Cool World

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Adult Animation Dark Fantasy Hand-Drawn Animation Animation Comedy Fantasy

When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. However, the flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human f... Read allWhen Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. However, the flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas.When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. However, the flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas.

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IMDb RATING

4.8/10

26K

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POPULARITY

4,213

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

Mom Harris
(as Janni Brenn-Lowen)

Brad Pitt

Frank Harris

William Frankfather

Greg Collins

Maurice LaMarche

Interrogator
(voice)
…

Joey Camen

Interrogator
(voice)
…

Michael David Lally

Sparks
(voice)

Michele Abrams

Jennifer Malley

Carrie Hamilton

Comic Bookstore Cashier

Stephen Worth

Store Patron…

Murray Podwal

Store Patron

Jenine Jennings

Craps Bunny
(voice)
…

Gregory Snegoff

Bash
(voice)

Candi Milo

Bob
(voice)
…

Charlie Adler

Nails
(voice)
(as Charles Adler)

Patrick Pinney

Bouncer
(voice)

Director
- Ralph Bakshi
Writers
- Michael Grais
- Mark Victor
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Trivia
As a publicity stunt, Paramount Pictures put a huge cut-out of Holli Would on the D of the Hollywood sign. The studio donated $27,000 to the sign's maintenance fund, another $27,000 to the Rebuild L.A. fund (it was just after the L.A. riots), and paid for 2 park rangers to guard the sign 24 hours a day. The stunt angered local residents, who picketed and demanded that the cut-out be taken down.

Goofs
In the opening scene, as he gets off the plane, Brad Pitt's character is wearing the twenty-ninth division patch. Later, when he first shows his mother his motorcycle, he asserts that he won it in Italy. The twenty-ninth division was never in Italy.

Quotes
Frank Harris: Baby, you and me, I can't have that in the real world. I can't live without you. But I can't be with you. What do you do, huh? What do you do?
Lonette: Well, we're just going to have to pretend, then, aren't we?

Alternate versions
When shown on the sci-fi channel, the following scenes have been cut:
When Sparks encounters doodle children in the alley he releases little coins with fangs that attack them, but they only show him say "I hate it when she meets guys without telling me".
While being chased by the popper police, Slash (the baby-like doodle) urinates on them: they only show the popper police get hit by the train
While waiting for the doodle telephone to get to Frank, Nails bites into his desk
The sex scene between Holli Would and Jack Deebs has been altered and some footage has been deleted
After Nails was "penned' by Holli, Frank encounters Sparks and knocks his French fries out of his hand, Sparks responded with "now you can buy me more fries, dick-head", but it was changed to "now you can buy me more fries, pinhead"
At the end, Holli's "pencil-dick" remark is deleted.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: A Stranger Among Us/Man Trouble/Honey, I Blew Up the Kid/Cool World/The Hours and Times (1992)

Soundtracks
Play with Me
Written, Performed and Produced by Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins perform courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

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Featured review

An unfinished film.

"Cool World" is one of those films that feels unfinished, and comes across as a well done test-market film, but not one that's ready for theatrical release. The actors seem to have a hold on their characters, but lack some direction.

The animation is good, though the mixture of genres'll probably throw some people. The story's incomplete, the characters are never entirely explored, and the mechanics of the fictional worlds aren't fully explained. The result is a film that's a bit of a mess, but still holds some interest for its unique take on an old animation genre.

Ultimately it's a film that should've been more than what it ultimately became. It's not a film for kids, watch only if you're into animation.