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Movie Reviews of Wizards
Movie Review: I did something bad...
Summary: 5 Stars
So, I wanted this movie on DVD a LOT and at the time, people were able to request certain films be put on DVD through Amazon by entering your e-mail address...
And over the course of about a month or two, I sent Amazon hundreds of e-mail addresses I created on Yahoo! and sent them my ALL of e-mail addresses in my address book.
A short while later, I (and everybody in my address book) received a notification that Wizards would be put on DVD and sold through Amazon.
Why am I telling you this?
BECAUSE THAT'S HOW MUCH I LIKED THIS MOVIE!
I saw it for the first time on Cinemax back around 1998. I searched for it online, but had NO clue what it was called. I finally found it about 6 years later. I REALLY wanted to see it again.
THAT'S HOW GOOD THIS MOVIE IS!
Sure, the animation kind of stinks, but there were some revolutionary video effects in here and it's a true testament to what artistic directors and producers can do on a tight budget and time frame.
(I did feel bad when Ralph Bakshi thanks everyone who e-mailed Amazon in the commentary)
Movie Review: Wizards: A Battle of Good and Evil..
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, way back in 1977(pre-Peter Jackson/Lord of the Rings),came this great Ralph Bakshi tale of good vs. evil in a post-apocalyptic world of fairies, dwarfs, mutants and a pair of polar opposite brothers- Wizards: Avatar and Blackwolf... Avatar "The Great" along with the help of a small band of trusted followers try to defeat the evil Blackwolf(a very mutated and "Hitler-esque" dictator) who trys to destroy what's left of civilization to make his mutants,monsters and ghastly army control over Montagar- the only good land left on the planet. This entertaining and at times,quite humorous view of the human condition is a fun view for anyone who enjoys animation or the whole "Lord of the Rings" vibe ! This film has a great supporting cast/voices, most notable is the very sexy fairie Princess Elinore, as well as assasin robot Necron 99, whom Avatar captures and renames Peace ! This movie is quite nostalgic for me personally, and I hope you give it a chance... I highly recommend this one !!! A++++ Movie Review: "Wizards" is truly magical!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like swords-and-sorcery films, this one is for you. Throw in just a little bit of technology, and you have the makings of a well-crafted movie. One even tends to lose the sense that this is a cartoon. This is due, in part, to the fact that Ralph Bakshi is famous for cartooning over live actors. This makes for a very believable movie.
Without going into detail - I wouldn't want to spoil your fun by telling you too much (heh, heh) - the title comes from the battle between too wizards - brothers - one good, one irretrievably evil, and the methods they employ to achieve their separate ends. And the ending of the film is a surprise in itself.
If I were you, I'd buy a copy of this before they're all gone. You don't want to resort to renting this fine movie when you could own it, now do you?
Movie Review: War, magic and naked fairies.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wizards is a cartoon movie made in the late 70s, dealing with such adult themes as war, religion, science and hate. At 80 minutes long it surprised me at what it held. The idea is two bothers, one named Avatar and one named Blackwolf, both Wizards, fight for the future of Earth. An Earth full of magic, peace and the ruins of the past. It is millions of years after a nuclear war started by terrorists. Mankind now lives with fairies and elves, mutants and wizards. It is a very wonderful and dangerous place,
Extras include commentary by Ralph Bakshi, an art gallery, trailers and a feature on Ralph Bakshi. Mark Hamill is one of the voices.
Movie Review: Less than magical
Summary: 2 Stars
Ralph Bakshi's boho fantasy Wizards, like Richard Williams' doomed Thief and the Cobbler, is a reaction against Disney animated features and shares many of its flaws, as well as many of its own. For all his talk about wanting to show Disney how to tell a real story with real passion, there's a real lack of story and worse, a real lack of feeling that the dull characters and disinterested vocal performances only draw attention to. But perhaps most fatal of all is the largely uninteresting animation that often seems pitched somewhere between Filmation and underground comics, with the more interesting (and potentially expensive) sequences played purely as two-tone still concept images with Susan Tyrell's flat narration giving the film an uncompleted work-in-progress look. The use of crudely rotoscoped footage from El Cid, Alexander Nevsky and Zulu for the choppy battle scenes is also rather too awkward to work, especially since it is never properly integrated with the genuinely animated characters. At its heart there's a vaguely interesting notion (it's certainly not developed enough to be called an idea) about the war between technology and magic - embodied by two brother wizards at each others throats for thousands of years - coming to a head when the bad one discovers the motivating power of Nazi propaganda, but too often it's simply clumsily reacting against the Disney formula rather than telling a story and you can see all too clearly the early signs of just how badly Bakshi would mess up The Lord of the Rings here.
Still, Fox's DVD boasts a nice widescreen transfer and a good selection of extras - an audio commentary by Bakshi and a 35-minute documentary on him and the film, various stills galleries, TV spot and two trailers.