Wizards
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Movie Reviews of Wizards
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.
Movie Review: old school animated fantasy
Summary: 5 Stars
I had seen this a very long time ago at the theater in the 80's. It brought back a lot of memories. Sometimes you have to go back to appreciate what we have now. A good old school cult classic.Movie Review: Good...but not great
Summary: 3 Stars
Great idea. Very crude in implementation, though there are times when that does add to the charm. Honestly, I wish I liked this toon more that I do. It is just too obvious at times, though it tries so hard to be clever. I always thought about Wizards as a kind of cult film; however I have never run into anybody who has ever actually seen it.
It is shorter than I remember it from when I was a kid. It is dripping with the 1970's... check it out; you will see what I mean.
Movie Review: Dissappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I wasn't expecting Disney, but I was less than thrilled by this feature. I'm assuming there's a genera of animation produced in the mid 70's that took the whole 'stoner' heavy metal thing and ran with it. Many many long drawn out scenes with rock music and psychedelic colors that did nothing for the story.
I am an animation junkie and will watch anything and everything, but I couldn't get through this whole film.
Movie Review: one of the greatest movies ever
Summary: 5 Stars
my mother rented this movie for me and my 3 siblings to watch when i was probably six or so years old, but she didn't like the animated violence, so i never got to finish watching it. 20 years later my brother and i after some reconnaissance work have pooled our memories and re-discovered this masterpiece. The still "shot" storybook style scenes are my favorite, and the music is really cool. definitely a must see.... "Oh my God! They've killed Fritz!"