
When cartoonist Jack Deebs was behind bars, he found escape by creating "Cool World", a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the cartoonist 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. A hard-boiled detective--the only other human in Cool World--cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, the flesh pr... (Full plot summary below)
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When cartoonist Jack Deebs was behind bars, he found escape by creating "Cool World", a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the cartoonist 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. A hard-boiled detective--the only other human in Cool World--cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, the 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. With a splashy combination of animation and live-action sequences, "Cool World" delivers the hottest action around.
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| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfCool 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 WeeklyOwen GleibermanRalph 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerTechnically, Bakshi's work is uneven; some of the characters in his Cool universe are hilarious, while others are flat. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarThe 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. |
| Spokesman-Review (Washington)Dan WebsterA combination of Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit, Cool World, unfortunately, plays more like the lamentable Howard the Duck. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittBlending animation and live action, this ferocious fantasy is hopelessly vulgar in ways never dreamed of by "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThe 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. |
| Apollo GuideRyan CracknellAlthough director Ralph Bakshi's imagination is certainly present, Cool World is too full of itself to create any magic. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksWhat Bakshi has come up with is merely a one-joke movie -- and it's a dirty joke. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperThere are a few clever little satires on other animated films and perhaps a good line or two, but the incoherent story just is not very interesting. |