Wizards (1977)
Director:
Ralph Bakshi
Starring: Voice of Bob Holt Voice of Steve Gravers Voice of Mark Hamill
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Category Keywords: Adventure Animation Big Battles Epic Fantasy Good Vs. Evil Swords & Sorcery Theatrical Release Witches And Wizards
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| Wizards is a thought-provoking, kaleidoscopic feast for the eyes that will enthrall animation fans and film lovers of all ages. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, this fantasy adventure follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies. Avatar's evil brother, Blackwolf, dominates Scortch, a bleak land of goblins and wraiths. When the power-hungry Blackwolf attacks Montagar, Avatar, accompanied only by a spirited young woman and a courageous elf, must enter the darkness of Scortch to save his world. |
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Editor's Note
This uniquely 1970s blend of swords, sorcery, science fiction, kung-fu, fascism, and nuclear holocaust was director Ralph Bakshi's first venture into fantasy after his grim urban epics STREETFIGHT and HEAVY TRAFFIC. In a postapocalyptic future that appears as a blend of World War II Europe and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, a pint-size wizard named Avatar (Bob Holt, sounding like Peter Falk) must save the world from a band of fascist mutants controlled by his evil twin brother, Blackwolf (Steve Gravers), who likes to confuse enemy armies by projecting films of Adolf Hitler speeches during attacks. Painted live-action footage of advancing Nazi armies contrasts with Saturday-morning-cartoon-style animation of fairies and elves as Avatar travels through various magical and radioactive realms on his quest. Aiding him are a sexually promiscuous fairy queen (Jesse Wells), a hot-blooded warrior elf (Mark Hamill, fresh from his role in STAR WARS) and Peace (David Proval), a misunderstood robot rebelling against his Blackwolf-controlled programming. A bizarre and psychedelic meditation on magic vs. technology, this cult film still finds an audience on college campuses and will prove quite rewarding to viewers in the right frame of mind.
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Wizards (1977) - Blu-Ray DVD Review
By: Luigi Bastardo
Blogcritics.org Reviews
Published on: 4/26/2012 7:08 PM
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| Several years after wowing the world with his hugely successful, risqué animated classic for adults, an adaptation of R. Crumb’s Fritz the Cat, Ralph Bakshi brought us something a little more on the serious side — the deadly serious side. Though the title alone invokes nightmarish visions of old guys with beards in large, star-studded dunce caps, Wizards is actually an outlandish adventure set in a post-apocalyptic Earth — in a world full of humans, mutants, fairies, dwarves, goblins, elves, and who knows what else. Following the devastation of the planet, deadly radioactive clouds blurred the skies above — veils of death and decay that have taken two million years to clear for the current inhabitants of the planet to see the light of day....read the full review | |
Cast & Crew
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Angelo Grisanti |
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Bob Holt |
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Jim Connell |
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Mark Hamill |
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Peter Hobbs |
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Steve Gravers |
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Andrew Belling - Original Music By |
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Donald W. Ernst - Editor |
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Ralph Bakshi - Screenplay |
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Ralph Bakshi - Producer |
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Ralph Bakshi - Director |
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Ted C. Bemiller - Cinematographer |
Plot Summary
Ralph Bakshi's animated futuristic fantasy depicts a battle between magic and technology as a kindhearted old sorcerer named Avatar embarks on a perilous quest into darkness to save the world from his evil brother's black magic.
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