Racism, sexism, homophobia. I'm not sure that it was intentional, though. When you are exclusively following established tropes and cliches, unintentional "bad stuff" just gets lost in the mix.

Dude, it's like 10 degrees out, put on some damn pants. You homoerotic cryptofascist allegory, you.

Hanna Barbara in heat. I actually have an affinity for the painted animation style, but it was hard to take any of the plot seriously when grown men talk about politics, kill each other, and kidnap beautiful maidens while wearing thongs.

The animation and backgrounds are awesome, as are the slow-motion action sequences. A little too predictably high fantasy for its own good, but fun to look at.

NEKROOOOOOOOOON!

Two words: hypo. thermia. Though, it's hard not to love Bakshi's not-so-subtle imagery throughout the flick. Animator: "In the next scene we have a band of dark-skinned savages watching the fair-skinned beauty bathe in a lake." Director: "Draw some penis-shaped mushrooms in the background. Big ones."

Enjoyable Bakshi animated style but I just couldn't really get into it at all. The plot is downright childish in it's conception and never goes deeper than "this bad guy is bad, save the princess and stop the bad guy."

Some of the rotoscoping work is still really impressive, and holds up even today. Beyond that, the less said about it the better.

Fairly boring fantasy fare, and a shit ton of animated ass and buffalo shots.

The problem with Ralph Bakshi isn't that he's a bad animator (although he's certainly not great); it's that he seems to have no concept of narrative cohesion in a filmic setting. Two characters will be in the same room and you won't even know it because it's so spatially confused. The entire continent makes no sense; it seems like every location is within a half mile of each other because the continuity is so bad. And then the story is about as thin as the stupid costumes everyone is wearing.

Big tits round asses, dragonbirds and swords. Just not as fun as it sounds.

Interesting animation where all figures are overdrawn on live acting. The background and figures are little too much separated from each other, but don't forget when it was done. Animation owns a lot to Frank Frazetta's paintings. Story is pretty simple, but who cares. Some not well developed subplots. But recommended to see. Definately.

I really enjoyed this movie, been searching for it everywhere and can't find it.

Darkwolf is one of the baddest mother fuckers to ever be in a movie.

The usual babes & swords. Move along, there's nothing to see.

Some nice rotoscoping if you like that sort of thing, but the story is trite and the pace meandering.

I really liked the crazy rotoscopped, it looked very real. Unfortunately the story is so painfully boring and cliche that you end up with a bit of a zero-sum. Wasn't a terrible way to waste time though.

Yes, Rothoscope is not for everyone, I think sometimes it's magical. the whole movie is it's Frazetta poster: Swords and sandals, Barbarian hero rescues the girl. the most simple and linear fantasy movie I've ever watched. but it has it's merits.

The animation's good, even great in places, and definitely some of the best rotoscoping I've seen. As for the rest, I'd have to call it "so bad it's good". Calling the characters one-dimensional would be an overstatement, and some of it seems a little racist (subhumans, anyone?), perhaps echoing Robert Howard's Conan stories. But don't let that deter you; there's plenty of clumsy dialogue and awkward homoeroticism to giggle at. Definitely goes well with any form of chemical enhancement.