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Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt, Janni Brenn, William Frankfather
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cool World
    The story of Cool World is a bit strange; the movie is about a cartoon artist who falls into the world of two-dimensional characters that he had created. This movie is lively mix of animation and live-action directed by Ralph Bakshi's. This movie covers lot of Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Animation. The movie is rated PG-13. The filming locations are Las Vegas, Nevada, USA and Los Angeles, California, USA.

    The movie is about two humans who encounter the Cool World, is a parallel universe and in that universe cartoons actually exist. Holli Would (Kim Basinger) is an ambitious animated bombshell wants to escape into three-dimensional reality. Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) is the comic book artist who created Holli and Detective Frank Harris (Brad Pitt), the Cool World cop comes out to the real world. All animated cartoon breaks loose of all shapes and sizes march into the city of Las Vegas.

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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%



**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - fantasy story on present day Earth
Explore/1st contact Yes
Explore plotlet: - exploring CUTESY fantasy world
If a cartoon... - part real, part animated

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive
Sense of humor? - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - general circumstances

Setting
Big cities? Yes
In virtual reality? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Tone of movie - upbeat
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
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