Cool World: The GOONING Movie from Hell (yes I'm serious)

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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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[@Saberspark]

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?

[@TheHitsubasa]

Saberspark PLEASE please do something about filtering these bots… 😭

[@sharonlowman8806]

I’m still waiting for what ruined Christian animation Saber.

[@kaylawoodbury2308]

​@@TheHitsubasaWhat do you think he can do?

[@deathmourne1]

@@kaylawoodbury2308 bad enough that cussing them out gets you a warning for harassment and bullying. I mean seriously the spam bots are not even human

[@spiderlily723]

I think it's pathetic to use a slur to try and be funny in a title.

[@jaidora]

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.

[@strawberrymanga9]

This! That alone sounds a much better idea.

[@benjaminrobinson3842]

Now *that* would be an interesting movie to watch! Probably a bit too deep for most Hollywood exeutives' tastes, though.

[@tenjenk]

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.

[@comettamer]

This would have been a brilliant idea

[@KnallisSillan]

I remember when Saber reviewed an anime music video about this *exact premise*

[@usmaanilyas8639]

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

[@ClownHoundII]

Honestly feels like a Jessica Rabbit x viewer fanfic erotica.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

​@@ClownHoundIIthis was like his Answer to Jessica rabbit.

[@Primalintent]

Ever since animation began it has been horny. There was never a point in time where sleeping with your waifu body pillow wasn't a part of the industry

[@lefteyereport6354]

Pygmalion

[@HayabusaRyuu]

Except, You can have sex with your pillow

[@animechic420]

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.

[@deezee2965]

God I wish Bakshi would make a ew film!

[@brandonleesantana4500]

Could always go thru KZbin in making it and showing a better movie

[@carriejh]

​@OfficerElonMuskUTTPOh great they're on this channel too 🤦‍♀️

[@shacharlem4424]

I think the upcoming bendy film could give him the horror movie he always wanted to direct (to some degree).

[@MarquisLeary34]

Ralphie has a whole backlog of ideas that should have, but never saw the light of day. Not just his OG Cool World, but his plan to have Led Zeppelin do the score for LOTOR.

[@garrtoons4303]

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

[@Mervle]

"It wath da STHTUDIO!"

[@Firegodzilla19]

@OfficerElonMuskUTTP WHAT

[@zeldaglitchman]

​@@Firegodzilla19just ignore the spam bot

[@blazewalker7313]

Just report them

[@kootunesscrewy]

Tbh, the spider was much more funnier in Christmas in Tattertown than in Cool World. (It could be a different one, but still...)

[@cmedtheuniverseofcmed8775]

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.

[@strawberrymanga9]

Very intriguing idea.

[@comettamer]

It would've been a very interesting idea, but of course studios gonna studio...

[@justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588]

Wait, we already have that plot, it’s called Blue Eye Samurai, and it’s actually really good

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

I 100% agree!

[@midnights2631]

It sounds amazing.

[@a.j.m8264]

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?

[@Aashka_The_Mystic]

Would have loved a horror movie

[@comettamer]

Because studios gonna studio and to hell with artistic ideas, we need sex to sell.

[@chromesthesia]

​@@comettamerthere could be artistic sex!

[@cristalido3640]

@@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

[@kyotheman69]

@@cristalido3640 disagree just like in critic review why do you think why Holly got her name, to stick it to Hollywood

[@JinxSanity]

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.

[@drewt1717]

Except there WAS no "original version", just an "original concept".😅

[@akwpm]

And they could've just made the child a janky 3D child

[@Shapoufiiie]

It'd be a nice Bendy and the Ink Machine plot idea

[@emilyofjane]

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

[@fanfight]

No,not a girl,Saberspark told the two would have had a boy,a son

[@KeebeThePlush]

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

[@jaidentavira4062]

@OfficerElonMuskUTTPI reported you. Say your final words

[@micjimster4845]

Damn, there in sabersparks comments too?

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

​@@micjimster4845in every KZbinrs comments. Even Sssniperwolf got em.

[@kootunesscrewy]

The 2nd worst animated theatrical movie of all time (only behind Norm of the North). 💀 The only saver for this is the animation.

[@MeganBacon]

@@kootunesscrewy have you ever heard of Troll Land? 🥲

[@MysteryKoshka]

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.

[@ArcaneEther]

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.

[@wdcain1]

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.

[@Thatcaramelchic]

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.

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@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.

