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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: May 25, 2004
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: 20Th Century Fox
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
- Audio:
- Mono - English
- Mono - Spanish
- Stereo - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Featurette: "Ralph Bakshi: The Wizard of Animation"
- Audio Commentary: Ralph Bakshi - Director
- Trailers:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer B
- TV Spots
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Stills Gallery (300)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Ralph Bakshi | |
Voice: | Mark Hamill, Bob Holt, Jesse Wells & Richard Romanus |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The story is kind of a mess, but Wizards goes beyond your standard sword and sorcery tale into some heavy surrealism.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Moderate fun here and there.
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Time Out
Wizards is meant to be vast, but its smallest moments tend to be the most memorable.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rating: 3.5/5 --
a unique film unlike anything else you'll see from this era
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7M Pictures
WIZARDS fills the screen with as much sci-fi fantasia as one could ask for.
Premiere
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If Wizards is a failure, then it's a fascinating failure.
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From the Front Row
There are moments of beauty, but it's a far cry from Fantasia.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
This uniquely 1970s blend of swords, sorcery, science fiction, kung-fu, fascism, and nuclear holocaust was director Ralph Bakshi's first venture into fantasy after his grim urban epics STREETFIGHT and HEAVY TRAFFIC. In a postapocalyptic future that appears as a blend of World War II Europe and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, a pint-size wizard named Avatar (Bob Holt, sounding like Peter Falk) must save the world from a band of fascist mutants controlled by his evil twin brother, Blackwolf (Steve Gravers), who likes to confuse enemy armies by projecting films of Adolf Hitler speeches during attacks. Painted live-action footage of advancing Nazi armies contrasts with Saturday-morning-cartoon-style animation of fairies and elves as Avatar travels through various magical and radioactive realms on his quest. Aiding him are a sexually promiscuous fairy queen (Jesse Wells), a hot-blooded warrior elf (Mark Hamill, fresh from his role in STAR WARS) and Peace (David Proval), a misunderstood robot rebelling against his Blackwolf-controlled programming. A bizarre and psychedelic meditation on magic vs. technology, this cult film still finds an audience on college campuses and will prove quite rewarding to viewers in the right frame of mind.
Plot Synopsis:
Ralph Bakshi's animated futuristic fantasy depicts a battle between magic and technology as a kindhearted old sorcerer named Avatar embarks on a perilous quest into darkness to save the world from his evil brother's black magic.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Animation
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Big Battles
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Fantasy
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Witches And Wizards
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Good Vs. Evil
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Epic
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Theatrical Release
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Swords & Sorcery
Production Notes:
- WIZARDS was released during the height of the popularity for role-playing games that involved fantasy and combat. A WIZARDS role-playing game was launched after the film's release but has been unavailable for many years.
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- UPC: 024543120261
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