Down and Dirty Duck (1974, Charles Swenson)

Nothing can compare to the 'X-rated' animated features of the illustrious '70s. It was a time when they were painstakingly hand-drawn and painted by dope-polluted experientialists who undoubtedly took full advantage of the unrestrainable medium. The great Ralph Bakshi pretty much had the market cornered during this time, thanks to his wildly successful sociopolitical '60s portraiture, "Fritz the Cat", which inspired numerous other animated "movements" of the post-yippie dynamism. "Down and Dirty Duck" - aka. "Dirt Duck" - was a total cash-in that cheapened it's production values and acts as one of the most hilarious acid trips imaginable...

An incredibly timid insurance adjuster runs into a duck (it's design just skirting Disney copyright issues...) at a tattoo shop and the two embark on a surreal, sex-laden journey involving racial archetypes, lesbian fights, gender-bending and other kinds of complete craziness.

"Down and Dirty Duck" was directed and animated, primarily, by Charles Swenson who had previously done the animation for the clusterfucked Frank Zappa musical-comedy, "200 Motels", and was produced by an uncredited Roger Corman. The fact that Corman didn't end up having his name attached to this speaks volumes of the kind of balls-out absurdity this films consists of and also for the fact that Corman gave them NO money and obviously didn't want to be held accountable in any way for the final product. The film features the voice-over "talents" of Zappa's back-up musicians and frontmen of the The Turtles, Flo and Eddie. The style of this movie is almost entirely erratic and nonsensical - administering a sleazy display of psychedelic surrealism that is meant to bring the sad, beaten down main character a new-found sense of sexual adequacy in the end.

If experimental animation is your 'thing', then I'd definitely recommend "Down and Dirty Duck". The rather 'rough' style of line animation used for it would probably be best described as "Schoolhouse Rock!"-ish, but sloppier and with hard dicks, duck tits and penetration. Not for everyone, especially those easily offended, but "Dirty Duck" is a true gem in my eyes.