Cool World 1992

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more

Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times: What Bakshi and his screenwriters don't recognize is that even dream worlds have their own fierce logic. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: 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. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: 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. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: 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. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: 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. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Mr. Bakshi's skill as an animator continues to outshine his judgment about subject matter. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A surprisingly incompetent film. Read more

Dominic Wells, Time Out: Even the eventual universe-shaking shag is an anti-climax, and by the time all hell rips loose just before the abysmally contrived happy ending, you're well past caring. Read more

Brian Lowry, Variety: A realm with precious little humor and zero pathos, to be admired only for its considerable technical achievements. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: What are the rules anyway? Read more