Cool World
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Movie Reviews of Cool World
Movie Review: Cool World
Summary: 5 Stars
Cool World is a great movie. I love the way they did the cartoon world mixing with the real world. Reminds me of Roger Rabbit, only this is made for adults, not kids.Movie Review: Funny Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
My daughter is a BIG Brad Pitt fan. I bought this for her as a gift for her collection of movies he has done. It is a cut movie that Brad did in his earlier days.Movie Review: completely awesome.
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie yars ago and have finally purchased it. I guarentee everyone will love this movie.Movie Review: A movie for people with taste and style
Summary: 4 Stars
Cool World is a great movie full of some really great creativity and innovation, and really deserves some credit especially for it's time. In terms of story, acting, and writing, it does okay, however the real shining points of this film are in the animation and more than anything the ideas and production.
The complete insanity and escapism portrayed by the "Cool World" does ring true to the fantasies and different sides of people usually not seen, where instinct and spontonaity rule. This is contrasted to the real world in the movie, where quite the opposite kinds of ideas are shown.
I watch a lot of movies, and this one definitely has something, though it's not a masterpiece, as one person pointed out, it wasn't meant to be. But it definitely should peak your interest a bit if you view it with an open mind.
For anyone into electronica, there is a definitely a "rave" theme to the movie, specifically the animated world. I don't know of any other movies in 1992 that played real underground "rave" music from that time and as a big fan of EDM, this definitely added a lot to my experience. A good scene representing my point here was when Hollywood (attractive toon of Kim Basinger) is dancing by herself at a party on a dancefloor to FSOL's classic, Papua New Guignea.
I saw this for the third or forth time or HBO and decided to see what people thought of it and the volume of people hating this movie kind of disturbed me. I really don't get it. This movie was groundbreaking in it's own ways and like any really good movie I've seen, still to this day, it has a uniqueness about it that sets it apart from the rest.
Movie Review: It's A Real Cool World
Summary: 4 Stars
I'll tell ya... if I read one more review written by someone born after 1980 dissing Bakshi, I think I'm going to start kicking rump and taking names. Do people diss Disney? Hardly, until they became such a movie mill that they are computer generating what used to be created by hand with a loving touch.
Look at "Cool World" as the AntiToonworld of "Roger Rabbit". The characters are psychedelic, psychotic, retro and bent. There is a great deal of (expected) sexuality and lewdness, pushing the edge of the PG-13 as far as it can go. Lots of puns and inside jokes it takes an adult to appreciate, something Warner Bros. cartoons were masters at. Granted, they don't always hit the mark here, and there's more chemistry when the Doodles are on than when the Noids take over.
But I dare anyone to watch that scene with Holli cooing "Let's Make Love" to a sweating Mel Torme wannabe while she's having trouble keeping her Noidness intact and not feel the simulataneous urge to salivate and giggle. The transformation of Noids to Doodles when the wand is removed is humorous... a lounge lizard literally becomes one, a cowboy becomes a horse, a female lead a blank eyed Orphan Annie.
The end cap, where Byrne's character becomes a dim witted but sincere superhero, is happily reminiscent of Captain Sternn from "Heavy Metal".
Yes, the acting is practically phoned in. Yes, the plot is odd. But get over it, folks, it's adult animation, and it's entertaining. I watch it again and again... and I always laugh.