As a kid it thrilled and terrified me. As an adult, I can appreciate the technical virtuosity. Zemeckis' direction is terrific, and Richard Williams' animation is extraordinary. Speaking of Williams, I saw that someone else mentioned his labour of love, _The Thief and the Cobbler._ There is a Recobbled Cut trailer on YT if you want a taste of the greatest hand-drawn animation ever produced, and the documentary _Persistence of Vision_ shows how uncompromising artistry can be a boon and a curse.
"Not at any time. Only when it was funny!" Is one of my most favorite lines in all of cinema. This movie is a classic, but I still think it's underrated.
Growing up in Los Angeles, we all heard that National City Lines (the bus company that replaced the streetcars and funded by the car/ tire companies) bought out the Los Angeles Railway and the Red Cars (among the world's largest streetcar systems at the time) so they could tear out the streetcars and build freeways to sell more cars. While there is an element of truth in it, the whole truth is much more complicated but it's a favorite LA myth and referenced in many Los Angeles themed movies.
I made a comment about this movie being sequel-ish to "Chinatown!' So it might have been me. I hope you caught all of the parallels -- the original gig for Eddie/Jake is taking pictures of the unfaithful wife, the murder of an unusual target that initially seems cut and dried but actually had much more going on, the villain buying up L.A. real estate for an ugly purpose, the spectacles/invisible ink being introduced earlier and then becoming the key evidence later, Eddie's avoidance of Toon Town (Chinatown) after something terrible happened there, then having to return to Toon Town for the climax of the story.... For "how they did it," there are several behind-the-scenes/making-of videos, including stuff about how they got the rights to all of those characters, as well as all of the *practical effects* that went into making the movie (robots, stripped cars, etc.) where you would imagine it was done in post-: ruclips.net/video/ty4xkdBbnOk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/jv_u9kYoI70/видео.html On the Criterion DVD of "Chinatown," there are interviews with production people who talk about how it was meant to be a trilogy about corporate interests destroying public works in Los Angeles - water, power, and transportation. "Roger Rabbit" takes the plot of Chinatown, changes the subject from water to transportation, and gives us a happy ending. I'm so glad you enjoyed this movie so much! It's just brilliant, but now overlooked/forgotten since the move to 3D animation. Such a shame. Zemeckis should have gotten an Oscar nomination for directing and Bob Hoskins should have been nominated for Best Actor - if you watch the behind-the-scenes videos you'll understand why!
1. First time I saw this was in the middle of the ocean. My ship (USS Tripoli LPH-10) was doing a Tiger Cruise. That's where crew members could bring "male only" family/friends to join us from Hawaii to San Diego. There were displays set up on the hanger bay. For entertainment there was an area to watch movies. This was one of them. 2. There had to be equal time for Disney and HB characters. 3. Adult innuendo galore.😜😜🤣🤣 4. Christopher Lloyd as the heavy. 😎 5. One of the cartoon bullets is the voice of Pat Buttram. He played Mr. Haney on Green Acres. 6. This was Mae Questel's/Betty Boops third to last gig. Her last was" Christmas Vacation". (RIP)😇 7. The tunnel going into Toon Town is the same one they use in the "Back to the Future" movies. 8. Favorite character is the Baby🤣
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.? is an absolute triumph in movie making, an all time classic that's not aged a day in my opinion.!, so much work involved in the making of this film, I remember seeing it the cinema when it came out in 1988 as a 13 year old, I'm now 48, it never gets old, still a great film nearly 35 years later.!!!. Check out a similar film from 1992 "Cool World" with Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne, it's not as big a budget as Who Framed Roger Rabbit.?but still worth a watch, it's funny and with Ralph Bakshi Animation aimed more at an adult audience I think.!?. I like it, I think it got bad reviews on release though, still worth a look, enjoy if you watch it.
I hate this movie, as it made my life hell at school, and the fact here in the UK to"Roger"is slang term for something rabbits famous for doing (and I do not mean eating carrots). was just cherry o top.
