Cool World (1992)
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 31
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 53,927
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Four years after Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Ralph Bakshi tapped into the live action mixed with cell animated world in this adult-themed production telling the story of an edgy comic book artist who crosses the line into his own cartoon universe. The story begins with a prologue in postwar Las Vegas, where Vegas cop Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) is catapulted into the cartoon Cool World after crashing his motorcycle. The Cool World is a jive-animated parallel dimension created by animator Jack Deebs
Jul 10, 1992 Wide
Nov 11, 2003
Paramount Home Video
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Cast
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Kim Basinger
Holli Would -
Gabriel Byrne
Jack Deebs -
Brad Pitt
Frank Harris -
Michele Abrams
Jennifer O'Malley -
Deirdre O'Connell
Isabelle O'Malley -
Carrie Hamilton
Comic Bookstore Cashier -
Charlie Adler
Nails -
Maurice LaMarche
Mash -
Candi Milo
Bob -
Michael David Lally
Sparks -
Joey Camen
Interrogator -
Greg Snegoff
Bash -
Paul Ben-Victor
Valet -
Greg Collins
Cop -
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Clare Hoak
Animation Performance M... -
Lamont Jackson
Lucky's Bouncer -
Patrick Pinney
Bouncer -
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Himself -
Gary Friedkin
Animation Performance M... -
Big Yank
Plaza Bouncer -
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Charles Adler
Nails -
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All Critics (34) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (32) | DVD (11)
A realm with precious little humor and zero pathos, to be admired only for its considerable technical achievements.
Even the eventual universe-shaking shag is an anti-climax, and by the time all hell rips loose just before the abysmally contrived happy ending, you're well past caring.
Top CriticWhat are the rules anyway?
A surprisingly incompetent film.
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.
Bakshi has carved out a niche for himself directing mixes of animation and live action, but he's let down here by an unconvincing script and characters.
Hopeless.
The doodles are thoroughly repulsive and, worse, unfunny.
nice animation & design but - shudder
Critics often use the word 'incomprehensible' when referring to a poorly constructed movie, but nowhere is this assessment more accurate than in the case of Cool World.
Although director Ralph Bakshi's imagination is certainly present, Cool World is too full of itself to create any magic.
Unfortunately, the film doesn't have much else to offer beyond narrative incoherence and bad acting.
One of my favorite movies that I didn't like.
Here's hoping cartoons and noir will meet again on another, more auspicious, day.
Both the live and animated characters are equally uninteresting.
Audience Reviews for Cool World
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- Frank Harris: You're a wacka-do.
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- Valet: Cool.
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Bakshi tries again with animation but fails to capture anything of greatness here with this poor film, the film looks good in the animated world, background wise, but the actual animated characters all look horrible and badly designed. The animation of the characters is pretty shoddy looking and can't compare to 'Roger Rabbit' or any classic Warner Bros/Hanna Barbera toons, the only character that does move well is the femme fatale 'Holli'. Plus the live cast simply don't mix well with the animated characters, far too obvious.
The only bit of interest in the film is the fact that its slightly adult based and shows toons being 'killed', toons showing their butts, swearing a little, mild sexual references and the character 'Holli' shows quite a bit of ass n knickers throughout which we all wanted 'Jessica Rabbit' to do haha. Cast is wildly different in terms of skills, Pitt looks the part but simply can't act too well full stop, Basinger doesn't look anywhere near as good as her cartoon version lol! and she too can't act to save her life (not that hot either in my opinion) and Byrne is way too good for this kind of silliness and shows himself up really.
Mainly the animation gives it some appeal and it is somewhat of a cult, slightly, but falls well short of a decent film and makes little sense really.