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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat	comment	The movie Fritz the Cat, an adaptation of a popular character created by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb was really successful, both commercially and critically, even though it had quite a lot of things going against it, including a first-time film director, Crumb himself hating the adaptation to the point where he retired the character soon afterwards, and the fact that it was given an X rating by the MPAA. The film's producer, Steve Krantz, decided to produce a sequel. However, since original director Ralph Bakshi wanted nothing to do with this sequel, directorial duties were given to Robert Taylor, an animator who was working on some of Bakshi's other films.The results, as you might have gathered, might be mixed. This one doesn't have as much of a coherent storyline as the first, instead taking a kind of Anthology Film approach in which the title character is killed off in various different ways, in what is probably a reference to the comic strip, in which he was given an icepick to the back of the head by a psychotic ex-girlfriend.note Something that Robert Crumb actually did because his hatred of the first film made him vow never to use the character again. Whether this actually works or not can be left in the eye of the beholder, but most viewers agree that the music score by Tom Scott & The L.A. Express is pretty badass. Also, it was the first animated movie to compete in the Cannes Film Festival.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Fritz is still as horny as usual, although this movie focusses far less on sex than his other appearances.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger appear.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Fritz smoking pot to ignore his screaming wife while neglecting their child.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Some of the graffiti on buildings. One of the funnier ones is seen at the beginning of the God sequence: "Nixon pull out Note (of Vietnam) (like your father should have!)"
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: There are normal rats and anthropomorphic rats in the movie.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: Fritz's voice is slightly deeper and less nasally than it was in the first film.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Fritz does this to a telephone after the operator hangs up on him. He is one of the few four-fingered characters that can do this.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_3ccaf3ac	type	No Swastikas
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_3ccaf3ac	comment	No Swastikas: Averted. Fritz's fantasy as a Nazi does not censor the Swastikas.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: When Fritz and Chita get high.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: As in the first film, Crows stand in for African-Americans.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_621bfb77	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Cast
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_621bfb77	comment	Schrödinger's Cat: Literally! Crumb killed Fritz off in the comics after the first movie, but this film was made nevertheless. But for truths sake, let's call this movie the final coffin to Fritz and a sort of a prequel to his death.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the 1930s sequence, neon lights flash text that repeatedly comes towards the screen- it reads "NOTHING TO FEAR", a nod to the FDR footage in the same sequence.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: During Fritz's eighth life, he hears an evil laugh with pool sounds, being the work of none other than Duke the Crow. Odd, considering Duke isn't evil, and is one of the few decent people in the whole franchise.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Fritz is stoned throughout the framing device, until he gets kicked out by his wife. The rest of the movie consists of his drug addled fantasies about his prior lives.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The poster features an orange cat and a tall mouse like woman, neither of whom appear in the film.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_7ee61bec	type	Mature Animal Story
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_7ee61bec	comment	Mature Animal Story: The characters are anthropomorphic animals and there is loads of sex and violence.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_8341ccb1	type	World of Funny Animals
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_8341ccb1	comment	World of Funny Animals: All characters are animals, with the exception of some live action footage.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Fritz, a lovable cartoon cat, neglects his wife and son to smoke pot and imagines himself as a member of the Nazi party during World War II, and refers to black girls as knowing "where it's at by the time they're 11". Wait, what?
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: The film reverts the Crumb story "Fritz the Cat, Superstar" by having Fritz have "nine lives", resulting in a film mostly consisting of events where, someway or another, Fritz dies. (Crumb never drew another Fritz story following "Superstar".)
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_8b5db38b	type	They Killed Kenny Again
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_8b5db38b	comment	They Killed Kenny Again: Fritz dies multiple times during the movie.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_97928805	type	Barefoot Cartoon Animal
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_97928805	comment	Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Plenty of animal characters are barefoot, though some wear boots (most notably Vishnu near the end).
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Fritz has no genitals for most of the movie.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Robert Crumb doesn't even acknowledge the existence of this movie, except in the documentary The Confessions of Robert Crumb.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: One of Fritz's daydreams involves New Jersey becoming "New Africa", with a population entirely of black people.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_b6e75430	type	Bald of Authority
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_b6e75430	comment	Bald of Authority: The president of New Africa.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Nine Lives is this trope the whole way through.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_c04550fe	type	The Pornomancer
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_c04550fe	comment	The Pornomancer: Fritz as usual, though not to the extent of his other appearances. Averted as its all drug induced illusions and the sex he gets into are just hallucinations.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Very slightly. This was rated R while the original was rated X.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: In 1972, in response to the politics of the animated film, Robert Crumb kills off Fritz. Two years later, Steve Krantz produces this movie.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: It's implied that none of the stories actually happen, since Fritz is stoned throughout the entire movie and seems to be imagining everything that occurs.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: The entire cast. Strangely enough, there is an entire sequence devoted to stock footage of real-life humans.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_f1a15f4b	type	Cats Have Nine Lives
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_f1a15f4b	comment	Cats Have Nine Lives: The film uses this trope as a framing device, showing how each of those lives ended.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_f5d6b172	type	Underground Comics
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_f5d6b172	comment	Underground Comics: This movie as well as the previous one are based on the Fritz the Cat underground comics.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat / int_fff850d	comment	Flaming Devil: Fritz ends up in hell. Upon encountering the devil, who seems like a cross between Big Gay Al and Vincent Price, he lets out, "Oh, Jesus Christ, Lucifer is a faggot!"
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