Fire and Ice
rdeleskie

Review by rdeleskie

Fire and Ice 1983

★★½

Watched 02 Oct 2024

Literally no one in this movie has pants. It is an endless parade of rotoscoped crotch and butt shots of men, women, beast-men and beast-women.

But don’t let that fool you—it's not very good. Even the conceit of a Conan/Tarzan team-up, with Elric tossed in as the villain for good measure, can’t save it. And I’m a sucker for dinosaurs mixed with magic and crumbling sorcerer’s towers.

While it wonderfully captures the visual flavour of classic pulp—with Frazetta’s artwork, how could it not?—along with the outrageous racism and embarassing sexism—it lacks the narrative energy and inventiveness of even the most middling efforts of the genre. And Tigra may be the worst acted animated character of all time. It’s a predictable slog even at 81 minutes.

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