YMMV / Fire and Ice (1983)

• Awesome Art: The whole movie, really. It’s basically like a Frank Frazetta painting coming to life.
  • Of note are the backgrounds, made by future Scenery Porn masters James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade. They’re downright gorgeous.
  • There’s also the poster used to promote the movie as shown on the main page, painted by, who else? Frazetta, himself. It’s so good that it’s been used in all its home video releases when most movies, especially animated ones, would usually use different covers.
• Awesome Music: William Kraft’s score is suitable epic for a movie like this, in particular the Main Title theme that goes from a mystical, dream-like tone to a tense Jaws-like build up to finally a triumphant blaring of trumpets. It’s hard not to feel hyped while listening to it.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Let's face it: Teegra is the main reason you remember this film, right? Or maybe Darkwolf or Larn (and Nekron).
• Complete Monster: Nekron is the Sorcerous Overlord of the lands of ice. He begins the film by magically expanding the glaciers of his realm to literally crush those who stand in his way while slaughtering their villages with the glaciers and the spears of his sub-human followers. Seeking to force the King of the only resisting kingdom Jarol to submit, Nekron's mother Julianna kidnaps Jarol's daughter, and has her brought to Nekron. Nekron angrily informs Julianna, who had expected Nekron to breed with her, that if his mother brings him any more "little sluts", he'll kill her himself. When Teegra's brother tries to rescue her, Nekron, while sneering, "pigs you are, and like pigs you shall die", uses his magic to force the prince to kill his comrades, before the prince commits suicide. When Larn infiltrates his sanctum, Nekron gets utter delight from beating the warrior down himself and even has him taken away to be healed and rested so Nekron can enjoy crushing him again.
• Cult Classic: As with every work with Bakshi, but in this case overlapping fandoms with Conan the Barbarian.
• Escapist Character: Any of them, but particularly Larn and Teegra. The fantasy of being a badass hero having adventures to save the world along with a beautiful partner wearing next to nothing is ever-present in the film; Teegra herself explicitly wishes she would be adventuring instead of studying.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: When Fire Keep unleashes lava to combat the glacier, it destroys a good deal of vegetation and wildlife and there's a lot of water from the melted glacier. This caused a good deal of flooding. Fire Keep won the war but it's going to take a lot of time for the land to recover and for life to adapt.
• Ho Yay: Nekron is utterly disgusted by the thought of doing anything with Teegra, dismissive of her brother's party and then... strips with a smirk when Larn enters, give him more patience than anyone else (including his mom) and has a rowdy and almost naked swordfight with him, then demands he be spared for another go.
• Les Yay: The forest sorceress is eerily affectionate to Teegra before finding out her identity. Heck even afterwards she is seen stroking Teegra's legs while she is unconscious as she waits for Nekrons minions.
• Narm:
  • When Nekron uses his magic to push forward the glacier, he appears to be in the throes of sexual ecstasy. He even starts screaming like he's having the most thunderous orgasm of his life just when chunks of the glacier begin to explode, like he's blowing his icy load all over Larn's people (not a great way for your Doomed Hometown to go, huh?). Even worse, this happens around the very beginning of the movie.
  • Exactly why is the glacier making wet farting sounds?
  • Teegra and her female tutor having a natural science class in her chamber with both of them dressed in the iconic string bikini (aside from some ridiculously see-through clothes). Many a heterosexual male or lesbian in the audience surely would wish to have a class like that, although knowing they wouldn't be exactly able to focus on the lesson.
  • Teegra's screaming scene when she's first kidnapped comes across rather hokey, because she screams, then stops, and screams again. Also Larn screams like a girl when he polevaults over a bunch of Sub-Humans.
  • Probably done because Cynthia Leake wasn’t as voluptuous as the women Frazetta painted, the animators gave Teegra bigger breasts and a more generous bottom when rotoscoping the footage. While the bigger breasts look natural enough, a lot of the shots from Teegra’s behind make her look extremely caked up to an almost cartoonish degree, which can be pretty distracting. Then again, some people don’t mind.
• Retroactive Recognition: Look very closely at the credits for the background painters and you may spot the names of James Gurney (Dinotopia) and Thomas Kinkade (The Painter of Light™).
• Spiritual Adaptation: This is the closest thing to a Conan the Barbarian animated movie we're probably ever gonna get. Having been worked on by Roy Thomas, the writer of Marvel's Conan comics, and Frank Frazetta, who did the covers for several Conan books, helps.
• Too Cool to Live: Nekron, who can not only can outfight the hero of the story with swordplay, but use telekinetic magic to control people AND a huge iceberg as well. He only lost because the last guy he fought, Darkwolf was basically a god incarnate.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: King Jarol barely reacts to the death of his son Taro while being at the same time willing to sacrifice everything for his daughter Teegra. The resultant impression is that he has massive Parental Favoritism, maybe even mixed with sexist and/or creepy undertones.

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