In the hands of writer and director Ralph Bakshi, a popular underground comics character was the inspiration for the first X-rated animated feature in Hollywood history, over the strenuous objections of its creator, cartoonist Robert Crumb. Fritz is a feline college student of New York City in the '60s, using hippie buzzwords and fashion to score easy sex and drugs. After smoking some strong marijuana in Harlem, Fritz hallucinates and ignites a shooting incident with the police, resulting in the death of his friend Duke. ...
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In the hands of writer and director Ralph Bakshi, a popular underground comics character was the inspiration for the first X-rated animated feature in Hollywood history, over the strenuous objections of its creator, cartoonist Robert Crumb. Fritz is a feline college student of New York City in the '60s, using hippie buzzwords and fashion to score easy sex and drugs. After smoking some strong marijuana in Harlem, Fritz hallucinates and ignites a shooting incident with the police, resulting in the death of his friend Duke. Fritz flees across country in a Volkswagen Bug with a girlfriend and encounters a heroin addict biker rabbit and bomb-making terrorist radicals, obvious references to the Hell's Angels and the Black Panthers, respectively. A trippy journey through its anti-establishment times, Fritz the Cat (1972) was viewed as a must-see novelty, a radical departure from the juvenile, saccharine type of animation with which America was familiar. Nevertheless, the film was opposed by Crumb, who felt that his work had been bastardized. The film was followed by a sequel, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974). Karl Williams, Rovi
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TITLE: Fritz The Cat
GENRE: X-rated Animation
PLOT: College cat gets into typical college cat troubles but because of drug use gets all paranoid and heads for the west where he eventually...
RETURN ON INVESTMENT: 9.1 of 10; This is the first x-rated cartoon to be shown in the USA. Animator Ralph Bakshi does a wonderful job bringing the cool cat to life in a world which is filled with pups and poodles and other cats and pigs and crows and other bird types and even an anteater (who can't get high). The music is unique to a style that arose and died in the early seventies. The review title refers to the fact that Godfather came out the same weekend as Fritz with the cat in second place to the worlds most successful movie ever.
DVD BONUS: None
ADDED NOTES: Though birthed as an underground comic character by Robert Crumb, Fritz is entertaining to even old straight fuddy-duddies like me. Now, explain why I can see the stereotyped crows of this effort but am refused to see the great Disney masterpiece, "Song of the South"?
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