Who Framed Roger Rabbit Reviews

Roger rabbit es una pelicula con un muy creativo apartado tecnico, que juega con cliches de cartoons antiguos y los mezcla con una aventura detectivesca  clasica de forma muy organica ,dando como resultado algo muy extrevagante y atipico, con sutlies toques de humor adulto pero sin dejar de lado el hecho de que es una comedia para toda la familia, el enigma es sorpresivamente decente para tener literalmente caricaturas de personajes, el protagonista es bueno y carismatico teniendo hasta un pequeño desarollo pero sin llegar a ser profundo, el villlano es mediocre y unidimensional la pelicula tambien  tiene bastantes conveniencias en la ultima parte y el giro de que el fuera la caricatura que mato a su hermano termina resultando muy indiferente y forzado, al final termina siendo bastante simple pero muy divertida de ver 7/10

As you may have noticed, as a kid, I kind of missed on the whole frenzy around 'Back to the Future' but I sure didn't miss a thing about this flick. Indeed, I was just a little bit older than my own daughter when I watched it in the theater and I just loved the damned thing. Basically, Robert Zemeckis tried to make a convincing mix of animation and live-action, at the time, it was quite revolutionary and, at my young age, I thought the whole thing was just mind-blowing. Back then, I even had a book about this movie collecting all the stickers. Basically, I was a huge fan. Of course, later in my life, I had to re-watch it with my kids (that's the great thing when you get some kids of your own, you get an excuse to watch again all those childhood classics with them) and I was still impressed by the damned thing. I must admit it, the whole detective story was maybe not really original after all, but it was still really entertaining and, visually speaking, after all these years, it remains a great technical achievement. Above all, it is a really fun flick and possibly the best thing Zemeckis has made in his whole career.

Classic atmospheric film with amazing cinematography, brilliant sound effects, and believable visual effects. Who could not forget the memorable villain played by Christopher Lloyd?

'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is a smart, funny classic with wonderful animation, good acting and a clever story

It is 1947, there are cartoons known as "toons" which involves a rabbit Roger married to (some sort of) a sex symbol with high breasts called Jessica Rabbit

Eddie Valiant goes to Toontown where all the toons live in the last 30 minutes, just imagine if the 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' world were entirely animated (except for the live action people)

who framed roger rabbit is the best movie i have ever seen and i wish that one day i could meet him

This film is a quite good adventure for the whole family to enjoy. It had that funny story and cleverly written story too. It was the start of Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. This film makes me laugh because Roger Rabbits character reminds me a lot like Daffy Ducks because they are both trouble makers but nice animals though, they are both heroic in a clumsy way, they are quite ridiculous characters but are just pure entertainment. The story in general is clumsy and quite silly but it is just family entertainment nothing more. It is a very witty story. It brings together all sorts of different types of characters. This film became big when it first came out because nobody has ever seen a film where there are real life people and animations that appear at the same time on the same film. This was like a classic blockbuster in the 1980s and early 1990s. This film lost its well known status until Space Jam was released in 1996. This film was extremely weird and really bizarre when it came out.


I did like Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant. Bob Hoskins truly makes Eddie like a grumpy old man who just wants to do his job nothing more. Eddie Valiant is a man who used to work with toons and doesnt like them anymore but until he is entwined with Roger Rabbit and the murder of Marvin Acme. When Roger confronts Eddie and asks for help, Eddie is torn because he doesnt want any trouble with the toons but he doesnt want anything to do with them either. Now he has no choice. He became a toon hater up until a toon hero who saved Roger and his wife Jessica. I thought the direction was descent with the clever scenes and the good actions that were used on each of the characters.


I love Robert Zemeckis work but I have to say that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is my least favourite from Zemeckis. I personally think that this film sort of set a level of comic book films even though this isnt a comic book. I cant explain why but I can just see it. I found the script quite lame to be honest because I found that most of the scenes were far too long and there were quite a lot of lame words involved in this film.


As I said this is my least favourite Zemeckis film because it is the weakest out of all of the films he has done. I thought this film was good but could have been a bit better. Also, it is an overrated family film. I think the main thing that disappointed me about it was it was just quite a weak story and poor characters. Apart from that, it was a good family film.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit should have a serious case of multiple personality disorder given the amount of ground it tries to cover: a zany madcap comedy, an animated film and a film noir with a broken man at its center. Somehow, through sheer movie magic I imagine, it all comes together and creates a great film. And it has aged surprisingly well.

Nowadays everything would be done with just computers, maybe a few sequences here and there would have been done in the hand-drawn mode, and the seams would have been incredibly obvious. Not all modern films suffer from this, but I’ve noticed a lot of them that mistake being able to program it as being able to make it look believable and complete the illusion. The talking dragon at the end of Enchanted screams to mind. Roger Rabbit painstakingly drew in the characters. And they have a real weight, dimension and scope to them. They interact and create action with real world objects. This, I believe, helps prove that while computers can help create great and wondrous things, they can’t replace the magic and realism that comes with the artistry of doing something the hard way. A real set, real animatronics, a real puppet will always be better than the plug-and-chug computer fantasia we’re immersed in right now. There are excepts, but, by and large, doing something the hard way pays off more.

And now for the plot, for the film isn’t simply a gorgeous exercise in visual treats, although it is very much that. Like film noir giant Chinatown, Roger Rabbit uses real Los Angeles history to tell its story. Yes, the red cars really were bought up and closed down, but this had more to do with automobiles being more attractive than public transportation. But there is such a thing as the Great American streetcar scandal, which is more than parallel to the events depicted in the film in numerous ways if not the exact shape and form. And, yes, the California freeway system wasn’t built until the 1950s, but the water and power issues in Chinatown were from different eras than the one presented in the film and no one complains about it harming the overall impact there.

