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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
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MCT:March 4, 2008Simply one of the coolest animated fantasy epics around! This is Ralph Bakshi's second finest movie besides "American Pop", it's got action, hot animated chicks and stylish visual animation.
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MCT:December 31, 2007What saves this film from the junk heap is the beautiful crutch of Bakshi's work, the rotoscoping, and the fact that Frank Frazetta taught the animators how to draw like him. This is Frazetta...in motion. The violence is spectacular and the art direction and animation are unlike any other sword & sorcery movie of the period.
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MCT:December 7, 2007imi doresc cu disperare sa-l revad.......... a fost atat de frumos. pastrez o amintire extrem de placuta despre el.
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MCT:November 16, 2007
It's Ralph Bakshi. It's got rotoscoping. It's got Darkwolf (Non-ironic "badassery" personified). Oh yeah, and it's got Teegra, the well-built damsel in almost constant distress. Couldn't someone have gotten her a coat or something? I mean that poor girl would be froze to that glacier like a tongue on a steel pole in winter.
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MCT:November 3, 2007
Weak storytelling and great rotoscoped animation in this tribute to the legendary Frank Frazetta. If Alex Ross is an 8, Frazetta is a 10.
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