Eric Stevenson In a weird way, this movie holds a special place in my heart. It was the first film my parents saw when they started dating, not that my mom cared much for it. I'm not a fan of Ralph Bakshi, but I think this is probably the best film he made that I've ever seen. I do appreciate learning about the history of animation, especially the first real adult cartoon that paved the way for future works, even if it's not that particularly well known. So, as strange as this film and as sexual as it gets, I'm going to say I liked it. It's very reflective of the 1960's or early 70's. Two thirds into the movie we're introduced to Fritz's girlfriend. She's probably the most likeable character in the film, if only because I feel sorry for her seeing as how Fritz is so freaking promiscuous. The animation is really nice in this and I appreciate the voice work as well. It definitely brings up some interesting topics and it's unique and honestly it seems to hold up today. The pig cops are easily the funniest characters. But yeah, it's certainly not for all tastes. ***

ruzhu Regardless of your judgment as to whether or not Fritz the Cat is an animated film that "goes too far," there's something about it that is more destructive than some of the raunchiest animated entertainment coming out today. For starters, the filmmaker Ralph Bakshi's anger permeates the film. You can call it a righteous anger, as I'm sure he felt it was. But it's anger like this that only helps destroy society, like what we've been witnessing in America recently. Imagine if Bakshi's cop-shooting-innocent-black-man scene was shown in mainstream theaters today. Violence (which he seems to think is cool in the black community) would be evermore justified by groups such as Black Lives Matter, who are fueled by this false narrative!Furthermore, I'm sure that because of Bakshi's frustrations working on cookie cutter animated programming back in the day, he wanted to come all out with in-your-face cursing, violence and sex... even if it involved cartoon animals (created by self-critical cartoonist Robert Crumb). Apparently the film is meant to be political, in the sense that obscene art = good art, just by virtue of subverting tradition. Not so in my book. It's one thing to be angry at America for its legitimate problems, but if you're not going to offer any solutions besides wallowing in indulgences, why should any sensible person listen to you?This film had wasted potential, but at least Crumb's thoughtful-if-not-naive dialogue shone through. And at least Bakshi was honest in his ambitions to make adult animation, as well as to ironically point out the self-righteousness of SJWs in the film's best scene.

John T. Ryan IN KEEPING WITH the times, being the mid 1960's to the early 1970's, we have this Ralph Bakshi adaptation of Robert Crumb's hip, cool, underground Comic Strip. The film was a parade of sex, drugs and bad language. It was also a great purveyor of laughs; albeit, those of a distinctly sophomoric, cheap and dirty variety. It's humour was about on the level of adolescent boys telling "dirty jokes" during breaks in school.WE MUST CONFESS that we did find a great deal of amusement in the ground breaking X Rated Animated feature; but once one gets past hearing Crow characters shouting in fake American Negro dialect phrases like: "Get the f*ck off my car!", or having Pig characters showing wallet photos of his piglet-little leaguers and endless on screen animated pot usage, the joke gets just a trifle stale.IT WOULD APPEAR that the main object here would be to be as nasty and offensive as possible to the existing mores of the time. If this is so, the production team succeeded with flying colours.WHEN VIEWED TODAY, 40+ years later, it looks a little silly and definitely dated.

ironhorse_iv What a weird hairball of a movie! Animator/ director Ralph Bakshi vomits this film based on the character from Robert Crumb comic strip call Fritz the Cat. Skip Hinnant voice Fritz the Cat, an anthropomorphic cat in 1960s New York City. The film loosing follows a satire plot about hedonism, sociopolitical consciousness, revolution, race relations, the free love movement, and left- and right-wing politics. By the word loosing, the plot is little or none, characters come and disappears, there is a ton of music filler scenes that lead nowhere, and no sense of morality change. It has a lot of crude dry humor that purrs its way throughout the film. There is a lot of sex, drug, and violence in most of the film. The violence in the film can be disgusting and downright wrong at times, most likely in shock value scenes dealing with street gang, violent against women, and rape. The sex unleashed one of the influenced to the furry fandom through sexualized anthropomorphic animals. A lot of nudity—for a cartoon movie, that gather a cult following. The use of drug use is kinda disturbing too, as Fritz is too stone to care about others—mostly in what happen to Duke (Fritz's friend) mid movie. Fritz the Cat is mostly on the run from the law, and this is where the movie gets most of its meat and cheese. Bug out. Bug out. The semi-characters are interesting. Duke is a lot of fun when he's on screen. Winston plays Fritz on and off girlfriend whom personality changes from the start of the movie till mid-thru without giving us reasons why. Blue the Rabbit is a heroin junkie biker who literally steals the scene and nearly the movie from him bringing the film to its darkest point as Fritz is forced to become more and more anarchism in the film. The animation in the film really does follows very close to Robert Crumb's semi-controversy artwork of the comic strip. Robert Crumb did not enjoy the film, hated this movie so much, he killed off the character Fritz in his comics. The voice over of the animals by both actors/non actors follow by sounds of city life, sound like real people in the street talking because it's technically recorded in the streets and bars. Still sometimes, the animation on film doesn't follow the word, or body language or scene. In the end the film became the first animated film to be given an X-rating due its harsh subject matter. It's not really that good, as Fritz doesn't change one bit, and it's really doesn't lead you anywhere, but feeling you went on an acid-trip watching 1960's cartoons. It's just that—a shock value satire animation film.