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Whistle Stopper - Wizards
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Ralph Bakshi, Victoria Bakshi, Jim Connell, Steve Gravers, Angelo Grisanti
Directed By: Ralph Bakshi
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543120261
Format: Anamorphic
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-05-25
Running Time: 80
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1977-03-02
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Ahead of its Time
Comment: If you are a fan of modern animation, Wizards is an underground gem that you should dig for. Quirky, clever, cutting and cool, Wizards is a FSF lover's film from the smart-alecky elves to the beauty of Montagar. This is grown-up animation made long before CGI, back when what the Japanese were doing looked like flip books with nothing animated but the mouths. No, nothing looks 'real'. It isn't meant to. Where's the fun in that? Maybe it's not for everyone, but this is a movie I love and want to share with those who will appreciate it.
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Summary: Bakshi Was Never Better
Comment: This flick used to play @ the Midnight Matinee's ,(if you remember those you are dating yourself!), in the 70's .
I don't know of anyone else who animates like this .
Its great on a big 'ol flat screen w/surround sound .
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Summary: Political animation fantasy
Comment: Remembered seeing this as a teen/young adult in theater. Quite awesome story, great narrator voice, eye candy, gives you something to think about.
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Summary: A must have movie for animation buffs.
Comment: One of Ralph Bakshi's masterpieces of animation. This man is one of the pioneers of modern animation and those of us who are fans of this genre owe him a debt of gratitude. Bakshi showed the film industry that there existed an adult and sophisticated audience for animation other than that containing the Word Disney.
This is a fairy tale and should not be interpreted literally. Bakshi was not saying that Wizards defeated the Nazi army. Bakshi simply tried to create a fairy tale about the dangers of greed, jealousy and war. This is a fairy tale about little people getting caught up in the larger game of kings and the process of colonial expansionism.
I love this film and am glad to have it as a part of my video collection. My friends have became Bakshi fans since watching this film and other works of his including Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic.
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Summary: Damn you Star Wars
Comment: This would have been a much bigger hit if it wasn't for Star Wars being released one week after it came into the theater. Overall it is quite a creative piece. If you have a good sense of humor and love the abstract, this will be a great one for your collection. Although I would not recommend this for younger viewers. Even though it has a PG rating, I would place this at least PG-13. Definitely watch the extras!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Far from the masterful treatment that groundbreaking animator Ralph Bakshi gave the similarly themed The Lord of the Rings just a year later, Wizards feels amateurish. A simplistic distillation of fantasy tropes, the scenario is millions of years after nuclear war wipes out civilization. Middle Earth fairies, elves, and magic emerge from the "good lands," while dimwitted mutants with poor comic timing emerge from the nuclear wastes. In the ultimate confrontation between good and evil, a hippie-ish wizard named Avatar defends his utopia against the technological and neo-Nazi revival of his bad-seed twin, Blackwolf. With volleys of jokes that couldn't hit a barn door, elves with Brooklyn accents, and the dubious climax that sees the kindly old wizard using one of the hated machines of war to triumph over evil, Wizards is one of fantasy animation's least successful examples. --Alan E. Rapp
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