Brad Pitt, Carrie Hamilton, Deirdre O'Connell

Jack Deebs is a cartoonist who is due to be released from jail. His comic book "Cool World" describes a zany world populated by "doodles" (cartoon characters) and "noids" (humanoids). What Jack did't ...( read more  read more... )realize is that Cool World really does exist, and a "doodle" scientist has just perfected a machine which links Cool World with our world. Intrigued at seeing his creating come to life, Jack is nonetheless wary as he knows that not everything in Cool World is exactly friendly.

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PG-13, 101 min.

Directed by: Ralph Bakshi

Release Date: July 10, 1992

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DVD Release Date: November 11, 2003

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  • June 18, 2008
    Crazy animation, some of it pretty cool. The movie started to go downhill pretty quick in the last half hour or so, but certainly interesting before that point.
  • June 1, 2008
    Very good plot. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he created, and is seduced by one of his characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real. Cool characters and lol humour.
  • January 1, 2008
    Now this is a classic and classy film!
  • March 6, 2007
    sick movie for the time loved it when i was a kid
  • October 23, 2006
    I like movies like this
  • October 30, 2009
    It's on it's way to me!
  • October 6, 2009
    this was a great movie
  • August 31, 2009
    seen it but i want to see this again real soon..
  • August 23, 2009
    How can you forget about Cool World? Early 90's goofy, yet dark animation with a sleaze that's just welcoming. I always loved Pitt's style in this film. Very sad how the movie started off with his mother dying and him getting sent to Cool World a wreck. It adds to his demeanor in...( read more) the film.
  • August 13, 2009
    So a cartoon scientist makes a machine that can link his world to our real world. Except that there is no coherent explanation on how it works. Okay I can deal with that, I can take my medicine with sugar but this world is actually from a comic book that a prisoner has made while...( read more) he is in jail as a means to escape his surroundings. The prisioner played by (Gabriel Byrne) manages to get into this world without using the scientists method.. a seductive cartoon Holly with the voice of (Kim Basinger) manages to pull him into the cartoon world...okay fine so the rules are bent a bit without any explanation. So Holly wants to be real and the only way for a cartoon (the term is "doodle" in this movie) to become real is if they have sex with a Noid (human). Somehow Brad Pitts character gets sucked into Cool World by the scientist, (the machine is on...and a tear happens...and then somehow Brads sitting on a chair in a room).. and basically he is the one human who works in the "COOL WORLD" as a detective..So Holly is doing everything in her power to become human and this is how the movie basically moves along. The Actors do a good job of making Cool world look real, the backgrounds are very surreal and the colour looks great but then we have the cartoons themselves the style is very rubbery and basically there is no laws of physics for them. Which is okay ...no worries...but there are constant little animations going on in the background to remind us that we are in an animated world. These images loop around so many times we will see the same thing more than once or twice even. My basic gripe with this movie is that it doesn't follow its own rules. How is the audience suppose to feel anything for the characters if the basics rules of this movie are not followed. The rules to the plot are all over the place... so much so that it gets just plain stupid.If your keen on watching a live-action/animated movie watch- Who framed Roger Rabbit- or monkeybone. The crappy animation and the bogus world of Cool World suffers heavily from everything being fudged, its a shame too because for a second the movie showed alot of promise.

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  • applechik04
    July 12, 2007
    I love this movie but I hardly ever see it come on t.v.

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