Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

markcasa-63624 I first found out about Ralph Bakshi when I found out about the animated Lord of the rings film the second film in the Ralph Bakshi fantasy trilogy. But Wizards was the first of the trilogy I saw. I remember seeing the trailer on Youtube I came in thinking that this film would be like Harry Potter but animated. Boy was I so wrong. There are three things in this film I never thought to see in this film that surprised me.1. Swearing 2. Gore 3. And Nazi propaganda The animation though not being as special today still looks good for back then. I don't really have that much else to say about this movie but I do say. This film is the best of the Ralph Bakshi fantasy trilogy, and I recommend it too everybody to any one who likes Ralph Bakshi's films. Well just don't show it too anybody young, yay the film is rated suprisonly and literally PG but just don't.

hellraiser7 Ralph Bashi is one of my favorite animation directors because of his creativity and just his willingness to do more with the animated field. This is another one of my favorite animated films of all time and it's my second favorite from Ralph Bashi.The animation I think is great, well OK it's not going to blow people away now but cmon this was in the 70's what do you expect. Still I really love the character animation which does look a bit odd but you get use to it and it fits the strange but cool nature of the film. I like the amount of diversity, how we see each of the creatures are different species, one of my favorites is the robot Peace which I think is actually kinda a cool looking robot because he's a different design.However it's really the background animation and even the rotoscoping that I found most impressive. Really capture the look and feel of a world in ruin but also somewhat luscious in fantasy landscape. There is even a certain amount of blood that we actually see in some of the well shot and executed action sequences which was cool just seeing bullets actually go though animated characters as well as spears and swords penetrating. This was something revolutionary for it's time, you never really seen an animated film and show ever go this far with the action; which is why I want to see the animation genre take this step more often, by today's standards we're all more than ready.The story is great and is what really powers the film for me, I love that this is a combination of both the post apocalyptic subgenere and fantasy which is something I really don't see much in both sci-fi and fantasy and would like to see more. It was an awesome idea and also really dark as we hear in this world even though magic and the creatures with it have returned to our world, humankind has literally became extinct; this little detail shows how we can easily doom ourselves to extinction as other species of nature have survived without us.I really like the character Avatar whom is literally the last human (or one of) on Earth, he kinda sounds and from the persona reminds me a bit of the late comedian George Carlin. His character has some of the best lines and I like how he has sort of a passive aggressive attitude toward the mission they have to take.I even like how allegorical the film really is. The plot of the film is both allegorical and a little chilling as we see the antagonist Blackwolf his intention is to use Nazi propaganda and technological superiority. This we see actually does work for a while as we see some of the stupid mutant solders Blackwolf commands buy into the bull despite not knowing what their buying, which pumps them up to carry out terrible actions and the tools to do it with. But the most disturbing scene is seeing the Elf armies exposed to the Nazi Properganda reel which terrifies them because they have no idea what images their seeing.It's darkly ironic because that was exactly what the Nazis were trying to do, using propaganda nonsense to intimidate their enemies but also to sell a bunch of bull crap just to make themselves feel and grow more superior. And the conflict between Blackwolf's army and the Magical Creatures is also an irony because the Nazi's were trying to destroy even possesses everything that sacred and mechanize the entire world by smashing everything that was different or outside their normal convention or thinking.The film I feel has an antifascist message, it's terrible destructive nature and why fascism and the things with it should remain lost and can and should never be restored.Wizards has plenty of magic and power.Rating: 4 stars

mike48128 In 1977, when I was much younger, I thought this was a great movie. It's a mercy "5" to be sure. Like other films, it's half-a-movie. What isn't animated is carried-along by narrated "storyboard sketches", which may have been intentional, or because of budget restrictions, as some of the "drawings" should have been animated. A curious type of animation. Very stylized, with a lot of "live action" backgrounds and scenes taken from old WWII newsreels and war movies, such as "Patton". Rotoscoped action. The wondrous devise that perpetrates this footage is none other than an old Revere 16mm projector. Although they show the silent version of the machine, of course it plays sound movies. I own such an antique (inherited) and I wonder if it will still run. The animation ranges from cutting-edge-for-it's-time to cartoonish. The women and fairies are very voluptuous and wear very little clothing. Even "nipples" are shown. The evil men look like skeletons. I am surprised it's only rated "PG". Like "Watership Down" don't show this to the kiddies. The "killing machine" is named "Peace" and cannot die. The story is very simplistic and it's amazing that they managed to get 80 minutes of action out of it. The first 20 minutes drag terribly. Two wizard twins, one good and one evil, struggle to dominate the world. Peace vs. War. The good wizard, "Avatar", almost sounds like George Carlin, but he's not in the credits. Science and Technology vs.Goodness and Magic. Is it a classic or just a period piece of junk? (Often viewed while "stoned" in it's day.) Like Henson's "Dark Crystal", which I like, it's all a matter of taste & preference.Often run on the Fox Movie Channels. Worth a look but no longer worth owning.

noizyme Before I begin, I give huge respect to Ralph Bakshi to release this experimental animation to the public and going against the family- friendly-grain of most animated films from Disney and other studios. I loved everything that the film swings for (anti-establishment, questioning technology taking over our humanity, trying to tell an actual story instead of animating "horses eating apples"), but its delivery is a bit askew. I understand that they had a rather lax attitude to hiring animators off the street, which is interesting, but you can definitely see the results in this film. The emotions of the characters don't match how they're drawn, and this film suffers from "over-animation" if anything...back then, its as if every wrinkle in the characters' clothing had to move in every frame, and it gets a bit absurd. I LOVED THE ROTOSCOPING...it was my favorite thing (aside from the wonderfully intricate background paintings) to watch, and the DVD has a wonderful "making of" video with Bakshi describing what the process was like. There's a commentary track, too, which I didn't listen to, but I got a lot of information from the "making of" video. The story was confusing a lot of times, and why certain characters ran off with different groups of faeries and elves and got captured almost seemed without reason. Having Bakshi describe the story in the "making of" video almost sounds like a completely difficult thing to capture, and I think the film needed to be worked on for a few more years. The thing that dates the movie the most is the funk music that plays during certain action sequences, as if it were a blaxploitation film or something...the breathy, airy singing of their "theme" for the movie is another 70's throwback that needs to go (and had nothing to do with the film). The Nazi thing...confusing as hell. I'm not sure why this was added in the movie or even the story...maybe to show that how dumb the bad guys were because they really dug war propaganda (?). As a fan of animation, I really liked it, but not enough to watch it over and over. It's crude, somewhat hastily-made, and could've been refined to be a lot more if given the time, but the studio's attitude was not in agreement to do that, so this is what you get.