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...town. For once, the audience cheers when the he doesn't kill his enemy. CINEMA 57 II: 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8:10, 10:20. Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs, ABBEY CINEMA...
Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture, and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs. ABBEY CINEMA...
Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture, and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs. ABBEY CINEMA...
...kind of animated cartoon Ralph Bakshi has made of Crumb's world is something else again. Fritz, the hero, is what the average campus revolutionary was in the late '60s-a fool tabby, living off vicarious experience, with his head full of windy sub-Marcusian rhetoric and only one ambition: to swive. Fritz gets involved in a hilarious orgy in a Village bathtub, is nearly busted by two cops, drawn inevitably as pigs, takes off to Harlem after an interminable chase through a synagogue, and is turned on to grass. Stoned, he makes inadequate love to a blimplike...
...have been as unsure of his targets as Fritz himself. The '60s, in all their wide-open absurdities, still demand a more pointed epitaph than this. It will come as no surprise to head comic fans to learn that, on seeing what became of Fritz in the film, Crumb asked to have his name removed from all publicity. Meanwhile, the movie, largely because of Fritz's bathtub scene, got an X rating, something of a coup for the animated cartoon, the last bastion of pudency...