Prepare to walk away disappointed - or at best, “meh”. The soundtrack is great (features one of my favorite bands, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult). There are some great parts of animation. But overall it was a mess. Read the back story on the making of the film. Basically Bakshi had a great idea for an R rated horror film, and then studio was like “awesome lets do it!”. Then they hired some other guy (Frank Mancuso, JR) who completely re-wrote the script, dumbed it down to PG-13, and later had Bassinger trying to make changes during filming.
I do take some solace that at one point Bakshi popped Mancuso in the mouth. But in the end, he was forced to make a film he no longer cared about and it showed. All the non-nonsensical background action throughout the film is a result of him basically telling the animators to have fun and do what ever they wanted.
Me too. It’s a shame that it could have been so much more.
