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Fire and Ice

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Fire and Ice

Big Yank, Cynthia Leake, Eileen O'Reill, Elizabeth Lloyd Shaw, Leo Gordon

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 and Ice. Bakshi use...( read more  read more... )s 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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  • markymarkslunggnome
    May 26, 2008
    markymarkslunggnome
    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.
  • Stinger839
    February 2, 2008
    Stinger839
    bakshi's most disappointing work
  • franktowers
    May 3, 2007
    franktowers
    nice animation, but the plot n dialog sucked
  • filmguy450
    November 22, 2009
    filmguy450
    Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta teamed up and created an entirely original animated fantasy, and I love it. It's ridicolous, to be certain, but the animation is some of Bakshi's best, and the story, while typical, is told well and clear. The action is good.
  • 21rclemente
    November 10, 2009
    21rclemente
    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)onal illustrations.
  • dcrees
    September 23, 2009
    dcrees
    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.
  • macross32y
    September 9, 2009
    macross32y
    Destacan los diseños de frazeta, por lo demás, la pelicula solo trata de parte de uan historia de su amplia mitología.
  • TheBlackKnight
    July 13, 2009
    TheBlackKnight
    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)ing.

    Also: Nekron might be the gayest villain out there.
  • jfvirey
    July 11, 2009
    jfvirey
    "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) warlock Nekron, from whose grip her barbarian lover will have to save her with the help of a hooded, green-eyed axe-wielder.

    If you fantasise about chained women and muscular men battling prehistoric monsters, this should be your thing. A fan of Bakshi's "Lord of the Rings" and of the Frazetta paintings which it drew inspiration from, I saw it on the big screen at 16, in the heyday of the "Dungeons and Dragons" craze, and I remember vaguely liking it, though I had found the animation wanting.

    Seeing it again 26 years later, I couldn't finish it. Looking like a post-pubescent version of the "Masters of the Universe" cartoon, it only manages to cheapen Frazetta's art.
  • jjb3332003
    March 25, 2009
    jjb3332003
    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.
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