This animation was actually pretty innovative. Animation with live action usually looked horrible because of the shading of the cartoons, they never really look like they're there in the scene because there's no shading. But if you pay attention to the characters sides of them are darker, depending on where the light is coming from in the live action scenes, really brilliant stuff, expert coordination.
I saw this a dozen times in the theater as a kid, and collected the trading cards. I was obsessed. One misconception was that Disney did all the animation.. while this was produced by Disney, and some of their team worked on it, this movie was in development hell for years til Spielberg and Zemekis reworked it.. and they decided that Disney alone was not up to the task.. their animation dept. was only starting to come back from it's "dark age".. so they brought in Richard Williams, a prodigy Canadian indie animator that had been trained by some of Walt Disney's "9 Old Men" (actually he hired them to train him and his staff) and had been working on his own pet project / animation showcase Thief and the Cobbler for 20 years by that point.. the leaked footage of which is what got Richard the interview. Richard could animate in any style, and they wanted a cross between Disney, Warner Bros, and Tex Avery (MGM)... and they wanted to be able to film the movie without a locked down camera.. which was the 'preferred' way of animating on top of live action footage (it was easier)... a moving camera required the animator to keep changing the perspective with every frame.. but Williams had done that for commercials. Spielberg and Zemekis asked him "isn't that gonna be hard".. .he was like "Yeah, it's gonna be hard, and expensive.. but this is my job... to figure this stuff out.". The most amazing thing to me is, this is one of the last blockbuster films to be completely analog... no CGI, just blood sweat, tears, pencils, inks, and Bob Hopkins (Eddie) to pull off the believability of the world. He's the key to the whole movie.
Everything about this film is pure quality. I will never tire of seeing skilled professionals produce amazing work, without compromising or talking down to their audience. It's a joy. And I hope the Bob Hoskins in particular knew how much admiration kids and adults alike had for him.
Disney has alot of policy regulations for their IPs. One of the biggest ones is that if there are Disney characters in ANY media that is not strictly made by Disney, they have to at least have the same amount of screentime as non-Disney characters. Warner Bros had the same policy during production, which led to some interesting, but necessary decisions for certain scenes (the Daffy and Donald Duck scene is the most well known example).
it may have been mentioned but Warner Bros and Disney agreed to let their cartoon characters be used together in this movie so long as they got equal screen time. I love how the agreed to come together so we got all these amazing cartoon cameos! Such a great movie, I'm glad you got to check this out and enjoyed it! Jessica and Roger
Yeah, Warner would only agree if Disney got no more screen time then their major characters and Disney said the same. Rather than try to count the times which could get messed up in editing they decided to just show them in pairs. Rather clever really.
Honestly, you put most all the puzzle pieces together pretty durn quick! Zaniness: The Dip is a real solution animators used to remove ink from animation cells so they could reuse them. It literally dissolved Toons. Charles Fleischer, voice of Roger, showed up on set in a homemade Roger Rabbit outfit to remain in character. (He's apparently a bit of a...well...looney tune.)
@@CasualNerdReactions in the original script the dip was called "the final solution." (Haha, it's a chemical solution! And it also refers to...oh...oh, no...) Wise of them to have changed that, obviously.
It's totally worth watching the behind the scenes and the making-of to see the insane lengths they went through to make the animated characters look good in frame and interact with the real world.
seconded. the whole thing could have so easily been a total disaster, but it's absolutely wild how good this movie * still * looks. nothing really beats hand drawn animation when you're animating on the ones at 24 fps. it's a huge part of why something like akira still looks better than 99 percent of current anime. and hoskins truly deserves all the accolades for essentially acting alone in many (most?) scenes, without even a guy in a green screen suit to bounce lines off of.
I remember when I first saw this, the one thing that impressed me more than the fun story, amazing effects and great cast, was the idea that ENDLESS hoops must have been jumped through and negotiated in order to secure the rights to use the characters from Disney, Warner Bros. and other studios interacting in the same film! I was also blown away by the use of so many of the original voice actors ...for Donald, Daffy, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Droopy Dog...this movie was a miracle for animation and film buffs!
The crossing of studios is definitely one of the more impressive feats. I would have thought that impossible to be honest. I’d love to see the fine print of how they each profited.
