Fire and Ice

I showed up for thicc fantasy babes and was not disappointed.

I always did love Frank Frazzetta's eye-popping art work, and this movie certainly shows it to the nth degree. The plot, is pretty straightforward. For those familiar with Conan the Barbarian, this is something similar. Nekron, the Mage lord and Master of Ice Keep uses his powers to push his glacial kingdom southward in order to take over and destroy all who oppose him. He does have a problem. The only king to stand against him is Jerol, the Ruler of FireKeep. Nekron's plan is to subjugate FireKeep by kidnapping his daughter, Teegra. However,plans do go slightly awry as Teegra manages to escape and encounters Larn, a youth from a village destroyed by Nekron's ice. When they encounter a monstrous water beast Larn is injured and Teegra recaptured by Nekron's "Dogs" the subhuman people who serve him. Larn encounters DarkWolf,a mysterious warrior who also seeks revenge on Nekron and is helped by him. Teegra again escapes but is found by Roliel, a beautiful witch who lives in the forest.Roliel attempts to bargain with the Dog soldiers, but she and her son are killed and Teegra is taken at last to Ice Keep, where she is offered as a bride to Nekron. Spurned by Nekron, she is literally tossed aside where she discovers later to her horror, that her brother and his small entourage are dead and tossed in with her. Larn attempts to find Teegra but is captured and imprisoned by Nekron and it is Teegra who finds him and he manages to escape, but loses Teegra in the process. He and DarkWolf meet up and head to FireKeep to warn Jerol that Nekron is coming. Mounted on Dragonhawks, DarkWolf and Larn return to lead an attack on IceKeep and while Larn finally finds Teegrs, DarkWolf attacks Nekron to exact his own vengeance.Because the glacier is so close to FireKeep, Jerol releases the lava.Do Larn and DarkWolf escape? Does Teegra get back home? If you can find this movie, then you'll know. I still like animation before computers took over, and while CGI can be pretty impressive,old school hand drawn had its charms and rotoscoping was as close as one could get to real life, unless it was stop motion film work, because it took from real life. Stunt people did the action which was laboriously transferred to screen and what we see is taken from the work that everyone did.Bakshi was an innovator at a time when animated films were "Family pictures" only and Disney had a stranglehold on the G-rated realm.Films like "Fritz the Cat" "Heavy Metal" and "Fire and Ice" were not meant at all for children, and therefore had fewer constraints. Now, they might seem somewhat tame,but for many, these midnight movies, still hold the appeal they once did because they broke the mold and proved that animation could be more than just a place for the kiddies to go and play. Adults could go there too.

Fondly remember this Rotoscope fantasy classic from the early 80's. Def has a Conan vibe to it. I would especially akin the bad guy's troops to Picts, and I realize that is due to Frank Frazetta's input for the film. Regardless, a great watch.

