Talk:Cool World/GA1

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GA Reassessment[edit]

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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force, all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA. I have determined that this article needs some upkeep to maintain its status.

As much as I like short and succinct plot summaries, the plot synopsis for Cool World runs too short, leaving out key details that make it comprehensible.
- "In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) is transported to a traditionally-animated realm" - traditionally animated? That doesn't make a lick of sense for the plot. Better to just say animated.
- "Forty seven years later, detained cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) creates a comic strip named "Cool World" along with femme fatale Holli Would (voiced by Kim Basinger)." How does a cartoon character make the comic strip? It's sorta' kinda' explained later, but here it makes no sense.
- "informing him that Cool World has existed long before Jack created the comic series (apparently Holli told him about through the drawings—Jack believed it was all his imagination) and warns him that "noids", humans from the real world, are not allowed to have sex with "doodles", the inhabitants of the Cool World. Without Frank's knowledge, Holli brings Jack back into the Cool World and the two have sex, causing Holli to transform into a noid (now played physically by Basinger)." First off "(apparently Holli told him about through the drawings—Jack believed it was all his imagination)" is missing a word or two to make it grammatically correct. Secondly, "Without Frank's knowledge, Holli brings Jack back"... we never learned he left in the first place.
- "...he temporarily leaves detective duties to his assistant Nails (voiced by Charles Adler), who is soon informed that Jack and Holli have had sex and are now preparing to leave for the real world. He weakly attempts to stop them, but is quickly defeated by Holli, who goes on to enter the real world with Jack. Due to these actions, the interdimensional barrier between the real world and the Cool World is damaged, causing Jack and Holli to sporadically transform into clown-like doodles. Frank discovers that Nails has been done away with and decides to venture into the real world to pursue Jack and Holli." Is Nails the one who "weakly attempts to stop them"? What does "defeated" mean in this context? Killed?
- "Fighting off an increasing number of doodles as a superhero doodle, Jack returns the Spike of Power to its place, trapping him, Holli and the rest of the doodles in Cool World." Why the change of heart in replacing the spike?
~~"The cover of the first issue featured an original painting by Ralph Bakshi." - unsourced.~~
The final major issue is one of coverage. There is only one review of the film, and then a RottenTomatoes aggregate score; given that RT did not exist when the film was created, using it as a source for overall critical reception is misleading. Secondly, there's no mention of its box office takes or gross. Critical and commercial reception needs to be added so that the article is broad in coverage as required of a GA.

I am putting the article on hold for a week pending improvements. Please keep me appraised of progress on this page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned up the plot summary and removed the unsourced statement. Will look at the reviews later. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 18:21, 22 November 2009 (UTC))[reply]
- Added additional reviews and commentary. I do not believe that there is any verifiable information on the film's gross. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 19:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC))[reply]
As sufficient work has been done to the article, I am passing the article as swept. For information on box office figures, you might need to investigate some print archives or trade journals of the period. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 23:21, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.