Wizards

• January 5th, 2008 • • animation, fun stuff •

Last night I finally got to watch my new copy of Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards. I’ve been wanting to see it since reading about it in one of my animation history books when I was oh, about 15 years old.

Bakshi doesn’t typically have great animation but I like the films for the conceptual value. I was really enamored with the weird overlays and rotoscoping. The background art outshone the animation, music, and dialog by leaps and bounds.

Story was pretty boss too; I enjoy stories of the post-apocalypse that don’t involve cyberpunks fighting the machine. The soundtrack was filled with odd “bow chicka wow” guitars that kinda set me off, but it added a weird quirk to the whole thing. I imagine if it had a heavy metal track I would’ve been completely starry-eyed just because of the part of me deep down that loves shitty animation paired with a sweet guitar solos. Speaking of which, where’s my copy of Heavy Metal anyway?

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