I watched the movie Fire and Ice and found it surprisingly fun...



I watched the movie Fire and Ice and found it surprisingly fun to watch. I mean, don't get me wrong: it's poorly written, adolescent, sexist junk but it has a primitive quality that made it very interesting view. It's almost like they put a 12 year-old metalhead in charge of a big budget animated movie—it features monsters, bloody fight scenes and a mostly-naked woman moaning a lot. I laughed out loud during the awkward dialogue between the hero and mostly-naked woman, a classic example of two characters falling in love because they're the leads of the movie, rather than any genuine chemistry between them. If I didn't know better I would suspect it was a conscious effort to parody the mindset behind adolescent power fantasies but given that it was created by Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta you know these guys are true believers. 


In general I'm opposed to rotoscoped animation but in this case it added a funky, dreamlike quality that fit perfectly with the tone of the movie. The fight scenes were especially well-done, and the pleasure those stoned animators felt drawing mostly-naked woman is pretty palpable. 


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Published on January 22, 2012 07:27
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