The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)

Thanks for the memories!

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

It is a performances centric movie

Excellent but underrated film

Robert Crumb hated the movie version of "Fritz The Cat" so much he ended the comic by killing Fritz, but they made a sequel anyway. Pity Ralph Bakshi wasn't involved as the first film wasn't great, but it was at least serviceable. This movie features Fritz imagining eight other lives while being yelled at by his wife. It's just so weird to even see him with one as he was so promiscuous in the first film. Honestly, I'd like to see how he even got a wife, but it's never touched upon. My main complaint is the Henry Kissinger segment.It goes on for nearly 20 minutes and makes up a fourth of the film! In a movie that's only 77 minutes long, that's a big problem. This is the last ever appearance of Fritz the Cat in any media. So how does it end? His wife simply kicks him out and he presumably becomes a bum or something. I was always intrigued by the orange cat and tall mouse like woman that appeared on the poster and it turns out neither of them are even in the movie. **1/2

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!

This is the sequel to the 1972 cult classic FRITZ the CAT. This raunchy animated feature is of course meant for adult viewing. Animation is excellent and the script is witty, hip and erotic. This streetwise alley cat(Skip Hinnant)is trying to escape his mundane existence and get as far away from his nagging and screaming wife(Reva Rose)he can. She helps him by throwing his fuzzy butt out. Fritz lights up a joint and thinks back about his wild and swinging life in the 1960's. Language is filthy and safe to say... virtually all of the scenes are nasty and hilarious.Kudos to director Robert Taylor. Other voices are provided by: Bob Holt, Fred Smoot, Joan Gerber, Robert Ridgley, Peter Leeds and Pat Harrington Jr.

***SPOILER WARNING****Kind of the flipside of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', this movie is a laid-back, mellowed-out miasma of flashbacks and flashforwards.Some of the scenes have controversial elements in them, but anyone who's familiar with R. Crumb and his creation, Fritz, should be beyond getting offended by them. The film pulls no punches in showing the lives of an oversexed stoner whose only real ambition is to keep the welfare checks coming in and lay as much tail as possible.Layered with social commentary and satire, it still manages to avoid being preach or heavy-handed, since the film makes it clear that everybody's got their own hangups, and nobody's really the best or the worst.I think the best satire in the movie comes from Fritz's flashforward to his life as a messenger boy in a future America where New Jersey has been ceded to the 'crows'. I'm pretty sure the American president in that episode is supposed to be Kissinger; the accent and face fit, but I never knew him to be a golf fetishist.I loved the scene between Fritz and God (you know: the guy who lives in the trash can).Not a cartoon for the kiddies or the small minds, so you've been warned.