The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction.
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- Cast：
- Reva Rose , Bob Holt
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Very disappointing...
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
The animation wasn't bad, although incredibly cheap as they used greenscreen shots of Fritz dancing as filler. However, the 1972 Fritz the Cat film was crude and racist because it was making a statement on society at the time, as well as the hippie lifestyle. This new sequel, made two years later, is crude and racist just for the hell of it. It certainly doesn't seem to be reflecting any time period of society, although, if Fritz' new obese wife had a cell phone and lived in a trailer, it could easily pass off as reflecting the jogging pants wearing, Wal-Mart, texting trailer trash people of today.There were some scenes that made absolutely no sense at all, and the only scene I thought was remotely funny was the one where Fritz and the businessman in the space helmet are in the truck. Even the soundtrack was better in the original. Duke doesn't even have the same sounding voice as he did in the first one.I wouldn't recommend this film, just stick with the first one, you're probably better off not seeing this.
Nine Live of Fritz the Cat is about a Cat named Fritz who is trying to get away from life of being married and having kids. He lights up a joint and begins to dream about the other 8 lives he could have. This movie was definitely ahead of it's time in 1974. I don't think there were many animated films in the 1970's that were even Rated R. If you are a person with Epilepsy this not the movie for you. This movie is pretty trippy.This movie deals with a lot of heavy topics such as racism and drug use. There is one scene with Nazi's in it. There is scene where the black people are suppose to be crows and they do use the N word at least 2-3 times. They even have a scene where the 6 letter f-word is mentioned. There are some sex jokes in this movie. If you don't like crude humor you probably won't like this movie.I thought this was a pretty good movie. I liked many of the scenes in the movie. One my favorites was the one where Fritz is the pawn shop and trying to sell a used toilet. He tries to explain how it belonged to and old person and was only gently used. I thought it was really funny. There are a few parts of this movie that are slow. There are a few parts that I didn't like in the movie.
This was a film which was so crude but so funny! It's super to have a change from animals to humans and it is very satirical about how folk in the southern areas of the states react to those of the northern states, and how persecuted one feels if they are just a little bit different from anyone. The animation was very impressive as it creates the environment of the where the characters live as indicated by the dodgy folk and dilapidated apartments of the USA. The film has a well composed, slick and catchy sound track which really gives this film a very arty and zooty name. And the highlight of this film was to show how many chances one gets in this precious life and how important the lessons are to us when we look back at them. If one sees this film in a DVD store, get it out and watch it! It's the satirical laugh!
To start this off, I love the original, I think it is brilliant social satire, plus I'm a huge Ralph Bakshi fan. So, even though I knew Bakshi wasn't involved with this sequel I'd figured I'd give it a chance. Well it was pretty bad, instead of making a social comment most of Fritz's Nine Lives just degenerate into dumb slapstick, and gross out gags. The film is dumb, lifeless, and not very funny. Oh and just a note if you're going to use live action footage as your background, make it less interesting than the animated foreground(something this film does horribly). Ultimately the whole movie seems pointless and dumb. However the animation is good and the soundtrack is decent, even though the soundtrack of the original is really good. To those "Wizards" fans Bob Holt the voice of Avatar is a number of voices in this film, he's even credited as "Many Voices", look for him with his Avatar voice as a cigar smoking astronaut.