Fire and Ice

Movie: Fire and Ice (1983)
Watched with: Angelo

This fantasy cartoon was designed by the guy who created Conan the Barbarian (Frank Frazetta) and animated by the guy who did Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi, not Robert Crumb)

It's about an evil queen and her son (I think?) who try to take over a good kingdom and then the good king's daughter escapes into the wilderness wearing only a thong, and then some barbarian guy helps her or something.

They were pretty gender-egalitarian with the near-nudity, with most of the characters wearing loinclothes, but only the girl got gratuitious buttshots, which really aren't very appealing on a cartoon, even a rotoscoped one.

Other than that, it was pretty uninvolving, and surprisingly unepic considering all the barbarian warriors and undead armies and stuff.
The one plus was that the good guys rode around on pterodactyl things which I think were called "dragon hawks".
Any movie is improved by the presence of pterodactyls.
That's why Orson Welles put them into Citizen Kane (he really did, look it up!).

The funniest thing about this movie was that it's backgrounds were painted entirely by two people--Dinotopia's James Gurney and...
Thomas Kincade!
Yes, that one.