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Hey Good Lookin' is a 1982 animated film written, directed, and produced by Ralph Bakshi, and distributed by Warner Brothers.

The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1950s. Vinnie is the leader of The Stompers, a ragtag "gang" with delusions of grandeur. His girl, Roz, thinks Vinnie is the most wonderful thing on two legs. And his friend, Crazy Shapiro, would die for the honor of Vinnie and the gang.

Bakshi started making Hey Good Lookin' in 1975. It took 4-5 more years to complete it around other films. Hey Good Lookin' was originally going to a live-action movie with a few animated characters (similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit
). Bakshi's rational was that "the animated characters were such cliches of the period - balancing them with more realistic actors would be interesting".

When Bakshi's original cut of the film was shown to Warner Brothers executives, they loved it. A week later, they told Bakshi that the idea of having live-action and animated characters in the same frame was too unbelievable, and delayed the film's release, forcing Bakshi to go back and animate the live action sequences in-between the making of three other films.

The original live-action footage is currently in Warner Brothers' possession . One notable sequence in the film that was originally in live-action was the "rumble" ending: the black gang members are rotoscoped from the original live actors.

In recent years, the film has become a cult classic.

Quotes

Vinnie: Well, listen, Ms. Movie star - Vinnie doesn't pay for it. OK? Vinnie NEVER pays for it.
Crazy Shapiro: It's Roz! It's Roz! It's Roz! It's Roz!
Crazy Shapiro: Some nights I... I just feel like painting a picture.

:Vinnie: Hey, Norman Rockwell - paint me a picture. :Crazy Shapiro: I didn't say I painted. I said I "felt like" like it. :Vinnie: Hey, there are over twenty million faggots in New York that "feel like it" -- you wanna make it twenty million and one?

Old Vinnie: If there was one thing we learned back then that's still true now, it's that if you turn a woman upside down, they all look alike. So why bother?
Crazy Shapiro: When I'm up on the roof, it's like nothing can touch me. You know, it's all so quiet and beautiful, with the whole city right out in front of my eyes.

Trivia

One of the live action scenes that were removed from the film was a scene featuring glam-punk band, New York Dolls.

Cast

Credited:

Richard Romanus .... Vinnie (voice)
David Proval .... Crazy Shapiro (voice)
Jesse Welles .... Eva (voice)
Tina Romanus .... Rozzie (voice) (as Tina Bowman)
Danny Wells .... Stomper (voice)
Larry Bishop .... Stomper (voice)
Tabi Cooper .... Stomper (voice)
Juno Dawson .... Waitress (voice)
Shirley Jo Finney .... Chaplin (voice)
Martin Garner .... Yonkel (voice)
Terry Haven .... Alice (voice)
Allen Joseph .... Max (voice)
Bernie Massa .... Stomper (voice)
Gelsa Palao .... Stomper (voice)
Paul Roman .... Stomper (voice)
Philip Michael Thomas
.... Chaplin (voice) (as Philip M. Thomas)
Frank DeKova .... Old Vinnie (voice)
Angelo Grisanti .... Solly (voice)
Candy Candido .... Sal (voice)
Ed Peck .... Italian Man (voice)
Lillian Adams .... Italian Woman (voice)
Mary Dean Lauria .... Italian Woman (voice)
Donna Ponterotto .... Gelsa (voice)

Uncredited:

Vincent Di Paolo .... Gang Member at Beach
Chris Eann .... Gangster

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