OK! So I vaguely remember this one animated scifi/fantasy movie. It's been played on SciFi a few times, I believe. It's very violent, and, apparently, very old. It's post-apocolyptic, I believe, and it features a number of evidently mutated creatures. The first time I viewed it was when I was a little kid, and the second was several years back. The theme is epic, and the lines involve references to God and Hell and other miscellaneous, even vulgar, ideas. The storyline involves one young hero and a young girl, but it centers on the weird lives of two very different brothers. They lived in the same household and were equally "special". There is no mention of a father, I think, but one of them spends most of his time with his mother. He grows up to become a bizarre dwarf-like man, whereas his brother, who usually hung out with mutants and ne'er-do-wellers, becomes a tall, powerful, devious warlord. [Deleted out on account of spoilers] Another prominent feature of the movie is the "horses". They look like an ostrich/dog hybrid. The animation is extremely odd, and rather old in appearance. It is NOT an anime... it's more like a gross, violent comedy. Does anyone know this movie?
I just answered my own question. Here it is. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Far from the masterful treatment that groundbreaking animator Ralph Bakshi gave the similarly themed The Lord of the Rings just a year later, Wizards feels amateurish. A simplistic distillation of fantasy tropes, the scenario is millions of years after nuclear war wipes out civilization. Middle Earth fairies, elves, and magic emerge from the "good lands," while dimwitted mutants with poor comic timing emerge from the nuclear wastes. In the ultimate confrontation between good and evil, a hippie-ish wizard named Avatar defends his utopia against the technological and neo-Nazi revival of his bad-seed twin, Blackwolf. With volleys of jokes that couldn't hit a barn door, elves with Brooklyn accents, and the dubious climax that sees the kindly old wizard using one of the hated machines of war to triumph over evil, Wizards is one of fantasy animation's least successful examples. ~Alan E. Rapp~ Thor, Yes, it's extremely freaky. It's one of the coolest ever, regardless of what this guy thinks he knows.
A great flick, despite Bakshi's penchanct for lifting ideas from others - Necron 99 (and his steed) was swiped from Vaughn Bode's Cobalt 60. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! You can catch Wizards once or twice a year on HBO late at night, if you get it, and Amazon.com sells it for $20.00 US. :m: Peace.
A classic. In fact, a pic of the main character is my avatar on another forum. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Now that you have your answer, PLEASE go back and remove the part of your post where you reveal the ENDING of the frickin' movie.
