Decent, though a disappointment after enjoying Bakshi's great run of Spider-Man cartoons from the 60's. The animation style and great soundtrack--dated in a fine way--make up for such a lousy and uninspired script. I'd much rather come across Shirley Clarke's similarly titled film from the 60's instead.

I'm not 100% positive but I think my parents took me to see this, when I was only 11 years old, and I'm pretty sure they were at the very least unconformable though this was only a month after they took me to see Batman Returns so... Anyway, seeing this again after 30 years, this feels like a movie made for people to watch while high because I was perplexed at what this was. It also had the stench of studio interference with a confusing plot at least early on and not helped by one-dimensional characters and hammy acting, with Brad Pitt seeming to regret taking the role even if it was early in his career. Kim Basinger as Holli Would was fun, to say the least. And Gabriel Byrne just look confused.

The scenes with animation and live action felt unpolished compared to something like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, however some of the real sets definitely had some interesting aesthetics to them. I don't know, this is one that some might appreciate but for myself I doubt I'd ever revisit. **2.5/5**

I finally saw this for the first time tonight, and wow! I'm quite impressed with the concept they got going with the alternate worlds: Cool World vs the Real World, and "doodles" vs "noids". It's definitely not one to watch when kids are around; this one is for the more mature audiences; just a bit more than Roger Rabbit, that's for sure. Interesting that I chose to watch this tonight because Mother's Day is just right around the corner, and the opening scene does start out with an accident with the lead character and his mother. The soundtrack fits the world as well; there's a lot of early Techno and electronic beats being played during the Cool World scenes, and even some Frank Sinatra later on to give each world its signicant contrast. Being an avid listener of Trance and electronic dance music myself, I recognized the Future Sound of London track, Papua New Guinea, as soon as I heard it. The plot isn't all that great, but I mostly enjoyed it for the hand-drawn animations in combination with the live-action real sets made to look 2D, connection between the characters, and just the atmosphere that Ralph Bakshi has created which has this very wild, toony, yet dark and weird look to it; very Tim Burton-like. There were some trippy-looking sequences towards the end too. Films like these come about once a decade. The latest one I think was Disney's Enchanted(?). It's rare to see films covering theme of the real world and animated "toon" world (that's hand-drawn, not CGI); especially ones with the rotoscoping technique which is used to make animated characters look life-like (as seen in early Disney films). As we roll to the credits music, I immediately recognized the voice of the late David Bowie and I was right. I would really love to own this film remastered on Blu-ray with many extras/bonus material if it were possible, knowing the current out-of-print DVD release fetches for a very high price online. In the meantime, I'm off to see more works from Ralph Bakshi on Blu-ray.