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This zany, eye-popping, knee-slapping landmark in combining animation with live-action ingeniously makes that uneasy combination itself (and the history of Hollywood) its subject. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based on classic L.A. private-eye movies (and, specifically, Chinatown), with detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) investigating a case involving adultery, blackmail, murder, and a fiendish plot to replace Los Angeles's once-famous Red Car public transportation system with the automobiles and freeways that would later make it the nation's smog capital. Of course, his sleuthing takes him back to the place he dreads: Toontown, the ghetto for cartoons that abuts Hollywood and that was the site of a tragic incident in Eddie's past. In addition to intermingling cartoon characters with live actors and locations, Roger Rabbit also brings together the greatest array of cartoon stars in the history of motion pictures, from a variety of studios (Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, Fleischer, Universal, and elsewhere): Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Droopy Dog, and more! And, of course, there's Maroon Cartoon's greatest star, Roger Rabbit (voice by Charles Fleischer), who suspects his ultracurvaceous wife, Jessica Rabbit (voice by Kathleen Turner: "I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way"), of infidelity. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Contact), not since the early Looney Tunes' "You Oughtta Be in Pictures" has there been anything like Roger Rabbit. --Jim Emerson
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Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye
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There can be a film where animation + live-action really work together, and this is one of them.Jul 08, 2010 Films that feature both live-action and animation generally haven't done so well (Cool World, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, etc.), all except two. From the best of my knowledge, Space Jam and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? have held up all these years. But before there was Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, there was Bob Hoskins and Roger Rabbit. This is a dark, silly, and extremely fun film with a whole lot of humor and a whole lot of (cartoonish) action. The special effects are especially top-notch, and none of it looks dated. The cartoon characters look authentic, as if they're actually there onscreen with the real actors. Christopher Lloyd is dead-on as Judge Doom, while Bob Hoskins delivers the goods as Eddie Valiant. Charles Fleischer has the right voice for Roger Rabbit, while Jessica Rabbit look nice as Roger's girlfriend (even though I think that she's not very attractive as a cartoon woman).
If you're looking for a deep, thought-provoking film, then this is not the perfect choice. What it is, however, is a wildly fun movie with lots of brilliant effects and perfectly-timed humor. I wouldn't necessarily say that it's for really small kids, but hey, it's good for the rest of us.
Grade: A-
who framed roger rabbitJul 07, 2010 i was looking for this movie for my grandson,i wasnt sure used was a good idea,(im akinda crazy when it comes to the condition of the case and if there are scratches,)anyway the case looked great,not one scratch+it plays great, not to mention im very happy that amazon is available because the prices are fair! and my grandson was very happy,which is really all i cared about.....thank-you! pamela le,
I stopped off at a hot dog stand before the screening of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," and ran into a couple of the other localMay 29, 2010 ...movie critics. They said they were going to the same screening. I asked them what they'd heard about the film. They said they were going to see it for the second time in two days. That's the kind of word of mouth money can't buy.
And "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is the kind of movie that gets made once in a blue moon, because it represents an immense challenge to the filmmakers: They have to make a good movie while inventing new technology at the same time.
Like "2001," "Close Encounters" and "E.T.," this movie is not only great entertainment but a breakthrough in craftsmanship - the first film to convincingly combine real actors and animated cartoon characters in the same space in the same time and make it look real.
I've never seen anything like it before. Roger Rabbit and his cartoon comrades cast real shadows. They shake the hands and grab the coats and rattle the teeth of real actors. They change size and dimension and perspective as they move through a scene, and the camera isn't locked down in one place to make it easy, either - the camera in this movie moves around like it's in a 1940s thriller - and the cartoon characters look three-dimensional and seem to be occupying real space.
In a way, what you feel when you see a movie like this is more than appreciation. It's gratitude. You know how easy it is to make dumb, no-brainer action movies, and how incredibly hard it is to make a movie like this, where every minute of screen time can take days or weeks of work by the animators. You're glad they went to the trouble.
The movie is a collaboration between Disney Studios and Steven Spielberg, the direction is by Robert ("Back to the Future") Zemeckis, and the animation is by Richard Williams. They made this a labor of love.
How did they do it? First, they plotted every scene, shot by shot, so that they knew where the live actors would be, and where the animated characters would be. Then they shot the live action, forcing actors such as Bob Hoskins, the star, to imagine himself in a world also inhabited by cartoons (or "Toons," as the movie calls them). Then they laboriously went through the movie frame by frame, drawing in the cartoon characters. This is not a computer job. Real, living animators did this by hand, and the effort shows in moments like the zowie zoom shots where the camera hurtles at Roger Rabbit and then careens away, with the rabbit changing size and perspective in every frame.
But I'm making the movie sound like homework for a film class.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last - a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera. The film takes place in Hollywood in 1947, in a world where humans and Toons exist side by side. The Toons in the movie include not only new characters such as Roger Rabbit and his wife, the improbably pneumatic Jessica, but also established cartoon stars such as Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Dumbo, Mickey Mouse and both of the great ducks, Donald and Daffy (they do an act together as a piano duo).
The Toons live in Toontown, a completely animated world where the climax of the movie takes place, but most of the time, they hang out in a version of Hollywood that looks like it was borrowed from a 1940s pri vate-eye movie. The plot revolves around the murder of a gag-gift mogul, and when Roger Rabbit is framed with the murder, private eye Hoskins gets caught in the middle of the action. As plots go, this one will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a hard-boiled '40s crime movie - except, of course, for the Toons.
The movie is funny, but it's more than funny, it's exhilarating. It opens with what looks like a standard studio cartoon (Mother goes shopping and leaves Roger Rabbit to baby-sit her little brat, who immediately starts causing trouble). This cartoon itself, seen apart from the movie, is a masterpiece; I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard at an animated short. But then, when a stunt goes wrong and the cartoon "baby" stalks off the set and lights a cigar and tells the human director to go to hell, we know we're in a new and special universe.
The movie is filled with throwaway gags, inside jokes, one-liners and little pokes at the screen images of its cartoon characters. It is also oddly convincing, not only because of the craft of the filmmakers but also because Hoskins and the other live actors have found the right note for their interaction with the Toons. Instead of overreacting or playing up their emotions cartoon-style, Hoskins and the others adopt a flat, realistic, matter-of-fact posture toward the Toons. They act as if they've been talking to animated rabbits for years.
One tricky question is raised by a movie like this: Is it for kids, or adults, or both? I think it's intended as universal entertainment, like "E.T." or "The Wizard of Oz," aimed at all audiences. But I have a sneaky hunch that adults will appreciate it even more than kids, because they'll have a better appreciation of how difficult it was to make, and how effortlessly it succeeds. Kids will like it, too - but instead of being amazed at how they got the rabbits in with the humans, they'll be wondering what adults are doing walking around inside a cartoon.
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Classic child hood memories!Mar 21, 2010 This is one of the greatist movies I have grew up on as a child and sadly movies like these don't exist anymore. The story is the most valuable part of this movie and the characters too.
The toon hater eddie valiant (bob hoskins) who has been set up in a crazy sceme for a greedy studio owner must help roger rabbit who has been set up for murder prove he's innocent and get the justice he deserves and to get the killer of the evil judge doom (christopher lloyed) to justice. This is one of the best family films even now and days it's still an epic classic that would want other youngsters watching also.
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