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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Animation, Fantasy; With: Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt

By Steve Daly

Steve Daly

Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

Brace your fingers for a remote-control workout if you rent director Ralph Bakshi's blatant ripoff of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Every time comic-book artist Jack Deebs (Byrne) gets zapped into an animated universe, incoherent action, decipherable only in slow motion, spills across the screen. But once Deebs pulls doodle-turned-human Holli Would (played by a cheerless Basinger) and a private dick (Brad Pitt) back to reality with him, you'll be bored enough with Cool World to reach for the fast-forward button — if you haven't already hit eject. D

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Posted Feb 26, 1993

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