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  • Wizards
  • Wizards review by A customer from Nottingham
    Rated - 1.0 stars Dated animation 16 June 2010
    ...' and 'Lord of the Rings' you've pretty much seen everything you need to see by Ralph Bakshi. Wizards is his attempt at a Disney-style family fantasy movie, and it doesn't ...   Read customer review

Ralph Bakshi - filmography


  • Cool World (1992)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Brad Pitt,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This blend of live-action and animation was director Ralph Bakshi's answer to WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. The story follows two humans who encounter Cool World--a parallel universe where cartoons actually exist--and tangle with the seductive Holli Would (Kim Basinger), an ambitious animated bombshell ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 861 members
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  • Fire And Ice (1983)
    Starring: Randy Norton,  Cynthia Leake,  Steve Sandor
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Celebrated sword-and-sorcery artist Frank Frazetta teams up with animation director Ralph Bakshi for this high-energy animated fantasy. It's a prehistoric battle of the elements as the dissolute ruler of the Ice World, Nekron (Sean Hannon), starts a war against the fire people using a massive, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 91 members
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  • Lord Of The Rings on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Christopher Guard,  William Squire,  John Hurt
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's revered Middle-earth saga captures the dark mood of the books extraordinarily well. The film covers the first half of the trilogy--THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and the earlier part of THE TWO TOWERS--as Frodo (voiced by Christopher Guard), the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,760 member
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  • Wizards on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Bob Holt,  Jesse Welles,  Richard Romanus
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the most ambitious and inventive films from legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, Wizards is a dazzling fantasy adventure. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where technology has been outlawed after nuclear disaster, the film follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 250 members
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  • Wizards - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: Bob Holt,  Jesse Welles,  Richard Romanus
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the most ambitious and inventive films from legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, Wizards is a dazzling fantasy adventure. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where technology has been outlawed after nuclear disaster, the film follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 180 members
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  • Heavy Traffic (1973)
    Starring: Lillian Adams,  Beverly Hope Atkinson,  John Bleifer
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Animator Ralph Bakshi's frenzied glimpse into the sleazy 1970s New York of pimps, drag queens, and Times Square perversity, this hallucinatory romp centers on Michael (Joseph Kaufman), an underground cartoonist who lives with his shrill Jewish mother and mobster Italian father, and escapes the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7 members
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  • Fritz The Cat on DVD (1972)
    Starring: skip hinnant (voice),  Skip Hinnant,  Rosetta LeNoire
    Director: Ralph Bakshi
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on a series of comics by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, this X-rated animated film brings a cynical eye to the idealism of the 1960s. It's a world where black people are crows, cops are pigs, rabbis are lions, and cats--like New York University student Fritz (voiced by Skip Hinnant)--..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 907 members
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  • Iron Man - Vol. 1 on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Iron Man
    Director: Ralph Bakshi,  Chuck Harriton
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Marvel action hero stars in the following animated episodes: 'The Mandarin's Death Ray', 'No One Escapes The Mandarin', 'The Moleman Strikes', 'The Dragon Of The Flames', 'Decision Under The Earth', 'The Death Of Tony Stark', 'The Hands Of The Mandarin', 'The Origin Of The Mandarin', 'If I Die, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 213 members
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  • Captain America - Volume 1 on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Captain America
    Director: Grant Simmons,  Ralph Bakshi,  Doug Wildey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The all-American hero stars in the following episodes: 'The Sleeper Shall Wake', 'Where Walks The Sleeper?', 'The Final Sleep', 'Zemo And The Masters Of Evil', 'Zemo Strikes', 'The Fury Of Zemo', 'The Girl From Cap's Past', 'The Stage Is Set', 'Thirty Minutes To Live', 'The Origin Of Captain ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 212 members
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Ralph Bakshi facts

5 most recent films

Cool and the Crazy - 1.5 stars
Cool World - 2.5 stars
Fire And Ice - 3.0 stars
Lord Of The Rings - 3.0 stars
Wizards - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lord Of The Rings - 3.0 stars
Fire And Ice - 3.0 stars
Wizards - 2.5 stars
Wizards - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Captain America - Volume 1 - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cool and the Crazy - 1.5 stars
Spider-Man - Series 2 - Complete - 2.5 stars
Heavy Traffic - 3.0 stars
Sub-Mariner - Vol. 1 - 2.0 stars
Cool World - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bob Holt - 2 times - show films
Bernard Cowan - 2 times - show films
David Proval - 2 times - show films
Peg Dixon - 2 times - show films
Richard Romanus - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Chuck Harriton - 2 times - show films
Grant Simmons - 2 times - show films
Doug Wildey - 1 times - show films
Chuck - 1 times - show films