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The 1992 film Cool World marked Ralph Bakshi's return to feature films after nine years and his last feature film to date. Bakshi wrote the original screenplay, which was ordered by producer Frank Mancuso Jr. to be heavily re-written. The final version of the screenplay, written by Michael Grais and Mark Victor (and an uncredited Larry Gross) barely resembled the story that Bakshi conceived. In Bakshi's own words, "the studio turned it into some Las Vegas piece of crap."Ralph Bakshi, as quoted on [The official Bakshi forum]

The film was dismissed by critics and died at the box office, but later became a cult favorite with some of Bakshi's fans. Bakshi later called it one of his worst experiences as a director. In interviews, Bakshi praised the animation while denouncing the story and screenplay. The film's tagline is Holli Would if she could... and she will.

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Plot Summary

[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Gabriel Byrne plays Jack Deebs, the comic book artist who created and then is seduced by Holli Would. Brad Pitt plays Detective Frank Harris, the Cool World cop (who has chosen to stay in Cool World) out to make sure humans don't have sex with cartoon characters, since that act can rupture the fabric between the two universes. The twist lies in the fact that after all these years, Frank Harris has fallen in love with Lonette, a sexy animated waitress in Cool World.

Deebs was sent to jail for murdering a man he found in bed with his wife. During his prison sentence, he had visions of the Cool World and of the sexy blonde humanoid female doodle Holli Wood (Kim Basinger). While in jail, Deebs passes the time by creating a comic book series based on his visions of Cool World. Shortly after being released from prison and returning to his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, Deebs is pulled into the Cool World (which really exists independently of Deebs) by Holli.

Holli wants to have sexual intercourse with Deebs so she can become real and feel real things and enter the Real World, but sexual relationships between Noids (humans) and doodles (toons) is illegal in Cool World. Frank Harris, aided by his partner Nails the spider-like doodle, keeps a sharp eye on Holli and Deebs, but eventually Holli and Deebs have sex and Holli turns into a noid.

Deebs and Holli heads to Deebs's home dimension or universe, but the barrier between the Cool and Real Worlds has been thrown out of balance and Deebs and Holli repeatedly turn into clown-like doodles. In Las Vegas, Holli manages to find the Golden Spike of Power, which keeps the Interworld Matrix between the Cool World and the Real World intact. It turns her back into a doodle and releases many monstrous doodles into the Real World. Deebs turns into a super-powered humanoid doodle (nicknamed Super Jack), and puts the Golden Spike back into its place; Deebs is stuck, perhaps forever, in the Cool World, but he has plans to marry Holli.

Trivia

Spoilers end here.

Cast

Holli with her Goons (left to right: Bash, Bob, Holli, Mash, Slash)
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Holli with her Goons (left to right: Bash, Bob, Holli, Mash, Slash)

Crew

Ralph Bakshi on the set of the film.
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Ralph Bakshi on the set of the film.

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External links


Ralph Bakshi
Feature films
Fritz the Cat | Heavy Traffic | Coonskin | Wizards | J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | American Pop | Hey Good Lookin' | Fire and Ice | Cool World | Cool and the Crazy | Last Days of Coney Island | Short films
TV series
The Mighty Heroes | | Spicy City
TV specials
Christmas in Tattertown | The Butter Battle Book

 

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