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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Bakshi's best!, June 4, 2002
This review is from: Hey Good Lookin [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Having first seen "Hey Good Lookin'" at the movies in 1982, the year I was seventeen, I have always considered this a film that connects me directly to my past. I was involved with my first "real" girlfriend at the time, and this is one of the first films that we saw together. That aside, having seen this movie countless times since then I have been struck by it's completeness, and excellence as a film. Bakshi's only film to featured a completely original, and brilliant, yet unreleased, musical soundtrack by Ric Sandler, "Hey Good Lookin'" gives a good look into what it meant to be a guy growing up in 1950's Brooklyn and the role you needed to play in order to get respect, get along with your friends, and what was necessary to get the girl. From the leather motorcycle jackets, the slicked back DA's and the rumbles, Ralph Bakshi gives us a window into which we might look into a past where male / female roles were clearly defined, and a man could still be a man. Oh yeah... and the animation is PHENOMENAL as well. This is one of Bakshi's best!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An underrated animated gem from Ralph Bakshi!, July 11, 2008
This review is from: Hey Good Lookin [VHS] (VHS Tape)
In the early 80's, a middle aged woman in New York City meets up with a mysterious stranger who gives her a leather jacket that remindes her of someone she knew once. He tells her and the viewer the story of what happened in the Bronx in 1953, Vinnie (Voiced by Richard Romanus from "Wizards" and "Heavy Metal") is a stylish rebel whom kind of looks like an ape mixed with John Travolta who had such a sweet life with a good friend named Crazy Shapiro (Voiced by David Proval who voiced Peace in "Wizards") and a sexy girlfriend named Rozzie, he's the leader of an Italian gang called "The Stompers" as him with his gang wage war on an all-black gang called "The Black Chaplins" with Boogaloo as their leader. Entertaining and laugh-out loud hilarious animated comedy-drama from Ralph Bakshi depicts the 50's as they way they really were back then! This was a pet project of Ralph Bakshi for many years since 1975 when he conceived it as a live-action and animated effort but doing many movies had it on hold for him when the executives at Warner Brothers as they lived it but he thought it was would never work, so he decided to make it all animated by reanimated the live footage. This movie became an obscure animated cult fave on HBO and midnight shows, this has always been a fave of mine for years and Warner definitely needs to release this on DVD. Check it out on Youtube if you can for this hilarious gem.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Lookin good for a long time, November 8, 2000
This review is from: Hey Good Lookin [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is one of the best movies that,"Bakshi"has done. It's cool how they view the 50's in this movie,we need more "good lookin" movies like this.
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