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1992's 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.

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.

Synopsis

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 also has fallen in love with Lonette, a sexy 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). 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 and 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. Holli manages to find the Golden Spike of Power, which 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

In the original script for the film written by Ralph Bakshi
, Holli is called 'Debbie Dallas', and when she and Deebs have sex, they have a son who is a strange mixture of live-action and animated body-parts. The child hates himself for what he is and what he isn't, and goes to the Real World in order to try to murder his irresponsible father.

In the comic book adaption of the film by DC Comics, Holli Would was presumably killed when she touched the Spike of Power, and Jack Deebs was trapped in the fourth dimension (a desert landscape). One Cool World production still features Gabriel Byrne holding one of the "Fourth Dimension" comic books.

Cast

Brad Pitt
... Detective Frank Harris
Kim Basinger
... Holli Wood
Gabriel Byrne
... Jack Deebs
Janni Brenn (credited as Janni Brenn-Lowen) ... Agatha Rose Harris (Frank's mom)
Candi Milo
... Lonette
, Bob (the cross-dressing member of Holli's goons), and other doodles
Charles Adler
... Nails
Joey Camen ... Slash (the blue baby-like member of Holli's goons), Holli's Door and Interrogator # 1
Michele Abrams ... Jennifer Malley
Deirdre O'Connell ... Isabelle Malley

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