Directed by Ralph Bakshi
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM)
The 1960's counter-culture turned into the 1970's sex and drug culture, and Fritz the Cat led the way. He's a pot-smoking intellectual and a guitar-playing hippie, but mostly he just wants to get laid. When the pigs (literally) raid his latest sex party, he goes into hiding with black radicals. He almost gets killed in race riots, so decides to leave the city and become a poet in California. His "old lady" is a real drag, and he ditches her when their car breaks down in the desert. He gets picked up by some drugged-out bikers who turn out to be violent revolutionaries. It's not nearly as shocking now as at the time of its release, there had never been an X-rated cartoon, and its themes have dated badly, however it's a unique time capsule of a particular time and place that has long since disappeared.
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