Big Yank, Cynthia Leake, Eileen O'Reill
The mighty-muscled heroes and big-bottomed babes of fantasy artist Frank Frazetta inspired animator Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, Wizards) to create the swords-and-sorcery epic Fire an...( read more
). Bakshi uses a technique called rotoscoping, which uses live-action film of actors as the template for animation, allowing him to put realistic action into fantastic environments. The verisimilitude of movement in a cartoon can be startling, but that's about all Fire and Ice has to offer; the wafer-thin story, overwrought characters, and clumsy dialogue are vapid cliches. Of much greater interest are the extras in this two-disc set, including a making-of feature that demonstrates the painstaking process of rotoscoping; enthusiastic commentary from Bakshi, who's a jovial, down-to-earth guy with a thick Brooklyn accent; deliriously fatuous diary notes from one of the actors; and a feature-length documentary called Frazetta: Painting with Fire, which reveals the artist to be more intriguing than any of the barbarians he's famous for. The effusive praise of other fantasy artists and "Frazetta historians" occasionally veers into Spinal Tap territory, but it's fascinating watching Frazetta turn from a 1950s James-Dean-style tough guy into the king of fantasy art. Though his work is often dismissed as adolescent kitsch, the documentary persuasively argues that Frazetta deservedly dominates his corner of the art world. --Bret Fetzer
DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
Stats: 272 reviews
Great animation, cool fight scenes in an okay fantasy adventure. Teegra wins at everything in my book. Larn is such a fox; she looked so sexy pole-vaulting over the wolves! Nekron reminded me of Billy Drago.
Wow. this movie has pieces of LotR, Conan, and Heavy Metal. Mind blowing imo. It has insane slow-mo fight sequences, scantily clad females, and a crazy eighties fantacy plot....What else do you want!? Bakshi's second best... at least this one had bearable voice overs and proporti...( read more)
All kinds of 80s fun! Dungeons and Dragons style fantasy, combined with beautiful animation and unabashedly nearly-naked characters. It's just a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind owning it.
Destacan los diseños de frazeta, por lo demás, la pelicula solo trata de parte de uan historia de su amplia mitología.
Fire and Ice has some very nice animation - the characters move very lifelike thanks to the rotoscoping technique used.
Could have been a 4 out of 5 star movie if it weren't for the simplistic story and poor/silly voice act...( read more)
"Fire and Ice" is about a brunette in a microbikini and Cleopatra eyeliner being chased about in the jungle by hordes of cavemen, then seducing a blonde, square-jawed warrior with her ample bosom and buttocks and frolicking around with him, until she is captured by the Elric-like...( read more)
One of my favorites as a kid, I had not seen this movie in many years. I'm surprised by the PG rating as it is actually graphically violent at many points. The animation is quite cool, especially the slow-mo scenes. Darkwolf is the shit - right up there with Aragorn.
Very entertaining.
I would love to see some more animations from Ralph Bakshi.
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