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While this wasn’t the first film to use live people with animation, it was probably the first to let the camera move around the characters as if a 2-D character had three-dimensional features within any given space. Now watching it as an adult I appreciate the intricate pre-CGI special effects wizardry on display. I just took it that cartoons were real and cohabited with humans. When I was a kid watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit I wasn’t so concerned about how seamless the visuals were. Even partially animated - it holds its own in the genre largely thanks to the late great Bob Hoskins delivering a memorable hardboiled gumshoe. If this wasn’t a partially-animated mostly kid-friendly film it’d make an excellent triple feature with L.A.
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We have a fully-fledged classic noir detective story complete with a dizzyingly intricate scheme, murder, a diabolical villain played by the always terrific Christopher Lloyd, and a dazzling Femme Fatale with Jessica Rabbit voiced to perfection by Kathleen Turner. While Zemeckis can get a little distracted with the technology at his disposal at the cost of story, that’s not the case here. Zemeckis has always been into pushing visual effects boundaries and animation - here he got to do both and the results are spectacular.
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At the same time, like many Zemeckis movies, Who Framed Roger Rabbitfeels like it was made to entertain himself. That’s not the low bar Zemeckis and writers were aiming at. Not that the humor only offers jokes adults would get, but if a kid laughs it feels more incidental.
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This was a movie that was sold to audiences as kid-friendly - but I feel 30-odd-some years later was mostly meant for adults. It’s one of the few movies that I loved as a kid that got better as I got older because I got the advanced humor and also appreciated the genres it was paying tribute to. Even with some overly sexualized characters, this movie is still a gas. As an adult, now I kinda get it, Baby Herman's slapping a woman's behind and Jessica Rabbit's large. We couldn’t figure out why she wanted to get us out of there when the movie was just getting going. I remember that viewing only because it was the one time my mom tried to get me and my sister out of the theater but was shushed back into her seat. I’m not exactly sure when or where it all started but I’m willing to wager seeing Who Framed Roger Rabbit when I was all of five years old in the old split-theater Ann Arbor 1&2. I’ve had a long love for detective stories. Unfortunately for both of them, Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) and his murderous toon minions are on their heels with a diabolical plot that could destroy all of Toontown and the movies as we know them! After earning a fast hundred to get some gossip shots, Valiant is now the only guy able to help the most famous cartoon of all, Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer) beat a murder rap. One drink at a time, he picks away at his once-prominent career refusing to take any Toon jobs trading for easy cash. After the death of his brother, Eddie Valiant the once-great hero P.I.