cult film freak: RALPH BAKSHI BEGNNING WITH ROBERT CRUMB'S 'FRITZ THE CAT'

Written by James M. Tate / 10/22/2024 / No comments / animation , college , counter-culture , cult , exploitation , ralph bakshi , road movie , robert crumb , seventies

RALPH BAKSHI BEGNNING WITH ROBERT CRUMB'S 'FRITZ THE CAT'

10/22/2024 | No comment

Title: FRITZ THE CAT Year: 1971 Rating: **

Ralph Bakshi progressed from children's cartoons in the 1960's into adapting underground comic-book artist Robert Crumb's underground anti-hero feline FRITZ THE CAT in 1971...

Thus turning on stoned teenagers (who had once been kids watching SPIDER-MAN and ROCKET ROBIN HOOD) with lots of naked animal characters, ranging from a group of pretentious liberal co-eds to black revolutionary crows to a rugged road trip involving a Nazi rabbit biker and...

From Ralph Bakshi's FRITZ THE CAT

Well it's all a really big mess... and what a shame since the initial thematic parody... of being more into casual sexual escapades than any serious involvement in the surrounding social issues... at least had some merit...

But after FRITZ THE CAT plays out the first irreverently frantic/hectically eclectic 20-minutes of the 78-minute runtime, there isn't any actual plot-line or purpose left at all.

From Ralph Bakshi's FRITZ THE CAT

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