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Wizards [VHS]
starring: Jesse Welles, Bob Holt, Richard Romanus, David Proval, Jim Connell
directed by: Ralph Bakshi

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Far from the masterful treatment that groundbreaking animator Ralph Bakshi gave the similarly themed The Lord of the Rings just a year later, Wizards feels amateurish. A simplistic distillation of fantasy tropes, the scenario is millions of years after nuclear war wipes out civilization. Middle Earth fairies, elves, and magic emerge from the "good lands," while dimwitted mutants with poor comic timing emerge from the nuclear wastes. In the ultimate confrontation between good and evil, a hippie-ish wizard named Avatar defends his utopia against the technological and neo-Nazi revival of his bad-seed twin, Blackwolf. With volleys of jokes that couldn't hit a barn door, elves with Brooklyn accents, and the dubious climax that sees the kindly old wizard using one of the hated machines of war to triumph over evil, Wizards is one of fantasy animation's least successful examples. --Alan E. Rapp

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301801706
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301801709
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 19, 1993
Running Time: 80 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 02, 1977

Customer Reviews

A Misstep in Bakshi's Career, but an Enjoyable Film

After completing three urban/adult animated films, Ralph Bakshi wanted to branch out and do something that he had never done before: a family film. he shifted his focus from the seedy underbelly of modern New York to Tolkienesque fantasy realms. Wizards is the film that sprang forth from Bakshi's mind.

The world the film is set in is thousands or millions of years in the future, as the world recovers from a nuclear holocaust. There are a re two main areas on earth now. Skorch, the badlands, ... Read More

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