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50Ralph Bakshi's first feature in nearly a decade would like to be a down-and-dirty "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," but Bakshi isn't up to the task.
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50But the erotic potential of animation has never been realized and Cool World doesn't even try. [11 Jul 1992]
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50A brilliant but completely muddled concoction about the relationship between fantasy and reality. [16 Jul 1992]
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As a technical accomplishment it is extrely impressive. But as a work of entertainment, almost any 10 minutes of it are enough. [14 Jul 1992]
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40Technically, Bakshi's work is uneven; some of the characters in his Cool universe are hilarious, while others are flat.
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38Underdrawn and overheated, Cool World will leave you cold. [13 Jul 1992]
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38Blending animation and live action, this ferocious fantasy is hopelessly vulgar in ways never dreamed of by "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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30The interfacing of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional characters is so shabbily accomplished that it makes you start noticing all the other technical glitches in the work.
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30The plot of Michael Grais's and Mark Victor's screenplay is even more nonsensical than it needs to be. [11 Jul 1992]
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25Cool World is a seriously troubled film, so ragged I doubt if even the director can explain the story line.
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25A fatally compromised, half-realized execution. [ 10 Jul 1992]
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Cool World is less artful, short on scripted finesse, and is lacking technical acumen. [11 Jul 1992]
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25Cool World's numerous plot holes and illogicalities might be forgiven if it had interesting characters or impressive visual effects.
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25The only thing that keeps Cool World from imploding is that Bakshi turns it into a series of animator's riffs, with little explosions of toon action erupting like video game novas into the foreground of the story that isn't happening. [10 Jul 1992]
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It never seriously establishes the ground rules of the principle of transference or the relationship between the two of them, and so what follows is gibberish. [14 Jul 1992]
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10Style has seldom pummeled substance as severely as in Cool World, a combination funhouse ride/acid trip that will prove an ordeal for most visitors in the form of trial by animation.