Cool World
1992 · TMDB 5.7
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
Why it matters
Ralph Bakshi's dark, surreal take on the hybrid, where a cartoonist is pulled into a world of his own creation, populated by 'noids' and 'doodles'.
From When Worlds Collide: The Magic of Live-Action Animation
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Released
- 1992-07-10
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 5.7
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