Good things come in big packages at MeUndies. Get 20% off your first order, plus free shipping, at meundies.com/saberspark So what do you all think about Cool World? Was I too hard on it?

The premise alone isn’t really bad, the film can be about people who get too personal and attached with their own creations which leads them to literally lose their minds or sense of reality. Even Holly herself could be a symbol for sexy characters who solely exist because somebody wanted a sexy character without any substance. In fact, having her become an antagonist for corrupting real people to lose their minds would’ve been much better and the way to solve this problem would be to either erase Holly from existence or redeem her with more substance than just eye candy.

This movie tackled the subject of sleeping with your waifu pillow way before it was a real thing

Still hard to believe that this movie's script was changed from **day 1** by legit corporate meddling.

Imagine if Ralph Bakshi got enough money today to make the actual Cool World he really wanted to make. I think the way to get that human/doodle hybrid is to use rotoscoping.

I really would had love to see the original version of the story made into a film. A guy sleeps with his animated girlfriend, then she gives birth to a half human half toon hybrid girl who grows up hating him and when she grows up travels to the real world to murder him and his friends. It would had been the dark Anti-Waifu story that would had aged like fine wine given our present cartoon fandom.

They saw that one women from the Roger rabbit movie and wanted to make their obsession into a whole movie

I remember watching the nostalgia critic piece together the history of this film awhile. When he showed the original story board of how it was going a horror film and holli was a crime boss. I was like,”yo! What the fuck!? That sounded awesome!” Why couldn’t we have gotten that, honestly?

I think the original idea that they had for Cool World was actually quite interesting. The child that was born was both cartoon and real, capable of traveling back and forth between the cartoon world and the real world, where the child grew up and tried to find his father. It's a shame that they didn't go with that idea. Even if the film might not have done well, there would have been more respect for the artistic approach in making a horror-esque or drama-like movie. In fact, they probably could have made it into an action film where you can sympathize with the son as he tries to confront his father for ditching his mother.

A movie for gooners? Saberspark saw this movie and said, *“that’s free real estate.”*

I’ll forever remember the moment in my high school film class when we debated why good actors do bad movies and when asked if he could think of an actor who never did a bad movie the teacher thought and said Gabriel Byrne. My friend shouted “Cool World” and the teacher just hung his head in defeat.

The only thing I remember about Cool World was the TV edit censored Brad Pitt's line "You piece of shit!" to "You piece of pit!", which not only makes no sense, but was funny because of his name.

I really liked how towards the ending, Holli looked more cartoony as she started to freak out. I wish the whole movie was just explaining the rules of toon world and why its inhabitants looked and acted so different.

I remember thinking as a kid that this was exactly that; a movie that was going to be Roger Rabbit in every way (if only a tad bit darker). I begged my parents to take me to see it a few weeks after it released and they finally acquiesced. . . I've never felt more uncomfortable watching a movie as a kid with my parents in my entire life than I did with this one.

I remember finding clips of this movie on the internet when I was a kid and asking my dad about it. He looked like he had a Vietnam flashback and told me it was the FIRST movie he ever walked out of in the theater. He told me it was terrible and to not even waste my time. Apparently, he thought it would be kind of like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," and he absolutely loves that movie, but he was SO wrong. Needless to say, I didn't heed his warnings because I was curious, and I wish I had. 😅

I'm not the biggest fan of Ralph Bakshi but his influence on animation is undeniable. There's no telling where adult animation would be today without him and it's really unfortunate that not only was Cool World completely ruined by studio meddling but also that the experience was so bad he hasn't made a feature length animated film since.

Rip the shoe from Roger rabbit

Monkeybone copies more elements from Cool World than Cool World copies from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

I sometimes think about how wacky it is that David Bowie of all people did an entire original song for this movie. He must have gotten a hell of a paycheck lol.

The movie that broke Ralph Bakshi.

I was in middle school and on a vacation trip with my uncle and his family the summer this came out. My cousins, who were still elementary school age, had been hounding my uncle to see this, thinking it would be another Roger Rabbit. Me being older, had a pretty good idea what the movie was actually about, but I was also going through raging puberty so of course I wasn't going to say anything. We got right up to the point before the cop chase, when my uncle turned to me and said we needed to leave, since he didn't like this movie for the kids. Years later, even though every one is an adult now, I still give him sh*t about it whenever he says he's going to the movies by saying, "Remember to check the rating!"

