Movie Review: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Movie Review: Who Framed Roger Rabbit                                                                                  6-15-16

Who Framed Roger Rabbit takes place in a world where humans and cartoon characters (known as Toons) live side by side. When a Toon gets framed for murdering a human, it's up to hard-boiled, Toon-hating detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) to solve the case and save Toontown.

I LOVE this movie. The writing is excellent, the characters are memorable, and the interactions between the human characters and the animated characters are groundbreaking and breathtaking. There are even Toons interacting with live-action objects, which is something you don't see in hybrid movies, and not a single computer was used. Another great thing about Roger Rabbit is that there many cameos of classic cartoon cartoon characters from the 1930s and 1940s. As well as almost every animated Didney character as of 1947, there were also some Looney Tunes characters, Betty Boop, Droopy, Woody Woodpecker, and the very obscure Koko the Clown. Also, this is the only time in your life in which you'll see Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny side by side. Canonically!

It's sad that there aren't more movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, because it deserves to be in a movie museum. Sure we had later movies that would mix hand-drawn animation with live-action, like Cool World, Rock-a-Doodle, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, but they don't feel as life-like. However, when it premiered, Roger Rabbit became the second highest-grossing movie of 1988, only behind Rain Man, and earned four Academy Awards, including a special one to animation supervisor Richard Williams.

Rating: The perfect rating of five stars.

PLUS 5 birds. (Get it? Because he saw birds instead of stars?)