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| Distributor | Roadshow |
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| Release Series | Adult Entertainment |
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| Printed Classification | R |
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User Reviews:
Robert Crumb's legendary underground comix character hit the big screen in 1972 in the first ever full-length X-rated (as in American X-rated, meaning strictly adults only) animated feature. Animator Ralph Bakshi (described by Crumb as a Saturday morning cartoons hack) and producer Steve Krantz bought the rights to the character from Crumb's first wife Dana, who received a large sum of money on the spot. Crumb didn't think the duo had the talent or the experience necessary to make a high-quality film, and he was ultimately proved right. Although surrounded by people who were confident that the film would bring Crumb's character and his vision to the whole world, it was his fellow underground cartoonist Victor Moscoso who felt sure that Crumb would regret it forever. And regret it forever he did. Although the film has its moments and some agreeably Crumb-like artwork in places, it's still more Bakshi than Crumb, with several scenes that drag and dawdle without ever getting anywhere - whenever the screenplay moves away from the original comics it's based on, it falls apart. Interesting as a grubby time capsule, but not much else.