Naturally, the fantasy takes off and creates an alternate world parallel to our own. But what is it really about? Like all great film noir a simple crime that spirals deeper into a city’s under-belly than anyone could imagine. Marvin Acme has been killed, his will is missing, and Roger Rabbit is the only suspect. Our grizzled, frequently drunk and nasty former P.I. must sidestep his ‘toon bigotry and prove that Roger is innocent. Oh, what laughs do we have along the way!

This movie came out when I was a one-year-old, and I feel like I have been watching it all of my life for numerous reasons. As a child I loved the animation. I loved to see the Disney and Warner Brothers characters interacting like some epic crossover that can only happen in the imaginations of young children. The older the got the more I loved it for its adult humor. And now I love it for its dark film noir aspects. Truly, this is great family entertainment. This is from back in the days when family entertainment offered something for everyone and didn’t rely on celebrity voices, ADHD pop culture references, bratty humor and recycled storylines. (I’m looking directly at you Dreamworks!) Who Framed Roger Rabbit is just a great movie.

by Dane Youssef


Well... what is there?


Gee... What can I say?


What can be said that hasn't been said a zillion times about this movie before? By film critics, film buffs, the other user posters on IMDb and every other person who saw this one?


But you know what? I'm not here to really promote this movie, or analyze it... I'm here to write my love letter for it. We're all here to share our movie-going experiences, aren't we? Well, fuck it, here's mine.


I still remember being a little prepubescent boy sitting in the theater watching this movie, totally amazed and astounded by what I saw. Seeing this wacky cartoons going through a routine Tom-and-Jerry-type episode... and then... it was amazing how these movie actually tricked you, convinced you to believe that human and cartoons can exist in the same universe and dimension of reality.


There are many a great pleasures and moments in this movie, one of them is the duet at a "toon" night club called "The Ink & Paint Club" where Eddie goes to get information about Roger's wife, and the opening act is a dueling duet on the piano featuring two great legends, Daffy Duck and Donald Duck (I doubt there's any biological relation there) together at last. Why did it take so long for these two to get together? Well, they are rival entertainers for rival studios, so...


But of course, the dueling duet ends in an all-out war. Come on, we both know the hatchet wasn't going to stay buried very long.


The whole movie is worth renting just to see the two great legends, Daffy and Donald, put their differences aside for one memorable dueling piano duet ALONE.


"Roger Rabbit" pioneered not only animation and film-making style, but acting, writing, directing and a meshing together of different genres.


Imagination, luck, brilliance, skill... it's all been blended so perfectly here... just like the animation and live-action.

Funny, sharp, satirical, smart, thrilling, skillful, bright, bold, hard-boiled, colorful... at even at times, a little scary.


It one three Oscars, not to mention an Honorary Award for it's Technical Advancements.


Hell, it deserved every single Oscar it got! And a few it didn't. It should've won every single Oscar that year. Maybe some from others...


God, you know, I still remember finding my little Rescue Ranger toy in my pocket and running in back-and-forth through my fingers... I remember being very careful not to loose it as I watched this. And it was hard, damn it, all of what was going up there on the screen.


There's the best of the everything here. Everyone should see it, pure and simple. It's a movie... for pretty much everybody. A masterpiece in more ways than one.


So help me God, I cannot think of a better actor for the role of the classic, hard-boiled, rock-bottom, not-too-smooth P.I. than Bob Hoskins. I don't think he's ever played a better role in his whole life. He seems to be a strange collision of Sam Spade and W.C. Fields, in some strange way.


Christopher Lloyd proves yet again (as he does in all his roles) that he's one of the most underrated actors in the business. He's known for playing the bizarre, the crazy, the wired. But his ability to play villains, particularly more sedate and low-key ones, is overlooked so much, it's grounds for a discrimination lawsuit.


Kathleen Turner is damn perfect as Roger's Mrs; especially considering that all she does here is a voice.


"Roger Rabbit" pioneered not only animation and film-making style, but acting, writing, directing and a meshing together of different genres. Literature purists and scholars (yes, I mean geeks) will note that this movie is adapted from a novel by Gary K. Wolf, who specializes in science-fiction.


For those of you who are enamored with this movie and just learning this, are actively considering dropping this review right this instant and running to your nearest library and bookstore to pick up a copy to read as an addition to the movie or just out of curiosity, I should warn you that the movie is completely unfaithful to the novel.


Oh, both are clever and well-written spoofs of the whole "hard-boiled private-detective mystery noir genre," but the two are so completely different, in writing-style, character dialouge, plot, theme, even ending, you wonder why they even bothered to get Wolf's permission and pay him a royalty. Gee, usually these Hollywood types are a little more snaky and know how to exploit all these loopholes.


You've no doubt heard the old saying, "You can't please everyone, so don't even bother." Because when you try, you wind up ultimately pleasing no one. Least of all, yourself. It's strange, this movie seems like an exception to that one little rule. I mean, I know there's an exception to every rule, but this is one you're sure is completely iron-clad. This is a movie for everyone. This is a movie that will please everyone. And you know what else? It never got the credit for that. Think about what a big train-wreck this movie could have been. How many things could have gone wrong.


How many years Disney and Warner have been at war, all this time, money for a experiment that could have gone worse than than the killer bees and the atomic bomb. And yet, glory be, it didn't. We all live for days like this, filmmakers, film critics... and film lovers.


The best part? After it was all over... Roger and Baby Herman went on to star in several of their own cartoon shorts before the movie for real ("Dick Tracy" and "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids").


Good for them.


--A Life-Long Fan of a good Roger Rabbit & Baby Herman short, Dane Youssef


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