@Prying eyes, that's because they changed art styles a dozen times throughout the movie.✌😎 I still loved it. I saw it 6 times at the drive-in because that's where it was showing.😇 (I didn't really plan that... it just happened. Different friends would invite me and I'd say, "Sure! Why not? I've only seen it N times so far.")
Yeah, screw those executives who meddled with Cool World for making Bakshi quit film. That’s what happens when artists in animation are taken for granted. Another example being Richard Williams, who worked hard on The Thief and The Cobbler for nearly 3 decades, but near the end of production, he was booted from the project, and it destroyed his career. As an appreciator of the arts with big ambitions, I dream of a world in the industry where artists’ works are seen not as quick money, but as true art, and that executives tamper less with the original vision of the artists, unlike what Calvert and Completion Bond did to Williams’ life’s work. As long as there are still people who view animation as art, these hopes for the future of the industry will live on!
1977 was also the year of "Cinderella", the soft-core musical version starring Cheryl Smith. With a black, gay "fairy godmother" and songs that are actually...great! Has to be seen to be appreciated. It was a different time for sure.
It was a different time. My father took me to see “The Lord of the Rings” in the theater. I was 8, then again in ‘81 for “American Pop”, which nurtured the already growing need to rock. Taking me to see The Who in ‘82 (Chicago, 12 y/o) sealed the deal. He’s still unable to connect the dots and likes to criticize my pursuit of something other than money. What was i saying? Ralph Bakski. Brilliant.
Sounds like a good match up. Back when Space had good animated movies they would show this, Heavy Metal, and Galaxy Express 999. I'm sure there were others but these are the main 3 I learned from the Sci-fi channel.
The first time we saw this movie there was a thunderstorm going on. And right at the beginning, when the world blows up, a transformer in the parking lot of the theater was struck by lightning. The explosion on screen was followed by the whole building shaking and the theater going dark. Talk about your realistic special effects! 🤣
I found this 45 years late, thanks Electric Wizard. I wouldn't be surprised if Fallout was inspired by this with the mutants being the Enclave and other creatures being the Brotherhood of Steel.
There's something very funny about the narrator calling Ralph Bakshi the "Master of Animated Magic" during a clip that's actually live action footage, which is then followed by the same 4 hand drawn clips looped over and over in quick succession. It almost comes across like an insult
@1:00 min mark this is the sample that is on Cypress Hill's song Clash of the Titans/Dust from the Cypress Hill IV album. Sample is @0:30 sec into the song.
I guess old Ralph made do with what he could. I noticed rotoscoped footage from ZULU (1964) and The Battle of the Bulge (1965), and possibly Patton (1970), but definitely from the first two.
I see a animated movie marathon in my near future: Wizards, Heavy Metal's 1 and 2000, and The Hobbit. If I am missing anything of note, please add... Added: Fire & Ice and Gandahar
It doesn't suck, but it's not the original. Besides, I already own it. : ) Also, thanks for uploading this trailer, I had completely forgotten about this movie... Sometimes the children of the 70's need a little reminder, or two.
I was looking for the trailer to the new Wizards movie with Pete Davidson and I was like "geez, what the heck kind of movie is he making and why did he need to go to New Zealand to do this..." Until I noticed the 1977 date.
You got to admit, the animation is limited but the concept is what I love the most of this film, nuclear war destroys humanity and the magical creatures that have been force to live underground regain the earth once again. Then an evil wizard rediscovers human technology and the nazi party (which he probably doesn't even know what they were) to battle against creatures that live in a new medieval world.
Then you should check out the Shannara books. Or the Chronicles of Shannara show, if that's your thing. But the books. :) The Sword of Shannara was released the same year as the movie with the same concept, minus the Nazi party. (or is it?)
The reason more people don't know of this movie is because it came out when theaters were battling over patrons. It competed against that other little know movie at the same time called Star Wars.
Yep, SW pushed Wizards off the screen after only 2 weeks, but I got to see it while it was there, and SW later on too! I liked them both, but only one changed my life.
