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Fritz the Cat (1972)

Unrated | | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 30 November 1972 (France)
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A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.

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Fritz the Cat (voice)
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Bertha / Additional Female Crows (voice)
John McCurry ...
Blue / John / Additional Voices (voice)
Judy Engles ...
Winston Schwartz / Lizard Leader (voice)
Phil Seuling ...
Pig Cop #2 (voice)
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A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s. Its hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

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The most OUTRAGEOUS animated ADULT FILM ever made See more »

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Animation | Comedy | Drama

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$850,000 (estimated)
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Ranked at #51 on the Online Film Critics Society's list of the top 100 greatest animated films of all time. See more »

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When he emerges from the trash can, Fritz's outfit changes color from red to blue to red again between shots. See more »

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[first lines]
Narrator: Hey, yeah - the 1960s? Happy times, heavy times.
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Referenced in The Colbert Report: Frank Rich (2006) See more »

Soundtracks

Yesterdays
(1952)
Written by Jerome Kern & Otto A. Harbach
Performed by Billie Holiday, vocal
Joe Newman, trumpet
Paul Quinichette, tenor sax
Oscar Peterson, piano/organ
Freddie Green, guitar
Ray Brown, bass
Gus Johnson, drums
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A shocking but very entertaining film…
2 October 2008 | by (Mexico) – See all my reviews

The story concerns a classic 60's hero, Fritz, and his adventures through the urban underground… He loves sex and constantly claims and declares the glories of revolution… At first he is happy with just sex, but as the story moves through exotic adventures he discovers that the only way he can truly be a revolutionary is to join up with one of the militant groups… There, he's over his head…

In sharp contrast to Walt Disney's soft characters, Fritz is seen providing a bunch of screaming female cats, placing drugs, and having lots of fun… We are taken through Harlem where, in this case, the blacks are portrayed as jive-talking crows… Fritz is not a fantasy, but an animation venture into super-reality, at least as Bakshi sees it…

The animation is unpolished, graceless, but very effective… It has an unrefined or unfinished, renewable energy that brings out some of the social results of the confused sixties…
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