'Cool World' is a real 'what were they thinking' type of movie. From adult animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi this chaotic film is both overstuffed and underdeveloped. Brad Pitt is a World War II veteran sucked out of 1945 Nevada and deposited in the "Cool World", an animated place where he becomes a cop and apparently never ages. His chief duty is to make sure the cartoon 'doodles' never have sex with the flesh and blood humans or 'noids' who somehow periodically wind up there. It seems to me like this place would quickly become a hell.
One such noid is played by Gabriel Byrne, he is an artist who thinks he created Cool World and has been publishing an inexpiably popular comic book about the place for years. That is when he's not in prison for killing his wife, that plot line like many here is never that well developed. Anyway Holli Wood, voiced and played in human form by Kim Basinger is Byrne's dream girl so when she crosses dimensions to bring him to the 'Cool World' its not long before they do the nasty off screen then flee to the real world with Pitt in pursuit.
You see the balance between the worlds has been thrown off kilter by Holli's transformation and Pitt must enlist Byrne's young across the street neighbor for help. The oddness of this movie kept me engaged, not good but an interesting failure, though I hated the last 15 or so minutes of the thing, much of which felt hardly related to what came before. *1/2
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