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Summary: Needs more appreciation!!!
Review: In my opinion, this movie is vastly underrated! One problem is that people want to compare it to Who Framed Roger Rabbit since they both make use of live action and animation. This movie, however, is not aimed toward children. In fact, the language, violence and adult situations make it unsuitable for children.
What it DOES offer the grownup crowd, however, is amazing animation sequences along with top of the line actor "live" sequences. (We're talking Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne here.) This movie begs to be watched over and over again as the animation sequences are so intricate you see new things happening on screen everytime you watch. The animation/live action crossovers are also compelling.
My suggestion, when first watching this movie, is to go into it expecting something different. In my opinion, it's well worth the time.
Rating:
Summary: Needs more appreciation!!!
Review: In my opinion, this movie is vastly underrated! One problem is that people want to compare it to Who Framed Roger Rabbit since they both make use of live action and animation. This movie, however, is not aimed toward children. In fact, the language, violence and adult situations make it unsuitable for children.
What it DOES offer the grownup crowd, however, is amazing animation sequences along with top of the line actor "live" sequences. (We're talking Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne here.) This movie begs to be watched over and over again as the animation sequences are so intricate you see new things happening on screen everytime you watch. The animation/live action crossovers are also compelling.
My suggestion, when first watching this movie, is to go into it expecting something different. In my opinion, it's well worth the time.
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Summary: cool world
Review: it would be a five stars if it is in DVD. i collect only DVD format. i love this film "COOL WORLD" but i'd like to buy it if it is in DVD format only. The film is very very good!
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Summary: It's a great movie everyone should see it!!!
Review: It's no different from anyother movie,like spacejam it's just the same only this one is better!
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Summary: MINTY FRESH.........
Review: ITS THE CLOSE-UPS that get you - not too flattering for 1992 - lots of unfiltered frown-lines, etc. BUT overall quite a neat little plot ~ talk about being abducted!
BRAD PITT ends up on - so to speak - the other side of the mirror in a sinister but very real 'toon world [akin to 'Roger Rabbit' but darker ... and these guys are not quite three-dimensional for good reasons].
KIM BASINGER is the 'toon who wants out - wants the real world, and Gabriel Byrne is the 'toonist - caught in between the chaos.
QUITE good stuff - but rather on the dark side - would like more of these ventures .... just a pity about Kim's odd little costume in the real world - the skirt didn't quite translate correctly [or was there an underskirt???] - oddly jarring.
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Summary: Holli Won't...
Review: More misogyny from the stunted, adolescent mind of Ralph Bakshi. People love to point out Bakshi's movies as "adult," but I submit they're more in line with the musings of a junior high misfit. But mainly, they're about how much Bakshi hates, fears and misunderstands women.
In this blatant "Roger Rabbit" retread mix of live action and crude animation, Gabriel Byrne plays a dimwitted cartoonist whose creation, Holli Would, comes to life in the luscious form of Kim Basinger, who proceeds to ruin his life and transform him into a gibbering, idiotic superhero cartoon. That is, when she's not killing other 'toons and turning into a monstrous, hideous caricature of herself. Holli's just another in a long line of Bakshi women- either they must be pliant and vapid (the faeries of "Wizards"), or manipulative shrews like Holli. Yep, women are truly evil, Ralph.
Brad Pitt sports some crazy hair, but truly there's little here of adult interest. Adult meaning "mature and reasonable."
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Summary: For some laughs!
Review: OK! Maybe this movie is not the best but who really cares. It's sole purpose is to entertain and that is it. Some good pictures of Las Vegas! Good movie to watch on a dull afternoon! Come on, one look at the cover and you should know this is not going to be a serious movie!
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Summary: Bizzare
Review: OK, I like the artwork, but I don't like how it mixs with the live-action. I don't care for the plot either. The characters get annoying and none are admirable. But the film is alright, I got some weird liking for the bizzare backgrounds, and the tecno soundtrack. I don't know why either, but I'm giving this a 3.5/5, or a 7.0/10. What can I say? I'm a fan of animation, but usually old animation.
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Summary: Hollie Would if Hollie Could!
Review: Sorry, I don't care what the critics say. I really liked this movie. Sure, the animation isn't as great as what one would find in Roger Rabbit, but so what? It's still a great story. Plus, I love the opening scene where Brad Pitt first arrives home in Vegas (before he gets killed and sent to Cool World). The curved-dome airport hanger in the movie is the old Scenic hanger at the Las Vegas airport. It was torn down about five years ago to make room for the main terminal expansion, so this film is one of the few visual records we have of a lost building.
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Summary: Very un-cool movie
Review: The "Cool World" is a parallel universe populated by cartoons or, as they call themselves, "doodles". We first meet the doodles in 1945 when a happy homecoming for a returning GI named Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) accidentally crosses over into their world. Nearly killed in a motorcycle incident that claimed his mom, Harris is too bitter to want to return to the real world. Flashing forward about 50 years, we meet cartoonist and graphic novelist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne), fresh out of prison for killing his wife. Deebs is the creative mind behind "Holli Wood", a cartoon seductress voiced by Kim Basinger. (If Truman Capote had written for "Heavy Metal" magazine, Holly Golightly would probably look a lot like Holli Wood). Returning home with little problem (the obnoxious and obese jerk Deebs meets at a comic book store is the script's only reminder of Deebs's criminal history), Deebs finds himself literally sucked into his fantasy world. There, he meets Holli, as well as other not-very nice characters, including a homicidal imp named "Bash". Holli reaches out for Deebs because she can become real by sleeping with him. Harris, now Cool World's chief cop, warns Deebs to "keep your pen in your pocket". Holli proves too strong a lure and, before long, Holli becomes "real" and crosses over into our world. Unfortunately, the rift between the "cool" and the "real" is not so easily crossed, and both Deebs and Holli find their reality crumbling around them. Harris, meanwhile struggles to avoid the lure of Lonette, a doodle who loves him but, because of the law, can never really love him. He follows them to our world (actually, Las Vegas, which looks more cartoonish than "Cool World") just in time to see the reality break down entirely.This was a horrible movie, with inevitable comparisons to "Roger Rabbit" masking more idiotic lapses. For one thing, this movie isn't about any one thing or person - we start out with Frank Harris's character, but then the middle of the movie treats him like a supporting character. There are no laws in the cool world other than a prohibition against sex between doodles and real people, so Harris's job is pretty simple. And he can't even do that right. Holli never becomes more than a cheap character not ready for "Heavy Metal"; for her lines, she's less of a character than "Tarna the Terrakian" who was otherwise mute. For a film made by a graphic artist and about a world of living graphic art, you'd think the graphic-artist character would be something - but Deebs is an empty and meaningless character. Deebs's murder of his wife never becomes a plot element. There's no coherent logic to this film (in which people become cartoons or vice versa) and the sets of cool world look cheap and unimaginative. And, in comparison to "Roger Rabbit", the film suffers because its animated and "real" characters mesh poorly. (the camera work is also very slow, when it's not fixed; conspicuously inert for a movie about animation). In every way, this film is a botch.
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