I'm really into the whole "live action people interacting with animated characters" trope and wish it was more common in general.

My theory as to why and or how Frank never aged while in Cool World is that if you really think about it cartoon characters never really age, therefore that logic must apply to Cool World's laws of physics and the fact that Frank never aged a day during the movies time skip is proof that Cool World's laws of physics apply to a real person as well as it does to "Doodles. Either that or time passes differently between the two dimensions. Since fifty years had passed Frank by out here in the real world but in Cool World it could have only been around five years meaning that Frank aged in Cool World time instead real world time and so he stayed young longer by real world standards than he should have.

I remember reading that Bakshi blamed the failure of this film on Kim Basinger being too old or not hot enough for the role, which made me lose a lot of respect for him.

From what i saw and read years ago. Generals Cool World had the deck stacked against it. Paramount basically looked at Cool World as the Animation division last chance. So the studio higher-ups were all over it, and to make matters worse, the studio got outside funding that was also handing in notes. So Ralph basically decided to become more distant from the project and just wanted the writing paycheck as a pseudo compensation package for his vision, getting trampled all over.

Ralph Bakshi’s last theatrical film, sort of sad this is where his filmography stopped.

I really would've liked to see the horror film concept of this movie. Seems like it would've been so much more impacting and meaningful.

The mask is a great interpretation of a half cartoon and half human character

That poll you asked us to do was wild, I'll tell you that!

It's like the live-action Super Mario movie, it's a weird movie that could've worked if there weren't so many cooks in the kitchen

"Nothing good ever comes from gooning over your own OC waifu." *war flashbacks to an anime called "Twinkle Nora Rock Me" that was covered by Kenny Lauderdale a while back* That tracks.

Ralph Backshi made a rejected Nickelodeon pilot called Christmas in Tatertown. It was rejected because of a controversy wich revolved Mighty Mouse sniffing a flower, who people mistook for cocaine

One of those movies I’ve seen clips from but never sat down and watched it. I just know Ralph Bakshi was involved.

"don't goon over your own oc" also Saber with the Sabie pin:

OMG THIS MOVIE! I remember this! My mom would NOT let me watch it and, young Dave, could NOT understand why! LMAO! Then one day, since it was on HBO, I watched it. I quickly learned what puberty felt like.

Ralph Bashki, Don Bluth, and Richard Williams were all fantastic animators, but subpar writers and directors. I'd say Bluth was the best out of the three, but Bashki in particular needed some help.

It didn’t read to me at the time as a Roger Rabbit ripoff. I also thought if they wanted to write a story about a creator falling for his creation, Pygmalion was right there; a 100% better plot that works as a template for many modern retellings.

It's like Roger Rabbit was the innovative indie game everyone loved and Cool World was Evony. Or RAID. Or Clash of Clans. Or whatever you're seeing in a midroll right now.

This is the movie for Verbalase

okay but holli wood awoke my sapphic spark as a child

I've been going through a bunch of stuff lately. I'm getting through it, but your videos help a lot. Keep it up and take breaks when you can. You're an awesome addition to this world, Saberspark.

The "Noids don't do doodles" scene comes with two weird implications: 1)The writer knows and likes the "taboo" of wanting to screw his oc. 2) He genuinely feels like society is trying to stop his "relationship".

My guilty pleasure movie. The soundtrack is awesome as well. I truly wish we could get the movie Ralph actually wanted to make. I also really know what was in Kim’s(Holli) mind. She wanted a movie to show children in the hospital. GIRL WITH THIS?! HOW?!

Saber will always draw me in with promises of goon-toons.

It’s a faaaaaamily picture!

Missed opportunity to say "the first rule of cool world, you do not have sex with Doodles! Second rule of Cool World, you do NOT have sex with Doodles! "

Cool World is just a movie that went for Roger Rabbit's visual style and nothing else. NOTHING else.

It's a shame we never got the more horror styled premise of this movie. Because, of course, the studio bigwigs just had to have their greasy, money grubbing mitts all over it.

Im more surprised how this game got a video game adaptation on the SNES.

