honestly i can not understand why this movie rate so well here and nor why bakshi himself think it be his fine film . i be a huge fan of bakshi earlier work particularly heavy traffic and wizard and but frankly wizard ( 1977 ) be the last good film he make . after that he turn to the mainstream and begin with the diabolical lord of the ring and then knuckle down with sword and sorcery heavyweight frank frazetta and for fire and ice . what can i say . the story be puerile and the animation be tv quality i insist that it considerably bad than his 70 stuff and whereas wizard have real imagination and quirkiness and some gorgeous background art and and an underground and adult sensibility and fire and ice be just design for 14 year old boy and and have the intellectual clout of robinson crusoe on mar . yes and if you like the gor book and you might like this . in my view though and this be just another blip in the slide in quality after wizard from which bakshi never recover ( though he do some decent tv stuff fairly recently ) 4 . 5 out of 10 .