Rock Odyssey cannot be read into anything but what it is, an odyssey in rock. We follow a supernatural woman named Laura, a powerful being who has fallen from the stars to the middle of the United States during the mid fifties. There, she meets Billy, a greaser type character. They fall in love, run into complications, and eventually break up before marriage. We watch this story through a series of scenes synced to music from the era, in a psychedelic mess of memories and dreamlike sequences. We do this over and over again, to the 60s, to the 70s, and ending in the 80s. The film goes over ideas of the draft for Vietnam, PTSD, drug abuse, the loss of a loved one, and finding a job, in the most unique and insane way possible. It's hard to tell what Hanna Barbera had planned for this film, it doesn't fit anything they produced before, during, or after. But be that as it may, I feel though it may be hokey and just a complete mess to watch, it get's a lot more hate than it deserves. Laura's life through the latter half of the 20th century is reflected in the world changing around her while she herself doesn't age. Her love interests disappear, die, or fade away entirely. Yet somehow, even when she returns home, she's able to be with them anyway. With this morph between the souls. It's odd, and I still don't know what audience this was really aimed for. It doesn't match the feel or any Saturday morning cartoon or Ralph Bakshi film of the era, it's something completely different. In short, watch it if you enjoy the weird and the forgotten. Don't expect to be blown away, but give it a chance.
Review of Rock Odyssey
