Cool World
Holli Would if she could ...and she will
Holli Would if she could ...and she will
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
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1992
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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.
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Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
10 Jul 1992
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$30,000,000
Revenue:
$14,110,589
Awards:
2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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,
4 May 2014
rotten:
What Bakshi and his screenwriters don't recognize is that even dream worlds have their own fierce logic.
– Peter Rainer,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2014
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,
4 May 2014
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,
4 May 2014
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,
4 May 2014