On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Jesse Welles
- Elinore
- (voice)
Richard Romanus
- Weehawk
- (voice)
David Proval
- Peace
- (voice)
Jim Connell
- President
- (voice)
- (as James Connell)
Steve Gravers
- Blackwolf
- (voice)
Barbara Sloane
- Fairy
- (voice)
Angelo Grisanti
- Frog
- (voice)
Hyman Wien
- Priest
- (voice)
Mark Hamill
- Sean
- (voice)
- (as Mark Hamil)
Peter Hobbs
- General
- (voice)
Tina Romanus
- Prostitute
- (voice)
- (as Tina Bowman)
Susan Anton
- Princess Elinore
- (singing voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Liz Bakshi
- Fairy Mother
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Ralph Bakshi
- Fritz
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Victoria Bakshi
- Fairy Girl
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Charles Gordone
- Alfie
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe line "They killed Fritz! They killed Fritz!" is a reference to Robert Crumb killing off Fritz the Cat in his underground comic book series. Ralph Bakshi directed the film adaptation of Fritz the Cat (1972). Bakshi is quoted as saying, "I named the character Fritz in "Wizards," just so I could scream 'They killed Fritz!' To kill such a cat would make Don Marcus commit suicide."
- GoofsWhen Avatar is telling the president about his brother, the narrator says that Blackwolf has been studying black magic for 5,000 years. But when Blackwolf is introduced, it says that the story takes place 3,000 years later.
- Alternate versionsOn April 30th, 2005, as part of the Ralph Bakshi retrospective at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Bakshi's personal print of the film was shown, which was missing two pieces of narration:
- Susan Tyrrell does not read the opening shot's storybook title in her narration voice-over. In this print, the film's narration starts with "The world blew up in a thousand atomic fireballs...," in the next shot.
- The character of Nekron 99's (AKA Peace's) narrated introduction was also missing from the print.
- ConnectionsEdited from Triumph of the Will (1935)
- SoundtracksOnly Time Will Tell
Performed by Susan Anton
Featured review
A classic piece of animation and adventure
Ralph Bakshi did some of the neatest and most angry animated films ever. His earliest film was a political adaptation of Robert Crumb's FRITZ THE CAT. Following that was HEAVY TRAFFIC, COONSKIN, and now, this. His first family film. This was a film that I used to love watching when I was a small lad. Watching it today is completely surreal and emotional. This is a film that really helped define me and what I loved about being a kid. The film, in question, is a Fantasy action film about a nuclear holocaust that destroys the world, leaving very little left. Technology is long forgotten and magic is adopted. There were two wizards born to a mother. A good wizard and a bad wizard. Thousands of years later, they grow old and must do battle when the evil wizard stumbles on some old footage of Hitler's Nazi propaganda and decides to brainwash an army of mutants to do his bidding and destroy the peaceful countryside. Joining the good wizard on his quest to defeat the evil wizard are a fairy, an elf named Weehawk, and an ex-assassin cyborg robot named Peace, who is incidentally my favorite character. The film is brilliant because, unlike the usual animated family films that have stuff like talking animals and stuff, this film actually gives a sense of the characters genuinely respecting and caring about each other, despite the circumstances. Their struggle across the land to the evil wizard is one full of heartache and unpredictable predicaments. The good characters are quite beautifully crafted and imaginative. Ralph Bakshi was known for having the female characters in his animated films to be quite cute and funny. The characters in this are no exception. The main female character is a pudgy, smart, adorable, and extremely memorable character. Likewise, his male characters were suitably boyish and very youthful. The wizards both have a kind of unsurpassed attitude for each other that you can totally sense from their first appearances and their words. They both look completely different from each other. You can tell which one's good and which one's evil. The good one looks kind of like a short version of Santa Clause, with a fat little red nose poking out under his cap. The evil one looks real skinny, with skeleton arms and green skin. It's funny to just look at the good one, but the evil one is quite nasty at times. In one scene, he orders for his newborn baby to be killed because he was born a mutant. The film is quite brutal at times. There's lots of blood and the scenes in which the Nazi propaganda is shown to all the innocent little creatures is quite heart wrenching to watch, especially their looks of pure terror. The film uses an extremely intense rotoscoping technique in which the battle scenes are played out in front of the background image, really illuminating a sense of the fog of battle. The war scenes are extraordinary. There is a real sense of suspense that permeates throughout the scenes that really help define the movie in a much deeper, stronger sort of way. The characters are so good. All of their characteristics are immediately established right from the get-go, and they don't break out of character for even one second throughout the film. The cyborg robot assassin Peace got my heart pumping from the first scene with his little murder sprees, yet there was something immensely likable about who he was. He obviously has no choice to continue murdering innocent characters, but the fact that the power of magic was able to change that in this film really put a smile on my face. The viewers are given a sense of hope very early on, and this helps to better establish the progress of the film. This film is incredibly moving for an animated film. This and HEAVY METAL were my favorites when I was a lot younger. Watching them now, HEAVY METAL, as good as it is, is dated. WIZARDS, however, will go down as a timeless masterpiece in animation history.
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- $1,200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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