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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by 
>Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who 
>has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie.  Pitt plays 
>a human cop living in the cartoon world.  Kim Basinger also stars.  She 
>is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the 
>cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world. 
>But once there she threatens to destroy reality.  I don't think I've 
>watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992.  I don't recall 
>carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just 
>wanted to see it again.  I still didn't care much for it.  But I have a 
>very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi 
>was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird 
>doesn't work tone.

I've seen this once on tv and had no idea what they were trying to do. I
vaguely recall it got pulled from theaters quickly.

Do you own the Chris Rock movie?