Based on R. Crumb's character, the X-rated Fritz the Cat is "an irrepressible rascal, he's irreverent, outrageous, ridiculous, blasphemous, honest, lovable, and beautiful, and the most human character to hit the screen since Pinocchio....(As with Pinocchio) so it is with Fritz, the well-meaning, eternally optimistic Candide of today winging forth into an equally depressing world of dubious values. Within his moral code-a contemporary one that includes harmless kicks, soft drugs, and freewheeling sex-he's top cat, but once he steps beyond the bounds and gets involved with revolutionary politics, hard drugs, and bizarre sex, he blows his cool. Like Pinocchio, he too almost gets his predominant appendage chopped off, but along the way he learns his lesson and returns a wiser man to his moral womb. No, not home and family, but bed and ball....Fritz is physically an exquisite film, beautifully drawn, imaginatively planned (and) wildly witty."-Peter Buckley, Films and Filming