Cool World: When Gooning Goes Too Far
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Cool World: a box office FAILURE that tried to ape off the success of Roger Rabbit but to disastrous results. And yes, this movie is genuinely about gooning. For those who don't know what that term means, turn off the video now and go enjoy your day!
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So what do you all think about Cool World? Was I too hard on it?
Saberspark PLEASE please do something about filtering these bots… 😭
I’m still waiting for what ruined Christian animation Saber.
@@TheHitsubasaWhat do you think he can do?
@@RiveroftheWither bad enough that cussing them out gets you a warning for harassment and bullying. I mean seriously the spam bots are not even human
I think it's pathetic to use a slur to try and be funny in a title.
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?
Would have loved a horror movie
Because studios gonna studio and to hell with artistic ideas, we need sex to sell.
@@comettamerthere could be artistic sex!
@@comettamer That's not what Ralph did, he and his team probably got confused about how to make that work and went for something different
@@cristalido3640 disagree just like in critic review why do you think why Holly got her name, to stick it to Hollywood
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.
Except there WAS no "original version", just an "original concept".😅
And they could've just made the child a janky 3D child
It'd be a nice Bendy and the Ink Machine plot idea
She would’ve been crowned the first female Tumblr Sexyman and would’ve led to like 5 years of discourse surrounding the term “sexyman” as a result, we were so fucking robbed
No,not a girl,Saberspark told the two would have had a boy,a son
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!
That alone sounds a much better idea.
Now *that* would be an interesting movie to watch! Probably a bit too deep for most Hollywood exeutives' tastes, though.
Executive meddlingdrastically altered and ruined what it was meant to be. They ciudknt get their heads out of their Animation Ghetto Age asses to elt the creator do his thing as intended.
This would have been a brilliant idea
I remember when Saber reviewed an anime music video about this *exact premise*
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.
Right because as a teen I remember watching this and being confused about why Hollie and Lisette looked like regular humans and super cartoony like the other cool world inhabitants.
@@Thatcaramelchic It's sorta explained, just very very poorly. They claim that all artists don't actually create their own characters, they're actually making a connection with toons and using their likeness. Toons have always existed, so every genre of cartoon just persists there already. I assume Lisette was the standard 50s retro human comic character.
@@WobblesandBean ahhh okay I guess that makes sense. I honestly was just confused by the whole move lol
@@Thatcaramelchic Yeah, it's not a good movie, lol.
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'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.
Likewise, much as I love Bakshi, when his work goes wrong, it's damn near watchable at times (I couldn't finish Heavy Traffic and nearly tapped on Hey Good Lookin). Still, his highs still get me to give him a chance whenever he does something new.
@@MarquisLeary34Heavy traffic is one of his better films.
@@helpfulplaylists3933 I'm fully aware of how lauded it is, but I really didn't see what was so good personally. I don't slag anyone liking, it just didn't work for me.
Cool World is just as bad as all the gooning "isekai" anime coming out
@@Giggles4692 what
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.
That poll you asked us to do was wild, I'll tell you that!
The movie that broke Ralph Bakshi.
Ralph Breaks the Bakshi
It genuinley cant be THIS hard to get rid of bots
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".
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.
Cool World is just a movie that went for Roger Rabbit's visual style and nothing else. NOTHING else.
It couldn't even do that
Or just the idea of "cartoons in the real world." Which is just a variation of "real people in the cartoon world," which predates Roger Rabbit, by appearing in Mary Poppins and in Bednobs And Broomsticks.
X to doubt
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.
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
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.
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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.
He barely had anything to do with it once the studio trampled his vision, set it ablaze and pissed on the ashes. He basically just took the writing check as some minor compensation for that
"It gets even worse."
Me: Schwing.
The animation for Holly’s dancing was is so smooth.
Okay, the sound of Doodle Bob over the visual of the cartoon glove finger poking through the guy's shirt had me gripping my sides ! 🤣 17:46
The Doodlebob edit had me in tears 😂
To Goon or Not to Goon; is it even a question?
If you're in the Mafia, then the answer is "sointantly."
It's obviously the latter
Hot take:
The Mask was a better idea of a half cartoon half real life character. Hell even the animated series has a good idea of a half animated Half real life character. Just split them down the middle. They did this cause the mask was split in 2 and when Stanley put it on it only changed half of him. Could be really interesting to explore
They saw Jessica Rabbit, and wanted to make their whole obsession of her into a movie… damn
Holy crap, the original flick was almost an adaptation of The Mask comics. At least, the horror part of a cartoon doing cartoony murders and such. That would have been a banger!
I've been waiting literal eons for you to cover this. Executive meddling all around.
