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16 October 1972 (Sweden)
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The most OUTRAGEOUS animated ADULT FILM ever made more
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A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's. full summary | add synopsis
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Reference To Donald Duck
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Skip Hinnant | ... | Fritz the Cat (voice) |
| Rosetta LeNoire | ... | (voice) |
| John McCurry | ... | (voice) |
| Phil Seuling | ... | (voice) |
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78 min | Sweden:79 min | Argentina:80 min
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Black and White (end credits) |
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Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
New Zealand:R18 |
Iceland:16 |
Italy:VM14 (re-rating) (1994) |
Italy:VM18 (original rating) |
France:-16 (re-release) |
Netherlands:16 |
South Africa:18 (LSV) |
UK:18 (video rating) (1994) |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:R |
Finland:K-18 |
France:-18 (re-rating) |
France:X (original rating) |
Germany:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:X (original rating) |
USA:Unrated (video rating) |
West Germany:18 |
Germany:16 (re-rating) (1995) |
USA:X (rating surrendered) |
Canada:18+ (Quebec)
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Steve Krantz attempted to appeal the film's rating, because of the misconception that it was a pornographic film. The MPAA refused to hear the appeal. Ralph Bakshi later stated "Now they do as much on "The Simpsons" (1989) as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."
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Continuity: When Duke and Fritz leave the bar, the knife on the floor disappears.
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Featured in The Confessions of Robert Crumb (1987)
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Yesterdays
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SYNOPSIS: It is New York City in the 1960's,and Fritz is a horny hippie New York City(by way of Manhattan) cat who plays guitar in the park with his buddies. Chatting up to three women he invites them round to his apartment for an orgy. There are various other friends join in a feast of sex and drugs which is interrupted by two pig cops. Then,Fritz is chased through a synagogue before hanging out in Harlem with some black crows. He gets very stoned,has some more sex and preaches about revolution before his friend gets killed in a vicious and violent street riot. Fritz flees with his girlfriend Winston for a journey out west,but the two fall out on the road and Fritz hooks up with some revolutionary,sexually abusive types. They encourage Fritz to blow up a refinery and set him up to be killed. Finally,fully recovered in a hospital he enjoys some more group sex with his girlfriends.
THE FILM: Released in 1972 and also marked the directorial feature-film debut of Ralph Bakshi,the film "Fritz The Cat",was a massive surprise box office hit despite some negative reviews from critics who deplored its content of sexually explicit material. This was in fact,made motion picture history as being the first ever animated cartoon feature to received an "X" rating from the Motion Picture Association Of America. The reason why it received an "X" rating for one thing and one thing that shocked audiences when they went to see it...SEEING CARTOON ANIMALS HAVING SEX,and also seeing cartoon animals doing raunchy and out of this world things that were never before seen,not even in an animated cartoon has this been done before,including scenes of raw language,racial content,explicit violence and not to mention full-frontal nudity of cartoon animals doing explicit sexual acts and doing outrageous stuff beyond the form of normality that was never before seen and for the first time was very daring for a cartoon that was STRICTLY FOR ADULTS ONLY....At the time this was released in theatres, "Fritz The Cat",at the time was never meant to be shown to pre-teenagers nor children in fact you had to be under 18 years of age or older to see this film. I remember this vividly since I saw it for the first time during a special midnight screening once at a local university under tight security. Based on the characters created by Robert Crumb,this was a grand look of sex,drugs,and freedom at the height of the late 1960's America,which at the time was at a crossroads with itself.
The animated itself is a wonder to behold and it is done by some of the best in the business who contributed to this project....one of them is legendary animator Virgil Ross and legendary animator Manuel Perez. Virgil Ross was a master animator who worked beside legends like Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones,not to mention Bill Weiss(the man behind the Terrytoons division of cartoons-the company behind Mighty Mouse,Heckle and Jeckle and Deputy Dawg),while Manuel Perez was worked along side Freleng and Jones too and has done extensive work for several animation companies including Hanna-Barbera,Filmation,and Warner Bors. to name a few. It also features excellent voice-work from Skip Hinnant,Judy Engles,Phil Seuling,and also John McCurry and Rosetta LeNoire(fondly remembered of "Family Matters" fame). Produced by Steve Krantz,with the screenplay by Ralph Bakski,based on Robert Crumb's character.
"Fritz The Cat" came out at the height of the sexual revolution and sexual freedom and liberation that came during that period of the 1970's and with some films that were released that year that were strictly adult oriented,or pornographic,for example the released of 1972 adult classic,"Deep Throat",and the Marlon Brando adult feature "Last Tango In Paris",hit theatres during this time when this adult animated cartoon was released. It was also one of the first to be released by an independent film company-Criterion Industries/Aurica Films. It was a cartoon that paved the way for future animated material that was adult oriented as well,and without the box office success of "Fritz The Cat",it would have never been possible.
It also set the stage for a sequel in 1974 titled "The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat",that was more raunchy and explicit then its first successor with Steve Kranitz returning as producer and Skip Hinnant returning as the voice of Fritz The Cat. This one would be released by an independent film company as well-the notorious AIP(American International Pictures).