Especially considering, Disney famously denied MGM use of Mickey Mouse for the movie Anchors Aweigh 1945, stating Mickey only works for Disney Studios. They ended up using Jerry Mouse, which was one of MGMs cartoon characters. I heard that one of the conditions, is that the main cartoon characters had equal screen time, Daffy & Donald and then Mickey & Bugs, the Porky Pig ending then Tinkerbells ending. It's wonderful movie magic.
@@CasualNerdReactions funny, didn't you say on a live stream a couple of years ago that you wouldn't react to this movie?, not that I'm complaining mind you since this movie is my childhood in a nutshell, so I'd like to thank you personally for doing this.
Guys, this is a Touchstone movie. Touchstone is a branch of Disney, the same one that did Nightmare Before Christmas. They didn't have to negotiate to get their own characters. lol. The rest of that is accurate, though!
When this came out theatrically I thought I would be a cool uncle and I took my 5 year old niece to see this. Everything was going great until Judge Doom put the adorable shoe in the dip. I finally calmed her down and then Doom’s evil red eyes popped out and the war was lost.🤣👍
Did they really need to sell the emotion with the shoe's eyes so well? You see fear, confusion, pleading, agony, horror and more in just the few seconds that innocent little shoe is on screen. Legit traumatized by that and Doom's red eyes to this day.
Notice that in the final scene, Betty Boop finally gets to be drawn in color! Apparently during the classic era, for budget reasons there was only one color Betty Boop film, but the 1960s reboot series was animated in color, and subsequently some the old B&W episodes have been computer-colorized (not without controversy, but less than when Ted Turner et al. started colorizing classic live-action films in the 1980s). There is a similarity to _Chinatown_ , and to the later film _L.A. Confidential_ . All three have a mystery that involves the seamy underbelly of Tinsel Town, and all three loosely incorporate historical events; water wars and land speculation in the 1930s, the behind-the-scenes GM-funded buyout and subsequent closure of the streetcar companies to promote cars and buses in the 1940s, and organized crime feuds over drugs and prostitution in the 1950s.
Fun imaginative movie, Jessica voiced by Kathleen Turner who along with the late great William Hurt star in “Body Heat” a wonderful film noir from 1981, highly recommend if you haven’t seen it, thanks Chris!
As if I couldn’t love Christopher Llyod enough, he comes in with one of my favorite villains I have ever seen. And he portrays it within the same year as he’s portraying Doc Brown in the Back to the Future sequels! May his gifts as an actor never be undermined.
So, the reason Donald and Daffy shared a scene, same with Mickey and Bugs, was because Disney made it a stipulation that in order to use them, the Disney characters had to have the same amount of screentime as the Looney Tunes characters. So, they put them in the same scenes.
Actually this was an Amblin entertainment/ Disney production. It was Warner Bros. And the other studios. That would only allow their characters use with equal screen time.
Great film. I also suggest you check out The Thief And The Cobbler (the Recobbled Cut that’s unfinished that’s close to what Richard Williams wanted). It was in production from 1964 to 1993 when it was released behind Richard Williams’ back.
I saw this in the theater. It was a date-night movie and was considered a huge deal when it came out. Fun fact, the voice for Betty Boop in this movie was Mae Questel, one of the early original voices of Betty Boop reprising her role from the 1930s. Mae was also the original voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye Cartoons.
I always wondered why they just didn’t rewrite that one small part of the script to birds when he couldn’t get stars. Plus if a human was killed by a toon, wouldnt it have made headlines around the world? And then everyone in the bar would’ve known.