4:26 I'm not letting anyone forget 😭
I would loooove to see a movie with Cool World's original concept👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Cool World is my especial Guilty Pleasure movie, it has a especial place in my heart for a reason.
this movie was my introduction to the concept of animation for adults, i remenber when i first saw this movie on Tv on a friday night, i was a kid/pre teenager, to this point i though cartoons were all just for kids, them this movie show up and blow my mind, ''WHAT A CARTOON MOVIE MADE FOR ADULTS NOT FOR KIDS, SUCH THING EXIST????''
I think its better that Holli was played by an actress in her 30s. Drew Barrymore was a teenager at the time and had already played a bunch of risqué roles at that point which probably contributed to her troubled youth. Today the idea of having Holli, a femme fatale character seducing a bunch of grown men being drawn to resemble and be portrayed by a 16 year old would make the movie even more uncomfortable.
Such a bummer that the original concept was changed since the noir/horror story would of seemed more interesting. Especially how nightmare fuel the cartoon/live action hybrid child would of been. Still had a banger soundtrack though.
Another request of mine got made! Think we'll get the reviews of the following?:
* Felix The Cat: The Movie
* Rover Dangerfield
* Rock-A-Doodle
* Bebe's Kids
* A Troll in Central Park
* The Pebble and The Penguin
* The Trumpet of The Swan
* Valient
* Chicken Little
* Doogal
* Disney's The Wild
* Everyone's Heroe
* Igor
* Free Birds
* Freedom Force
* Dog-Gone Trouble
* Extinct
* Rumble
* Around The World in 80 Days (2021)
* Rally Road Racers
* The Sloth Lane
Didn’t even mention that “Who Framed Rodger Rabbit” was based on the book “Who Censored Rodger Rabbit” by Gary K Wolf
Goonmaxxing to any cartoon characters been happening since long time
If I recall correctly, Cool World has always existed. There have just been a very small number of " 'Noids" that have crossed over and returned. I cannot remember very many plot points since I last saw the movie in the 90s, but I'm pretty sure that cartoon doctor was the first toon to cross over into the real world. I think he was the first to try to fuse Cool World and the human world but decided against it, and was trying to prevent it from happening.
But yeah, thinking about that 3rd act... It was like a fever dream. Things got nutty.
I'll be honest, even if it gets me into hot water.
Bakshi was never the super duper animator legend people make him out to be.
None of his projects was ever that great. Mighty Mouse was okay, when I was a little kid, but it's still janky.
The guy has an ego, he can't really back up. It seems like he is passionate about every project, until the actual work starts. Then it's rushed, janky and cutting corners. If there's backlash, simply blame the writers, the director or whoever else
I've seen 2 and a half Bakshi movies. Cool World, Lord of the Rings, and the first half of Fritz the Cat, and I just didn't care for any of them. I still have my copy of Fritz, because maybe I just wasn't in the right mood and if I try watching it again some time I might get the appeal? Maybe?
@@wendyheatherwood fritz also isn't great. it might be partly due to the source comic not being really funny in the first place, but robert crumb famously wanted to be ommited from the credits and killed fritz off because of it
Yeah, but in all fairness Bakshi did adult animation better than most of his successors could. Bimbos with big boobs and cartoon violence is preferable to the run of the mill Family Guy clone
I don't think he's anywhere as impressive as people like to make out.
What I have seen of him, I am not impressed.
Phelan Porteous did some videos on him. He copied entire episodes of Rocket Robin Hood for a Spiderman cartoon.
Outran the Canadian police with stolen cartoons when a company split up.
He sounds like a pain to work with. For everyone.
Corporate stepping in was needed. The original idea is terrible.
He sounds incapable of following a project through properly.
Since he managed to foist all that writing onto two other people. Then a third. Then tried to claim money for it.
With that film he sounds a utter bastard.
“Your feelings for her are not real.” -Darth Vader
“she wants to do him to be real”
ITS NOT FAIR! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!
23:23 That’s the same Paramount release in 1992 where both Cool World and…Bebe’s Kids were involved the animated projects to be successful, but not good enough to be as good.
If anything Saber, let me know about Bebe’s Kids. Because it’s a Robin Harris urban animated movie where a late comedian was involved against ghetto little kids. Also Jameka has her nicely design and shown her in her big booty.
I wish TH-cam would spend at least a fraction of the effort they spend fighting adblock on dealing with the spambots
(in this movie:) "Stuff happens just for the sake of having something happen..."
Welcome to my world.
I NEVER even heard of it!
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.
I just realised Saberspark never made a video on 'Duckman'. And he should. I remember in typical fashion when I was 8 and the dutch broadcasting station casually aired this show between the kiddy shows like typical dutch broadcasters do. Usually the episodes all out of order. I was very much fascinated yet traumatised by the show. The art is very angular and quirky disturbing lowbrow popart with ridiculous proportions and creepy fetishist takes on disney humanoid animals.
