The groovy animation retains its kicky charm, but everything else about this live-action/cartoon hybrid remains a hopeless mess.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2022

... "Cool World" has amassed a following that would do anything for Holli. If that’s you, then snagging this collector’s edition from Shout! Factory is a no-brainer.

| Sep 11, 2022

The reluctant performance of the actors joins the lousy combination of live action actors and the animation - with looks and gestures that never end up agreeing. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 24, 2019

Its story stretches a fey idea to the breaking point, its dialogue delivers little wit and few laughs and its performances range from adequate to feeble. But Bakshi crams the screen full of zany goings-on, occasionally breaking out with brilliance.

| Jun 4, 2018

Without understanding the motion control cameras and all the other subtle techniques Roger Rabbit employed, it's amateur hour.

| Aug 6, 2017

A few of Bakshi`s inventions, such as a rattled telephone that panics every time it rings, are amusing and well animated, but most of the characters are grating and dislikable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 4, 2014

What Bakshi and his screenwriters don't recognize is that even dream worlds have their own fierce logic.

| May 4, 2014

Watching Byrne, Basinger and Pitt struggle to bring verisimilitude to this cockeyed business is painful. And watching the parade of ricocheting doodles is just headache-inducing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 4, 2014

The plot is too sketchy to provide much of a framework, and the only logic here is the logic of fevered daydreams. Yet, in spurts, the movie's enjoyable.

| May 4, 2014

Bakshi's world is typically subversive, anti-nostalgic and, at times, a brilliantly conceived grafting of two and three dimensions. Unfortunately, its ingenuity matrix seems to have short-circuited.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 4, 2014

The movie has no internal logic. It's a mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 4, 2014

Cool World is a major disappointment -- a repellent oddity with unsavory overtones.

| May 4, 2014

Much ballyhooed, much-advertised, the live-action/animation feature is much disaster. Not even an animated Kim Basinger dancing the hoochie-coochie can save it from its own death-wish combination of outsized ambition and undersized budget.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 4, 2014

It has a walloping visual style, though, returning filmmaker Ralph Bakshi to top form.

| May 4, 2014

Director Ralph Bakshi looked set to produce an adult version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit with this mix of animation and live action, but somewhere down the line it ran out of steam.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2014

A combination of Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit, Cool World, unfortunately, plays more like the lamentable Howard the Duck.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 4, 2014

Back to the drawing board, everyone.

| May 4, 2014

Cool World isn't difficult to watch (there's too much insanity floating around to be bored), it's just impossible to digest, absent any grounded activities that could elevate the viewing experience past weirdo cartoon diarrhea.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2012

After the painstaking technical bravado of Roger Rabbit, it's no longer possible to get away with scenes in which a cartoon has obviously just been pasted onto an actor's wooden movements.

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

[Who Framed Roger Rabbit] is better than this film in every qualifiable sense except it doesn't have a sex scene.

| Apr 29, 2011