Fritz the Cat

Name: Fritz the Cat
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Animation
Released: April 14, 1972
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Charles Spidar, John McCurry, Judy Engles, Mary Dean, Phil Seuling

1972

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Cinemation Industries | Release Date: April 14, 1972 | X

Starring: Charles Spidar, John McCurry, Judy Engles, Mary Dean, Phil Seuling, Ralph Bakshi, Rosetta LeNoire, Skip Hinnant

Summary: Fritz (voiced by Skip Hinnant), an anthropomorphic feline in mid-1960s New York City, explores the ideals of hedonism and sociopolitical consciousness. The film is a satire focusing on American college life of the era, race relations, the free love movement, and left- and right-wing politics.

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Animation

Rating: X

Runtime: 78 min

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Vincent Canby

A low, bawdy cartoon feature that hasn't forgotten that there still can be something uniquely funny in animated films that exaggerate human actions and emotions (in this case, love, rage, compassion and, especially, lust) to the extraordinary extents available only in cartoons. Read full review

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Excellent animation and montage shore up a plot which has a few howls, several chuckles and many smiles. Read full review

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Despite some ingenious effects, a generally trivial exercise that never matches the punch of the original. Read full review

Charles Solomon

Contemporary viewers are more likely to find Fritz the Cat a mildly amusing period piece, as dated as a Nehru jacket. Read full review

Robert Hughes

Bakshi's animation is good, and the visuals—which marvelously capture the grainy, lowering look of the Manhattan streetscape—are raucous, ingenious and convincing. But Fritz the Cat is, for a cartoon, exasperatingly slow: Bakshi's sense of pace and editing is snail-like, and the dialogue mostly naive and muffled. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Ralph Bakshi gathered retired animators from all over the world to work on his 1972 film, misleadingly billed as the first feature-length cartoon for adults. The results, inevitably, were disappointing; Bakshi just didn't have the money to make it right. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

All in all, Fritz is best observed as a cultural artifact, with its success allowing Bakshi to follow it up with more heartfelt projects such as Heavy Traffic (1973) and Coonskin (1975). Read full review

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Gamzguy17

Aug 21, 2021

Ambitious in lewdness and commendable in exploitation of the late 60's/early 70's young adult societal culture, "Fritz the Cat" is an inspiring piece of debut film-length animation by Ralph Bakshi and his team that ultimately asks us the question, "What have we got left to lose?"

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Djames384

Dec 28, 2020

Possessing an important social commentary and criticism, Fritz the Cat is a defining moment in adult animation. Unfortunately, where it's scorning is entertaining and often hilarious, it lacks proper structure in terms of storyline and narrative.

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