[@Thatcaramelchic]

@@WobblesandBean ahhh okay I guess that makes sense. I honestly was just confused by the whole move lol

[@WobblesandBean]

@@Thatcaramelchic Yeah, it's not a good movie, lol.

[@Good_Madi]

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. 😅

[@midnights2631]

😂😂 You live and learn

[@lobsterboywonder]

List of things that never happen until this video number 300.

[@DangericeDreams]

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

[@deathmourne1]

@OfficerElonMuskUTTP loser, troll elsewhere already

[@darkspyofficial]

Basically verbalase the movie with hazbin hotel in there

[@dangerousdays2052]

Legend has it Saberspark is still goonin to Cool World

[@MarquisLeary34]

THAT'S NOT GOONING! I mean, there might be a couple of folks who could edge the hell out of watching Holly Wood, but not that many.

[@CollegeDroputPowerpoints]

​@@MarquisLeary34It's a censorship thing

[@officerperez]

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.

[@drewt1717]

OMG I can't even imagine!! Yikes!! 😅😂😂

[@gracemaclaren3454]

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.

[@CommanderViviax]

That's too far. Kim Basinger was gorgeous in it. She was and is gorgeous. She's one of the most beautiful actresses.

[@ImaNerdANDaGeek]

So it wasn't because they completely mangled his script? The original was supposed to be about the half toon-half human abomination that was spawned from the union that couldn't find a place in the world and eventually became a killer.

[@DukeSkylocker]

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.

[@MarquisLeary34]

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.

[@helpfulplaylists3933]

​@@MarquisLeary34Heavy traffic is one of his better films.

[@MarquisLeary34]

@@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.

[@lexidarling]

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.

[@JupiterHorowitz]

I sometimes remember that animation movie with a villain rockstar type that looked like bowie, maybe he got mistaken lol

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

​@@JupiterHorowitz You mean "Rock and Rule" ?

[@bradythomas234]

And yet he didn't sing a song in SpongeBob smh

[@Talowolf]

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!"

[@termitesc.aardwolf3644]

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

[@benjaminrobinson3842]

I think this movie explains why it isn't: The subtleties of getting the animated and real-life characters looking like they belong in the same picture are really hard to get right. You can see this in the clips shown in the video: the 'toon character designs are interesting, but they look "flat" and unshaded, so the end result looks like a cartoon drawn over live-action film. Looking back on it, that "Roger Rabbit" was able to do pull off this trick -- with 1998 technology -- borders on the miraculous.

[@darkmyro]

Yeah the reason it's not done too much is technical issues, but it's also something I think they could do better now, but don't cause 2-D to be seen as antiquated or as not selling.

[@readwrecks]

Me too. And I don’t think you need to go as far as they did with Roger Rabbit to sell the world to an audience. (Obviously, what they did with 1988 technology was amazing, but we can’t all be Robert Zemeckis hot off of Back to the Future backed by Stephen Spielberg and Disney when making movies.) I mean just look at old Looney Toons and Disney shorts. You’ve got flat, cell -shaded characters laid on top of more detailed, painted, soft-shaded backgrounds and we all buy that the characters are in the environment.

[@jfess1911]

It was expensive to to do it well, largely due to precise hand animation. It is possible that tech will make it cost less.

[@MarquisLeary34]

@@benjaminrobinson3842 Coonskin also did it fairly well, not so much on it's aesthetic merit, but just from how written it was you could overlook it easily.

[@wstine79]

The movie that broke Ralph Bakshi.

[@jonathanhanna9459]

Ralph Breaks the Bakshi

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

It genuinley cant be THIS hard to get rid of bots

[@kingpancake8]

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

[@ChioGaru]

Very true, although only because Jim Carrey could pull it off.

[@mythcat1273]

Just like Jim Carrey

[@BugsyFoga]

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

[@comettamer]

Given that the studio trampled all over his original vision, set it ablaze and then pissed on the ashes, not too surprising he didn't want anything to do with the industry after. This was a zillion dollar kick in the nads for Ralph.

[@Chickengirl005]

Some years ago he crowdfunded a new animated film...can't remember if it was supposed to be a short film or feature-length. Last I heard about it, it kinda crashed and burned in some ways? Baskhi wasn't happy with the work being done by the hired animators, and ended up doing most of it himself. Bit it was all digitally animated. Saw some clips of it, and it was baaaad. Unless it was just an animatic.

[@TheCommenterDragon]

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.

[@heyyodude8637]

Ignore or report the bot lol

[@TheCommenterDragon]

@@heyyodude8637 I've been doing both. lol

[@velociraptor4you3291]

@@TheCommenterDragon A) Your theory on Frank Harris _is_ sound (👍), and B) I know what you mean about this _annoying AF_ bot here.

