Synopsis
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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Cast
- Kim BasingerHolli Would
- Gabriel ByrneJack Deebs
- Brad PittDetective Frank Harris
- Michele AbramsJennifer Malley
- Deirdre O'ConnellIsabelle Malley
- Janni BrennAgatha Rose Harris
- William FrankfatherCop
- Greg CollinsCop
- Maurice LaMarcheInterrogator #2 / Mash / drunken bar patron / Dr. Vincent "Vegas Vinnie" Whiskers / Jack Deebs (super hero version) (voice)
- Michael David LallySparks (voice)
Recommendations
- 50
Entertainment Weekly
Ralph Bakshi's first feature in nearly a decade would like to be a down-and-dirty "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," but Bakshi isn't up to the task. - 40
Washington Post
Technically, Bakshi's work is uneven; some of the characters in his Cool universe are hilarious, while others are flat. - 38
Christian Science Monitor
Blending animation and live action, this ferocious fantasy is hopelessly vulgar in ways never dreamed of by "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." - 30
Austin Chronicle
The interfacing of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional characters is so shabbily accomplished that it makes you start noticing all the other technical glitches in the work. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
Cool World is a seriously troubled film, so ragged I doubt if even the director can explain the story line. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Cool World's numerous plot holes and illogicalities might be forgiven if it had interesting characters or impressive visual effects. - 25
Baltimore Sun
It never seriously establishes the ground rules of the principle of transference or the relationship between the two of them, and so what follows is gibberish. [14 Jul 1992] - 25
Boston Globe
The only thing that keeps Cool World from imploding is that Bakshi turns it into a series of animator's riffs, with little explosions of toon action erupting like video game novas into the foreground of the story that isn't happening. [10 Jul 1992]
