big metal head and I always thought it was bad that I liked metal, every one around me told me it was bad and it was making me a bad person. But after watching this it explains every thing. If your a metal head who does not understand your self watch this it will change how you think of yourself. If your a metal head who already knows them self watch it just to learn more about it. If your a outsider who hates metal but wants to know why people listen to it watch it. This is by far one of the best documentary I have ever seen I highly suggest it to any one. It covers every thing you need to know about metal and it might just explain more about yourself than you might know. I am truly proud of my self and who I am after watching this. I hardly rate movies 10/10 but this one truly hits a home run in just about every thing. Watch it you wont be disappointed.

metalrage666 When this movie/documentary first hit theatres I loved it and thought that as a huge metal fan, we are finally getting recognised as just the die-hard fans we are, and not the social miscreants. Also the music was getting its voice out there amongst a wider public, that otherwise considers metal as mere noise.However after repeated viewings and looking further into the info provided I found that it has a number of flaws and just doesn't go deep enough into its source material. The initial heavy metal tree at the start, is impressive but also highly flawed. While I love artists such as Dio and Tony Iommi, most of the interviews are predominantly all one- sided. I don't get the repeated crosses to the Slipknot interview, which most true metal fans hate with a passion.The metal fans that get interviewed come off as a bunch of low fore- heads that are into metal for no other reason other than it's seen to be cool or to be deliberately contrary to their friends. I still like the film, but for a documentary it just doesn't go far enough or deep enough. And maybe this is an Australian thing, but I feel little about this so-called feeling of family or brotherhood that metal fans are supposed to share with each other. Most fans you meet at gigs, tend to be over the top, loud for the sake of being loud, and are opinionated beyond all reason. It's a good documentary but I would've love to hear from more serious fans as well as perspectives from the general public of what they believe metal is and what they think of it. Overall the movie does little for people who only know of the genre by way of Metallica etc. and seeing as most people who saw this in cinemas or bought the DVD were already metal fans there is nothing here that we didn't already know.

tonigenilmanda So... this documentary is part of a thesis? As the movie opens, we are explained that the guy tries to find out,among other questions, why the heavy metal genre is ridiculed or why people laughs at it... and after more than an hour of dumbness, the only answer he finds is "f**k you!". Neato! If this documentary was a thesis, I hope they flunked him for not knowing that most of his questions were already answered by people much better prepared than him to do so, and in a much more amusing way: "This is Spinal tap"Grotesque. Anyways you can have some fun watching/listening to some former glories like R.J. Dio or Dee Snider.

maz underscore Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is a subjective and interesting look at the many different facets of metal, both the sub-culture and the music.As we follow anthropologist and self proclaimed metal head, Sam Dunn on his journey through the world of metal we get an unusual insight into this widely misunderstood and intricate sub-culture.Dunn not only maps out and explains the origins of the huge number of different sub-genres within the genre of metal music (something that all music lovers have probably wondered about at one time or another), but he also travels to places like Germany and Norway in search of many different metal bands and their fans.There are interviews with everyone from Alice Cooper to Lemmy to Rob Zombie as well as some quite disturbing interviews with a few Norwegian Death Metal bands and a hilarious interview with the very funny Dee Snider from Twisted Sister.There is indeed quite a deep and interesting flow to this documentary and Dunn not only managers to maintain a subjective and professional roll in his research, but also managers to maintain his integrity as a metal head - this is indeed, a credit to him.I highly recommend this documentary not only to people who love their metal, but even to people who don't.