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VHS : WizardsIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $19.98 Price: $7.91 You Save: $12.07 (60%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301801706 Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301801709 Label: 20th Century Fox 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 Sales Rank: 11368 Related Items:
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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good fantasy but....for kids?I enjoyed Wizards the first time I saw it and I enjoyed it the last time. Generally it was well done but Mr. Bakshi's intension that it be for children I find a little off. The amount of violence would seem to be more suited for adult fantasy enthusiasts or, maybe, adolescents. The priests segment is rather calculated to offend a wide variety of religious adherents. I couldn't really think of a single major religion that it didn't take a shot at. The film becomes rather ... Read More Rating:  - Was he trying to make this as awful as possible?Simple-minded plot consisting of mismatched over-the-top cliches incoherently scotch-taped together; what seems to be a systematic effort to include enough sexist, racist, and religious stereotypes to offend everyone on Earth and most of their house pets; incredibly cheap, jerky, worse-than-the-worst-of-Saturday-morning animation; and enough graphic violence to give the children who are supposedly the target audience nightmares. This is worse than the Super-8 "movie" my friends and I made in 9th ... Read More Rating:  - great aminated showi saw this when it originally came out and was very happyto purchase the memory. thanks so much Rating: - What a cool movie.This is a great movie. I mean, really. I am not going to go as far as to explain all the intricate parts that make it great, nor am I going to say it's the best cartoon ever made. What I will say is the Bakshi did the animated world a favor that most people will never know about. Cartoons don't have to always be these soft, lighthearted puffballs that many animators at the time were leaning towards. Bakshi has a considerable amount of graphic violence and swearing in this cartoon ... Read More Rating: - Ahead of its TimeIf you are a fan of modern animation, Wizards is an underground gem that you should dig for. Quirky, clever, cutting and cool, Wizards is a FSF lover's film from the smart-alecky elves to the beauty of Montagar. This is grown-up animation made long before CGI, back when what the Japanese were doing looked like flip books with nothing animated but the mouths. No, nothing looks 'real'. It isn't meant to. Where's the fun in that? Maybe it's not for everyone, but this is a movie I love and want to share ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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