1988 Directed by Robert Zemeckis
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Bob Hoskins Christopher Lloyd Joanna Cassidy Charles Fleischer Kathleen Turner Stubby Kaye Alan Tilvern Richard LeParmentier Lou Hirsch Betsy Brantley Mel Blanc Mae Questel Frank Sinatra Richard Williams Wayne Allwine Frank Welker Mickie McGowan Jack Angel Nancy Cartwright June Foray Joel Silver Amy Irving
It is amazing to think it has been 25 years since Who Framed Roger Rabbit first burst onto cinema screens, not only because I still have vivid memories of seeing the film as a child but because it hasn’t aged a day in all that time. Robert Zemeckis’ film is often remembered for its groundbreaking technical achievements and the novelty of seeing Disney characters rubbing shoulders with classic Warner Bros. toons, yet the real reason it has endured is simply because it is a great story brilliantly told. Technical wizardry and novelty gimmicks age quickly; great storytelling is timeless.
As concepts go Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a killer - set in a world where humans and much loved animated…
I've always struggled keeping an all time favorite film. It was something I realized around the time I started getting into the more mature side of film talk/viewing that, for awhile, I didn't really think about what my real, all time favorite film was. Like, the one set in stone.
Hell, even in the last two years of properly getting into the more underground side of the medium, my favorite film of all time shifted between literal months (going from "Monsters Inc", to "Pulp Fiction", to "Synecdoche, New York", to "Moon").
I don't know exactly why. I guess it's because my tastes keep evolving into new discoveries of different loves in various different types of films (especially during last year),…
This film really holds up, but I do not know why that woman thought Roger Rabbit would be a good babysitter. He's really well-intentioned, but patently unqualified for the position. That aside, it was quite swell.
Raise the roof movie fans for this groundbreaking phenomenon! For the first time ever Walt Disney and Warner Brothers cartoon characters shared the big screen in this technical marvel combining live action and animation!
I was tickled pink by its raucous and semi raunchy nature! When buxom Jessica Rabbit croons onscreen your eye's won't be the only thing going BOING!
Bob Hoskins was absolutely amazing in this!
Nothing like watching your favorite movie with some long time friends. Happy 30th Anniversary, Roger. Thanks for making us laugh throughout these many years and the many to come after.
This is, and always will be, my childhood in a nutshell.
As a kid, I used to watch this religiously. Not only was this one of the first films I'd ever seen, it's also one of the first films (might have been the first) that ignited my passion for cinema. I just loved everything about it and I still do. A lot of that has to do with just seeing all of my favorite toon characters in one film. Imagine how blown away my mind was seeing not only Daffy Duck and Donald Duck in one hilarious slapstick scene, but also seeing just two of easily the most iconic animated characters of all time, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny. It…
“Is that a rabbit in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
It had been a long time since I last watched this and I had forgotten how truly bizarre it really is. The mash-up of the major studios cartoon stars appearing together is one thing but then throwing them in to a hard boiled detective story with a back drop of 1940s Hollywood really takes the carrot cake.
This film would have failed without Bob Hoskins. Not only is he great in the private investigator role, he also throws himself across the screen with reckless abandon to make the cartoon stuff work. It’s a terrific performance.
Jessica Rabbit: Oh, Roger. You were magnificent.
Roger Rabbit: Was I really?
Jessica Rabbit: Better than Goofy.
.... ewwwww.
I saw this a lot when I was a kid. I didn't know what film noir was. So now, 20+ years later, I am happy to say that this is a perfect film noir. But it's also a slapstick comedy. AND a family movie! And also a film about a man overcoming his prejudices. Bob Hoskins' Eddie Valiant is a hard-boiled archetype somehow investigating cartoon crime in LA. He is able to lend the role every bit of pathos he can while still believably interacting with fucking cartoon characters. The effects are still impressive and expressive. Plus, you have Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny engaging in conversation while parachuting. Somehow that STILL becomes a character moment because old Bugs had a goddamn chair in his parachute.
I really love this film after all these years. It's one of my favourite noir films. It's a fun film. Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd are really good in it.
Groundbreaking and creative, this film is marvelous. It's just a fun romp through a fantasy version of 1940s Tinseltown.
Unglaublich daß dieser Film von 1988 ist – die Zeichentrickszenen und Realfilmpassagen sind derartig unglaublich miteinander verschmolzen dass es auch nach heutigen Maßstäben mehr als beeindruckend wäre. Der Film hat aber Glück – klar ist bzw war der Aufhänger eben jene perfekte Kombination aus Real und Trickfilm, allerdings wäre dann bei vielen Filmen dieser Art die erstbeste C-Film Handlung gut genug gewesen – „Roger Rabbit“ besitzt hingegen eine wunderbar altmodische und romantische Krimistory und ist ein netter Detektivfilm der in ungewöhnlichem Umfeld spielt. Wenn auch das Zeichentrickkarnickel der Star ist gibt auch Bob Hoskins als versoffener Detektiv eine hervorragende Leistung dazu, Zeichentrickfans dürfen sich ebenfalls daran erfreuen dass so ziemlich jede irgendwie bekannte Zeichentrickfiur (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck usw) irgendwie in „Cameo“ Rollen auftritt. Ein schöner, lustiger und eben beeindruckender Film!Fazit: Unglaubliche Effekte (für damals) in sympathischer und altmodischer Detektiv-Krimihandlung mit Witz!
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