After this we got a few Rodger Rabbit shorts He also appeared in Micky Mouse's 60th Birthday special which can be found on RUclips one of the 1st movies to Imitate this film was Cool World as it came out while the franchise was still hot there have been talks of a new film but nothing official however many movies have tried The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle brought toons in to the real world Space Jam crossed over several Loony Toons cartoons in a sports star team up based on some TV advertisements that were popular at the time Looney Toons Back in action was the next best follow up to Space Jam then for a long time we had a break from these sorts of films then we got Space Jam 2 which really stepped up the cameos the Tom and Jerry Movie .. not to be confused with the other Tom and Jery movies The Rescue Rangers Movie the next time a mega all toons crossover did a mystery other movies I could discuss brought one cartoon character to life such as Fat Albert Casper Woody Wood Pecker Scooby Doo Yogie Bear Muppet movies are also very full of back ground cameos , mystery and silliness you need to know Muppets to catch all the references and they also love movie star cameos Animaniacs and Tiny Toons enjoys there back ground cameos too but has not done a live action crossover Anchors Aweigh 1945 contains cartoon and live action mixing but its only one part Marry Poppins did it and so did Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks but only for one world. Also Mary Poppins Returns did it too cartoon and live action mixing goes all the way back to the silent era however. and I can list more if I have to Detective Pikachu also gives us CGI characters and many cameos and a mystery but that's more of a video games to life thing. some movies like Osmosis Jones and Page Master have a cartoon part and a live action part but kept separately and the Lego movies also have a lot of cameos and some times live action. and the animated series Bonkers also tried to do this style but with out live action, but it is of the same rules as this. Epic Mickey and Cupheads also dives in to these vibes a little
Check out the "making of" part when you get a chance....some ground breaking stuff like how a toon can spit real water and how tennis balls on a stick were utilized
Chris, I enjoyed your reaction, but then, I always do. You must have missed the reference to the movie "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart. While not film noir, it is a fun film. I recommend it for a future reaction. Keep those reactions coming.
Love the movie and its so well made that even tho its this old it still looks pretty good today. Some insight for u, Jessica is very appealing to humans because of the way she looks, but toons dont care about that for them the most attractive quality is humor thats why she is lucky Roger choose her because he is the funniest toon. The dip was actually a nickname for something used to erase animations from cards back in the day. Also if u pay attention there are several clues that the judge is a toon, the most obvious one being that his teeth are toonish the whole time, another one is that he never blinks and well the dip cant really hurt people but he puts on gloves when dealing with it and is always careful not to touch it, for example we see him step out of the way when it gets on the floor.
"You don't know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do." "You don't know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do." "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." Drink it in. You will never see another movie where Tinkerbell, Porkie Pig, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Micky Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and many others come together in one movie ever again. This movie is also a technical marvel. The hard work in filming live-action scenes and then animating them, is legendary. It's also beyond the scope of this comment. Fun Fact: Bob Hoskins said that, for two weeks after seeing the movie, his young son wouldn't talk to him. When finally asked why, his son said he couldn't believe his father would work with cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and not let him meet them. Real Science Fact: The dip that kills the toons is made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene. All are paint thinners used to remove paint and images from cels. Pause Button Opportunity Fact: When the toon train hits the Dip Machine, each window shows a murder or death taking place (if viewed frame-by-frame).
Jessica was based loosely on Veronica Lake, the Film Noir queen of the 40s and early 50s (and a couple more ladies) and thus got her peek-a-boo hair style from Veronica. Pretty good movie concept at the time. Try Steve Martin's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" he's in a movie with a lot of old actors via film clips from the 40s and 50s, the movie is OK, but seeing him acting with Bogart, and other actors was a pretty cool concept.
Cloverleaf Industries were telegraphing their intentions... their cloverleaf logo is a freeway interchange. BTW, an old movie that was briefly referenced here (14:05) is Harvey (1950) starring Jimmy Stewart. It's a good one.
The lady that originally voiced Betty Boop was a lady named Mae Questle. They searched her out and got her to voice Betty's part in this movie. She is more famous, recently, for her last role. She was Aunt Bethany in Christmas Vacation
A classic Bob Hoskins film is the 1979 Gangster movie The Long Good Friday. An absolutely brilliant performance He was also excellent in the film Mona Lisa, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
For a more mature version of this style you should react to Cool World. Directed by Ralph Bakshi and starring Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt. From Wikipedia: In 1945, Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. The two are involved in a traffic collision where Frank's mother dies. Afterwards, Frank is inadvertently transported to a cartoon-like alternate universe called the "Cool World", where he restarts his life as a detective for Cool World's local police department.
