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Fire & Ice......"A must have for any Frank Frazetta & Ralph Bakshi fans!"

2008-05-30
Fire & Ice is the combination of action, suspense, drama, mythical beasts, strong barbarians, voluptuous maidens, warlords, and witchcraft.
The character creations in this movie is nothing short of a masterful piece of work! If your looking for any 1 reason to buy this movie(guys),
"Teegra" in her barely there outfit is worth the price of admission alone! There's also another woman at the beginning of the movie in a skimpy outfit(not quite as skimpy as Teegra's, but very nice) where you get a very brief rump shot when the subhuman hits her in the back of her legs with the handle part of his spear. The redhaired witch in the movie is very nice as well! All perversion aside though, if your a comic book fan or just love anything to do with animation and mythical storytelling, Fire & Ice is a great addition to your video collection!

Shawn B.
Louisville, Ky

great

2008-05-25
i watched this movie when i was a kid, and now i bought it and showed it to my kids. they loved it too

Could have been better.

2008-05-18
I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid and loved it. When it was released on to VHS I was probably one of the first people to buy it. Loved it still. Finally, i got off my wallet and bought it on DVD thinking it was going to be a great entertainment investment. Sadly, my VHS copy looks better. the producers didnt digitally remaster a single cell in this version. I'm not asking to remake it in CGI or anything, but cleaning it up a bit would have been nice.

Excellent.

2008-04-21
I was on a Frazetta kick and that naturally led me to this animation. I hadn't seen the film before but pretty much knew what I was getting myself in for. I was looking for a sword and sorcery animation and this more than delivered. The animation was better than I expected and the character and background design is amazing. One of the best things about this film is the way the characters speak. They speak in a very natural and believable way. All in all this is pretty much the only animated film of it's genre and it's awesome to just enter the world for an hour and a half.

Oh yeah and on top of the DVD you also get some Character cards, a holographic box sleeve and a bonus DVD on Frank Frazetta! Well worth it!

On Fire & So Cool

2008-02-20
Along with Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta is also in my opinion a Modern Master. It's kinda like Michel angelo & Leonardo Da vinci. Their work is always mezmorising! Definitly a collectors piece!!!
Isabelino Gonzalez

Not to bad

2007-12-21
From The Director Of The Original Animated LORD OF THE RINGS And The Illustrator Of CONAN THE BARBARIAN

It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director of FRITZ THE CAT, WIZARDS and the original THE LORD OF THE RINGS) and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta (creator of the iconic CONAN THE BARBARIAN, VAMPIRELLA and Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers). It became - and remains - one of the most startling animation epics of all time. Now experience a world unlike any ever seen, where savage warriors, horrific monsters and luscious maidens battle for the soul of a civilization in a time of good and evil, pleasure and pain, and FIRE & ICE

This long-unavailable cult favorite has been remastered in High Definition from the original vault materials, remixed in stunning 6.1 DTS-ES and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX, and loaded with exciting Extras.

Disc 2 contains FRAZETTA: PAINTING WITH FIRE, the acclaimed 93 minute documentary that explores the remarkable life and career of the man who changed fantasy art forever.

Archer Winsten, NEW YORK POST
"Fantastic Monsters, Nightmarish Visions And Gobs Of Action!"

Teenage nostalgia does not age well. 2007-06-25
Fire and Ice (Ralph Bakshi, 1983)

Sometimes I wonder what on earth filmmakers were thinking when they made movies. More often, I wonder what I was thinking when I was enthralled with them. In this case, though, I don't need to do either--when Fire and Ice came out, I was fourteen years old, male, and not terribly experienced with the opposite sex--in other words, I was Ralph Bakshi's exact target audience. Now I'm thirty-eight, married, and have a more encyclopedic knowledge of eighties and nineties exploitation cinema (read: porn) than I'm sure anyone in my family would like to acknowledge; rewatching Fire and Ice these days, I look back and grieve that my fourteen-year-old self had such bad taste. (But then, in 1983, my all-time favorite movie was Deathsport. No, I can't explain it either.)

Fire and Ice, which All-Movie Guide calls "Bakshi's last stab at epic fantasy", concerns two kingdoms, the established human kingdom ruled by fire, and the upstart kingdom of outcasts and half-breeds, the kingdom of Ice. Needless to say, one is wise and good, and the other is twisted and evil. Interestingly, there are a few places in the script where denizens of either kingdom could waver from their one-dimensionality and suddenly bring depth and richness to the script; we're dangling there waiting for Bakshi to drop the apple into our mouths, but of course it's snatched away as quickly as it's offered. Cruel, I tell you. But then, no one's supposed to be paying attention to the script; we're supposed to be too busy, erm, "watching" Tigre (voice of Cynthia Leake), who starts the movie wearing something that looks as if it's supposed to be a diaphanous lavender negligee over a couple of pieces of filmy stuff that pass as underwear. But only for the first third of the movie, after which the negligee-thing goes away. Draw some luscious, and entirely unrealistic, curves, and the audience's collective brain will be interested in nothing else; at least, this seems to have been the thinking behind this production. (Add in a cameo from Batman--and I swear, the character looks like the ancestor of the animated version of Batman from the seventies--and you'll kill off the last few collective brain cells still struggling to recover from the onslaught of Tigre-flesh.)

But the worst part is that, after realizing all this, I still sat through the entire eighty-one minutes this weekend. I'm pretty sure I didn't drool, but there may be some extra gaps in the gray matter I should probably have my doctor take a look at. *

Slow moving rotoscoped animation 2007-05-26
The storyline for this movie was interesting, but took so long to get moving I started to lose interest. If it was a one-hour movie, it probably would have been more entertaining. The Big Bad Evil Ice Guy is attempting to conquer the Good Guy Fire King, but most of the time is spent with the Fire King's scantily clad, fantasy-proportioned princess running from ape-like soldiers and being rescued over-and-over by a sole-surviving warrior from one of her father/king's tribes. It all wraps up very quickly in the end. If you like Frazzetta, then you'll notice this is a whole movie of his paintings in rotoscoped animation.

Action Packed Fantasy Fun! 2007-01-03
If you liked Conan the Barbarian or even Thundarr the Barbarian you'll like this movie.

One of my all-time favorites. A real gem of a film. 2006-12-01
I highly recommend this title to anyone who likes films in the fantasy genre. Even after all these years I still enjoy watching this film for what could probably be the 100th time. The animation techniques were very innovative for the time. The storyline is compelling and the characters are fascinating. This is one DVD that I am very happy to have been able to get my hands on and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for something unique and special.