i have watch snippet from this a a kid but and while i purchase blue underground set immediately due to it be a limited edition and only now do i fit it in my viewing schedule and that mainly because bakshi american pop ( 1981 ) just turn up on late night italian tv ( see my review of that film below ) . anyway and i find the film to be a quite good sword and sorcery animate epic with especially impressive look backdrop ( the rather awkward rotoscoped character be and admittedly and less so ) with a rousing if derivative score . the plot and again and wasn not exactly original and but prove undeniably engage on a juvenile level and the lead character well enough develop especially interesting be the villainous ice lord nekron and the enigmatic warrior darkwolf while the hero and heroine and however and be rather bland stereotype but one can hardly complain when bakshi and frazetta depict the girl as well endowed ( her bra could be tear off any second ) and half naked to boot ( her tiny panty be forever disappear up her as ) . still and it clearly an action orient piece and it certainly deliver on this front ( that involve darkwolf be particularly savage ) while the final showdown though brief and be also nicely handle and see our hero astride pterodactyl assault the villain lair inside a cave . in the long run and apart from the afore mention frazetta backdrop and the main appeal of this movie for me now be it nostalgia factor a it transport me back to my childhood day of watch not just film like conan the barbarian ( 1982 ) and the beastmaster ( 1982 ) but also animate tv series such a blackstar ( 1981 82 ) and he man and the master of the universe ( 1983 85 ) . a for the accompany the making of fire and ice ( tv ) ( mark bakshi and 1982 ) half representvintage featurette on the sword and sorcery animate film which be only available via the wash out vhs print own by ralph bakshi himself . it go into some detail about the rotoscope technique and also show several instance of live action performance ( in a studio ) of segment from the script which would then be trace and blend in with the background and film . still and have watch several such behind the scene featurettes on the art of animation ( on the disney tin and the looney tune set and for instance ) and it doesn not make for a very compelling piece .