Review of Wizards (1977) by Chuck L — 09 Sep 2007
Maybe it was because I saw this while staying up really late but I found Wizards boring after a while and a little confused as a result. Having said that, I did like some of the humor presented here, my favorite being the "They killed Fritz!" segment that I recognized as Ralph Bakshi's reaction to Robert Crumb's killing his beloved underground comic cat character after Bakshi's adopting Fritz for the big screen.
Some of the battle scenes with footage of Hitler and his men and silhouette of various live-action movie battle reenactments of World War II mixed with animated depictions of blood also were pretty interesting.
And the way the good wizard dealt with his bad wizard brother made a satisfying ironic touch to this magic vs. technology parable. It just seemed to fall apart, however, as the narration kept giving so much exposition that I just couldn't keep up.
Maybe another viewing would clear my mind of all the goings on here ... Meh.
This review of Wizards (1977) was written by Chuck L on 09 Sep 2007.
Wizards has generally received positive reviews.
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