***SPOILER WARNING****
Kind of the flipside of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', this movie is a laid-back, mellowed-out miasma of flashbacks and flashforwards.
Some of the scenes have controversial elements in them, but anyone who's familiar with R. Crumb and his creation, Fritz, should be beyond getting offended by them. The film pulls no punches in showing the lives of an oversexed stoner whose only real ambition is to keep the welfare checks coming in and lay as much tail as possible.
Layered with social commentary and satire, it still manages to avoid being preach or heavy-handed, since the film makes it clear that everybody's got their own hangups, and nobody's really the best or the worst.
I think the best satire in the movie comes from Fritz's flashforward to his life as a messenger boy in a future America where New Jersey has been ceded to the 'crows'. I'm pretty sure the American president in that episode is supposed to be Kissinger; the accent and face fit, but I never knew him to be a golf fetishist.
I loved the scene between Fritz and God (you know: the guy who lives in the trash can).
Not a cartoon for the kiddies or the small minds, so you've been warned.
Kind of the flipside of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', this movie is a laid-back, mellowed-out miasma of flashbacks and flashforwards.
Some of the scenes have controversial elements in them, but anyone who's familiar with R. Crumb and his creation, Fritz, should be beyond getting offended by them. The film pulls no punches in showing the lives of an oversexed stoner whose only real ambition is to keep the welfare checks coming in and lay as much tail as possible.
Layered with social commentary and satire, it still manages to avoid being preach or heavy-handed, since the film makes it clear that everybody's got their own hangups, and nobody's really the best or the worst.
I think the best satire in the movie comes from Fritz's flashforward to his life as a messenger boy in a future America where New Jersey has been ceded to the 'crows'. I'm pretty sure the American president in that episode is supposed to be Kissinger; the accent and face fit, but I never knew him to be a golf fetishist.
I loved the scene between Fritz and God (you know: the guy who lives in the trash can).
Not a cartoon for the kiddies or the small minds, so you've been warned.