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2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** Creator/BradPitt and Creator/KimBasinger respectively play Frank Harris and Holli Would in their doodle and noid forms.
4	** Joey Camen voices the first interrogator, Slash and Holli's door.
5	** Creator/MauriceLaMarche voices the second interrogator, Mash, Jack's super form and Dr. Vincent Whiskers.
6	** Creator/CandiMilo plays Bob and Lonette.
7	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14,110,589.
8	* BreakawayPopHit: Despite the film bombing at the box office and being critically maligned, "Disappointed" by Music/{{Electronic}} became a Top 10 hit on the Alternative Airplay and dance charts in the US (though missing the mainline Hot 100), reaching No. 6 on the UK Singles chart as well.
9	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/RalphBakshi originally wanted Creator/BradPitt to play Jack. Brad said he wanted the same, but Paramount Pictures disagreed and he was instead cast as Frank.
10	* CreatorBacklash: David Kcenich, who worked on the film as an effects assistant animator, doesn't think too highly of the film, and blames the film's failure on its TroubledProduction.
11	-->"I actually worked on it. Sure it was bad and had a ton of problems with the story but there are so many behind the scene problems that lead to it being so bad. Despite all the negative comments about Ralph Bakshi he gave a lot of artists their first break into an industry that was in a state of flux in the 90's. There were story issues and so many changes and budget problems that it's a surprising it even got released. There was so much really good animation cut out from the original version after the rating change. The working conditions were horrible. I actually worked in a closet for most of the film. Half the crew was gone when the whole Super Hero guy was added to the ending. Sure Ralph had issues and studio conflicts but he gave an unemployed artist a job when he was about to give up his dream of being an animator. Sure it was difficult explaining the plot to my family and I did tell them not to see it but before you tear into a film just remember there might be some behind the scene shit that lead to it being the way it is. It is hard to sit through I agree but there is some really good animation in it. It's really bad but it isn't the worst."
12	* CreatorKiller:
13	** Creator/RalphBakshi had already moved onto television and only returned to filmmaking to do this film. Its failure and TroubledProduction simply reiterated his desire to stay out of movies for twenty more years before returning to his indie roots with the crowd-funded ''WesternAnimation/TheLastDaysOfConeyIsland.''
14	** Michael Grais and Mark Victor secretly rewrote the film on Mancuso Jr.'s orders, without Bakshi's input. The end result - both the nature of the film itself and the fallout with the Writer's Guild over essentially scabbing - effectively obliterated their writing careers entirely (the next time they got a writing credit was on the 2015 remake of ''Poltergeist'', and that was for their original script). They also did not work on another film until the end of the decade.
15	* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie was intended to be an erotic horror flick about a cartoonist who had sex with a sexy cartoon woman he created named [[ShoutOut Debbie Dallas]] and is now the father of a half-real, half-cartoon girl [[HalfBreedDiscrimination who considers herself a freak]] and goes on a rampage against the man who spawned her. However, Frank Mancuso Jr. had spent most of TheEighties producing in some form or another on almost all of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' movies that were made during that time, other horror flicks like ''Film/AprilFoolsDay'' and ''Film/BodyParts'', as well as horror-themed shows like ''Friday's Curse aka Friday the 13th: The Series'', and ''Series/TheWarOfTheWorlds1988'', so he was understandably tired of doing horror films and wanted to do something different. Creator/KimBasinger was also uninterested in doing a horror movie and was much more intrigued with the idea of doing a film that could be shown to sick children in hospitals and was put off by how adult the original script was, so as filming went on the movie was changed to be more family-friendly (though it really doesn't come off that way) and into the complete and total bomb we know it as. [[GoneHorriblyRight The film hurt both of their careers as a result.]]
16	* FakeAmerican: Walkinstown, Dublin-born Irish actor Creator/GabrielByrne as the American Jack.
17	* FollowTheLeader: Followed on the success of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Another comedy/crime parody film centering around live-action characters entering a world of cartoons.
