I have rarely seen a title as dorky or lame as Cool World. But I thought, it could be a joke. It could be good. But don't let the title fool you, Cool World is really just dorky and lame. And amazingly, impressivly, surprisingly "Random"! Without even the faintest of strings holding the project together, this threadbare movie falls apart like a tee-shirt from Wal-Mart.
The boring introduction credits foreshadow this, but the first scenes don't. The first arc is actually pretty good, even if it's a little dark and sad. But it seems like the movie will have substance. Then you enter the "Cool World" which, if you consider that this movie was made four years after Who Framed Roger Rabbit, looks really flat. But don't do that because you may notice a lot of things which appear to be knocked off of that superior film. The visual effects are bad enough for me to believe that it was done on purpose as some sort of commentary on the ability of Hollywood to make a mimetic movie. But if it is trying to say anything, if it has any purpose, it doesn't come though. It is drowned in its own poor production. Everything in this movie is contrived and feels it. Especially the ending.
The visual style is a as apparently random as the plot; it is a little nice to see so many styles interacting at the same time, but it was not done very well and just feels cluttered. Especially with the random cartoons chasing around in the foreground.
This was Rough Draft Studio's rough draft movie. It has little in common with The Simpson's Movie, Ferngully, or Bevis and Butthead. There may have been something behind this movie, but it doesn't shine though and is lost in the baseless plot devices.
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