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Cool World

Cool World (1992)

July. 10,1992
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4.8
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PG-13
| Fantasy Animation Comedy

A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who's been drawing Cool World, crosses over as well. He sets his lustful sights on animated femme fatale Holli Would, but she's got plans of her own to become real, and it's up to Frank to stop her.

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williamspencer-29395
1992/07/10

If you don't know anything about this, Ralph Bakshi wrote a script that was supposed to be a hard-R rated horror film that mixed animation and live action about a half-toon/half-human monstrosity that goes on a murderous rampage. However, when he came to the set first day of filming, he found that producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. had the script secretly rewritten behind his back to become some "fish out of water" crap that was watered down to PG-13 and forced him to use this script. The script has nothing that connects, nothing is motivated. Things just happen randomly. Often we'll suddenly follow unfamiliar cartoon characters we haven't seen before or since while they do any random thing Bakshi could think of that the producer would let him do. The world building makes no sense. Brad Pitt, playing a WW2 veteran, accidentally kills his mother in a motorcycle accident, and is suddenly brought into the cartoon world for almost no reason. Then, we meet the main character in prison 50 years later drawing that world. But how could the world exist if he hasn't created it yet? Not only that, at one point, they mention the main character killed someone, and no one ever mentions it again. At the end, he suddenly turns into a cartoon superhero out of nowhere. Pitt dies, but that suddenly means that he turns into a cartoon as well. Not even the animation's good. Most of the cartoons lack shading, so they never blend in, and they don't match any of the live action materials or lighting. Often, crappy animation will suddenly play out in the middle of a scene in an attempt to make drawn out scenes feel like something's happening. Needless to say, Bakshi proceeded to punch Frank Mancuso, Jr. in the face. Honestly, the fact that he didn't kill him for using a script like this is charity. It didn't make things any better when Kim Basinger decided that she wanted this to be the kind of movie she could show children she visited in hospitals, and forced them to tone down things even more. Bare in mind, this is a movie where she grinds her ass right against Frank Sinatra, Jr's genitals and becomes human after having sex with Gabriel Byrne. Bakshi's never directed any theatrical film since, and has only done a couple of animated shorts and a live-action Jared Leto-led TV movie. I don't blame him. Apparently he's trying to get another project done, even though as of writing he's 79. Good for him. Meanwhile, Mancuso later produced "I Know Who Killed Me" and won a Razzie for worst picture. Currently he's set to produce Bill and Ted 3. God help us.

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A_Different_Drummer
1992/07/11

In the highly specialized world of liveaction-cartoon mixes (a category which actually has over 100 entries to date!) this high-octane treat is, depending on your POV, either one of the best or one of worst. Although I usually try, in my IMDb reviews, not to go head to head with other reviewers, in this case I want to draw the reader's attention to the earlier review posted here which insisted, absolutely and without wavering, that this was simply a ripoff of Roger Rabbit. THAT is a wonderful real-time example of why no one really gets this film. Let's compare and contrast, shall we? On the one hand, in WKRR, you have one of the most tightly controlled Hollywood productions of all time, with none other than Robert Zemeckis, an A-lister, at the helm. The buzzword here, folks, is control. We may never know all the details of what happened during the shooting of WKRR -- one of my favourites, by the way -- but from history, we can safely draw two reliable conclusions. First, an excellent film resulted. Second, regardless of the first conclusion, no one in Hollywood was particularly interested in doing a sequel, and this is a town where, if someone's wedding footage looks especially promising, at least two agents will immediately start discussing "sequel." Which brings back to COOL WORLD. While I could list dozens of obvious "differences" between the two productions, I will list only one, and then rest my case. Bakshi. I say again, in case anyone missed it. Bakshi. The core difference between Zemeckis at the helm, and Bakshi, is that you hire the former, you unleash the latter. Honestly, you have to wonder if any of the suits had ever seen FRITZ before they greenlighted this deal? I totally love COOL WORLD, but I love it for the completely opposite reasons I love WKRR. ROGER RABBIT is a refined and polished production. COOL WORLD is insane. It should be shown in theatres with rubber walls. The core story is insane (no spoilers -- but Bassinger does something no actress has done before or since, she sells "sexy" both in her live and animated versions) and the animation is so intense that it should come with a warning about operating heavy machinery after you see it. Look, folks, Bakshi is the real deal, a creative genius who never seeks results, only possibilities. If you are fortunate enough to see this film more than once, and really watch the animation taking place in the corners of the frame -- not in the foreground! -- you will see things taking place you may wish you had never seen. And this tradition is not new, by the way. Around the WW2 period, the animators at Warner, to relieve tension, starting sticking odd cells in mainstream toons, and many were never discovered until much later. (In the 60s a smart entrepreneur did a tour with reels of the "banned" Bugs Bunny cartoons!) I said that critics either loved or hated COOL WORLD. I loved it. I think it will stand the test of time.

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Taylorlawrence-1546
1992/07/12

Cool word is a movie everybody hates I do not know y it has a good plot good acting and Kim basinger ;) cool world is and excellent extremely underrated movie but u people who hate it need to do one thing...STOP COMPAREING IT TO ROGER RABBIT!!!!!!! They 2 different movies both good I actually like this better nothing against Roger rabbit but cool provides a journey into another world a wacky zany place where cartoons live some not knowing about human world and have no interest but some do...you will find out all that when u watch it I don't wanna spoil it for u but by all means BUY THIS MOVIE U WILL NOT REGRET!!!!!! It's one of brad Pitts first I cannot describe how good this flick is it's amazing!!!!! It is probably one of the greatest movies ever made an I'm not just saying that I freaking mean it this is a wonderful wonderful great awesome movie I have more lines to fill so I'm gonna use em to try an sum up how great this is great awesome amazingly good will change the way u watch movies!!! Good good good good good so Good

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copperncherrio
1992/07/13

We enter Cool World, a world that is full of cartoons and you are ageless. The only "norm" person living there is Brad Pitt's characterÂ…. This world doesn't follow the rules of physics for he and all the other cartoons do not age or die. However, they must abide by the rule that you can't do it with a norm. Of course Brad's character abides for he is the law enforcement, but you can't say that about the new guy.Holli Wood (Kim Basinger's character) wants to change it all, she wants to be real and live in the real world, at the risk fusing the two world together.I must say, Kim Basinger is super hot. Not that, that's any news. She looks just like her cartoon character, and it's quite amazing. Holli Wood is in the Caliber of Jessica Rabbit, but the real one actually exudes the same hotness.Brad Pitt's character is flat, but hey this is old compared to his successes. It was bit of a let downer because I've been waiting to see this for quite some time, but considering all the plot flaws, it's entertainment value was alright. Not the best but certainly not the worst.

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