The trailer is good, it's a good indication of what will you get if you watch the movie, yet it doesn't unveil too much of the plot. The music is probably okay, but I don't remember it. The story of the Wizards cartoon is the usual "good vs evil", but I feel that is okay for a film like this. In this article I've gathered images that belong to the art styles I liked, except for the opening image that's more characteristic to the film. If you watch the trailer, imagine watching it for 60 more times, and you can estimate how would you like watching that. There are multiple drawing styles in the same sequence, and sometimes stills or real life footage was inserted. There are some comedic inserts, but I didn't find them funny. It's too dark and frightening for children, yet, it's too childish for adults. I'm not sure who is the target audience of this film. The Wizards animated movie is about a good wizard trying to defeat an evil wizard, who wants to conquer the world. I probably didn't watch the trailer, at least I don't remember any of that. When I had the opportunity though, I watched if finally. However, since I didn't like the art style, nor the strange themes, I was not particularly interested in rushing to watch the movie. The first time I remember was a review of the Wizards RPG in an old Dragon Magazine. I've been hearing about the Wizards film for a long time. A Bakshi oddity which remains a full cult with intriguing visuals but little else.* * * Review (spoiler-free) - Wizards movie Certainly worth a watch but its nothing to rave about. Some characters look really good like the thin soldiers wearing gas masks, whilst others look like something from a cheap kids flick. I do like this film more for the artistic side really, the rest is somewhat dull with a lot of dialog that is uninspired. All the archive footage from Nazi Germany is possibly not required along with the baddie characters having Swastika's on them, comes across more like a fascists wet dream from time to time. 'Wizards' is an interesting but not very novel idea about simple ways vs technology. Overall its hard not to compare to this to his other cult work, but the Tolkien adaptation probably wins due to the story for one and the fact visually its a more oiled machine. The blend of animated characters and rotoscope is fine but not as natural looking as the later LOTR, this tends to look a bit crowbarred together, plus the animated characters look a tad too cartoonish in places. A strong colour palette much the same as LOTR incorporating nice dark cloudy skies, bleak murky landscapes and some decrepit dusty old cityscapes set the scenes nicely. The animation is your typical 70's look which I'm OK with I guess, it does age somewhat naturally but reminds me of many tatty old foreign cartoons from my childhood which were slightly obscure. Clearly for the adults and clearly Bakshi utilizing his skills from previous urban based animations.Ī strange mix of different concepts but definitely no lack of imagination and flare. There are plenty of bloody moments throughout just like in Bakshi's LOTR, lots of creatures getting cut down with blades and shot to pieces by gunfire, even an arrow and meat cleaver to the head for two unlucky characters! Add to this hookers that hang around in the streets of the evil wizards city of Scortch and the good wizard Avatar has a sidekick fairy in training called Elinore who is dressed in a very skimpy breast revealing little number (Jessica Rabbit eat your heart out). There are a few allegories within this film which are quite clever and would clearly go over a kids head, I was never really sure who this film was really aimed at. Never the less this animated film shows how propaganda when used correctly can be devastating just as technology can be. Certainly an odd inclusion for what was meant to be for youngsters as well as adults. This includes planes, tanks, machine guns and a film projector which projects footage of Hitler and his Nazi's. The whole idea is the baddie wizard with his mutants discover ancient buried technology from our present day and use it against the good forces. This sure is a weird combination of ideas that's for sure, hand drawn animation of goblins, elves, wizards, knights, mutants etc.Rotoscoping used for many battle sequences which appear to show various winged demons, orcs/goblins, many more knights and various live action sequences taken from other films and historic footage. They rage war to claim/save the Earth as you might have guessed. Two brother wizards battle each other, one on the side of the elves and dwarfs, the other with the mutants. The story is simply about a post apocalyptic Earth where mutants live alongside new races of elves, dwarfs and fairies.yes. Bakshi's first foray into fantasy animation and the experience he needed to gain confidence for his vision of 'The Lord of the Rings'.
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