@@iggystardust9236 It did. I saw it at the theatre in that magic window and then in those days (before VCRs and Netflix) they would bring it back for the second film of a double feature, plus we watched it on cable when it came there several years later. It's one of me and my brothers favourite Ralph Bakshi movies.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV I feel the same. I saw this over and over as a kid, not in theaters. And after 40 years is one of the few things I clearly remember from my childhood... distopian stories still my big interest today too.
I ran a game in this setting about 15 years ago. It was insane fun because DND 3.5e and D20 Modern combined allowed for compatible rules for everything in the movie. Best part was sitting the party down to watch the movie so they could brainstorm characters.
I remember seeing this movie on TV back in 2000 when I was 10 and it scared the shit out of me.. yet I couldn't stop watching it. I was frightened yet intrigued. Now as an adult, i really appreciate this movie and Ralph Bankshi is one of my favorite animators!
Ralph Bakshi a "wizard of animated magic." A very appropriate statement because that's what Ralph truly is and of a special kind of animated movie magic.
@@skumper7 Yeah, it did. They spent the first couple minutes going "Fuck these sugary sweet fantasy things. I wanna root for Skele-arms over there!" And then... the swastikas came out, and everyone was mad at themselves.
No no bakshi depicted the evil mutated devil horned creatures to be nazi Germany because they were the bad guys and the elf fairy trolls referring to the good guys to save the day🤷♂️
so....for years the clip of Blackwolf rallying the troops was up and available. Great animation by Ralph Bakshi and a classical score and then Blackwolf roles the film meant to incite the passions of war into his monstrous minnions. Enter the Nazi anthem and clips of WW2. Well....it's now gone. The first to go was the Nazi anthem itself from youtube; Good bye historic perspective. And now, even within a classic anti war cartoon they have removed memory of the Nazi Anthem. Holy Hell people. Stand up for historic perspective now! No matter where you stand do not let ANYONE rob you of perspective. Thought without memory is as a newborn.
I love the concept of this: millenia after a nuclear holocaust, mutations and magic thrive. There's also an evil wizard discovering Nazism and the secrets to science and technology to use in battle against magic. Edit: 3 years later I remembered this trailer and decided to watch it again. Makes me even more interested in eventually watching the movie.
I’m not sure if it’s the same narrator from the movie kinda sounds similar, but in the movie at the beginning there’s a females voice and it’s recognizable to be that of one of the girls from “the Craft” ….. you know the crazy bitch that tries to kill everyone and even her fellow witches
Man the midnight Movies over and over again. Tripping on LSD, Quaaludes, Girlfriends, Sneaking in a six pack of beer, Whisky. Those were the good old times (Cir: 1980)
How to make Wizards: Take equal parts, Magic, wizards, lost technology, elves, post-nuclear war, mutants, roto-scoping, funky 70's type music, Mark Hamil, propaganda, Hitler, Nazis, 'Religion man, it's religion', a dash of Zulu, a sprig of Triumph of the Will, put it all together in a cast iron bathtub, fill it with 10 gallons of LSD, and film it for a month.
If you saw it in the theatres in 1977 you would be much more impressed. It was unlike anything we had ever seen in a movie theatre.
@PREMiERE PARER Reading comprehension.
I saw this in 2022 on youtube and i am 19 years old and i find this unbelievable (for the time being of course-but still!)
I wish I did but I was born in the 90's
@PREMiERE PARER sad
I'm a millennial and have literally never seen anything like it thusfar , truly a masterpiece
Never before or since has a movie looked more like a acid trip gone terribly, terribly wrong.
+Katelyn Pringle Lol.
+Katelyn Pringle I saw Yellow Submarine some years ago and agree, this looks like an even bigger acid trip. :)
It looks like they changed art styles a dozen times throughout this trailer.
Didnt see Ralph Backhis Lord of the Rings? :D :D
@Prying eyes, that's because they changed art styles a dozen times throughout the movie.✌😎
I still loved it. I saw it 6 times at the drive-in because that's where it was showing.😇
(I didn't really plan that... it just happened. Different friends would invite me and I'd say, "Sure! Why not? I've only seen it N times so far.")
