Fritz the Cat

Maybe I'm the only one that thinks like this, but...I didn't liked the film. Make it, I was almost about to hate this film.
I do get a lot of the reasons why many ppl like this film. It was something new for its time. Back then in U.S animation, showing blood, sex and being rude up to adult level was something new. But, maybe it's just me, I felt like the movie was trying to hard being edgy.
Maybe because I'm just used to seeing edgy theme in animation, maybe because I wasn't born at that time in animation.
But a good half what the film shown was very unnecessarily.
You don't really need blood or sex to make it an adult theme animation film. But if you want to put those things in it, learn how to do it right.

But, like I said, I do see the points why this film is a cult hit. But, its really nothing but a movie that asking for attention.

Though, I could be dead wrong.
 
Really? I didn't think this film was nearly as shocking as people claimed it to be. Today's standards would give it an R-rating no problem, I really liked the atmosphere of this film, very dark and gritty, even the animation itself gives a very unpolished gritty feel to it, which I think benefits the film.

It's extremely dated by now, but the film also offered a great social commentary on why hippies suck which I thought was pretty cool, especially considering the time this film was made.
 
Sure the movie's tagline is that the movie is really dirty but this movie is based off of an edgy comic anyway. I saw this movie and it's really great with all the blood, sex, and drugs intact. Bakshi is a great man. He makes what he wants to make regardless of what people think about it.

If it's not your cup of tea then just keep walking. I love this movie.

Robert Crumb the creator of Fritz sure didn't like it though. After the movie came out he killed the character and nothing of him was ever made again. :mad:

Bakshi sure did change animated movies around. That was something that needed to be done. Disney dominating the theaters forever would be a nightmare.
 
I didn't watch this but I remember seeing in in the cabinet with my disney videos as a child. Luckily I was smart enough to know what X meant. :shrug:

As an adult I should probably watch it. I'm way behind in my cult film exposure.
 
I think I watched this movie when I was 15, havent watched it since then. But I remembered it was sorta screwed up. But at the same time I didnt know this would be the very first adult cartoon in the US to change how animation was.

I should watch it again sometime once I can find it in my stack of videos. I sorta wonder if there should be a new fritz movie but unlike the first two films, it would be more true to the comic. I think a 3rd one was into the works by reading Jim Smith's blog posting a picture of something I cant say on here.
 
Interestingly enough (if you're talking about the scene I think you're talking about - the one near the end?) Fritz's OC is purported to have found that rant one of the worst things about the movie, calling it "redneck", among other things. I thought it was really well-done, especially given what follows - Fritz has a revelation only to promptly give it up.:p

The movie is not overly-shocking by today's standards, where you can easily see worse on TV (coughFamilyGuycough) but there's a wonderful feeling of deliberation about it - I picture Bakshi saying to himself "This is how I'll piss off Jews, this is how I'll piss of hippies, this is how I'll piss off women" - that makes it more subversive/hilarious then it would have been otherwise. IMO, anyway.
 
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