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...these dangers; he also knew that the task of translating this ring-cycle to the screen had stymied some of the most formidable names in Hollywood, including Walt Disney, and still he plunged ahead. Bakshi brought to this project none of the brass and sass that animated his earlier cartoon features including the X-rated Fritz the Cat and the jive-talking Heavy Traffic. If reverence had wings, his new picture would fly. The fact that it hobbles simply proves again that the road to Mordor is paved with good intentions...
...foreground constantly throngs with figures, and this is where trouble begins. To achieve such massed scenes, next to impossible in normal animation, Bakshi first created a live-action film and then had the cartoon traced over it, virtually frame by frame. The technique allows for large-scale battles and much hacking and hewing, as well as some distracting side effects. When the crowds are especially dense or the action swift, the superimposed cartoon fades to a sketchy approximation. The live actor-models flicker like ghosts behind a thin wash of color, and the viewer feels an urge to apply...
...back and forth. It is a rationally conceived design rather than an organic development informed by dramatic feeling. Laura Young's eloquent face is an incongruity here; her body's range of emotion is simplified to a perfunctory embrace or two, and authentic feeling is wasted in this brash cartoon anyway...
...hand, if you don't mind (or even welcome) a light, superficial portrait of Allen that amuses if not informs, go see it. Besides, the six short comic films that accompany the half-hour-long portrait of Allen are quite good, ranging from the couple-of-chuckles Betty Boop cartoon to the brilliant parodies of Bergman and Star Wars...
...Robert Reed, a leading actor in Roots and The Brady Bunch. Jarvis will also respond to questions from a live audience. Other members of the tax-cutting cast include former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and U.C.L.A. Economist Neil Jacoby. As relief from all the rhetoric, an animated cartoon will trace the history of the oppressed taxpayer from caveman times to the present. "Most people are not tuned in to political broadcasts," admits Stewart Mollrich, the show's writer. "The idea is to keep it lively...