Vision is important. The vision for Roger Rabbit was clear: our world where toons and humans live and interact with one another as they blend seamlessly together. The vision for Cool World if any was that of chaos and just seemed like rather than being surrounded by fleshed out toons, the human characters were surrounded by animator demo reels.

'Who Framed Rodger Rabbit,' was one of my fave movies growing up.

You know this plot feels really similar to Ice king writing fanfiction that's actually just a parallel universe being beamed into his head.

Saber saying MeUndies like a pirate would if his underwear got stolen absolutely *sent me*

Saber kept talking about how small the budget was for Cool World. While it was about half as much as Rodger Rabbit, it was still twice as much as the Great Mouse Detective by Disney not more then 6 years prior. Also had the just about the same budget as Oliver & Company. Both films made over double their budget back, while Cool World clearly didn't. I'm not sure what happened behind the scenes, but by comparison Cool World feels cheaper then another film with half the backing. Also I am surprised Mouse Detective did all that and gave us the first 3D scene with as tight of a budget as it did.

18:15 Wait, doesn't everybody know that if an ex-cartoon who became a real person, kills a real person from the cartoon world (turning them into an ex-person) while they are in the real world, then that turns the real person into a cartoon person? It's just like getting bitten by a vampire, durr.

It’s reminding me too much of the “I got hit by a bus and isekied into a fictional world trying to save the hot guy” genre

Is it a noir detective movie? Is it a love story? Is it an adult movie? Is it a superhero movie? Is it a cartoon? This movie is confused...

I had never heard the term "Gooning" before (though the concept itself wasn't new). Thank you for broadening my horizon on such important matters, Saber.

17:46 That Doodlebob soundbite took me out 🤣🤣🤣

'Dude gets sent to another World after a Car Accident.' .......... This is a Fucking Isekai.

They didn’t commit to the R rating so unsurprisingly the PG-13 take feels like it is secretly ashamed of what it is. Definitely needed a tighter script too.

What would've worked better: if being IN Cool World changed both Frank Harris and Jack Deebs. If failing to enforce standards on cartoons finally cracks Harris and he becomes a cynical alcoholic, always on the edge of despair, or Jack thinks he's immortal because he doesn't age in Cool World, or Holli becoming terrified of the real world after she gets injured as a real woman. ANY ONE OF THESE IDEAS would've helped flesh out the characters.

I feel like Ralph Bakshi got screwed by Paramount, because they just didn’t like his original dark horror script and decided to change Bakshi’s script to a Roger Rabbit rip-off to compete with Disney, because the studio didn’t find these kind of adult animated movies marketable enough. Kind of like what happened with Richard Williams with Thief and the Cobbler, these directors have too much demands on creative freedom and they don’t work well in a corporate environment, since Hollywood demands these indie animators to finish their animated movie on time or they lose control of their movie! It’s why Cool World and Thief and the Cobbler failed.

this movie was the victim of half-funding and rushed deadlines like almost every video game nowadays corporate culture kills quality

I remember wanting to watch Cool World when I was a kid. I finally saw it when I was in my early twenties and just thanked my lucky stars that 7 year old me didn't get to see it.

Cool world is the dollar store version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Basically: What would Roger Rabbit be like if it were rated R, and was terrible?

MeUndies: The only sponsor that makes you sound like the Hulk when advertising them. Cool World: I've always wanted to like this movie, even back when it first released. Every so often I go back to it... and every time I'm left feeling like Krusty the Clown. "What the HELL was that?" It is just such a confusing mess of a movie, you can tell by watching it no one had any clue of what they were doing. Like you I respect Ralph Bakshi, he's pretty much the grandfather of modern animated media, both adult and tamer. His stuff went on to inspire many and those inspired many more. It is a complete shame Cool World is this wet fart that his career seemed to end on.

