Fire and Ice Review
Fire and Ice is a fun movie with plenty of action. It was filmed rotoscoped (Live actors that are painted over with anamation) which gives the action a very fluid movement. The plot is so simple you might have to turn your brain off to enjoy it. The evil wizard Mekron and his mom are trying to rule the world by magicly pusing this glacier over their enemies. It is up to the kingdom of Firekeep to stop them. In the middle is Teegra, a curvy knockout of a pricness, who is kidnaped by Mekrons ape men soldiers. She meets a man named Larn who tries to rescue her. There is also a totally BAD-A$$ warrior named Dark Wolf. More on him later.
A lot of the reviews say this movie is adolescent drek but here is where the movie does somthing different. Although Larn is the leading man he is really not that tough. Infact he spends most of his time running away and fails to rescue Teegra twice. So even though Larn is the leading man, Dark Wolf is the leading butt kicker, and it is a joy to watch him chop through bad guys with his battle ax. Infact thats all he does. He wears a wolf mask for reasons we don't know, and wants to kill Mekron and his mom for reasons he doesn't tell. There is alot in this movie that doesn't get explained, like how can people ware speedoes and live in a glacier without getting frost bite. Maybe thats why Mekron and his mom have blue skin.
Anyway, if you think fat bottomed girls make the world go round, and would like to see a beef cake barbarian mow down bad guys with an ax then this is a movie for you. However, if you are like some of the weenies on this board who call this movie "sexist" and who actually don't want to see a hot girl in a lavender bikini then give this one a pass and go back to letting your wife force you watch Steel Magnolias.
Fire and Ice Overview
From The Director Of The Original Animated THE LORD OF THE RINGS And The Illustrator Of CONAN THE BARBARIAN
It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director of FRITZ THE CAT, WIZARDS and the original THE LORD OF THE RINGS) and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta (creator of the iconic CONAN THE BARBARIAN, VAMPIRELLA and Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers). It became - and remains - one of the most startling animation epics of all time. Now experience a world unlike any ever seen, where savage warriors, horrific monsters and luscious maidens battle for the soul of a civilization in a time of good and evil, pleasure and pain, and FIRE & ICE.
This long-unavailable cult favorite has been remastered in High Definition from original vault materials, remixed in stunning 6.1 DTS-ES and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX, and loaded with exciting Extras.
EXTRAS:
Audio Commentary with Producer/Director Ralph Bakshi
"The Making of FIRE AND ICE"
"Bakshi on Frazetta"
"Sean Hannon's Diary Notes"
Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
Fire and Ice Specifications
The mighty-muscled heroes and big-bottomed babes of fantasy artist Frank Frazetta inspired animator Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, Wizards) to create the swords-and-sorcery epic Fire and Ice. Bakshi uses a technique called rotoscoping, which uses live-action film of actors as the template for animation, allowing him to put realistic action into fantastic environments. The verisimilitude of movement in a cartoon can be startling, but that's about all Fire and Ice has to offer; the wafer-thin story, overwrought characters, and clumsy dialogue are vapid cliches. Of much greater interest are the extras in this two-disc set, including a making-of feature that demonstrates the painstaking process of rotoscoping; enthusiastic commentary from Bakshi, who's a jovial, down-to-earth guy with a thick Brooklyn accent; deliriously fatuous diary notes from one of the actors; and a feature-length documentary called Frazetta: Painting with Fire, which reveals the artist to be more intriguing than any of the barbarians he's famous for. The effusive praise of other fantasy artists and "Frazetta historians" occasionally veers into Spinal Tap territory, but it's fascinating watching Frazetta turn from a 1950s James-Dean-style tough guy into the king of fantasy art. Though his work is often dismissed as adolescent kitsch, the documentary persuasively argues that Frazetta deservedly dominates his corner of the art world. --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Reviews
FRAZETTA'S WORLD BROUGHT TO LIFE BY BAKSHI -- SWEET ON BLU-RAY - Robin Simmons - Palm Springs area, CA United States
Within five years of the released of his animated LOTR, director Ralph Bakshi co-produced another heroic fantasy with legendary artist Frank Frazetta. The story is set in a parallel -- or is it an alternate? -- world that reflects the iconic art of Frazetta. Life-like movements, again from clever rotoscoping, imbue the human and non-human characters with a vitality and eerie charisma. The blond hero Tarn and the scantily clad heroine in distress Teegra work out their differences with the icy sorcerer Lord Nekron and his willful mother Juliana in an Armageddon landscape of primeval beauty populated with fearsome subhumans and flying dragonhawks.
All the background art was done by then unknown artists Thomas Kinkade and future Dinotopia designer James Gurney. The commentary with producer/director Bakshi is a conversation with fan and filmmaker Lance Laspina (Frazetta: Painting With Fire). From Blue Underground.
Fire and Ice DVD - Nora S. Corbin - Ohio, USA
Both copies of Fire and Ice I received were brand new and awesome! My boyfriend and my brother were both thrilled to see Bakshi's animation. Thanks!
Buy It For the Bonus Feature - James Dawson - Woodland Hills, CA United States
Teegra the barely covered beauty is voluptuously, outrageously sexy, but the animation is embarrassingly primitive. Also, I can't believe that no one has pointed out the music's VERY distracting similarity to the "Hogan's Heroes" theme, with occasional touches of "Jaws."
The real reason to buy this set is to get the excellent -- even if a little too fawning -- documentary about Frank Frazetta. Fascinating stuff.
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The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with G-rated delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivo! rous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. -- Bret Fetzer
