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The Worst Film Ever

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

If you don't know anything about this, Ralph Bakshi wrote a script that was supposed to be a hard-R rated horror film that mixed animation and live action about a half-toon/half-human monstrosity that goes on a murderous rampage. However, when he came to the set first day of filming, he found that producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. had the script secretly rewritten behind his back to become some "fish out of water" crap that was watered down to PG-13 and forced him to use this script. The script has nothing that connects, nothing is motivated. Things just happen randomly. Often we'll suddenly follow unfamiliar cartoon characters we haven't seen before or since while they do any random thing Bakshi could think of that the producer would let him do. The world building makes no sense. Brad Pitt, playing a WW2 veteran, accidentally kills his mother in a motorcycle accident, and is suddenly brought into the cartoon world for almost no reason. Then, we meet the main character in prison 50 years later drawing that world. But how could the world exist if he hasn't created it yet? Not only that, at one point, they mention the main character killed someone, and no one ever mentions it again. At the end, he suddenly turns into a cartoon superhero out of nowhere. Pitt dies, but that suddenly means that he turns into a cartoon as well. Not even the animation's good. Most of the cartoons lack shading, so they never blend in, and they don't match any of the live action materials or lighting. Often, crappy animation will suddenly play out in the middle of a scene in an attempt to make drawn out scenes feel like something's happening. Needless to say, Bakshi proceeded to punch Frank Mancuso, Jr. in the face. Honestly, the fact that he didn't kill him for using a script like this is charity. It didn't make things any better when Kim Basinger decided that she wanted this to be the kind of movie she could show children she visited in hospitals, and forced them to tone down things even more. Bare in mind, this is a movie where she grinds her ass right against Frank Sinatra, Jr's genitals and becomes human after having sex with Gabriel Byrne. Bakshi's never directed any theatrical film since, and has only done a couple of animated shorts and a live-action Jared Leto-led TV movie. I don't blame him. Apparently he's trying to get another project done, even though as of writing he's 79. Good for him. Meanwhile, Mancuso later produced "I Know Who Killed Me" and won a Razzie for worst picture. Currently he's set to produce Bill and Ted 3. God help us.

When you're a fan of animation like I am, you can understand that not everyone digs watching cartoons.But when you are subjected to a movie like this-and let's pray there won't EVER be another-that is just so painfully terrible on every level: Script, Acting, Graphics, Etc., you start thinking of Bakshi as a Thief, for stealing two hours of your life that you can never get back!With a reported budget of $30 Mil (About $50 Mil in today's money), it is my understanding that ' C.W. ' had the biggest budget of any Backshi film. Well, it still did not help much...The Plot: Now Try & Stay With Me Here-A young Marine returning from WW2 dresses up in his nicest suit to take his mother out for a ride on his motorcycle, but gets run into, causing HER to die, & HIM to be...Transported into a Cartoon World???Fast-forward to present day (1992), where an artist has been released from prison after serving his sentence for killing someone, & he is... also transported into this same cartoon world???And so these two REAL guys end up in the same place, trying to prevent a hot nympho cartoon babe from crossing back over into the REAL world, because this will somehow cause armageddon (I guess like mixing Matter & Anti-Matter)???-THIS is the Premise???Yet even as convoluted as all this is just to start with, it MIGHT still be forgivable, IF the rest of the film actually had ANYTHING going for it whatsoever!But ALL it has are really ANNOYING characters, and really BAD art!Keep in mind that, ' C.W. ', came out years AFTER, ' Roger Rabbit ", whose success it was obviously trying to cash in on, and while of course Bakshi did not have access to Disney's Deep Pockets, he STILL did have $30 million!Yet the quality of the artwork in, ' C.W. ', is nevertheless SO fecal that it actually made me nostalgic for, ' Mary Poppins '. At least Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews appeared to be enjoying themselves-Unlike anyone involved in this monstrosity! Undoubtedly one of the Worst movies I have ever seen-Excruciatingly Awful in Every Way! It is too kind to give it even ONE Star!Did I mention that I did not care for this film? M

This, like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', has a mixture of live action and cartoons. Unlike Roger Rabbit, this is clearly not a show for children. The story line pretty much brings a man from our world, a convict actually who draws a cartoon comic book called "Cool World." In his loneliness, he created a rather interesting stripper girl who gets a life of her own kind of. Women are highly sexualized and some of the animations are really scandalized. Think Jessica Rabbit to the extreme although she is pretty much of a badass. I like how they created her as a girl that will take what she wants without any problems.I actually couldn't get into the show. It's pretty much stylized for the time it came out without really anything that would probably relate to this time. It was OK if you like this type of thing and did talk about love breaking boundaries but otherwise, it really didn't have much of a reason for being besides a trip down sexual cartoons.The animations are out side the box, going between good and really bad. It's pretty equal to the acting actually. Lots of characters are off and full of profanity. Everything is flat when it comes to the cartoon world, but it would be so much better if it was more like toon world from Roger Rabbit and just drew it all in. It would have felt so much more consistent if it was. The only character that was drawn rather well was Holli and Frank's girlfriend Lanet, the stripper girl. I did like the dark look and feel of the surreal cartoon world. Threwout the whole show, they never once actually showed the naked female figure although they hinted at it and showed what they called 'mating' (pretty much they have sex).When they get to a point where Animated characters interact with the real world characters, things get really choppy. When a real world character picks something up, many times, the hand seems to glide on the object and they can't really touch the animated characters without making it look like they are all in the characters head. I wish they would at least use a green screen for those parts. You can tell the animation was done after they filmed the live action stuff and it looks pretty much like crap in those areas talking in today's standard. I don't know enough to say if it was in their time as well.The voices could be so much better then this. I have seen much better stuff voices for this date and time. Now I am mostly talking about the animated characters.

As an animator, I have a thing for movies where real people and cartoons collide, so I decided to watch this film and after wards I thought it was a really good movie. First off, the animation is great. The characters are likable and fun to see on screen, and the whole idea of the movie is interesting. Though some of the acting is bad, and the plot isn't fully explained, and the ending is a little anti-climactic, the rest of the film makes up for it. I also enjoyed the sub-plot of the film, and Holli Would's dancing (thought it was obviously rotoscoped). But overall I really do believe this is an underrated film, because it contains the sexiest cartoon ever made: Holli Would. I'd recommend this film to a friend, and watch it the second time. It really is a film you'd remembered.