24:34 You forgot to mention that a producer of the film didn't want another horror film under his belt since he was a producer of the Jason Voorhes Films

Cool World was a fever dream. I've seen it a couple of times and I mostly remember why I forget it every time. Of course, if I could make Toji real, I would. I cant blame Brad. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love the Irony of Saber telling us not to goon over our own animated OCs and shortly after advertising a Sabi Poster that undoubtedly will have people doing just that

Cool World and Fritz the Cat are amazing and definitely something I shouldn’t have watched as a child

My parent worked for Paramount's distribution operations in Texas, and one of the things she did was arrange advance screenings for movies to gauge an audience's reaction to it before it released. They'd do this by basically offering free movie tickets to college students and their friends. So when SaberSpark said that Ralph Bakshi wanted a piece of the fame, I now really know the context of a story I was told from that parent's job: Ralph came to Dallas for an advance screening of Fritz the Cat, presumably to see the audience's reaction to it himself, and apparently the distribution company hired people to pretend to be cheering fans and/or paparazzi for when he arrived so that he'd get off the plane and be greeted by flashing cameras and fans cheering for him. I don't know if this was something Ralph asked for or if it was something the studio was doing to make him feel better, but... either way.

Writers: Hey can I copy your Homework Roger Rabbit: OK but don't it not obvious Cool Worlds

Thanks for ... this. Bizarrely, my vague genre memories linked to a movie that was about a half-human, half-carton daughter, who had to learn toon powers, to save the world. Though I didn't see much of it and I've no idea what it was called. There were some unhinged movies back then.

The animation for Holly’s dancing was is so smooth.

Saber, I beg of you, can you please talk about Robot Dreams, its just, Im starving for more content and I want more people to know about it because it needs to get the recognition it deserves, DO IT PLEASEE

here on brazil this film used to be aired at noons, after school. 90's/20001s tv was crazy

"We have Who Framed Roger Rabbit at home."

Hollywood movies doing Isekai before Isekai was cool

I've been waiting literal eons for you to cover this. Executive meddling all around.

This movie was originally going to be the closest thing we'd ever get to a proper movie adaptation for the comic series Mayhem (the super violent comic that Jim Carrey'a The Mask was based on). I hate the changes made by the studio

My parents were the "If it's animated, it's for kids," type so I saw it at a young age. That scene where Hollie sat and slowly opened her legs did it for me.

They saw Jessica Rabbit, and wanted to make their whole obsession of her into a movie… damn

I swear I haven't heard the term "gooning" until last month and I KEEP seeing it now and it sounds so damn cringey.

Anyone remember the TV series called "Bonkers"? I think this was the unofficial spiritual successor of Who framed Roger Rabbit.

The Doodlebob edit had me in tears 😂

Random and casual reminder, Roger and Jessica Rabbit are a happy ace couple. Happy pride yall

A hybrid doodle would look like Judge Doom. 😳

To Goon or Not to Goon; is it even a question?

I just need the world to know, when Saber was listing off movies near the end, I got an ad that fit right in as "Arby's 2 for 5 snack attack" - it was seamless, beautiful even, more so that Holly Wood.

Here's my idea for Cool World. AR glasses tech gets crazy advanced and soon contact lens is all you need (has to be surgically attached, you can't just take them out).The company has it's own animation program (think metaverse actually done well) to interact with it. It's open source so anyone can create something on the computer and lets A.I. bring life to the character. The only rules, an asset cannot be duplicated. Your creation is yours and yours alone. Also, the tech has top-tier digital privacy so no one can trace your creation to you unless you allow it. At first, it's harmless enough. Your children can literally play with animated characters. But then a new update allows the AR to cover over real life with the animation (people, building, etc.). Think the movie "Paprika". NOW have a movie about a detective trying to solve a murder where the witness reported it to be Holly. So to follow the breadcrumbs, the detective has to put on the AR lenses to find the killer that is skinned with her avatar over that person. But, things get out of control as the real and augmented world merge. There's no way to know if a animated character running at you with a animated knife is really a person until they stab you. There's no way to know if the door in your background animated building is real until you try to open it.

Ralph Bakshi did go back to TV with HBO's Spicy City. Spicy City lasted one season and was boomed from the start.

I NEVER even heard of it!

Frank: "Noids don't do doodles." Me: "And I took that kind of personally..."

I've been hoping you'd cover this ever since I watched Steve reviews video, I'm so happy you're doing a review now!!! 💕

Goonmaxxing to any cartoon characters been happening since long time

Saw this on VHS when it came out. Mom had no idea what she was renting.

I'M EARLY OMG Also I'm so happy you're finally talking about Cool World 😭

Thank you for covering this movie. I watched it growing up having loved who framed Roger rabbit and it always felt like a fever dream as I never heard anyone else talk about it. Such an interesting history behind it all.