Watching this movie numerous times through the years does bring to notice a lot of the flaws that should have been seen during post production, or more helpful, the actual production process of this film. To name a few: animation for background characters stop and disappear at the mid point of the screen, some characters are only sketched in (although I'm sure this was made to look deliberate, though most likely was not).. in some of the human interactions with the animated characters, like the scene where Harris visits Holli's house at a beginning point in the film (after he gets his foot stuck in the cardboard door upon entrance- a scene which was never edited, cut or reshot) you can see HE stays still a certain point in the room, the camera pans back, while her cell walks away only a foot or two, and is suddenly across the room...the proportions are all wrong...or the scene where Jack is touching Holli's face saying "I drew you, I made you...maybe I can erase you", you can tell he was directed as *you are touching her face with your hand* even though, she moves away while his hand stays in place... There were also many things cut, plot and character details that could have made this film more (if even possible) personally redeeming. Why not concentrate on a beginning scene with Jack finding his wife in bed with another man, giving example to the extremes of his distemperment and rage to SHOW how he got to prison...Or how when he is in prison, sketching, how he just sort of says a line like "without you I'd never have made it"...why not show the true co dependance he has with his own creations...or to explain the time cycle repetion attempt at a twist thing with greater care or density? It was imbalanced, very dissapointing...but for what its worth, has accumulated a great deal of cult success, although many people may want to forget about what a bomb this film was, need to think about what they were TRYING to accomplish here... there are unforgivable flaws...but get really loaded and you've got yourself an evening, right...
Review of Cool World
