YMMV / The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

• Awesome Music: "In My Next Life" and "Jump Back" are pretty funky '70s songs.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: An entire musical number is built around The '30s, with Fritz dancing in front of stock footage, romancing a lady cat, and then losing all of his money. For that matter, every story outside of the main frame story could be considered a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. Justified in that he is, well high.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Again, Duke the Crow from the original. He may have died in the previous film and appeared as a ghost here, but he still has his fans.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans prefer to think that there was no sequel. Robert Crumb, the original creator of Fritz, doesn't even acknowledge that the film exists. According to Ralph Bakshi, this is because doing so would be admitting that the first film (which he hated) was not as bad as Nine Lives.
• Padding: As enjoyable as the "Jump Back" song is, the whole sequence could be excised from the film without any consequence. It's basically just a music video in-between the other stories.
• Sequelitis: This was not written or directed by Ralph Bakshi, the maker of Fritz the Cat, or Robert Crumb, who created the original comic. The only people involved with the first film who returned for the sequel are producer Steve Krantz, voice actor Skip Hinnant, and some of the animators. Even Duke, one of the characters from the first film, is voiced by a different actor. In regards towards to the quality of the animation and humor, it certainly showed.

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: PhantomStrider commented that he would much rather the film would have focused on Fritz's relationship with his family, how they came together in the first place, and how they got to where they are now, as the parts outside of his fantasies were the only times he had any emotional investment in the characters.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Thanks to more topical political humor than the first film, it's more blatantly obvious when it was made.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: This was apparently played on Showtime Family once, according to a review on IMDb, despite the fact that it has an R rating.

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