What do u think about Ralph Bakshi?

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Robart K

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With The New adventures of Mighty Mouse coming to DVD tomorrow I thought we could discuss on the guy behind the series. Ralph Bakshi. Who introduced adult themes to American animation and made it happen with Fritz the cat. So whats your thoughts to Bakshi?
 
I really wish he did more fantasy series (not to say I hate his modern cartoons), it's because he's very good at them. Oh, and he deserved a better budget for every movie he made. I would give an arm to get rid of the roto-scoping.
 
Don't follow his work heavily, but I have viewed and enjoyed The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and recently watched his take on The Lord of The Rings.
 
The four cartoons he made over at Paramount Cartoon Studio (it aired a few times on Nickelodeon way back in the late '80s) were pretty good. "Marvin Digs" in particular.
 
I respect him a lot for the risks he's taken with his work, though I don't always connect with a lot of his stuff. He definitely had a very unique style and wasn't prone to watering it down. I do wish that Spicy City gets a dvd release though. It's pretty cool that the Mighty Mouse series finally did.
 
I do. Tattertown was originally planned as a series. Had it happened, it would have been the 1st prime-time cartoon series for Nick@Nite, but it ended up being a special; 1 episode only.
 
I don't mean to nitpick, but "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse" (Filmation, late 1970's) is a completely different series (albeit with the same character).

Anyway, I don't have much to say about him, especially since I only follow family-friendly stuff. I will say this. It is unfortunate that both he, and "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" were both eventually found "guilty by association" because of the whole "Littlest Tramp" thing....
 
Japan had been producing adult-themed animation long before Mr. Bakshi arrived on the scene.

"Who introduced adult themes to American animation" would have been more accurate.
 
And one could argue that there were adult themes in many cartoons from Warner Bros., MGM, and even Paramount (especially those written by Irv Spector).

Of course, the difference is that the "adult" themes in those cartoons were subtle, compared to "Fritz the Cat" where the adultness was thrown in your face (not that it's a bad thing)
 
Also, thanks to him in Canada, older ones who watched the "psychedelic episodes" when he supervised for Krantz Films for season 2 and 3 of the 1967-70 Spiderman cartoon and season 3 of Rocket Robin Hood. We've been introduced to more "darker plots" with the Spider-man episode "Revolt in the Fifth Dimension" who re-used lots of RRH footage episode "Dementia Five"
 
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