Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

coolcat01 This one may shock people but finally an Animal House for the Cat Community.

harprj I decided to watch Fritz the Cat because I'm a fan of R. Crumb's work, and his infamous hatred towards this movie further fueled my intrigue. I think subversive animation inherently titillates the little kid in all of us, taking a widely beloved medium of our childhood and doing very "mature" (at least ratings wise) things with them. Ralph Bakshi, the director, proclaimed that his film was for the young people, the hippie generation, who weren't easily offended and were receptive to new ideas. The question then, however, is if this is true, why does he spend so much time lampooning them? The way this film portrays the radical left of the 60s and 70s is hilariously inaccurate as a whole and more indicative of the "everyone can identify as who they want to" neoliberalism of modern day. The liberals (all females I might add) in this film mainly exist as strawmen for some unspecified demographic to laugh at and think, "wow, liberal girls are so dumb, they literally only think that stuff to pick up guys!" And therein lies the main problem with this film. If you have a problem with the left, fine, but say it in an intelligent way. This movie is supposed to undermine the mainstream view of established groups in society--hippies, cops, blacks--but instead of being clever or profound, it just presents the caricatures to say "HA! AREN'T COPS SO DUMB!" "AREN'T WOMEN SO FICKLE!" It's exhausting and drains the humor out of damn near everything in here. Stereotypes ≠ does not a witty commentary on society make. There is one scene that I thought might have some insightful symbolism if one looked into it enough: Fritz incites a riot in Harlem against the cops. As the military is coming in and Fritz sees all the crows (puerile caricature for every single black person in the movie) around him dying, he essentially shrugs and walks off. Make of that what you will about race relations in the US, but in Fritz, you can pretty much guess the whole point of this scene was to have lots of cartoon violence. After all, the whole appeal of this movie is staying up past your bedtime to watch a naughty cartoon.Which leads me to that infamous X rating. If you're even a casual watcher of Family Guy, Fritz the Cat won't make you blink twice. Heck, if you're a hardcore Family Guy viewer, you'll probably love this film. The entire premise of the humor seems to evolve around anime tiddies, crudely drawn male genitals urinating everywhere, drugs, rape, violence, and stereotypes that aren't so much offensive now as just...tired and groan-worthy. It's ostensibly a parody of free love philosophy, but I'm not buying it. A large part of it might be that this movie is very, very considerably before my time. But it's hard to take this movie as a serious emblem of the counterculture when it treats nothing with respect. All of the women are either vapid, nagging, or whores. Somehow race exists in this animal world, and every thing that isn't white gets its own species. Characters are simultaneously Marxist and avid ers of domestic violence, pro-revolutionary and Neonazi. The internal world has no consistency and as a result it's a jumbled mess and I feel like I wasted 82 minutes of my life. I guess it would be a deep philosophical commentary on something if literally anything, anything at all, about this film at least tried to be mature in tone at any point? Man, we get it, the 60s were strange, dude. Didn't need to watch an unfunny movie to glean that. I may sound scathing, but there are two things that may redeem this movie to people who care more than me. The animation in this movie is faithful to the eclectic style of Crumb and has stunningly innovative moments that would be poetic if the surrounding film wasn't...well, crap. The music is also really good, and sadly more fun than anything else in the movie. Fritz the Cat is probably worth watching if you're an animated historian or avid hentai fan. Other than that, though, there are better relics from the 70s that are faithful to the time period and actually funny, too.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Unfortunately for this movie, people today view it and assume it's some kind of twisted and disturbing pornography film. Yes, it has animals with nude-human-like bodies. Yes, it has racial stereotypes. Yes, it's got Nazi-fetishists and Anarchists and drugs and booze... well, disturbing as these things all might be, it is a homage to one of the most revolutionary yet hypocritical eras, the 1960's. When I first heard of it, I was afraid it would have environmentalism in it (I'm openly pro-pollution and an Eco-Sinner). Of course, when I watched the first few minutes of it, I just fell in love with this funny, doped-up, hypocrite hippie cat in this satire film, as he tries to make a difference in the world but ends up often causing more harm than good. THIS IS NOT A FILM FOR CHILDREN. that being said, it's certainly not a porn movie either, if it were I wouldn't be caught dead watching it, porn is perverted and disgusting. Watch Fritz the Cat with an open mind, you'll be surprised. The racial stereotypes are there not to create a racist movie, but to show various stereotypes common at the time that were wrong and the movie was trying to point them out as being wrong. There's some nostalgic 1960's soundtrack that adds to the comedic moments, and great voice acting. Don't this movie up, it's an interesting outlook on the "Free Love" movement, war, racism, politics, sex, drugs and education.

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.