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It's quite amazing that Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out 19 years ago.  IMO, it still holds up brilliantly today and it's astonishing that they pulled this flick off before the advant of CGI.

Bob Hoskins is brilliantly dead pan in the lead and who could forget that smoky voice of Kathleen Turner coming out of Jessica Rabbit the 1st time?

I've always loved this movie because it always represented to me a celebration of the golden age of cartoons and why we all love them and will continue to do so until the end of time.

Kids growing up nowadays don't realize how much of a massive deal it was when we get to see Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny on screen together at once.  The fact that the filmmakers were able to get all of the studios to license the use of classic characters is incredible in terms of the sheer legal logistics of it.

I got to see this movie when I was 13 back in theaters in 1988 and it blew my mind.  I got to show it to my 10 year old nephew this past weekend and he just sat transfixed throughoug the whole thing laughing his butt off and having a blast.

They just don't make 'em like this anymore........ :cheers: 

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13???  You are a baby!!!  But, what I've cited I really liked.  karma  :thumbup:

Ugh!
I hated, hated, hated Who Framed Roger Rabbit?  
And I'm a guy who likes a good toon/movie.

Maybe it's because I don't like Bob Hoskins' acting.
Maybe it's because I couldn't stand the cartoon characters in it.
Especially Roger Rabbit himself.  He's gotta be one of the worst toon characters ever created.
Kind of a bad rip-off of Bugs Bunny.
Annoying as hell and not funny.
(hey, that rhymes!)

I give Who Framed Roger Rabbit zero stars out of four.  
The film just didn't work for me at all.  :thumbdown:

In the credits, they say that the movie is based off of a book called "The Toontown Murders" (or something like that).  I've been trying to find the book for years and have had no luck...

"Roger Rabbit" was a mind blowing film...This was back when Robert Zemeckis actually made good movies.  I'm sorry, I didn't really like "Cast Away" and "The Polar Express".  Maybe "Beowulf" will change my mind.

Christopher Lloyd getting run over by a steamroller was a little too traumatic to my 10 year old mind at the time...but it still was amazing to see Donald and Daffy on the dueling pianos.   :bouncegiggle:

Love love love this movie.

I saw it on VHS when I was maybe 5, back in 1989.  Christopher Lloyd is great, and in many of my favorite movies, this, Back To The Future, Cuckoo's Nest.  Bob Hoskins is great playing in it too.

Plus, Donald and Daffy stole it for me.  They're my two favorites of their respective companies.

I heard something a little disturbing about this movie. I heard that there used to be a Jessica Rabit nube scene. EEEEEWWW!!

Supposedly Jessica had a very brief Sharon Stone moment when her skirt twirled up when she fell out of the 'toon taxicab.  There was some debate on if this was deliberate or if someone just forgot to paint in her panties for a couple of frames. 

Yeah, I was 13 back in 1988 when Roger Rabbit came out.  Can't believe it was that long ago actually.  Even harder to believe that my 20 year high school reunion is coming up in 6 years.   :drink: :drink: :drink:

Like someone else mentioned, the only part that my 10 year old nephew found a bit intense was the part in which Christopher Lloyd gets run over by the steam roller.

That and when his animated eyeballs turn into knives as he's screaming at Bob about when he killed his brother.

Yep, animators would slip stuff like that in as jokes for amuse themselves and they did put a pantyless crotch shot of Jessica as she's tumbling out of the car.  They sinced covered her up for the subsequent video/DVD releases though I think that the original laserdisc release still has that infamous shot.

You're not alone there. I have a best friend who still to this day thinks that it's one of the worst movies ever made.  I've told him that while I respect all opinions of everyone I know, that I still can't quite see what he despises in the movie.

Sadly, I was too young to get the "staring daggers" joke and didn't realize his eyes were blades. I just thought they were bananas for whatever reason.  :tongueout:

Want to hear something really disturbing?  Around 1994 or so my friend Mike bought a new VCR that could advance frame by frame for the express purpose of watching this scene from this movie!   :buggedout:  Of course, I joined him in watching it, so I guess I'm a little disturbed as well.