18	* GenreKiller: Though there were a few other PG-13 rated animated features in the interim (most of which were based on TV shows, such as ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''), this film put a severe halter on wide-release animated features for adults until ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', reinforcing the AnimationAgeGhetto for over two decades.
19	* HostilityOnTheSet: Needless to say, Ralph wasn't very happy with the revision of the script that ''he'' wrote, which led to a heated argument between him and Mancuso Jr. (though writer Michael Grais denied to both ''Podcast/HowDidThisGetMade'' and Slashfilm the widespread story that Bakshi punched Mancuso in the face)
20	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: This was originally intended to be an erotic horror film, but [[ExecutiveMeddling Frank Mancuso Jr.]] didn't want to make a horror movie, and [[WagTheDirector Kim Basinger]] wanted something more family-friendly.
21	* MoneyDearBoy: Ralph Bakshi decided to return to the film business for financial reasons (though he actually liked the idea of an "animated horror film" of the original pitch, before ExecutiveMeddling disfigured it beyond recognition):
22	-->[[https://web.archive.org/web/20160914100047/http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=COOL%20WORLD%20(MOVIE)&title2=&reviewer=JAMIE%20DIAMOND&pdate=&v_id= "I made 1,500 bucks in 10 years of painting; I thought it would be nice to pick up a piece of change. So I called my lawyer, who was still speaking to me because no one ever leaves Hollywood, and asked him where I should go to sell a movie."]]
23	* NoDubForYou: In Japan, the film was released on DVD subtitled-only.
24	* PermanentPlaceholder: Originally, Creator/CandiMilo wasn't supposed to be the voice of Lonette. She was only there as a line-feeder for the other actors, but she was put in after the producers saw that she was great with doing voiceovers and acting.
25	* PlayingAgainstType: It was Ralph Bakshi's only attempt at a big-budget Hollywood film.
26	* StarDerailingRole: ''Cool World'' was of five films in the early '90s (the others being ''Film/TheMarryingMan'', ''Final Analysis'', ''The Real [=McCoy=]'', and ''Film/TheGetaway'') that ended Creator/KimBasinger's status as an A-list actress after a great stint in the '80s. Getting sued into bankruptcy for backing out of ''Film/BoxingHelena'' ensured that she wouldn't get another role until ''Film/LAConfidential''.
27	* TroubledProduction: The script was rewritten behind Ralph Bakshi's back (producer Frank Mancuso Jr. delivered him the new screenplay just as production was ready to begin), Creator/KimBasinger ordered further changes, and the animators were given sort of carte blanche given Bakshi ultimately had no idea on what the film was going to be.
28	* WagTheDirector: Mancuso Jr. is responsible for the movie being toned down to a PG-13 knock-off of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', as he didn't like the original idea for an R-rated animated horror film since he'd spent the entire previous decade producing horror films (most notable the ''Friday the 13th'' series). He wanted to do something different and had a completely new screenplay written. It was Frank who insisted on casting Creator/KimBasinger, who wanted to make a movie that she could show in hospitals to sick children. Bakshi responded to that with, "Kim, that's real nice, but I'm the wrong person for that."
29	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
30	** The original horror concept in which Jack has sex with Holli Would - who was actually named Debbie Dallas, after the infamous 1970s porno, ''Debbie Does Dallas'' - and Holli has a half-cartoon, half-real daughter who sees herself as a freak and plots to kill her parents. Whether or not it would have been actually better is up for debate, though fans agree it would have been at least been more unique than the final movie.
31	** Creator/RalphBakshi originally wanted Creator/DrewBarrymore for Holli Would.
32	** [[http://flipanimation.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-meeting-with-bakshi-or-goodbye-cool.html At one point]], Creator/WillemDafoe was originally going to play Jack.
33	** The film originally contained a locale called "Sweet Place", where the more family-friendly, Disney-esque toons lived, that played the trope straight. The only remaining references to it are one of Harris' nicknames for Holli and a brief scene in the comic adaptation.

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