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Fritz the Cat
A swinging, hypocritical college student cat raises hell in a satirical vision of the 1960s.
Release : | 1972 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | Steve Krantz Productions, Cinemation Industries, Aurica Finance Company, |
Crew : | Background Designer, Background Designer, |
Cast : | Rosetta LeNoire John McCurry Judy Engles Ralph Bakshi |
Genre : | Animation Drama Comedy |
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Such a frustrating disappointment
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
This one may shock people but finally an Animal House for the Cat Community.
I admired the portrayal of women. Well done. What do women want actually? We are just vaginas and boobs with legs and arms and we are waiting for a guy to please us all the time, it doesn't matter who he is as long as he is a dude. We also share our guy with all the other women in the world because everything on this world is to please our masters. Men can do the revolution, we are not able to think about stuff, we don't even know what 'existential' means. Well, up yours Ralph Bakshi. This animation is just another example of superficial movies using 'deep stuff' to make itself look cooler or deeper than it really is. First of all, if you want to tell a story, you create one and show what you want to tell in that story, by creating a plot or using metaphors. You can't just shout the message directly. It is not storytelling, it is not a proper scriptwriting. I am sick of this kind of writers/directors using nudity and sex, or simply a couple of copy-paste philosophical messages and get all the votes. And most of the people just buy it and praise the show/movie like ' Wow, so deep. OMG, so brave. He is the voice of our generation. Great movie! ' . Anyone who is into film making will understand my point. There is no script, there is no plot or scenes that will help the backbone of the story if there is one. There is just irrelevant parts showing unrealistic women and their unrealistic reaction to penises as if they were playing in a porn movie, unnecessary sex scenes just to get attention, and copy-paste political messages that looks so detached. Just because characters shout ideas in some of the scenes doesn't mean it is a good/deep movie. Anyone can do that.And 2 points I gave were just the sake of the effort Bakshi made to make this crap.
What a weird hairball of a movie! Animator/ director Ralph Bakshi vomits this film based on the character from Robert Crumb comic strip call Fritz the Cat. Skip Hinnant voice Fritz the Cat, an anthropomorphic cat in 1960s New York City. The film loosing follows a satire plot about hedonism, sociopolitical consciousness, revolution, race relations, the free love movement, and left- and right-wing politics. By the word loosing, the plot is little or none, characters come and disappears, there is a ton of music filler scenes that lead nowhere, and no sense of morality change. It has a lot of crude dry humor that purrs its way throughout the film. There is a lot of sex, drug, and violence in most of the film. The violence in the film can be disgusting and downright wrong at times, most likely in shock value scenes dealing with street gang, violent against women, and rape. The sex unleashed one of the influenced to the furry fandom through sexualized anthropomorphic animals. A lot of nudity—for a cartoon movie, that gather a cult following. The use of drug use is kinda disturbing too, as Fritz is too stone to care about others—mostly in what happen to Duke (Fritz's friend) mid movie. Fritz the Cat is mostly on the run from the law, and this is where the movie gets most of its meat and cheese. Bug out. Bug out. The semi-characters are interesting. Duke is a lot of fun when he's on screen. Winston plays Fritz on and off girlfriend whom personality changes from the start of the movie till mid-thru without giving us reasons why. Blue the Rabbit is a heroin junkie biker who literally steals the scene and nearly the movie from him bringing the film to its darkest point as Fritz is forced to become more and more anarchism in the film. The animation in the film really does follows very close to Robert Crumb's semi-controversy artwork of the comic strip. Robert Crumb did not enjoy the film, hated this movie so much, he killed off the character Fritz in his comics. The voice over of the animals by both actors/non actors follow by sounds of city life, sound like real people in the street talking because it's technically recorded in the streets and bars. Still sometimes, the animation on film doesn't follow the word, or body language or scene. In the end the film became the first animated film to be given an X-rating due its harsh subject matter. It's not really that good, as Fritz doesn't change one bit, and it's really doesn't lead you anywhere, but feeling you went on an acid-trip watching 1960's cartoons. It's just that—a shock value satire animation film.
Why, why, why would anyone, in the name of Lucy, want to even SEE a movie as stupid and low as "Fritz the Cat?!" I just... This movie is about as fun as watching paint dry for hours. That is how bad this film is, and I would be happy to discuss the grudge I have with it!First off, the voice acting is terrible. The characters' voices are either too high or not suitable for them at all. There is one pig cop in this movie, whose voice sounds like it was done by Patrick the Starfish from "SpongeBob." I know the actor was trying to do his best to make this character sound dumb, but that voice just doesn't cut it. I'm really starting to not care at this point. The only exception out of the voice cast was Skip Hinnant, the voice of Fritz. He actually sounded like a teenager, and Hinnant managed to pull the voice off. Second of all, the animation is wretched and downright obnoxious. Sometimes, it looks almost like something from Disney, other times, it looks like a cartoon that Warner Bros. would create, and finally, the colors, in four scenes, blend in with the background; when the characters are smoking, to Fritz's pointless hallucinations, when Bertha the Crow shoves joints into his mouth, the scene where he goes back to his dorm and sets his exam notes on fire, and a random sequence with a bird who was snapping his fingers to '60's music. The coloring is beyond ugly, and you can't make out what is going on. I know this is a cartoon from the 1970's, but it doesn't put the least bit of effort into itself whatsoever. It's not even trying, I swear.But the hugest grudge I have with this movie is the title character, himself. Sweet mother of Pearl, I hate, no, despise Fritz with a passion! He is a complete idiot to everyone, he doesn't give rat's hat about anything, and he makes out with female animals for his own freaking amusement! My poor eyes!It is so clear that this movie has neither smarts, explanations, consistency nor decency to save its life. It makes "Family Guy," another cartoon I hate, look like Shakespeare, and it has no plot or effort put into it. I refuse to give this stupid, utterly disgusting motion picture the satisfaction to be appreciated, watched or mentioned in a future reference! "Fritz the Cat" is garbage! No, uh, uh, I shouldn't say that, it's garbage of garbage!You want my verdict of your film, Ralph Bakshi? Well, here ya go, I hope you're happy!THE FINAL VERDICT AND RATING: 1/10 (It doesn't even deserve it.)