Fire and Ice

Not really too much going on plot wise but sometimes you don't want to have to overthink things...sometimes you just want to be swept into a land of fantasy with action and adventure not possible in the real world or being reminded of it.

Does a very good job of incorporating many traditional fantasy beats. Solid, simple story, but the simplistic, flat shading/animation style started to be a little too little about halfway through. Would watch again to show to others, but not for my own individual gratification.

Classic fantasy paired with beautiful animation.

Wonderful animation, dated but none the less great.

This movie is so weird. It's probably best not to read into it too much or add things that really aren't there, lest you ruin its simplicity and hype it for all the wrong and possibly really negative reasons. BUT, since it's already so obviously pulp trash, I'm totally going there. Back to the glory days when anime artists were still putting a little effort into programming young D&D players into being dirty kinky homosexuals when they grew up. This is basically your average white male idiographic fantasy. It's playing to the lowest common denominator who is, let's face it, extremely racist, misogynistic, bisexual but way too homophobic to ever realize much less accept it and smart enough to run before the glacier crashes but not smart enough to avoid the battle that kills everyone else after.Extremely racist overtones delight from the very beginning and promise much more varied denigration and fearful and violent associations of non-white cultures before the end of the movie. The butch leather daddy king, gives a more subtle hint to a sexually permissive if not fantastically perverse and promiscuous "Indian" fire culture than his soft mesh pasty and thong bikini is my only outfit and perfectly fine for formal wear princess daughter. In her defense she does evolve from berry picking to dagger throwing as proper female skills towards the end. The shaven, pony-tailed he-man brow of the hero is exactly what you'd expect from any truly righteous aryan, only to be matched by his bondage is the best greeting between men masked "bff" with a deep rugged, this is how men do it when there aren't any women around, wilderness voice and rather large, long, thick, dark and swarthy battle axe. Foreboding and scary music builds as the princess is trapped and kidnapped and taken into a horrible, horrible place for our hero to have to follow... a hilariously racist middle eastern looking city.And there's the villain, who is just my favorite new villain I think in a long time. Nekron is a bit of a fancy lad. He tends to blush and shy away and then giggle a little wickedly at the ladies instead of offering polite small talk. His mother's a little overbearing, like she doesn't know exactly why he never goes out or brings home any dates. It might have something to do with the homosexually orgasmic migraines he's constantly having that are causing the glaciers and ice to advance, when not controlling his enemies and causing them to fully, and I mean fully impale themselves on their own long swords. Thank goodness our hero and his massssked bff have arrived to save the day. Well our hero is just too interesting and has too much of a fight in him to be destroyed by Nekron, so that leaves mask man who standing in the shadow of Nekron has the longest thickest codpiece between his legs and with axe lifted and the villain running out of mind control juice over such an enthusiastic manly man, you know right where it's going. Somewhere in Nekron's side, I say somewhere, because despite all the other blood and gore in the movie you don't exactly see. You see masked man standing above, with the satisfied grin of deep penetration and Nekron in the throes of ecstatic mind numbing pleasure, I mean death, death throes. Cut bizarrely and strangely to the King, who somehow through the ethers is aware the villain has been defeated, grinning wickedly, like he knows best of all the exact feeling when the masked man shows up to finally give your female dog posterior what it deserves.Ughghuhhhhh, that's not what it's about!!!! Says every seventeen year old str8 boy reading this right now. Just go back to that place you had it paused on Tigra... no one will be the wiser.

Unpretentious early 80s action cartoon flick is as shallow as any saturday morning TV show but is filled with rotoscoped animation (the frames were traced over live-action models) and is filled with PG-rated crassness. My favorite part probably involves the sequence with the neutral but self-serving sorceress encountered in the middle act, who has a tendency to totally fly into fits of rage and back again in a flash, and whose skeleton demands to know "why the living disturb the sleep of the dead" when she's been dead for all of five minutes! I also found it interesting that it wasn't the main hero who participates in the climactic duel, but rather the supporting character, Dark Wolf.

