Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7684 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-11-11
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Live, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

From the Back Cover
When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) was behind bars he found escape by creating "Cool World," a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous vixen named Holli Would.

But the 'toonsmith becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. A hard-boiled detective (Brad Pitt)--the only other human in Cool World--cautions Jack with the law: 'Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons).

The flesh proves weaker than ink, however, as Holli takes human form (Kim Basinger) in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.

With a splashy mix of animation and live-action sequences, "Cool World" delivers the hottest action around. END

Customer Reviews

Frightening and disturbing
You cannot judge this movie by conventional standards. This is not meant to be Roger Rabbit for adults, it is not meant to be Citizen Kane, it is not meant to be Wierd Science. It is meant to be a completely different genre all by itself, and must be judged as such.

This movie scares me. Not in the sense of "it scares me that anyone would make a movie this bad," but more in the Blair Witch Project kind of scary. What it lacks in plot and scripting, it makes up for in atmosphere and creepiness. The "wooden nickels" scene is an example of this; some guy throws a handful of wooden nickels to some innocent kids, and the nickels proceed to open their mouths and devour the unsuspecting children. It's this kind of random, disturbing event that makes Cool World worth watching. This is a wierd movie for when you need to go on a major acid trip but you don't want to actually put drugs into your system. It is the movie to watch when you want to leave all reality and morality behind and think about what could happen if we could interact with cartoon characters in a cartoon world that, unlike the "toontown" of Roger Rabbit, resembles our own world much more closely than we'd like to think.

Subliminal
I can understand everyone else's opinions about this movie...
true, the script was a little messy...true the animation interaction with live action was quickly done...but all that is beside the greatness of this film, this movie remains one of my favorite movies of all time. WHY?

Because this movie is much more than what it is...obviously there are hidden messages/images in this film...especially in the ending when Holli picks up the "spike" on top of the tower in the real Las Vegas. The title "Cool World" is meant to be a sarcastic quotation. Holli seems to portray evil in the most appealing way. There is a lot of evil going on in the backround and foreground in this film throughout. Temptation (I believe) is the main subject, but there are other subjects tackled in the movie as well.

If you have only seen this movie once...it deserves a second look...and if you still don't get the message, then I can only say that "Cool World" is a reflection of who people really are, and it is ironic that so many people seem to hate this film. You simply cannot compare this to "Who Framed..." that film was a typical disney flick...Cool World is a satire of our society.

Kim Basinger's cocky acting as the real Holli, was done on purpose (I believe). Because it shows what would happen when you take someone such as a cartoon charater out of it's own environment. Kim Basinger pulled that off really well, she was supposed to appear more animated then the doodle Holli.

I don't even believe Holli is really a doodle...and if she is then obviously she may be the 'demon' of Cool World, besides all she does is use people throughout this picture...and whenever she is around...evil is in full effect...and when she's put in her place at the end...Cool World's scenery has changed a bit.

I'll leave the rest of this stuff to your own imaginations...I won't spoil it, cause there is much more in this flick. Cool World is a very complex film, and seems like it was written as a puzzle for people to figure out later on. Every time I watch it I noticed something about it that I didn't notice before. The themes in this film are very depressing, dark and gothic and a little to real, so I would not reccomend this picture to children; and I believe it was not intended for children. Cool World deserved better for sure. Highly mis-understood.

An Underrated Cult Classic.
This film has been called Roger Rabbit's sleazier cousin...with good reason. Yes, the plot is contrived. Yes, the acting flatter than the animation. But this movie is ... entertaining!

Cool World begins in Las Vegas shortly after WWII. A young man is in a motorcycle accident, and is unwittingly sucked into the "Cool World", a hip dimension populated by cartoons. Unable to return, he becomes a Cool World Police Officer, and is the only human there. Years later, a dopey, lovesick comic book artist also is pulled into Cool World by none other than Miss Holli Would...a vampy animated seductress who wants to enter the "Real World" at any cost...

Cool World is a film with a very unique animation style that brings to mind classic 40's cartoons like Betty Boop or Red Hot Riding Hood, only they're given a sexier edge. The characters are also what makes Cool World cool. Harris, Jack, and especially Lonnette are surprisingly three-dimensional and likable. The soundtrack is also excellent, a features a catchy theme song by David Bowie. Sadly, the film could have been much better. It's full of missed opportunities (such as the Jack-in-prison subplot) and the script needed a *lot* more polishing. Also, the blending of animation and live-action is far from seamless. Cool World will make you laugh and entertain you, in a very MST3K sense, but it's still worth watching. And I want Cool World on DVD!