I loved MTV's Liquid Television and MTV's Oddities. It was watching Oddities where I first saw two brilliant series, The Maxx and Aeon Flux. I love Peter Chung's sci-fi series. It was so completely different from anything I had seen before. Aeon Flux started as a series of shorts on Liquid Television and became a longer series with dialogue a little later after that. The characters are quirky to say the least and even though the story lines can be disjointed and a little hard to follow, the sheer brilliance of the artwork and animation more than makes up for it. The series is rife with smoldering sexual tension between the Monican Aeon Flux and her enemy/lover Trevor Goodchild the benign Dictator of Bregna. Their love/hate relationship is a complicated one and contains some very interesting facets indeed. Nothing is ever straight forward in this series and each episode often contains an unexpected twist or a surprise ending. This is western animation at it's best. I have to say on an end not that I was disappointed with the movie as it seemed to miss every point of the series. In an interview with Peter Chung, he did not like the movie either. Aeon Flux is available on DVD

Seriously, I challenge the writer to come up with a plot that goes from point A to point B without making pretentious pseudo-philosophical nonsense or portraying a cartoon woman's feet in a fetishistic manner. He can't seem to do it. In a world with anatomically challenged mutant aliens that somehow manage to become humanity's next great leap in evolution, I wouldn't think it's all that difficult. In all earnestness, the aliens turning into humanity's next stage of evolution doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Humanity has had a torso for the whole of it's myriad of forms, from Chimp to Homo Erectus, it's torsos for all. I don't see how we can evolve without them. Also the episode where Aeon Flux kept on going back to the sticky table with the grey mystery ooze made no sense. How did that kid know who that baby mutated into? I couldn't identify my own kid in a photo line up up you showed me several other pictures of babies, so how does a prepubescent kid know just by a single glance? Another example, the episode where Aeon seduces an amputee for no apparent reason. Why does this amputee trust this woman? Wasn't he looking for someone else? Did he just see Aeon Flux and just decide "Oh well, good enough. Never mind the fact that my lover is trapped in prison and probably dead, I better help this stranger escape from a high security facility," Yet another of my complaints, don't worry, I'm not just gonna harp on the myriad of plot holes, is the horrendous art. The art looks like something I would have fever dreamed and the malformed, hideous, and uncanny valley residing characters emote and move roughly on the same level as a Chucky Cheese animatronics. The main complaint I have is that it talks a big, smart game, yet has all the wit and subtlety of a shovel to the knees. Simply put, if you remove the pseudo philosophy, the foot obsession, and the skimpy outfits that Aeon wears (by the way, the way she is drawn makes me want to swear off women altogether) you are left with an unintelligible and incomprehensible mess. I've had hallucinogenic benders that have made better sense.Don't watch Aeon Flux, unless you want to make fun of it mercilessly or you like reading the Marquis De Sade way too much.

Aeon Flux is one of the sexiest animated characters I've ever seen. "Aeon Flux" is one of the most bizarre, intense, reality-bending animated series I've ever seen. It aired as part of MTV's "Liquid Television" in 1995, and won over a devoted following. 10 years later and one feature-length film starring Charlize Theron later, "Aeon Flux" remains a milestone in animation.Created by visionary Peter Chung, its style is reminiscent of Anime', yet to a trained eye it isn't. It's distinctly American, and the animated series itself is unique because the star of the title died at the end of nearly every episode, with the next entry redrawing the lines of reality and continuity.Hundreds of years into the future, Trevor Goodchild is the charismatic dictator running a utopian society and is locked in a costly battle of wills with Aeon Flux, an amoral, sexy-as-hell mercenary who seeks to bring him down at all costs. Her motives are unknown, yet we get the sense she is the rebel hero though her amorality makes it truly unclear about why she has it in for Goodchild.I don't know what inspired Chung to give rise to this, but given if he creates more stuff like "Aeon Flux," you can bet I'm going to buy the next DVD set of whatever he envisions. "Aeon Flux" walks a fine line between intense sci-fi battles and borderline pornography, but I have to hand it that this is some really amazing stuff here.It's tripping the rift, "Aeon Flux," but the recent DVD made my jaw drop and its style is unmatched. This is "Aeon Flux."

Aeon Flux started as video shorts on Liquid Television. The DVD has 4 full length episodes, plus the original shorts. Each is a short story about our super sexy secret agent, and her trials and tribulations. Fun to watch, but I don't recommend purchasing. You can only watch Aeon Flux so many times before you're bored with it, as with most Mtv garbage. The anime was amazing, and the stories were clever. Aeon flux is a good 1 night rental.