Synopsis
A swinging, hypocritical college student cat raises hell in a satirical vision of the 1960s.
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Cast
- Skip HinnantFritz the Cat (voice)
- Rosetta LeNoireBertha / Additional Female Crows (voice)
- John McCurryBlue / John / Additional Voices (voice)
- Phil SeulingPig Cop #2 (voice)
- Judy EnglesWinston Schwartz / Lizard Leader (voice)
- Ralph BakshiNarrator / Pig Cop #1 (voice)
- Mary DeanGirl #1 / Girl #2 / Girl #3 / Harriet (voice)
- Charles SpidarBar Patron / Duke the Crow (voice)
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
Excellent animation and montage shore up a plot which has a few howls, several chuckles and many smiles. - 70
The New York Times
A low, bawdy cartoon feature that hasn't forgotten that there still can be something uniquely funny in animated films that exaggerate human actions and emotions (in this case, love, rage, compassion and, especially, lust) to the extraordinary extents available only in cartoons. - 60
Time Out
Despite some ingenious effects, a generally trivial exercise that never matches the punch of the original. - 50
Chicago Reader
Ralph Bakshi gathered retired animators from all over the world to work on his 1972 film, misleadingly billed as the first feature-length cartoon for adults. The results, inevitably, were disappointing; Bakshi just didn't have the money to make it right. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
All in all, Fritz is best observed as a cultural artifact, with its success allowing Bakshi to follow it up with more heartfelt projects such as Heavy Traffic (1973) and Coonskin (1975). - 50
Time
Bakshi's animation is good, and the visuals—which marvelously capture the grainy, lowering look of the Manhattan streetscape—are raucous, ingenious and convincing. But Fritz the Cat is, for a cartoon, exasperatingly slow: Bakshi's sense of pace and editing is snail-like, and the dialogue mostly naive and muffled. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Contemporary viewers are more likely to find Fritz the Cat a mildly amusing period piece, as dated as a Nehru jacket.
