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"Wizards" Movie Review
68.
Wizards
At
a time when the public had given up on Disney bringing out anything new
and different, and Anime had not yet reached our shores in any signifigant
numbers, Ralph Bakshimeant
something. He made cartoons that put butts in the theater seats. Starting
with " Fritz the Cat
"
about
a horny feline trying to make it in a world more like ours than anything
that had been shown outside of the underground comics of R. Crumb, Bakshi
made films that were, at the very least, interesting. With follow ups that
were less interesting (like "
American Pop ")
he
still was doing things that cannot be easily dismissed. But the film people
remember most fondly, though few will call it great, is "Wizards." A post-industrial,
post-apocolypical fable with Nazis, gnomes bodacious fairies and goofy
assassins, it was Bakshi's attempt to find out if he could get away with
an adaptation of "The Lord
of the Rings ."
Well,
it faired better than the film it was to pave the way for,
and
is still a wonderful throwaway film today.
Here
is the cast:
Bob Holt. . . . Avatar
Jesse
Welles. . . . Elinore
Richard
Romanus. . . . Weehawk
David Proval. . . . Peace
Jim
Connell. . . . President
Steve
Gravers. . . . Blackwolf
Barbara
Sloane. . . . Fairy
Angelo
Grisanti. . . . Frog
Hyman
Wien. . . . Priest
Christopher
Tayback. . . . Peewhittle
Mark
Hamill. . . . Sean
Peter
Hobbs. . . . General
Tina
Romanus. . . . Prostitute
If
you have a couple of hours that could be spent bending the realms of fantasy,
you couldn't do better than to spend it in the land of "Wizards."
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--posted by Wayne
Monday, October 17, 2005
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