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Fritz the Cat

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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

Original title: Fritz the Cat
Year: 1972
Running time: 78 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Screenwriter: Ralph Bakshi. Comic: Robert Crumb
Cast: Animation
Music: Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin
Cinematography: Animation
Producer: Aurica Finance Company, Black Ink, Fritz Productions, Steve Krantz Productions
Genre: Animation. Comedy | Cats. Animals. Drugs. Crime. Erotic. Adult Animation. Black Comedy. Independent Film (US). Based on a Comic. 1960s
Synopsis: Based on a series of comics by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, this X-rated animated film brings a cynical eye to the idealism of the 1960s. It's a world where black people are crows, cops are pigs, rabbis are lions, and cats like New York University student Fritz (voiced by Skip Hinnant) are substituted for guilt-ridden white guys who want to be poets but mainly smoke pot and engage in group sex. After a drug bust by a couple of bumbling pigs makes him an outlaw, Fritz sets fire to his NYU dorm and hits the road in search of self-discovery. The crazy cat steals a car, starts a race riot in Harlem, and ends up stuck outside San Francisco with a group of sadistic revolutionaries led by a junkie biker rabbit. Through it all Fritz's pot-addled self-righteousness gradually gives way to a deeper understanding of life, but perhaps too late to extract himself from a terrorist plot. 'Fritz The Cat' was director Ralph Bakshi's first feature, and it carries many of his future themes ultrableak urban landscapes, cynically guarded idealism, grotesque sexuality, and raucously over-the-top moments of violence.

Rankings Position

#113 Best Animated Works for Adults
#121 Best Comic Book Movies

Critics' reviews

"Excellent animation and montage shore up a plot which has a few howls, several chuckles and many smiles."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Contemporary viewers are more likely to find Fritz the Cat a mildly amusing period piece, as dated as a Nehru jacket."

Charles Solomon: Los Angeles Times
"Bakshi gathered retired animators from all over the world to work on his 1972 film, misleadingly billed as the first feature-length cartoon for adults. The results, inevitably, were disappointing"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"Despite some ingenious effects, a generally trivial exercise that never matches the punch of the original."

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