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Sean
17Apr12
Family film this is not, it's too dark of a story for children and I can't understand why it was given a PG rating. It's clearly animation for adults, kids would think it scary. Bakshi's animation was clearly ahead of its time but now it just looks dated, but I did enjoy certain aspects of it. Cool story and even though its only 80 minutes long, it could have been shorter.
Matthew_Lucas
16Mar12
Ralph Bakshi, director of the iconic FRITZ THE CAT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, created this animated oddity in 1977, the first animated film by 20th Century Fox. An allegorical epic about war between two wizard brothers for control of a post-apocalyptic Earth populated by elves and fairies, WIZARDS is an occasionally compelling psychedelic curiosity that is both beautiful and fatally unfocused.
KAIJA EIGHTY
3Feb12
why can't we fight and win, mommy? .. because they have weapons and technology. we just have love.
Chris Jones
21Aug11
Usually I enjoy it when directors have a distinct vision, but I think that Bakshis tics and affectations derailed the movie. I'd like to see this story tackled again by someone who's better at reining themselves in.
Phil Worfel
17Jun10
Pretty awful. It has it's moments but it's a mess. Unfunny, annoyingly crude, disturbingly sexual (for what he's stated that he wanted to be a kids movie), and just plain ugly almost completely throughout. Hugely disappointing.
thesecretlivesofcats
18Mar10
His output pinpoints a time when mainstream animation was exploring more sinister themes. Here he reigns in his audacity compared to the Coonskin/Street Fight project before it. He has his flaws for sure...every movie looks like it was done quickly. I love his work because he just put's it all up there. Animation is supposed to be a limitless medium and he is definitely pushing the boundaries with what can be shown.
Lawrence Phillip Pearce
17Mar10
Bakshi is not a great nor particularly talented filmmaker. But seeing his flat, crudely drawn, late-style Hanna Barbera looking animated characters matted on top of deliriously detailed, psychedelic, "Heavy Hurlant" inspired backgrounds is some kind of visual miracle. The characters are forgettable and the story is nowhere in the galaxy of being original, but Wizards looks drop dead amazing!
KalebEdwardWilliams
1Mar10
This film would have destroyed the world had it not come out the same year as Star Wars. Sorry Ralph. I love it anyway.
Christopher Smith
27Jan10
Ralph Bakshi's really bizarre animated feature is difficult to describe. The animation is crude, the voice work stilted, and the story often near incomprehensible, but somehow it all melds together into something strangely compelling despite its glaring flaws. Not a great film by any means, but a fascinating oddity of animation.