| Wizards | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 170 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3653
Category: DVD
Actors: Ralph Bakshi, Victoria Bakshi, Jim Connell, Steve Gravers, Angelo Grisanti
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Label: 20th Century Fox
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 80 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2222026D
UPC: 024543120261
EAN: 0024543120261
ASIN: B0001NBMIK
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: March 2, 1977
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Description
Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, this fantasy adventure follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies. Avatar?s evil brother, Blackwolf, dominates Scortch, a bleak land of goblins and wraiths. When the power-hungry Blackwolf attacks Montagar, Avatar, accompanied only by a spirited young woman and a courageous elf, must enter the darkness of Scortch to save his world. WIZARDS is a thought-provoking, kaleidoscopic feast for the eyes that will enthrall animation fans and film lovers of all ages.
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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
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 not the one January 6, 2009
i read alot good review. and i bought it .... after i see it . i don't like it. it's very bored, and urgly ... if you like fantasy movie i hight recomment "Ice and fire, sleeping beauty" . it is fantastic beautiful draw for the movie. i keep watch it all the time not only the movie. because, it 's realy beutiful arts
 Wizards December 28, 2008
I first saw Wizards in the theater when it first came out; this was back in the Stone Age before theaters became multiplexes. It was an innovation in animation at the time. Oh sure, Jerry danced with Gene Kelly, but that was live action and animation together. Wizards incorporated animation and live action animated over, giving the story a bit more "realism".
Since then, I have watched and gotten such movies as Rock and Rule, American Pop and Fire and Ice.
If you enjoy Japaneses anime, you will enjoy these as well.
 Good fantasy but....for kids? October 13, 2008
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 rushed at times. Those segments showcase some rather advanced techniques for the time but it gives the feeling that the crew was rather tired of working on the movie and just wanted to get it done. But that's pretty much explained in the extra material.
This is one of those, for the most part appealing, combinations of cuteness and chaos.
 Was he trying to make this as awful as possible? September 30, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 grade, and I didn't think it could get worse than that. Just to make it even worse, there is just enough actually striking rotoscope imagery to give the viewer a hint of the potential that was blown in this project. If I were Ralph Bakshi or anyone else associated with this, I would change my name and pretend I'd never heard of it.
great aminated show September 14, 2008
i saw this when it originally came out and was very happyto purchase the memory. thanks so much
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