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...FRITZ THE CAT is more than a hot-shot college feline chasing tail and getting pussy. It's a zoot-suited, claw-wagging crow shuffling to a Harlem bugaloo. It's three Mickey Mice breaking into cheers as USAF jets strafe New York City. It's stoned eagle at a Village dope party, and a mare raped by a sadistic leftist rabbit. It's pure unadulterated funk, and, aside from riots in the street--I can't think of much that suits the present moment better...
Forget the social comment you might have been expecting. The consciousness of R. Crumb, Fritz's original creator, is that of a disaffected urbanite who reads the Daily News with chortling masochism and controls his paranoia by making Obscene statements. His message (and that of the film made from his comic books): the world isn't really so screwed up, since everyone's just in it for a taste of ass and acid, so why are we all anxious...
Sure, it's grade school stuff, like shooting a moon at a priest. But adolescent destruction, if it may lack point, has purpose. Bring everything down when society's massiveness gets you, and you'll no doubt feel better. Which is why Fritz belongs to the suffering and the ignorant, to the sweethearted guys who get it in the neck, to 12 year-old idealists of all ages who need a rest from disillusionment--who need the total disillusionment which Crumb and his animator push...
...Fritz the Cat, America's first X-rated feature-length cartoon. Abbey Cinema I, across from B.U. Fri.: 1:15. 2:45. 4:20. 5:50. 7:25. 9. 10:35. 12. Daily: 1. 2:30. 4. 5:30. 7. 8:30. 10. Starts...
...Fritz the Cat. World's first X-rated feature-length cartoon. Abbey Cinema I, across from B.U. 1:15, 2:45, 4:20, 5:50, 7:25, 9, 10:35, 12, Friday. 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10, Daily...