Masterful Movie

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I first found out about Ralph Bakshi when I found out about the animated Lord of the rings film the second film in the Ralph Bakshi fantasy trilogy. But Wizards was the first of the trilogy I saw. I remember seeing the trailer on Youtube I came in thinking that this film would be like Harry Potter but animated. Boy was I so wrong. There are three things in this film I never thought to see in this film that surprised me.1. Swearing 2. Gore 3. And Nazi propaganda The animation though not being as special today still looks good for back then. I don't really have that much else to say about this movie but I do say. This film is the best of the Ralph Bakshi fantasy trilogy, and I recommend it too everybody to any one who likes Ralph Bakshi's films. Well just don't show it too anybody young, yay the film is rated suprisonly and literally PG but just don't.

The man (Bakshi) clearly holds no regard for the standard fare of his profession: he'll cut scenes of low-budget fighting faeries(?) and slap them next to low-budget rotoscopes, he'll juice up pulp fantasy with pulp Nazi affection and pulp gunplay because he'll feel swords uninteresting to draw, he'll slap fat tits onto a main character faerie and slap off her clothes because he wants to draw things that would be fun to slap in real life, he slap his screenwriter if a scene requires more than five lines of dialogue without the slap-faerie with slap-tits slapping some slappable robot with a slapped in gun.It's a movie of slapping in doodles. The movie is just a bunch of doodles in a high school boy's notebook. That's fine, and the eclecticism forced by the low budget and high aspirations makes those doodles captivating. But they're just doodles, lacking entirely the vague and social quirks of "Fritz The Cat" or "Heavy Traffic".

There are very few movies I feel such a passionate level of hate that I would write a review to warn people who are fooled by the cool looking box art.Avoid this movie. It is bad.Mostly, there is a LOT of loop animation, the story line is boring, and unless you are self-medicating, hide any firearms laying around the house that you might be tempted to grab to end your movie suffering.There are so many wonderful animated films out there. This is not one of them.Then again... it could just be me. I haven't watched it in several years, but the sight of this film brings back horrid flashbacks of sitting through it that leave me curled in the fetal position.Again... you were warned.

In 1977, when I was much younger, I thought this was a great movie. It's a mercy "5" to be sure. Like other films, it's half-a-movie. What isn't animated is carried-along by narrated "storyboard sketches", which may have been intentional, or because of budget restrictions, as some of the "drawings" should have been animated. A curious type of animation. Very stylized, with a lot of "live action" backgrounds and scenes taken from old WWII newsreels and war movies, such as "Patton". Rotoscoped action. The wondrous devise that perpetrates this footage is none other than an old Revere 16mm projector. Although they show the silent version of the machine, of course it plays sound movies. I own such an antique (inherited) and I wonder if it will still run. The animation ranges from cutting-edge-for-it's-time to cartoonish. The women and fairies are very voluptuous and wear very little clothing. Even "nipples" are shown. The evil men look like skeletons. I am surprised it's only rated "PG". Like "Watership Down" don't show this to the kiddies. The "killing machine" is named "Peace" and cannot die. The story is very simplistic and it's amazing that they managed to get 80 minutes of action out of it. The first 20 minutes drag terribly. Two wizard twins, one good and one evil, struggle to dominate the world. Peace vs. War. The good wizard, "Avatar", almost sounds like George Carlin, but he's not in the credits. Science and Technology vs.Goodness and Magic. Is it a classic or just a period piece of junk? (Often viewed while "stoned" in it's day.) Like Henson's "Dark Crystal", which I like, it's all a matter of taste & preference.Often run on the Fox Movie Channels. Worth a look but no longer worth owning.