Nothing Cool about "Cool World"

Sometimes you hear about a movie and something about the film makes it appealing. That something was there with Ralph Bakshi's 1992 creation "Cool World." I had seen "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit" when I was younger and figured the blend of animation with human characters would work.

I was sadly mistaken. This overly sexualities, almost soft-core porn (and somehow PG-13) movie just was a waste of 102 minutes. Right from the start, the movie doesn't make sense and any attempt to clean up the plot throughout the movies makes it worse.

Frank Harris played by Brad Pitt is a solider who returns form home from fighting in a war who get literally sucked into a cartoon. It is explained that he entered "Cool World" when a scientist Dr. Vincent tries to enter the 'Real' world and the process backfires.

What makes this movie strange, is that Pitt's character doesn't play the lead male role. And instead is Jack Deebs, played by Gabriel Byrne, who is an incarcerated cartoonist who created the comic "Cool World" while in prison for killing the man who he found sleeping with his wife.

Deebs is leaving prison because he has served out his sentence and in the midst of trying to go back to a normal life, he gets pulled into his own creation by lead female role and main sex symbol, Holli Would, voiced over and played by Kim Basinger. There is a lot of travel between the real world and Cool World, so let me try and sum up this crappy movie.

Basinger's character wants to leave Cool World and go to the real world so she can have men there give her everything she wants. Her plan is to sleep with Deebs in Cool World which would make her a real person and then have Deebs bring her back with him into the real world.

Harris, who has become a police officer in Cool World tried to stop this from happening and also tries to convince Deebs he is being used, but fails because of the man's built up sexual drive.

Anyway, the plan doesn't work. Deebs figures out she is using him a little too late, and Pitt tries to save the real world by stopping Holli Would. For the sake of this moving being SO terrible and it not being worth talking about anymore, I am going to leave it at that.

I wouldn't watch this movie if the president asked me to watch it with him. It was that bad. I don't have a zero star rating, so it will have to suffice with a 1.

Verdict: (1 of 5 stars) -Don't even bother seeing this.