
Cool World
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to lurid live-action animation hybrids, deliberately unruly fantasy worlds, and adult cartoon surrealism over coherent storytelling.
- Tone
- surreal, campy, darkly comic
- Payoff
- amusement, wonder
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- desire, creation, reality versus fantasy, obsession, transformation
- Setting
- contemporary, neon casino city and chaotic animated alternate dimension