The creators of the Fritz the Cat cartoon, writer-director Ralph Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz, climb up the biological ladder from R. Crumb's animals to some rather rubbery, cute, caricatured humans in the Popeye and Bluto mold. There is still the contented wallowing in Big Town blues, and the consorting with down-and-outers, hookers, bums, hoodlums. However, the animation is minimal, and likewise is the imagination, and the filmmakers clutchingly incorporate weighty cultural data — live-action footage of pinball machines, a film clip of Jean Harlow's barrel-bath in Red Dust, a reproduction of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, etc. — to add ballast to their lightweight cartoon. (1973) — Duncan Shepherd
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