The very idea of a film like Wizards made it into theaters is just phenomenal. Love Ralph Bakshi for pushing the boundaries of cinema.
Yeah, screw those executives who meddled with Cool World for making Bakshi quit film. That’s what happens when artists in animation are taken for granted. Another example being Richard Williams, who worked hard on The Thief and The Cobbler for nearly 3 decades, but near the end of production, he was booted from the project, and it destroyed his career. As an appreciator of the arts with big ambitions, I dream of a world in the industry where artists’ works are seen not as quick money, but as true art, and that executives tamper less with the original vision of the artists, unlike what Calvert and Completion Bond did to Williams’ life’s work. As long as there are still people who view animation as art, these hopes for the future of the industry will live on!
1977 was also the year of "Cinderella", the soft-core musical version starring Cheryl Smith. With a black, gay "fairy godmother" and songs that are actually...great! Has to be seen to be appreciated. It was a different time for sure.
It was a different time. My father took me to see “The Lord of the Rings” in the theater. I was 8, then again in ‘81 for “American Pop”, which nurtured the already growing need to rock. Taking me to see The Who in ‘82 (Chicago, 12 y/o) sealed the deal. He’s still unable to connect the dots and likes to criticize my pursuit of something other than money.
What was i saying? Ralph Bakski. Brilliant.
@@bassplayer10 Five words: Your. Dad. Was. Awesome. Nonetheless.
This shit is garbage even by the standards of its day. Ooh rotoscope ooh!
I saw this crazy movie as a kid, it totally tripped me out. The artists were definitely dropping some serious acid when animating this film.
is it worth to watch it?
Hum... IDK... If your looking for a surreal trippy movie that's unique and artsy then yes.
do i have to be stoond to watch it? haha
mrsgaap1
Probably lol, I would recommend it.
haha ill keep taht in mind
wow, a female narater in a trailer. extremely rare.
I like her.
She narrates the entire movie she sounds witchy and like fresh water at the same time.
Susan Tyrell
I love her voice so much!
THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE HERE!!
A remember seeing this as a kid in a second-run theater. It was a double feature with the movie Heavy Metal.
Rob L That must have been amazing!!!
I saw it as a double feature with the animated version of lord of the rings.
Sounds like a good match up.
Back when Space had good animated movies they would show this, Heavy Metal, and Galaxy Express 999. I'm sure there were others but these are the main 3 I learned from the Sci-fi channel.
Very 1970's animation.
Remember when movie trailers actually told you what the movie was
Go back to the early 70s and they told you the whole freaking movie! Watch the trailer for Westworld and you will see what I mean.
Now they show the entire plot of the movie.
The first time we saw this movie there was a thunderstorm going on. And right at the beginning, when the world blows up, a transformer in the parking lot of the theater was struck by lightning. The explosion on screen was followed by the whole building shaking and the theater going dark. Talk about your realistic special effects! 🤣
Its like The 1970's Hobbit movie on lsd the hell was Gandolf smoking?
Lovely Oppomist - I'm Still Here! That pipe weed was very strong
Definitely gandolf smoking 🤣
this heavy metal and american pop were my favs when I was a kid
Me too and you also like Fire and Ice and Akira? other cool adult animations
A Family Picture.. :D Yeah I am here becuse of the Nostalgia Critic
GiulerPowerGamer when did NC talk about this movie?
Old Man Mammoth th-cam.com/video/lxbUm31QSRM/w-d-xo.html
I loved this movie! Wizards RULE
Cool avatar.
Vaughn Bode is the artist behind it..80's Graff artists used to use him as well.
Great comic books..Great artist with some heady ideas..
kinda cheesy, but it works for this kind of film.
not to mention, it has some deleted scenes.
Saw this about 35 years ago: really good flick.
Still shocked that this movie got away with a PG rating, there's some stuff in it that would get it an R rating if it released today.
I found this 45 years late, thanks Electric Wizard. I wouldn't be surprised if Fallout was inspired by this with the mutants being the Enclave and other creatures being the Brotherhood of Steel.