I always did love Frank Frazzetta's eye-popping art work, and this movie certainly shows it to the nth degree. The plot, is pretty straightforward. For those familiar with Conan the Barbarian, this is something similar. Nekron, the Mage lord and Master of Ice Keep uses his powers to push his glacial kingdom southward in order to take over and destroy all who oppose him. He does have a problem. The only king to stand against him is Jerol, the Ruler of FireKeep. Nekron's plan is to subjugate FireKeep by kidnapping his daughter, Teegra. However,plans do go slightly awry as Teegra manages to escape and encounters Larn, a youth from a village destroyed by Nekron's ice. When they encounter a monstrous water beast Larn is injured and Teegra recaptured by Nekron's "Dogs" the subhuman people who serve him. Larn encounters DarkWolf,a mysterious warrior who also seeks revenge on Nekron and is helped by him. Teegra again escapes but is found by Roliel, a beautiful witch who lives in the forest.Roliel attempts to bargain with the Dog soldiers, but she and her son are killed and Teegra is taken at last to Ice Keep, where she is offered as a bride to Nekron. Spurned by Nekron, she is literally tossed aside where she discovers later to her horror, that her brother and his small entourage are dead and tossed in with her. Larn attempts to find Teegra but is captured and imprisoned by Nekron and it is Teegra who finds him and he manages to escape, but loses Teegra in the process. He and DarkWolf meet up and head to FireKeep to warn Jerol that Nekron is coming. Mounted on Dragonhawks, DarkWolf and Larn return to lead an attack on IceKeep and while Larn finally finds Teegrs, DarkWolf attacks Nekron to exact his own vengeance.Because the glacier is so close to FireKeep, Jerol releases the lava.Do Larn and DarkWolf escape? Does Teegra get back home? If you can find this movie, then you'll know. I still like animation before computers took over, and while CGI can be pretty impressive,old school hand drawn had its charms and rotoscoping was as close as one could get to real life, unless it was stop motion film work, because it took from real life. Stunt people did the action which was laboriously transferred to screen and what we see is taken from the work that everyone did.Bakshi was an innovator at a time when animated films were "Family pictures" only and Disney had a stranglehold on the G-rated realm.Films like "Fritz the Cat" "Heavy Metal" and "Fire and Ice" were not meant at all for children, and therefore had fewer constraints. Now, they might seem somewhat tame,but for many, these midnight movies, still hold the appeal they once did because they broke the mold and proved that animation could be more than just a place for the kiddies to go and play. Adults could go there too.

I have adored this film ever since I was a kid and I still watch it roughly once a year even though I'm now 43. Overlook the daft bits where you ask how the heroine is coping with running around the arctic in a bikini, because the rest of the story flies along at such a pace, with great characters, properly nasty, bloody spattering combat scenes and genuinely scary 'Why do the living disturb the sleep of the dead ?' moments. Also, the classical score is FANTASTIC all the way through and perfectly accentuates the action. Not sure why one of the heroes looks uncannily like Batman. Bit odd that, but easily forgiven. Just remembered the dragonhawks ! Oh, oh, and the kraken type thing and the lava and the chase through the jungle on the cliff top ! Look, just buy this !

i love this animation has a good solid storyline and the artwork is fabulous if you have the original lord of the rings animation then i would definitely look to adding this one to your collection if you haven't already

This film is not as popular as Lord of the Rings, but is beautifully animated, and is as close to an anime Conan film as you are ever likely to get. No special features on discs but a must for Bakshi fans or anime fans.

Avid collector of Ralf Bakshi, one of his first animated films which is quite acceptable.

I bought this as I saw this first when I was 12, and got reminded of it on a museum trip.This was a lot darker and a lot more mature than I remembered, but that didn't take away from its enjoyment. It's completely enrapturing, such a basic but intense story, and imminently enjoyable. Don't show it to kids younger than 10 though as the imagery is, as I mentioned, mature.