01-26-2018, 01:04 AM
A few nights ago. I watched Cool World with a few online friends of mine. First time in years since my high-school days. Oh god, I wish I never did rewatched this movie, I remembered now why I disliked it in the first place. I'll give the short version of what happened behind the scenes. Ralph Bakshi pitches a live-action/animated horror movie to a studio, producer of said movie sees the success of Roger Rabbit and quickly rewrites the script of the movie without telling Ralph, Ralph finds out and he's pissed at the said producer, but in the end he has to make the movie because he's got a deadline to meet and it fails both the critics and doesn't make back its budget(Makes you wonder how the movie would've done money wise if the producer didn't get greedy from Disney and let Ralph had his way with the project).
The thing is, watching this movie sort of made me feel a little sorry for my negative remarks towards Roger(and you can blame some of my family members from quoting the hell out of the movie to the point where I could hold up at gunpoint to shut them up) at least Roger had a story. This movie's story tries too hard to be like Roger. Even has a few plot holes that cannot be explained in the movie. The only positives that I can give this movie are the following. The animation is more fluid and colorful compared to the movie its trying its hardest to be, the voice acting is very solid in terms of the characters they're being voiced by(you have Charles Adler, Candi Milo and Maurice Lalamarche to name a few, if you're familiar with cartoons you have heard all three of them at least once). Character designs and music. The music of this movie features a mixture of rock and jazz, the soundtrack is more interesting thing than the movie. Let alone the character designs of the movie feel like they're not living up to the potential that they have given with a badly written last minute script from a greedy Hollywood producer trying to get money from Disney. After this movie was done with my online friends, I did something I rarely did.
I had a couple of drinks just to get my mind off of this, while listening to jazz. Can I recommend this? Yes and no. Unless if you have a couple of friends and are willing to rip on this movie, you're better off avoiding this. This should be one of the examples on why you should NEVER let executives screw around with development of a movie. If alternate dimensions do exist, somewhere the movie Ralph wanted to make is out there. Not a butchered version of the film that Ralph tried to make, only for it to be a Roger Rabbit wannabe movie. You want a better Ralph Bakshi movie? I'd recommend watching Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, and Wizards. Moral kiddies? Stay independent when it comes to film making.
The thing is, watching this movie sort of made me feel a little sorry for my negative remarks towards Roger(and you can blame some of my family members from quoting the hell out of the movie to the point where I could hold up at gunpoint to shut them up) at least Roger had a story. This movie's story tries too hard to be like Roger. Even has a few plot holes that cannot be explained in the movie. The only positives that I can give this movie are the following. The animation is more fluid and colorful compared to the movie its trying its hardest to be, the voice acting is very solid in terms of the characters they're being voiced by(you have Charles Adler, Candi Milo and Maurice Lalamarche to name a few, if you're familiar with cartoons you have heard all three of them at least once). Character designs and music. The music of this movie features a mixture of rock and jazz, the soundtrack is more interesting thing than the movie. Let alone the character designs of the movie feel like they're not living up to the potential that they have given with a badly written last minute script from a greedy Hollywood producer trying to get money from Disney. After this movie was done with my online friends, I did something I rarely did.
I had a couple of drinks just to get my mind off of this, while listening to jazz. Can I recommend this? Yes and no. Unless if you have a couple of friends and are willing to rip on this movie, you're better off avoiding this. This should be one of the examples on why you should NEVER let executives screw around with development of a movie. If alternate dimensions do exist, somewhere the movie Ralph wanted to make is out there. Not a butchered version of the film that Ralph tried to make, only for it to be a Roger Rabbit wannabe movie. You want a better Ralph Bakshi movie? I'd recommend watching Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, and Wizards. Moral kiddies? Stay independent when it comes to film making.