There's something very funny about the narrator calling Ralph Bakshi the "Master of Animated Magic" during a clip that's actually live action footage, which is then followed by the same 4 hand drawn clips looped over and over in quick succession. It almost comes across like an insult
@1:00 min mark this is the sample that is on Cypress Hill's song Clash of the Titans/Dust from the Cypress Hill IV album. Sample is @0:30 sec into the song.
Princess Eleanor's got me flustered
Had me licking my chops 😂😂😂 them thangs thangin'
Back when PG was basically R
I guess old Ralph made do with what he could. I noticed rotoscoped footage from ZULU (1964) and The Battle of the Bulge (1965), and possibly Patton (1970), but definitely from the first two.
What a film this is love to see it again saw it few years ago
This movie was an 'interesting' watch which we had to discuss as part of #RalphBakshiRetro
This was really fun to watch!
That one and only cheesy laser sound.
🧪
who narrated the trailer her voice is hot!
according to other comments Susan Tyrrell
I see a animated movie marathon in my near future: Wizards, Heavy Metal's 1 and 2000, and The Hobbit.
If I am missing anything of note, please add... Added: Fire & Ice and Gandahar
+Ursaursa1 I would take Heavy Metal 2000 off I heard it sucks.
It doesn't suck, but it's not the original. Besides, I already own it. : ) Also, thanks for uploading this trailer, I had completely forgotten about this movie... Sometimes the children of the 70's need a little reminder, or two.
Ursaursa1 Thanks man so 2000 is worth watching?
It is if you're a fan of HM. It was okay. I admit I played and liked the FAKK2 game, also, though. Wish they would update that for Windows 8.
How about Hey good lookin,
Trippy.
I’m trying to get a copy of this movie I was the movie since I was 11 years old in 1977 and Saul, my best friend and neighbor Timmy
Came here from The Wizard \m/
This movies is bonkers bro
I was looking for the trailer to the new Wizards movie with Pete Davidson and I was like "geez, what the heck kind of movie is he making and why did he need to go to New Zealand to do this..." Until I noticed the 1977 date.
This is a movie from my childhood lol.
2019 and still a rare diamond of all movies, Ralph Bakshi Movies>>>>Sausage Party!✌️✌️
Black wolf seems like a cool Guy
Cool
We want a remake... Wizards 2020... directed by Peter Jackson or Guillermo del Toro
Did the animator of this movie also do the 1980's video game Dragons Lair ? It looks very similar.
No, Don Bluth’s team did Dragon’s Lair.
0:27 1:18 1:19 1:24 1:42 1:58 1:59
Another bad azz film i still has my digibook and no thieves can takes it away from me thats my gold idontknowu WURRS FRITZ THE CAT 9 LIVES GAME OVA
same years that star wars came out
1977 jesus imagine how many stoners were frying to this in the theaters.
You guys think the people who wrote and animated this movie were on acid? Go and watch Fantastic Planet. It came out in 1973.
Mac Demarco brought me here
Rodrigo Posada same
Why am I only finding this now 🙃
Because you're not intelligent enough to know how to use question marks.🤡🦧🦤
Thanks IGN podcast 😂
Donwolf and project 2025 hahahah its here !!!! Joe Avatar we got your back!!!!
I think I got high watching the movie.
Apparently the Nazis discovered some powerful secrets from before the Flood. In this movie the New Nazis discovered secrets from before the Firestorm
"So ralph, you say you wanna make a kids movie?"
"Well yes, but actually no"
With topless fairy women XD
@@magmat0585 and a nazi wizard
Lol
The woman narrating this did a stellar job!
Pretty sure that's Susan Tyrell!! What a Goddess
Excellent job
You got to admit, the animation is limited but the concept is what I love the most of this film, nuclear war destroys humanity and the magical creatures that have been force to live underground regain the earth once again. Then an evil wizard rediscovers human technology and the nazi party (which he probably doesn't even know what they were) to battle against creatures that live in a new medieval world.
fandude666 yeh, I was very fascinated by the setting too. And you've described it better than I have
Oh fuck
Hello there 😏
I feel like a remaster could do this good, though I feel they’d lose the campyness.
