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Wizards
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 25, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1977
  • Label: 20Th Century Fox

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,377
Rating: 55/100 -- Bakshi's filmmaking is sloppy and slapdash at times, to be sure, but it is also uncompromising. Full Review
MovieMartyr.com
Jun 22, 2012
Rating: 2.5/4 -- If Wizards is a failure, then it's a fascinating failure. Full Review
From the Front Row
Aug 5, 2019
Rating: 7/10 -- Story and characters leave much to be desired, but there's something wonderful about this refreshingly gritty, innovative animated feature. Full Review
IGN DVD
Mar 19, 2012
Wizards is meant to be vast, but its smallest moments tend to be the most memorable. Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Oct 14, 2011
...A fable, but one that is as contemporary as Hitler...
New York Times
Apr 21, 1977
Rating: 3.5/5 -- a unique film unlike anything else you'll see from this era Full Review
7M Pictures
Mar 19, 2012
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. Full Review
Scene-Stealers.com
Apr 22, 2012

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 7,217
  • UPC: 024543120261
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