The greatest movie ever!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Fritz the CatWhen your cat is in heat it's best to hide all of your plush Hello Kitty dolls.Thankfully, the randy tabby in this X-Rated animated-comedy prefers real pussy.At the height of the 1960s hippy movement, college burnout Fritz the Cat (Skip Hinnant) is out on the prowl for some of that free-love that's going around. And while he manages get a hold of some, it's short-lived on account of the Pigs.Fritz eventually gets caught up in all of the drug use, civil disobedience and revolutionary acts of the times all in an attempt to regain his waning libido.A socio-political cartoon imbued with anthropomorphic orgies, racial stereotypes and radical ideas, Ralph Bakshi's debut feature film adaptation of underground artist R. Crumb's hedonistic frat-boy lives up to its X-Rating, but not to Crumb's satirical and subversive comic- strip. Besides, when you have nine lives AIDS isn't that big of a deal.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I just seen Mr. Enter review Fraidy Cat. Here is another cat cartoon, and it's a movie about Fritz the Cat. Fritz are looking back on the lives in the 1960's. The movie contains lots of violence, drugs and naughtiness. Also a lot of strange humor. So, don't go for any Oscar nomination here. Just enjoy the weirdness. These who were old enough to watch X rated movies back then might get the jokes better. The animation and music is really early 1970s back when I was a kid. If you love old school animation, the different styles of art cinema or obscure 1960s and 1970s movies I can recommend this. 10/10

IN KEEPING WITH the times, being the mid 1960's to the early 1970's, we have this Ralph Bakshi adaptation of Robert Crumb's hip, cool, underground Comic Strip. The film was a parade of sex, drugs and bad language. It was also a great purveyor of laughs; albeit, those of a distinctly sophomoric, cheap and dirty variety. It's humour was about on the level of adolescent boys telling "dirty jokes" during breaks in school.WE MUST CONFESS that we did find a great deal of amusement in the ground breaking X Rated Animated feature; but once one gets past hearing Crow characters shouting in fake American Negro dialect phrases like: "Get the f*ck off my car!", or having Pig characters showing wallet photos of his piglet-little leaguers and endless on screen animated pot usage, the joke gets just a trifle stale.IT WOULD APPEAR that the main object here would be to be as nasty and offensive as possible to the existing mores of the time. If this is so, the production team succeeded with flying colours.WHEN VIEWED TODAY, 40+ years later, it looks a little silly and definitely dated.

Early 70's cynicism with the way of the world is captured in Fritz the Cat. It's a cartoon based on an underground comic created by Robert Crumb (although against his wishes apparently). It's probably most famous now for being the first X-rated animated movie. Up to that point in time, cartoons had more or less all been kiddy-friendly family films; Fritz the Cat was to challenge this and show that there was another way to go with this kind of thing. It was the first feature length animated movie from director Ralph Bakshi, who would go on to make several cult cartoons throughout the 70's, including the fantasy films Wizards (1977) and The Lord of the Rings (1978).Set in New York City, Fritz is a counter-cultural cat that lives a life of sexual and drug-taking excess. Police aggression results in him fleeing the city and going on a road trip. To be honest, the story-line is pretty minimal and not ultimately very important. Where this one scores is in its combination of irreverence and psychedelic visuals mixed in with anti-establishment social commentary. The animation is pretty crude, although the painted backdrops are nice, but there are some scenes that display an original approach. My favourite being the extended sequence that features the Bo Diddley tune. It does overall have a definite feel that works to its advantage though. The mean back-streets of NYC are depicted quite effectively and its denizens all have a certain undeniable character – we have the crows from Harlem (black people), the pig cops and, latterly, a spaced out, oddly threatening, heroin addicted biker rabbit. The soundtrack seems to continually churn out urban funk to set the scene. So, on the one hand this doesn't have the most engaging story and it has pretty rough animation, but on the other hand it's so of its time and sufficiently daring to ensure that it remains a very interesting watch all the same.