Rotten
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Cool World
Holli Would if she could ...and she will
1992 · 1h 42m · PG-13
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Ralph Bakshi
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Cool World
Overview
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
Director and cast
- Ralph Bakshi Director
- Kim Basinger as Holli Would
- Gabriel Byrne as Jack Deebs
- Brad Pitt as Detective Frank Harris
- Michele Abrams as Jennifer Malley
- Deirdre O'Connell as Isabelle Malley
- Janni Brenn as Agatha Rose Harris
- William Frankfather as Cop
- Greg Collins as Cop
- Maurice LaMarche as Interrogator #2 / Mash / drunken bar patron / Dr. Vincent "Vegas Vinnie" Whiskers / Jack Deebs (super hero version) (voice)
- Michael David Lally as Sparks (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
4%
Tomatometer
Rotten
What Bakshi and his screenwriters don't recognize is that even dream worlds have their own fierce logic.
Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
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.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
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.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
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.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
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