lørdag den 23. februar 2019

Cool World 

written by Eli Catastrofica


Ralph Bakshi´s final work and, undoubtedly, his worst. Cool World is a mess, from start to end. A guilty pleasure but a mess.

The story revolves around Jack Deebs, a cartoonist who created Cool World and that after spending 10 years in prison, gets "called" by a very horny Holli Would who, for some reason, wants desperately to be human. For that, she has to have sex with a human and that´s where Jack gets in. She actually does it and makes a crossover to the real world when everything gets boring as hell.
That´s the story.

Where to start... The dialogues are awful, the story is inconsistent and pointless and the acting is tedious. I read somewhere that Bakshi wanted to do a horror animated film, the concept of the film involved a cartoon and live action human having sex and conceiving a hybrid child who visits the real world to murder the father who abandoned her. However, Frank Mancuso changed the script behind Bakshi´s back and the result is this mess we have.


It´s not all bad though. The animation is awesome and the soundtrack kicks ass. Unfortunately, it´s the movie only redeeming qualities. The movie goes nowhere, we never get to know why Holli wanted to be human so much (besides wanting to have a gang bang, that scene at the restaurant is weird...) and you end the movie deciding if Kim Basinger was more annoying as a cartoon or as a human, even though the final scenes are hilarious. Gabriel Byrne as a silly superhero? Cool.

I only wish Ralph Bakshi decides, one day, to produce and/or direct the original idea for this movie. Cool World could be so much more than what it is...


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