[@TheNeoVid]

I'm pretty sure you just put more thought into how the setting works than the writers did.

[@TheCommenterDragon]

@@TheNeoVid Well I don't know about that I mean...

[@Firegodzilla19]

Rip the shoe from Roger rabbit

[@espada7997]

May his sole rest in piece

[@keynanmartinez]

RIP 😭

[@yourfuturewaifu9061]

I still think bout that

[@catandrobbyflores]

That still scars me to this day.

[@jonplaud]

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.

[@theartfulmage]

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.

[@davidanttila9305]

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.

[@chromesthesia]

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! "

[@Acorn905]

The first rule of cool world is you dont talk about rule world

[@alvarorey9308]

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

[@CaptainCat101]

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

[@Mugruncher]

🎶 too many cooks 🎶

[@Mysticgamer]

And not a single one of them actually played the game or watched the cartoon

[@juliangandara9552]

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

[@MarquisLeary34]

Bakshi's MM had a lot of under the radar jokes. I thought Tattertown was supposed to always be a one and done though?

[@milqueto4st231]

Yeah Tattertown was a Christmas special. I don't think it was meant to be a series. And they aired it more than a few times.

[@ImaNerdANDaGeek]

a flower or flour? because one of those looks a lot more like cocaine than the other,

[@ClownHoundII]

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".

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

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

[@CollegeDroputPowerpoints]

Except it looks better than cool world

[@gabrielboorom2683]

Sadly true, though honestly it managed to be even more forgettable...

[@almightytallestred]

That's... hm... yeah, you're right

[@taylor101vanderploeg]

okay but holli wood awoke my sapphic spark as a child

[@ObossRocks]

😐 not something to be proud of taylor

[@don860]

​@@ObossRocksWhy?

[@benjaminrobinson3842]

Interestingly, Saber has mentioned he's making a video on this topic: How the 'toons you watched as a child might influence what you're into as you grow up. (Although I think actual *orientation* is more inborn than that.)

[@don860]

​@@benjaminrobinson3842I actually don't think it influences your preferences,it just helps you figure them out.

[@taylor101vanderploeg]

@@ObossRocks but…she’s hot

[@RacerAllYime400]

This is the movie for Verbalase

[@shenloken2]

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.

[@AGothNamedWednessday]

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

[@mattwales2734]

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.

[@JohnBrian-wm8fw]

Don Bluth was just second rate Disney, Richard Williams and Bakshi had the better experimentation.

[@comettamer]

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.

[@greenhowie]

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.

[@misterOrca4]

Or mayhe anotyer comparison Pokémon (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Palworld (Cool World)

[@SweetCrumblingDoll]

Cool World is so batshit crazy, and I love the film in its entirety - warts and all. I love the design, I love the weird out-of-place animations scattering the screen, and I love the premise of worlds smearing together. It's lunacy, and I embrace it.

[@Markimark151]

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.

[@JohnBrian-wm8fw]

Pretty much, Bakshi didn't want to submit to executive meddling but forced him otherwise.

[@Markimark151]

@@JohnBrian-wm8fw because he had no other choice of he wanted his movie to have funding.

[@dannyfox9262]

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.

[@walpoleandworcester]

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

[@viewbuster1979]

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.

[@Freyja_fenris]

Kid me thought that this was the future the Judge in Roger Rabbit was trying to make.

[@DaveAdams222]

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.

[@ichigokage]

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?!

[@davidknightx]

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.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

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

[@christiankolbesberger2980]

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

[@ECKohns]

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

[@artCharles]

Cool World isn't even rated R, it's rated PG-13. I doubt an R-Rating would have helped it at all, though, I feel like it'd have the same problems.

[@nehoymenoy3845]

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

[@PK_SNESS]

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

[@FanFav101]

It couldn't even do that

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

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.

[@CollegeDroputPowerpoints]

X to doubt

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

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

[@cmbaz1140]

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...

[@collinkeyser6827]

I Think It's Supposed To Be A Blend Of All Of The Above.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

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.

[@teddybearkiller5271]

OF COURSE!!!!! I thought everyone knew that!! It's just common knowledge.

[@CelticMagician]

"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.

[@Caldella]

At least Holli Would has more frames per second than Nora.

[@hardcorecarlo]

Hollywood movies doing Isekai before Isekai was cool

[@tascharahernandez5867]

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

[@LangkeeLongkee]

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

[@SleepyMook]

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

[@emilyofjane]

H-how. How would that even work.

