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Cool World
Directed by
Ralph Bakshi
PG-13
1992
1h 42m
Animation
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Comedy
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4.9
4%
31%
5.6
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When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. However, the flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas.
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Cast of Cool World
Kim Basinger
Holli Would
Gabriel Byrne
Jack Deebs
Brad Pitt
Detective Frank Harris
Michele Abrams
Jennifer Malley
Deirdre O'Connell
Isabelle Malley
Janni Brenn
Agatha Rose Harris
William Frankfather
Cop
Greg Collins
Cop
Maurice LaMarche
Interrogator #2 / Mash / drunken bar patron / Dr. Vincent "Vegas Vinnie" Whiskers / Jack Deebs (super hero version) (voice)
Michael Lally
Sparks (voice)
Carrie Hamilton
Comic Bookstore Cashier
Stephen Worth
Bash (performance model) / Comic Store Patron
Murray Podwal
Store Patron
Jenine Jennings
Holli Would / Lonette (performance model) / Craps Bunny (voice)
Joey Camen
Interrogator #1 / Slash / Holli's door (voice)
Paul Ben-Victor
Valet
Gary Friedkin
Mash
Gregory Snegoff
Bash (voice)
Candi Milo
Bob / Lonette (voice)
Charlie Adler
Nails (voice)
Cool World Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
A few of Bakshi`s inventions, such as a rattled telephone that panics every time it rings, are amusing and well animated, but most of the characters are grating and dislikable.
Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
What Bakshi and his screenwriters don't recognize is that even dream worlds have their own fierce logic.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Watching Byrne, Basinger and Pitt struggle to bring verisimilitude to this cockeyed business is painful. And watching the parade of ricocheting doodles is just headache-inducing.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The plot is too sketchy to provide much of a framework, and the only logic here is the logic of fevered daydreams. Yet, in spurts, the movie's enjoyable.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Bakshi's world is typically subversive, anti-nostalgic and, at times, a brilliantly conceived grafting of two and three dimensions. Unfortunately, its ingenuity matrix seems to have short-circuited.
Philadelphia Daily News
Gary Thompson
The movie has no internal logic. It's a mess.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Roger Hurlburt
Cool World is a major disappointment -- a repellent oddity with unsavory overtones.
Baltimore Sun
Stephen Hunter
Much ballyhooed, much-advertised, the live-action/animation feature is much disaster. Not even an animated Kim Basinger dancing the hoochie-coochie can save it from its own death-wish combination of outsized ambition and undersized budget.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It has a walloping visual style, though, returning filmmaker Ralph Bakshi to top form.
Spokesman-Review (Washington)
Dan Webster
A combination of Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit, Cool World, unfortunately, plays more like the lamentable Howard the Duck.
People Magazine
Back to the drawing board, everyone.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
Cool World isn't difficult to watch (there's too much insanity floating around to be bored), it's just impossible to digest, absent any grounded activities that could elevate the viewing experience past weirdo cartoon diarrhea.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
After the painstaking technical bravado of Roger Rabbit, it's no longer possible to get away with scenes in which a cartoon has obviously just been pasted onto an actor's wooden movements.
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Rumsey Taylor
[Who Framed Roger Rabbit] is better than this film in every qualifiable sense except it doesn't have a sex scene.
TV Guide
The doodles are thoroughly repulsive and, worse, unfunny.
Variety
Brian Lowry
A realm with precious little humor and zero pathos, to be admired only for its considerable technical achievements.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Bakshi's skill as an animator continues to outshine his judgment about subject matter.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A surprisingly incompetent film.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Telling you that I liked Ralph Bakshi's Cool World a whole lot more than I expected to isn't really saying a whole lot for the movie.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
What are the rules anyway?
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