THIS IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THIS VIDEO BUT, I would absolutely loose my mind if you made a video about the old Adult Swim TV show called "Tigtone". It is genuinely one of the funniest adult animated shows, and I don't ever see it talked about. PLEASE!!! There were moments in the show where I was legitimately crying laughing, and I quote it with my partner constantly.
I remember I tried to watch this movie as a kid and I thought it to be so weird I didn't finish it. Unpopular opinion, but I never thought Jessica Rabbit to be hot - I've always thought of her as a parody of beauty standards; Holly is definitely an worse overall character in terms of quality than Jessica, but I think her design to be less of a parody and more of the unstoppable goonishment of her artist.
to think this was gonna be very dark in the original script
Gooning is already the peak phased of edging. God damn imagine Goodmaxxing is....
In a way Son of Zorn pulled off Cool World's original pitch of a half human/cartoon hybrid, though I bet Bakshi would have wanted it to go further.
Paramount and those bad writers whom ruining Ralph Bakshi’s career and never directing any movie or animate anything ever again in movies. It was a WAY BAD movie in the 90s.
I feel like one reason why this flopped was because Ralph wasn't able to go with the original script he wrote, which was actually pretty good, but since he they wanted to use their own concept, scrap his, and then force him to finish the movie, which was very rushed, is why it did very mediocre.
Between this and "Sausage Party", the only adult-oriented animated films we've had were adaptations of 'Beavis and Butt-Head', 'South Park', 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' and 'The Simpsons'. But, without 'Sausage Party', we wouldn't have 'Isle of Dogs' and 'The Bob's Burgers Movie'.
Wait, how the hell did sausage party lead to Isle of Dogs?
@@empoleonmaster6709 The revival of more adult-oriented animated films during the late 2010s and the early 2020s.
I have a friend who says that a scene from Cool World where a guy is falling, and enters a gorilla's mouth and falls out of its butt, is the funniest scene of all time.
I'm surprised he never talked about the most interesting part of the movie, which is the whole people turning into toons chaos that was happening. But I guess like everything else about that movie: It was just simply one of many crazy things that just made the movie worse. Although in my eyes it was an interesting concept that could've been explored more.
Honestly? I fucking love Cool World's ending. It is so bizzare, the tone-shift is out of nowhere, it's amazing.
Random and casual reminder, Roger and Jessica Rabbit are a happy ace couple. Happy pride yall
Interesting. Must have missed that scene. Was it the one about projection?
@@custos3249 heh? Creators who worked on the movie tweeted that forever ago. He said they're both ace and Roger doesn't even know what sex is.
@@LangkeeLongkee Gotta love that cultural hindsight. It was totally that all the time guys! We swear!
@@custos3249 who cares. I'm sorry does that ruin your rule 34 fantasy of this voluptuous woman riding an actual rabbit? You poor thing.
Because I'm sure they DID ABSOLUTELY ALWAYS INTEND that this fictional interspecies couple appearing often in kids media not only are aware of intercourse but have it regularly. Cause that makes more sense than the cartoons not knowing what sex is, naturally.
Oh boy. This one. I remember watching it like... in junior high when I got it among several other movies in some box that my grandpa picked up cheap at a yard sale. They never gave any of the tapes more than a glance
There's some irony to a movie that could be construed to be about falling so in love with your own creation that you lose sight of everything else being ruined by an auteur director who can't see outside his own "perfect" vision but...unfortunately, that was probably not intentional.
Maybe not unintentional. Just, badly portrayed.
Huh I could have sworn you have already reviewed this... This movie was trying to be adult Roger Rabbit and well, failed badly. Mostly by not really having a plot at all.
I sent this to my friend just to annoy him with the word gooning
Nice, Saberspark selling p-rn while watching p-rn.
I expected that you also will not have a very good opinion about this animated film either.
But I didn't know that Ralph Bakshi was also involved in its production, whose most significant movie for me is "Fire and Ice", for which three different(!) Hungarian dubbing were created.
Oh heck, I didn't know about that fantasy themed cartoon movie until now, which I didn't read about in a magazine.
I've rented the hell out of this VHS. Kid me loved the sexy cartoon version of Kim Basinger
When I was super young my parents took me to this in theaters (or they wanted to see it and brought me, I can’t remember). I’m pretty sure they thought it would be like Roger Rabbit. Boy were they wrong. 😂
I'm surprised you didn't mention that whole thing about Bakshi punching the producer in the face. Did that even happen?
I enjoyed it as a child but I also attributed it to me having a false notion that the movie was episodic and they crammed it into one long play... Even as a child I noticed that the movie flows in 3 or 4 very different sections... It doesn't FLOW...