What we saw was one single frame with Jessica's legs spread, and between her legs it was solid black (i.e. no details).  :bluesad:

This was like my favorite film when I was just a little kid.  I used to watch it so much that my parents had to take the VHS tape away from me for a long while.  I still love this film in all of it's glory. 

Beside's Jessica's beaver shot, there was also a scene where Valiant and Roger are walking in a back alley, and, in the laserdisc version, the phone number of a whore house can be seen written on the walls. This was another joke by the creative team - the number was actually for Michael Eisner's home phone.:teddyr: That was a little tidbit I learned in the sibliminal ad part of my high school marketing class, and you'd be suprised how much the animators (and advertisers) slip in that no one notices. (My teacher even kept a photocopy of the original "Little Mermaid" box art with the "phallic tower" highlighted.)

I loved how everyone got up in arms about Donald Duck calling Daffy a racial slur.  He said nitwit, not the other n-word.

I loved the sword turning into Sinatra in the movie.  Of course, at 5 years old, I didn't know it was Sinatra.  I get it now at 23.

Also, one thing that they had censored at one points on the 1st bare bones DVD was when Baby Herman gooses the woman as he passes underneath her dress near the beginning.

They changed it on the 1st DVD to where his arm stayed at his side.

They restored this for the Vista Vision special edition DVD release to where his arm goes back up however his middle finger isn't extended anymore as it was in the theatrical release which made it a bit more than a normal goose.   :teddyr:

I love this movie, I've loved it since I was five. It's just pure magic just like Back to the Future, pure fun!

here they are today, next to some guy

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Actually, the film was based on the book "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" by Gary K.. Wolf. I have the book, but like 99% of my books, it is boxed up, in storage, and inaccessible at this time. The film does the book justice.

What I awlays found surprising about the film, is how well the storyline works in it.

Of course, I love the film, and especially seeing all the cartoon characters in it. There are over fifty character from Walt Disney Studios, and almost twenty from Warner Brotjhers, Univeral, and Paramount. There will, most likely, never be a cartoon line up like that again. Even though, after its success, there was talkg of doing a sequel to it.

Of course, now that Eisner has left Disney, and Iger has taken over the company, and Spielberg and his Amblin Entertainment is looking to leave Paramount for a new home, the talk of a sequel is being revived.

I'd love to see a sequel, but if only all the things could be aligned right.  But some sequels never seem to hold up.

I'm kinda on the fence on this one. At the time, it was unlike any other mainstream movie, the animation and film were seemless. The story however, wasn't that great IMO. Roger being such an idiot just wasn't amusing to me, which is kinda surprising.

I liked the original and think a sequel would just tarnish it.  Blending animation and film just isn't done any more, in fact "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was probably  the peak of it.  Any sequel would use CGI and it would be like the transformers movie where the style is totally changed.  One of the good parts of the movie was the nostalgia it rose. 

I loved this movie too.  The whole thing blew me away when I first saw it.  I found Roger's voice a little annoying and he was waaay over the top for my usual tastes, but it's still a stunner.

I also liked the fact that Spielberg's then wife Amy Irving did Jesicca's singing voice and Kathleen Turner was the BEST pick for the speaking voice

Wow!  It's attack of the "Killer Bees" on the Bad Movie forums!  Welcome!   :wink:

Thanks  :smile:

You guys are so nice.  But my actually name comes from a Tori Amos song "Taxi Ride".  It's just serendipitous that it's associated with bad movies.

Karma for anything Tori!  :teddyr:

It's been a while for me on this one...but if my grandmother hadn't taken me to see it in the theatre as a child I'd probably be a much more boring person today. All I can say is that, when 'Space Jam' came out, I knew I wouldn't see it, and I knew there'd never be another movie like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Space Jam was a departure, for sure.  Have you seen Looney Tunes: Back in Action?

God I love this movie but it ruined my life, Jessica had too much an impact on me.

Regarding the story , I regard it highly. Using toons instead of other minorities and according to the imdb trivia the plan with the cable cars is based historical events.

Also it's great that many former toon stars do have their appearances also Felix the Cat should really have been in there as well as Krazy Kat and....