Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I watched "Fire and Ice" because of its awesome looking cover that made me think about some epic fantasy sword fights and magic in battle between powers of good and evil. I got that, kind of, because it was so generic and predictable I dosed off several times. Most of the time the generic princess from the fire kingdom was just running away from the minions from the fire kingdom. That should have kept me at the edge of my seat, but when the character is both so bland and has no backstory I had not got any feelings for her being in danger. The blandness deprives almost every character of a possibly engaging persona even his/her role was still generic.The voice work was generally bad, but that again comes down to the predictability of the entire movie. I liked the ice king's voice a little when he made his slimy personality come a little more to life, but that's pretty much it. The animation was a mixed bag. I really liked the backgrounds with their classic feel of hand-drawn paintings, but the character animation was sketchy and some times felt unnatural in their movements. The music was nice, with a dramatic pounding feel to it accompagnied by trumpets and other horns to make it sound epic. With all that said, maybe hardcore fantasy fans will like it, but I would skip it in favour of pretty much anything else.

Fantasy has been the first genre I got into when I was a child and animation was the first outlet for it. Animation and the fantasy genre really do suit each other hand in hand since animation has always carried a broader creative freedom in the visual medium that only live action can only hope to match. This is one of my favorite animated films of all time and it's my favorite film from one of my favorite animated directors Ralph Bachi.This film was just a dream come true since as a kid I was into the cartoon show "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" but also read some of the "Conan" comics, so you can guess how psyched I was watching this.This film is pretty much a straightforward fantasy action adventure, which is fine by me sometimes the best fantasy stories for me are ones that are simple and just being what they should be escapist fun.The animation is just fantastic and I personally things holds up today in my book anyway. Let alone the fact it's been done by Frank Rashatta whom did the art and cover art for "The Savage Sword of Conan", "Vampiera", and "Tarzan" all three I like which makes this film all the more good. From the character and creature animation, but I'm more impressed with the background animation which successfully creates this lush and vast fantasy world that is reminiscent of the "Conan" stories but also some of the worlds in Edgar Rice Burroghs "Tarzan" stories. There are jungles, forests, ruins, temples and a whole lot of other things I don't want to give away, like in any great fantasy story it always made me wonder what more is in that world. I even like the movements of the characters which is realistic all due to the technique of rotoscoping, I thought it was used in this film well and right. It's kinda interesting seeing these characters move this way where in most common animated features the characters movements seem to vary or be uneven in pacing sometimes which is sort of weird when you think about it.The music is just spectacular and memorable, it's personally one of my favorite and I think underrated movie scores. The theme song is one of my personal favorites because it is exciting and has that epic action adventure feel to it.The story I think is great it's not a deep story but as I said before this is escapist fun and the fact that Roy Thomas whom is a writer for the "Conan" comics wrote is is great, it's a shame he didn't write for any more animated films because this film showed how capable he was. This I feel also give the film sort of a throwback feel of some of the pulp fantasy stories from long time ago, our need to excape from reality and dive into a realm away from the familiar and were anything is possible.Characters like the typical hero Larn and princess Teggra both are two dimensional and are simply there to serve their functions. If there is a character that stands out is Blackwolf whom is just awesome, I really like the design of him which might have been a partial inspiration to the caveman version of Batman in Grant Morison's graphic novel "Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne". He has some of the best lines but is just simply a man of action, as he is just kick butt and taking names in the film.Yeah, I know not deep characterization but we're in this film for the action and adventure. And this film's action is just great, it is well choreographed and the battle sequences are creative and different, like one of my favorite battles sequences is seeing the tribe of fire invading by flying in with Teradacdyls. The action sequences are also very violent which is awesome, we do see some blood, I wouldn't say a heavy amount but enough to satisfy. It's always awesome seeing in those sequences Darkwolf use that Axe of his which could make comic book hero "Ax Cop" eat his heart out as we see how well he handles it.Fire and Ice burns.Rating: 4 stars

"Fire and Ice" was a good animated flick, which I consider to be (along with "American Pop" and "Spicy City") one of the best works directed by Ralph Bakshi. Personally, I enjoyed this much more than his version of "The Lord of The Rings".Even when the story from "Fire and Ice" had many of the most clichés from the genre, it still was a highly entertaining animated adventure, which also had an impressive animation style (specially considering the time when this movie was made) with many beautiful sceneries and great character designs.I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes sword and sorcery films.7.5/10

With Ralph Bakshi most of his films appear to be like two-edged swords. You'll get something awesome out of it but only if you put up with the silly and the unnecessarily cheezy. The Lord of the Rings was a great adaptation of the story which perhaps didn't always shine in the animation department.Fire and Ice is a great achievement from Bakshi from an animation point of view. The rotoscoping is a lot more detailed and the animation has a vibrant look to it. You still get some of the dull still-cells and slightly blurred background paintings but on the over-all the look has definitely gotten better since Bakshi's last fantasy epic. The animation has almost a realistic-naturalistic style to it, and unlike in LOTR where this style was often at odds with the actual content, here it enhances the film's unique atmosphere.Unfortunately the film fails to create a meaningful story out of its simple setting and in fact most of the characters' motivations are pretty blurred. Lorn and Tigra are easy cases but even the main villain Necron was difficult to follow not to mention That Guy with Furry Face Mask (also known as just 'That Guy'). Even though most of the voice actor's were appropriate, there are some odd quirks in the audio-department and Tigra especially sounds really terrible whenever she's screaming.However, I believe the film's inherent entertainment value outweighs its unnecessarily silly execution of the plot-line. The scant clad of the characters is something you'll never get over but it helps you remind yourself that perhaps this film isn't even intended to be taken too seriously. It's still a hella cool and really funny.