Sadly, many people who worked alongside Bakshi dislike him, there are artists who do not want to be mentioned in same sentences as him, and all for good reasons... He is more than a bit scummy...
JESUS !!! THOSE UNDIES ARE HELLA EXPENSIVE!!
I always forget this was a Bakshi. I like his older rotoscope heavy stuff from the 70s and 80s more.
I saw this movie, and i immediately thought that this was too dull for adults, too explicit for kids, and unlike Roger Rabbit, didn't have any recognizable characters in it.
Plus the entire toon/ human sex scene in it was absolutely creepy!
Legitimately last night I was mulling in my head how I would love to see the original horror movie concept come to life. I was imagining scenes, setting characters, etc, and the art style to represent the hybrid nature of the half toon daughters. Maybe Cg with hand drawn elements like Spiderverse popularized.
Ralph Bakshi's true vision for Cool World was shit on, and that's why you got the movie that exists. It was never a knock-off, never intended to be a knock-off, and it's really disingenuous to call it a knock-off. Artist's can't help when corporate greed wins.
As soon as you mentioned Roger Rabbit I realized I've watch this movie, or at least half of it
Thank you for reminding me that Japanese gameshows are wild with a 5 second clip and also making me suffer through you saying "gooning"
When you realize the plot for the story he wanted to make ended up in the game "Doodle Date" 🤯
I always wondered if that "Rule" had any loopholes. I mean being a Lesbian and all, my definition of "Sex" probably is different than Frank's...
This movie walked so Chris-Chan could zap to the extreme
Saber, thank you for finally reviewing this movie!
The original plot idea sounds kinda banger if done right. Who can we trust with a reboot?
Was searching and was surprised you haven't done a video talking about the show Undegrads. Seems up your alley.
Granted, I think the decision to make the movie a more "Roger Rabbit" clone was like Marcuso's decision. Considering he was the producers of most of the FRIDAY THE 13th sequels throughout the 80s, he was obviously SICK TO DEATH literally of the Horror genre. There's even small elements that still emulate the "Horror movie" aspects (although they're largely limited to background styles in certain shots).
I'm surprised you didn't talk too much about Holli's cursed car.
It's been years since I last watched "Cool World," and from what I remember it's probably one of the worst movies I've seen. Outside of having neat animation (if a little too chaotic), the story was a huge mess with random plot details and lackluster characters. It kind of makes me wish we got that original idea with that half human/half toon hybrid, since it could've delved into some interesting topics and would've been a cool technical achievement.
Wonder if Ralph Bakshi could actually make what he wants today with hiw more opportunities there is with animation.
Would love to see.
Stop saying gooning.
I can't belive that david bowie also influenced the soundtrack on cool world like... thats so random
I haven't seen Cool World in YEARS. I've been meaning to rewatch it.
I remember them pushing the movie and the video game in comics like crazy. Ralph Bakshi was a crazy ahead of his time kinda guy.
Re-Release this movie now, in your own movie theatre SaberSpark
From Leonard maltin to Steve Reviews, I've never heard good things about this. It would have been a great movie. Bakshi had a different script, where this half human half cartoon would venture into the real world. But Paramount had two writers rewrite the script behind Ralph's back. I still do enjoy his work such as Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic
Saber, please tone down the AD times. It takes way too long to get back to the video. Most of the products you advertise are cool and useful, but I live in Brazil, I can't buy whatever you, or any youtuber, advertises. Usually skipping a minute, or a minute and a half is enough, but not for your videos man. That's messed up!
i mean he needs to make money somehow, skipping a few minutes shouldnt be too much work
I always really liked Holli Would's design. Such a shame it was wasted on this train wreck
Love this movie despite some of its issues. Good movie to draw too as well after viewing it a few times for fun.
Well, at least Harry Partridge is pleased
A friend of mine showed me this back in college. I think it was alright. I do agree it was hard to follow. Showing that third act brought back memories of how crazy it was. Also the music for Cool World was really good. I guess when it comes to animation I'm always a sucker for it.
I feel like this movie was just there to have cool animated visuals to sell the soundtrack, which it did.
wait wait wait WHY do they have a return policy if you don't like them 😭😭😭😭😭😭 that sounds mad sus.
WHAT DO THEY DO WITH THEM
PLEASE TELL ME THERES RESTRICTIONS ON THE RETURN POLICIES
😭😭💀💀
CAUSE THAT SOUNDS BOTH GROSS AND MAD WASTE 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀💀💀
“Hey! Hey!! No gooning in Cool World!”
This movie always makes me think of toonland level in Gex
Son of Zorn had a character that was half cartoon, half human, and they did it pretty cleverly. The bottom half was animated, but covered by human clothing most of the time do to shame. Fun show that could have been great but died too soon.