[@SleepyMook]

@@emilyofjaneyou don’t need to think my friend, it already exists for some bizarre reason.

[@cheshirecat882]

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.

[@PleaseBringTide]

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

[@The_CeeJay]

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.

[@FineFictMen]

This movie was a weird acid trip without the acid.

[@BalthazarBullmann]

It’s a faaaaaamily picture!

[@BlackKoi321]

I understood that reference

[@gabrielboorom2683]

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.

[@kyzorend.tirrem4457]

14:58 THE GYATT-MOBILE!!! 🙏

[@obi-wanbenkenobi6623]

Yeah... And look at Jack pushing himself back totally out of sync with the car sprint... Seriously, problably at Gabe didn't interested at all working in this movie and he act like a broom stick most of the time. 😂

[@themysteriousspeeddemon]

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

[@bluespaceman7937]

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.

[@SeleneDethly]

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.

[@comettamer]

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

[@TV---kn2rl]

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

[@cherrybombcrewgaming4538]

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

[@sardonic7727]

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

[@Mr.Ian_20XX]

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

[@mayln163]

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

[@Swordsman1425]

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.

[@tc2865]

This wouldn't surprise me at all. There's a lot of people in the industry who dance around their opinions about Bakshi because of his renown, but I've known people who had worked for him and said their experiences were not good. There was some drama in the school I went to with him teaching there at one point as well, but I don't recall the details; only that it involved him trying to use the studio spaces/students there for personal projects or something.

[@Forysan]

@@tc2865 Every story I have read or heard about Bakshi from animation friends is that is he a complete a$$hole. It definitely explains how he and John K. are friends, even after the scandals.

[@JohnBrian-wm8fw]

@@Forysan Bakshi wouldn't have been remotely good if he wasn't a jerk, that's literally what made him unique compared to most other adult cartoon creators who mainly just made clones of the Simpsons/Family Guy

[@JohnBrian-wm8fw]

Sounds pretty based of him

[@CommanderViviax]

Maybe they did it to stop him throwing a fit and doing something stupid.

[@TheArcSet]

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.

[@VintageFenrir]

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

[@ryanmooney5758]

"We have Who Framed Roger Rabbit at home."

[@miffedcuttlefish6139]

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. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thisithis]

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

[@devonwilliams5738]

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

[@DonutGroove]

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

[@chueske]

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

[@lovelitchi]

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

[@HQbaracuda]

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

[@nthdgree5078]

That show was actually supposed to be about Roger Rabbit and Eddie Valiant, but there was some licensing issue with those characters so the show was repurposed as Bonkers and the cop partner guy.

[@ImTheHamSandwich]

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

[@milestrombley1466]

A hybrid doodle would look like Judge Doom. 😳

[@heathercalun4919]

Glad to see so many comments addressing what this movie was ORIGINALLY supposed to be.

[@MegaWolfsBlood]

The Doodlebob edit had me in tears 😂

[@Tropicality.]

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

[@donovanlocust1106]

If you're in the Mafia, then the answer is "sointantly."

[@alexandersotomurillo5795]

It's obviously the latter

[@retrostoryteller]

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

[@stalkermike]

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.

[@Patm-um8tg]

What’s even CRAZIER is the way the marketed this film: The week before they released in theaters, Ralph Bakashi allegedly got someone on the Hollywood Home Owners Association’s board to approve the placement of a 75 FOOT TALL cutout of Holli on the Hollywood Sign… However, 250 members of the L.A. City Council SUED Paramount and had it taken down due its vulgarity.

[@travispratt3571]

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

[@om58499]

What it mean?

[@MarquisLeary34]

It's lost all meaning, and lost it fast. Internet clout seekers just reduced it to regular masturbation.

[@MarquisLeary34]

@@om58499 Gooning actually means a form of sexual edging to the point where, once you climax, it last incredibly long and you end up making this incredibly goofy face while you ride the high. Now the internet has turned it into just another word for masturbation.

[@ILikedGooglePlus]

​@@MarquisLeary34 Facts.

[@birdmoney]

​@MarquisLeary34 Words change meaning. Masturbation is more common than edging

[@jullyasonhadora1519]

1:50 The fact that cool world was released 4 years after who framed Roger rabbit

[@davidking8744]

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!!! 💕

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

The original idea for *Cool World* would have made a much better movie, It's such a cool premise! It's a tragedy that corporate meddling got in the way.