Incredible World

***Incredible World*** is a 1992 American live-action/adult animated black comedy fantasy film directed by Ronald Jenkins and written by Carl Torrance. Starring Kate Winslet, Jimmy Davidson, and Billy Campbell, it tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, but has existed long before. In this world, he is seduced by one of the characters, a femme fatale who wants to become human.

Following the success of *Who Framed Flappy Gopher* (1988) and his own professional resurgence in television in the late 1980s, Jenkins conceived it as a live-action animated horror film. He brought the idea to Columbia Pictures, and became attached to direct; it was his first feature film in nearly a decade. The film was intended as his comeback. However, interference from producer Carl Mancuso Jr. led to an extensive rewrite from Michael Grais, Mark Victor, and an uncredited Larry Gross. As a result, relations between Bakshi, Mancuso, and the studio deteriorated, and the film had a highly tumultuous production.

## Plot

In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Carl Richardson returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. The two are involved in a traffic collision where Carl's mother dies. Afterwards, Carl is inadvertently transported to a cartoon-like alternate universe called the "Incredible World", where he restarts his life as a detective for Incredible World's local police department.

Forty-seven years later, underground cartoonist Jimmy Wallabee is being released from a ten-year prison sentence for the murder of a man he found in bed with his wife. During his sentence, he created a series of comics called Incredible World based on recurring visions of his, prominently featuring femme fatale Elise Watch. Elise's wish is to escape Incredible World and become a real person, which is possible when "doodles" (slang for Incredible World's inhabitants) have sexual intercourse with "noids" (slang for humans). However, Carl and his partner Saki, a doodle, keep a vigilant eye on Elise to ensure that the two dimensions do not intertwine.

Shortly after his release, Jimmy is transported into Incredible World and smuggled into a local nightclub by Elise and her henchmen. Carl aggressively confronts Jimmy, explaining that Incredible World has existed long before he created his series. He also warns him that Writing implements, such as his fountain pen, are lethal to the doodles; and to abstain from having sex with Elise , as her transforming into a noid can be dangerous for both dimensions. Despite these warnings, Carl himself is in love with another doodle, April, but limits himself to platonic advances. Jimmy succumbs to Elise's advances, and she makes love to him, which transforms her into a noid. Elise steals Jimmy's pen to entrap Saki, and leaves with Jimmy for the real world.

In the real world, Elise finds herself excited and overwhelmed experiencing real sensations. Due to her presence there, she and Jimmy spontaneously flicker in between noid and doodle forms. While contemplating their situation, Elise tells Jimmy about the "Spike of Power", an artifact which was the cause of Carl being transported into Incredible World and placed on top of the Union Plaza Hotel by a doodle who crossed into the real world, and admits she wants to use it to remain in her noid form permanently. When Jimmy displays skepticism about the idea, Elise abandons him to search for the spike on her own.

Carl learns what has happened and returns to the real world, where he reluctantly teams up with Jimmy in a bid to stop Elise despite hostility between one another. They arrive at the hotel as Elise begins to climb to the top of the tower. In his pursuit, Carl is pushed off the building to his death by Elise. As she seizes the spike, she releases a multitude of monstrous doodles into the real world, affecting her surroundings. The Spike also transforms Jimmy into a superhero-like doodle, and in the ensuing chaos, frees Saki from the pen.

Although enticed to ignore and begin a new life in the real world with Elise, Jimmy returns the Spike to its rightful place, sending him, Elise and the invading doodles back from whence the creatures came and restoring the balance between their dimensions. Saki brings Carl's body back to Incredible World, where he and April mourn his loss. However, as she finds out from Saki that Elise was briefly in her doodle form when she killed Carl, she explains that a noid killed by a doodle in the real world can be reborn as a doodle in Incredible World. Carl is transformed into a doodle, allowing him to continue his relationship with April. Jimmy and Elise, permanently in doodle form, are last seen as Jimmy begins planning their new life together, much to Elise's dismay.

## Cast

* Kate Winslet as Elise Watch, a femme fatale doodle who wishes to become a noid and live in the real world. Winslet also voices Elise in her doodle form.
* Jack Davidson as Jimmy Wallabee, an ex-convict cartoonist who is seemingly responsible for the creation of Incredible World.
* Billy Campbell as Carl Richardson, a former World War II veteran-turned-detective for Incredible World's police department who is intent on stopping Elise. Campbell also voices Carl in his doodle form.
* Daisy Proops as Jessica Keys, a neighbor of Jimmy.
* Stephanie Jones as Taylor Keys, Jessica's daughter.
* Jodi Croops as Rosie Richardson, Carl's mother.
* Jerry Reed as himself

### Voices

* Paul Rugg as Saki, a snail-like doodle and Carl's partner.
* Kenichi Ogata as Coiny, a diminutive primate-like doodle and one of Elise's "Goons".
	+ Ogata also voices the sentient door of Elise's apartment building (credited as "Elise's Door") and one of the doodle interrogators Carl meets when he first enters Incredible World (credited as "Interrogator No. 1")
* Christopher Sabat as Flash, a doodle criminal who works as an informant for Incredible World's police department.
* Kaneta Kimotsuki as Doctor Rusty, a kind, wise and eccentric doodle scientist who inadvertently transported Carl to Incredible World through his usage of the Spike of Power.
	+ Kimotsuki also voices Smash, a lanky doodle and one of Elise's "Goons"; Jimmy in his doodle form (credited as "Super Jimmy"); a drunk patron at the Out Club (credited as "Drunk Bar Patron"); and one of the doodle interrogators Carl meets when he first enters Incredible World (credited as "Interrogator No. 2")
* Candi Milo as April, Carl's doodle love interest.
	+ Milo also voices Bob, a cross-dressing doodle and one of Elise 's "Goons", and various other doodles.
* Gregory Snegoff as Bash, a massive bestial doodle and one of Elise 's "Goons".
* Patrick Pinney as Chico, a legless doodle who works as a bouncer at the Slash Club and literally bounces.
* Jenine Jennings as Craps Bunny, a rabbit-like doodle who plays craps with the Goons.