Wizards Movie Review

After a nuclear war, Earth has turned into a medieval fantasy world full of fairies and monsters. The good but bumbling sorcerer Avatar teams up with a shell-shocked battle-android and a couple of elves to battle his evil brother Blackwolf, who seeks to take over the world from the ruined land of Scortch. In a rather startling touch, Blackwolf uses old Nazi propaganda films to inspire his army of bloodthirsty mutants. Alternately funny and bleak, silly and thought-provoking. A profane, crude, and typically Bakshian animated fantasy with great graphics. Seventies comics fans will note a similarity between Bakshi's character-designs and those of cartoonist Vaughn Bode.

1977 (PG) 81m/C D: Ralph Bakshi; W: Ralph Bakshi; M: Andrew Belling; V: Bob Holt, Richard Romanus, Jesse Wells, David Proval. VHS, Beta, LV FOX, WTA