Fritz the Cat

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Summary: The Cat is Back!
Review: Fritz The Cat is the story of a NYU dropout who finds the world of peace, love and rock & roll is not all he expected. Anyone who wants to understand how young people at the time saw police (pigs), blacks(crows) and their place in the late 60's & early 70's should watch this cartoon, for there is more truth hidden here than in many serious movies of the same time period. A much better movie by far than the sequel - stay clear of that film!

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Summary: A must for anyone who can not think strait.
Review: Fritz the Cat may be an interesting movie, but as for anything else one prizes in movies, it lacks. No plot, cookie cutter characters, and a moral (if you want to call it that) which is so random and scattered it would take Steven Hawkins about 50 years to really understand. I also beleive that the writer of this movie has forgotten what it was he wanted to say, because massive brain damage since.

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Summary: from Fringe Video Fanzine Issue #005
Review: Hailed as being the first animated cartoon for adults, an idea that should be re-born. Fritz the Cat was made during a time when audiences where demanding radical change, yet the motion picture industry still was trying to hold on to its more conservative values. The movie was given a controversial X rating during it's initial release in 1972, which actually helped the film generate a larger ticket buying audience, and made the cartoon "...one of the most successful animated features of its time..." Based on characters created by sixties icon cartoonist Robert 'Keep On Truckin' Crumb, the movie took two and a half years to produce, costing close to a million dollars. Shocking audiences throughout North America with it's constant references to sex, drugs, and rock-'n'-roll, Fritz is actually quite tame by today's standards. The story consists of a cool cat, and NYU student named Fritz who encounters, and embraces adventures as they come. Indulging in life's pleasures, such as "...everything from multiple bedroom follies to a wild joy ride through a dangerous Harlem..." He starts a full scale riot, and later goes on a road trip to San Francisco. His multiple run in's with the law continue as he meets up with a sadistic biker rabbit and his donkey mama [who Fritz watches being brutally beaten]. The cool cat's adventures take a turn for the worst when he meets up with some radical revolutionary types, and he get talked into blowing up a power plant for the sake of the psychedelic revolution.

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Summary: Fritz is finally on DVD!
Review: I bought this as a gift for my boyfriend who will be so thrilled to see that Frtiz finally made it to DVD! No more crappy second-hand VHS tapes from auction web sites!

Fritz is a classic--a hilarious, witty, period film with some great lines. I can't imagine many men in their 20s turning their back on this one.

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Summary: hee, hee, heh, heh, HA HA HA F-U-N-N-Y!
Review: I remember Fritz. It was a LOOOOOOOONG time ago when I first saw it, I think 5 years ago when I was like 14. I saw it at this old theater that would show really really old movies. MY friends and I would always go to see Bakshi flicks seeing as they were never open to us since we were never born to see any of them. I came home from the theater and asked my dad "have you ever seen a movie called 'Fritz The Cat'?" He starred at me for about 10 seconds, laughed, and asked "How the hell did you get to see Fritz The Cat?" Ironically, my dad, the most strict of all dads at the time, was probobly the biggest fan of the film. He is one of the many people I am going to send this to as a gift when it is avalible.

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Summary: Native New Yorker
Review: I remember when this movie first came out in 1972 and was playing in the movie theaters on 42nd. St., I was too young to see it at the time because I was only 14 years old. So I saw this movie for the first time in 2003, 31 years later!
Since it was X-rated I thought it would be really wild and over the top but these days it would be PG-13, this is not to say that I did not like it but its much tamer than I thought it would be for an X-rated movie. It helps to be from New York City to fully enjoy this film because they show scenes of NYC as it was in 1972. This movie is really like an art house movie and is a snapshot of what was going on in the US in 1972 (hard hats, the pigs, black power) all in all I would recommend this film I would also recommend you see Heavy Traffic Ralph Bakshi's film after Fritz the Cat.

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Summary: VERY, VERY, FUNNY !
Review: I SAW THIS MOVIE IN THE THEATRE AND IT STILL HOLDS UP TODAY. A SLICE OF AMERICA MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE.

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Summary: This movie has stayed with me since 1972
Review: I was senior in high school when I saw this movie, we had to drive to the only x-rated drive in the area. I never saw anything like it, and I loved it. I think this movie broke down some barriers so we could have shows like "The Simpsons", "King of the Hill" and "South Park". The adult element in animated
features is something that was much needed, before this all we had was Bugs Bunny. It's trail blazing material like this that keeps me coming to the theaters.

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Summary: Fritz the Cat
Review: No, I haven't seen this on DVD, as of this posting NO ONE HAS cause its just not available and if any of you have seen the sorry, blurred VHS copy that is, well I know you will join with me in clamoring for a collectors remastered version of one of the greatest pieces of American anime to hit the screen. Wow that was a long sentence!

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Summary: Classic Animated Feature
Review: Now this film isn't for every one. The orgie scene alone will probably offend half of Americans out there, but if you can look beyond all of it you can enjoy one of the most classic American animated films of all time. And yes, I dare call it that.

Fritz the Cat is not only a classic for bringing Ralph Bakshi into the Hollywood fray, but it also does some thing few American animated films accomplish: it presents a time in America and the founding ideologies and feelings of that period. Drugs, free love, government, the Middle East, racism...its all there. "Oliver and Company" may have some nice shots of New York City, but Fritz the Cat captures the look and feel of the city and its people better than that film ever could.

Ralph Bakshi is one of my idol animators, and I believe this is one of his landmark films. It will remain a classic, whether some people want it to or not.