Coming from the underground cartoonist, Robert Crumb, FRITZ THE CAT was the first animated film to be X-rated, and was notably not endorsed by Crumb himself. The film is an ugly manifestation of half-baked ideas, putting Fritz as a hip cat of the 70's who's sexually free but intellectually bland, scowling at everything without having any ideas of his own, and thus immature and weak. The film isn't really about anything except the adventures of Fritz the Cat, as he flees from some pig cops whose pants often fall off to reveal their penises, and a few black crows who offer a couple of funny but racist lines. This is not an terrible movie because of its odd and fetishistic sexual tendencies as Robert Crumb suggested, but because all of its anti-political or supposedly edgy stances are rooted in a sublime ignorance of the contrary argument, subversively heckling but not being very interesting itself.
★ out of Five
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