Then you should check out the Shannara books. Or the Chronicles of Shannara show, if that's your thing. But the books. :) The Sword of Shannara was released the same year as the movie with the same concept, minus the Nazi party. (or is it?)
This needs a remake or reboot no SJW bull either.
The reason more people don't know of this movie is because it came out when theaters were battling over patrons. It competed against that other little know movie at the same time called Star Wars.
And Mark Hamill was in both movies)
Yep, SW pushed Wizards off the screen after only 2 weeks, but I got to see it while it was there, and SW later on too! I liked them both, but only one changed my life.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV Wow Wizards had that much of an impact on you, huh?
@@iggystardust9236 It did. I saw it at the theatre in that magic window and then in those days (before VCRs and Netflix) they would bring it back for the second film of a double feature, plus we watched it on cable when it came there several years later. It's one of me and my brothers favourite Ralph Bakshi movies.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV I feel the same. I saw this over and over as a kid, not in theaters. And after 40 years is one of the few things I clearly remember from my childhood... distopian stories still my big interest today too.
Am I the only one who thinks this world would make a cool tabletop RPG?
I ran a game in this setting about 15 years ago. It was insane fun because DND 3.5e and D20 Modern combined allowed for compatible rules for everything in the movie. Best part was sitting the party down to watch the movie so they could brainstorm characters.
Acid Trip, The Movie.
a family picture
+ceilingotaku Lol.
no no its a faaamliy picture
Christian Schmude By the guy who made Felix the Cat, an animated film that fetures orgys, rape, and eco terrorisim
*Fritz the Cat... big difference there buddy.
Yeah, you can see it by the multiple nazi references.
Adventure Time meets Heavy Metal
The original Adventure Time
The OG Smurf’s lol
I remember seeing this movie on TV back in 2000 when I was 10 and it scared the shit out of me.. yet I couldn't stop watching it. I was frightened yet intrigued.
Now as an adult, i really appreciate this movie and Ralph Bankshi is one of my favorite animators!
Ralph Bakshi a "wizard of animated magic." A very appropriate statement because that's what Ralph truly is and of a special kind of animated movie magic.
take some acid or shrooms and sync this movie with pink Floyd's dark side of the moon album.
So now that Disney owns Fox, would Elanor be considered a Disney princess? lol
If Princess Leia is a Disney Princess I think Elanor can be too.
Cringe
Brandon Tenold refrence.
This movie was batshit insane and I loved every second of it.
Though... it did make my friends accidentally root for the nazis...
that sucks
@@skumper7 Yeah, it did. They spent the first couple minutes going "Fuck these sugary sweet fantasy things. I wanna root for Skele-arms over there!"
And then... the swastikas came out, and everyone was mad at themselves.
wtf how have i not heard of this, this looks EPIC
nazi detected
@@jackscroller595 The guy who made the movie(Bakshi) is Jewish. So maybe people who like the movie might be Jewish?
@@bigguy130 Yeah, what? This is like, one of the most on-the-nose anti-Nazi movies ever made!
No no bakshi depicted the evil mutated devil horned creatures to be nazi Germany because they were the bad guys and the elf fairy trolls referring to the good guys to save the day🤷♂️
so....for years the clip of Blackwolf rallying the troops was up and available. Great animation by Ralph Bakshi and a classical score and then Blackwolf roles the film meant to incite the passions of war into his monstrous minnions. Enter the Nazi anthem and clips of WW2. Well....it's now gone. The first to go was the Nazi anthem itself from youtube; Good bye historic perspective. And now, even within a classic anti war cartoon they have removed memory of the Nazi Anthem. Holy Hell people. Stand up for historic perspective now! No matter where you stand do not let ANYONE rob you of perspective. Thought without memory is as a newborn.
I love the concept of this: millenia after a nuclear holocaust, mutations and magic thrive. There's also an evil wizard discovering Nazism and the secrets to science and technology to use in battle against magic.
Edit: 3 years later I remembered this trailer and decided to watch it again. Makes me even more interested in eventually watching the movie.
This film is considered to be a spiritual predecessor to _Adventure Time._
@@srbrant5391
Adventure Time could have saved the Finale, if it had more swear words and Nazi propaganda in it.
