#26: Wizards (1977)

I'm too bemused for a snappy one-liner. 

Can you believe it, this came out the same year as Star Wars: A New Hope.

Two movies about fantasy heroes fighting fascists that involve Mark Hamill. Exactly what we needed in 2018.



 Instead of  'A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away', Wizards takes place three thousand years into the future after a nuclear war, where humanity has morphed into fairies, dwarves, 'mutants', and yes, wizards.

There's actual Nazi imagery, blood, and fairy nipples (Did I just type that? What a time to be alive) in this hand-drawn cartoon that's pretty astonishingly styled and animated.

Yeah I'm not really sure why a lot of the bad guy's ... stuff looks like that on the left.

Blackwolf, the evil wizard has LAZER EYES and plays NAZI PROPAGANDA. There's also lanky, deformed fairy sex workers, which actually seems like an interesting story to be told. The latter is a quick way to really establish his evilness, I'm more surprised at the ..... lazer eyes.

There's also robots with guns. And horses with two legs. It's a fairly simple 'fight evil' plot but damn if it isn't stunning to look at and even listen to.

This might be the oldest feature-length animated film I've seen that isn't Disney (I did watch some of the paper-shadow art shorts that came out around the 1900's)

Yeah that happens.

Seriously, what is with this. It's animated as if it were static.

This thing is so surreal, it's worth checking out just once.