This movie is so weird. It's probably best not to read into it too much or add things that really aren't there, lest you ruin its simplicity and hype it for all the wrong and possibly really negative reasons. BUT, since it's already so obviously pulp trash, I'm totally going there. Back to the glory days when anime artists were still putting a little effort into programming young D&D players into being dirty kinky homosexuals when they grew up. This is basically your average white male idiographic fantasy. It's playing to the lowest common denominator who is, let's face it, extremely racist, misogynistic, bisexual but way too homophobic to ever realize much less accept it and smart enough to run before the glacier crashes but not smart enough to avoid the battle that kills everyone else after.Extremely racist overtones delight from the very beginning and promise much more varied denigration and fearful and violent associations of non-white cultures before the end of the movie. The butch leather daddy king, gives a more subtle hint to a sexually permissive if not fantastically perverse and promiscuous "Indian" fire culture than his soft mesh pasty and thong bikini is my only outfit and perfectly fine for formal wear princess daughter. In her defense she does evolve from berry picking to dagger throwing as proper female skills towards the end. The shaven, pony-tailed he-man brow of the hero is exactly what you'd expect from any truly righteous aryan, only to be matched by his bondage is the best greeting between men masked "bff" with a deep rugged, this is how men do it when there aren't any women around, wilderness voice and rather large, long, thick, dark and swarthy battle axe. Foreboding and scary music builds as the princess is trapped and kidnapped and taken into a horrible, horrible place for our hero to have to follow... a hilariously racist middle eastern looking city.And there's the villain, who is just my favorite new villain I think in a long time. Nekron is a bit of a fancy lad. He tends to blush and shy away and then giggle a little wickedly at the ladies instead of offering polite small talk. His mother's a little overbearing, like she doesn't know exactly why he never goes out or brings home any dates. It might have something to do with the homosexually orgasmic migraines he's constantly having that are causing the glaciers and ice to advance, when not controlling his enemies and causing them to fully, and I mean fully impale themselves on their own long swords. Thank goodness our hero and his massssked bff have arrived to save the day. Well our hero is just too interesting and has too much of a fight in him to be destroyed by Nekron, so that leaves mask man who standing in the shadow of Nekron has the longest thickest codpiece between his legs and with axe lifted and the villain running out of mind control juice over such an enthusiastic manly man, you know right where it's going. Somewhere in Nekron's side, I say somewhere, because despite all the other blood and gore in the movie you don't exactly see. You see masked man standing above, with the satisfied grin of deep penetration and Nekron in the throes of ecstatic mind numbing pleasure, I mean death, death throes. Cut bizarrely and strangely to the King, who somehow through the ethers is aware the villain has been defeated, grinning wickedly, like he knows best of all the exact feeling when the masked man shows up to finally give your female dog posterior what it deserves.Ughghuhhhhh, that's not what it's about!!!! Says every seventeen year old str8 boy reading this right now. Just go back to that place you had it paused on Tigra... no one will be the wiser.

Loved the old school, hand drawn, animation. Reminds me of the Planet of the Apes cartoon meets He-man! A must for classic animation enthusiasts.

I thought the movie was amazing but my gf was bored within 5 minutes, if you're not a fan of early 80s rotoscoped animation, sword and sorcery movies and/or giant tatas this is probably not the right film for you.

I have admired and love the great work of both Bakshi and Frazetta,and for the two to combine such amazing talent to make Fire and Ice is heaven!!I have not seen this movie in almost twenty years and I still have the (forgive me) VHS!!It is so great to watch on Blu-ray and listen in surround a totally new experience!!!

I am a sci fi buff and love the older movies like this

La película llegó a tiempo y en buen estado. La película es fascinante, muy buena historia, viene con subtítulos en español.

Ottimo

Fire and Ice DVD released 30th October 2006 by Optimum Home Entertainment and Studio Canal. This classic epic animated-film is a tale of Good versus Evil, and is similar to Conan The Barbarian. Fire (volcanic-lava) versus Ice (glacier). Lord Nekron and his mother Queen Juliana, seek to dominate the world from their Castle Ice-Peak (glacier) using glaciers, and attack King Jarol and his son Prince Taro in their Fortress Fire-Keep (volcano), and in the process, the sub-humans abduct Princess Teegra (daughter of King Jarol, sister of Prince Taro). The lone-warrior Larn seeks to rescue Princess Teegra, and is assisted by the lone-horseman Darkwolf. This is a dramatic and epic tale, with excellent and dramatic music (composed and conducted by William Kraft). This is a sexy-film, and Princess Teegra is scantily-clad through-out. This film is suitable for both teenagers and adults. The characters were created by Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta. The screen-play by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. Produced and Directed by Ralph Bakshi (who was responsible for the animated-film: Lord of The Rings - 1978). Original release-date 1982 by Producers Sales Organization and Polyc International B.V. The DVD back-cover states the running-time as 89 mins. approx. The DVD front-cover-art depicts Darkwolf, Princess Teega, Larn, and sub-humans. Award 5 Stars!

i adore that movie ahead of its time