RE DISCOVERED
shadow wizard money gang
Joe Rogan sent me here and I'm grateful for it.
Song at 0:26 ?
I love the animation in this movie. Favorite parts have to be when they mix live action footage with the animation.
ThisIs ReadyMade it’s called Rotoscope
@@motodude1 rotoscope tell me more about it🤨😃
Bakshi also did lotr animated in (1978 iirc) using rotoscope
@@DickDackyup LOTR is very similar to this. I remember the 4 horseman freaking me out as a kid. The mixture of animation and reality was unreal
One can see how Bakshi evolved from this film to the LOTR movie
Susan Tyrell [Narrator of "Wizards"]
1945 - 2012
Wasn't she in some John Waters movies?
This trailer was a great representation of a movie I wish more people knew about. gonna go ahead and share this vid to a couple of friends.
Cool
This movie brings back great memories of Games Workshop and _Warcraft II._
You know when you like a movie when you're nodding and going like "Yeah this makes sense."
"They killed Fritz,they killed Fritz!"
I saw this movie when I was a teenager I really enjoyed it. Saw it on the sci-fi channel
Coolness I think you'll enjoy it
+Joshua Mounts Any place to stream this movie?
Me too! Along with Galaxy Express 999, the first anime I'd ever seen. Man, I was an angsty teen back then.
Wtf, I just skimmed past the Syfy Channel and it was playing Skyfall, that's a 007 movie...that is hardly sci-fi
@@punkgirl5003 FX can air it at best.
Saw this as a kid and dreamed about all those shadowy bits.
Anybody know where I can get that first song, the funky one?
20th Century Fox has been horribly bought by Disney. This is now a Disney movie... 🤦♂️
who is that narrator.
this "crispness" in that voice is the best thing ive ever heard.
Yes she is great.
@@TobeyStarburst She did the voice work for the Princess in this movie.
Actually I am wrong it was Susan Tyrrell as listed on IMDB. My apologies.
I think she narrated the trailer to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I’m not sure if it’s the same narrator from the movie kinda sounds similar, but in the movie at the beginning there’s a females voice and it’s recognizable to be that of one of the girls from “the Craft” ….. you know the crazy bitch that tries to kill everyone and even her fellow witches
This looks badass
Man the midnight Movies over and over again. Tripping on LSD, Quaaludes, Girlfriends, Sneaking in a six pack of beer, Whisky. Those were the good old times (Cir: 1980)
Really a great movie
I grew up with it, and watch it from time to time
Yeah thanks Rogan .!!
I've seen this flick hundreds of times. The part at 0:27 isn't seen outside of this trailer.
THEY KILLED FRITZ
LOL
This trailer freaked me the hell out while I was on a edible.
🤣🤣
How to make Wizards: Take equal parts, Magic, wizards, lost technology, elves, post-nuclear war, mutants, roto-scoping, funky 70's type music, Mark Hamil, propaganda, Hitler, Nazis, 'Religion man, it's religion', a dash of Zulu, a sprig of Triumph of the Will, put it all together in a cast iron bathtub, fill it with 10 gallons of LSD, and film it for a month.
This was one of my favorite movies way back then.
So this is the GODFAThER of Final Fantasy.
Just basically past, present, and the future filled with fantasy, technology, and even propaganda.
Amphibia has similarities to this film as the world of amphibia Is a fantasy world king Andreas is like blackwolf and frobo is like peace.
You can’t tell me this isn’t 1970 adventure time lmao
It was, and is, a terrific movie
Fallout + Elder Scrolls
More like MDMA + LSD
Fallout + Elder Scrolls + Call of Duty
@@lvlc6023 + LSD
@@juicedaone1153 "Drug is bad, mmkay"
More like Thundarr the Barbarian(which came out several years after this movie).
This movie was like an acid trip on shrooms
That part with the mother and babies looked so much like Wendy Pini's Elfquest.
If I remember correctly, Wendy Pini worked on this film(and was probably inspired by it), and then went on to create Elfquest.
I want to see this one day, but only on heaping dose 🍄 🍄 🍄