I am seriously a sucker for someone who can really make me laugh. Laughter, as said in this film, is a powerful weapon. As the Rabbit said… “Those people needed to laugh” and people do. It’s so important for mental health to have moments of just stupid, can’t breathe, roll on the floor laughter. It makes everything more palatable.
Don't you wonder what kind of cartoons Jessica appeared in? There were a couple of short Roger Rabbit cartoons released after the movie. Pretty sure they're all on RUclips.
Jessica Rabbit was voiced by Kathleen Turner. She was a huge movie and tv star and known for her sultry good looks and smokey voice. In her later years she got obese and started to look like a man. Instead of living in her past or regretting her lost femininity she actually embraced it and took work guest starring on Friends playing a cross-dressing man. That’s kinda badass.
That was the original voice actor of Betty Boop from the thirties! She reprised her role, and then the very next year, appeared as a grandmother in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
The shoe that got dipped was voiced by Nancy Cartwright, you might recognize her as Bart from The Simpsons. Eddie's sudden gymnastics are actually explained earlier on in the film. When we see his desk, we see a picture of him and his brother were originally from the circus as clowns.
I heard tim curry was originally supposed to be cast as judge doom. He was over qualified as even more terrifying for children so the part went to Christopher lloyd. I honestly wanted to see tim curry as judge doom now. 😅
1:20 - Honestly, not the worst thing a character in a cartoon short ever did to a main toon character. Also fun bit of trivia, this opening animated sequence was part of the inspiration for the Buttons and Mindy cartoons in Animaniacs.
I have a theory on who Doom was. Who was the one prominent Disney or Warner Brothers character who is not in the crowd at the end add to this the fact that Doom has a very very slight lisp and I think that Doom was Elmer Fudd
I remember hearing somewhere that in order to clear the licensing for some of the animated characters from competing studios, they had to agree to give some of them exactly equal amounts of screen time and the only way to do that was to have them both on screen at the same time. That's why we got Donald and Daffy Duck on screen together and later Bugs and Mickey. (If I've gotten that wrong and anyone knows for sure, please comment.)
This film is one of my favorites from my childhood very classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy and music score by Alan Silvestri and of course the iconic cartoons for example Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck and many others. Thank you Chris great reaction excellent
Actress that voices Jessica - Kathleen Turner, actually resembles her - the overall charm and sensuousness. She stars in two very good 90s movies: "Undercover Blues" - great comedy about family of secret agents. "V.I. Warshawski" - about a female detective
Though uncredited, Kathleen Turner provides Jessica's sultry speaking voice. Be sure not to miss her in live-action - Romancing The Stone is probably her best
Please do keep up with the classic black and whites, the film noirs especially. They mentioned the comedy "Harvey" have you seen that one? A classic starring James Stewart.
Definitely need to see Harvey! I’m taking a detour for a bit from that time period. I enjoy it, but i know I can’t stay there too as it’s a not my natural leaning. I want to make sure I get peak enjoyment. There will be a couple oldies popping into October that I’m looking forward to. (And one or two sneaking on to Patreon as exclusives).
This movie is a little silly, but really it does sorta mark the pinnacle of this type of filmmaking that you don't really get nowadays. I would say this movie, Labyrinth, and Beetlejuice are kind of the last of the great pre-CGI special effects-driven blockbusters. The craftsmanship and imagination on display is incredible, in my opinion
The movie was based (Very Loosely) on the book "Who Censored Roger Rabbit" where Roger is actually killed (Or Censored) and Eddie has to solve the mystery.
This is just one of the best movies ever made, no doubt about it. I love Doom's extremely in-depth plan. He robs a bank, kills Eddie's brother, makes a human suit, buys an election with the stolen money, starts the dummy corporation Cloverleaf, murders Acme and Maroon(and a shoe), and plans to murder unknown thousands of his fellow toons AND destroy the city they live in so he can level it to build a freeway and, I'm guessing, he probably plans to own all those hotels and gas stations and whatnot through Cloverleaf. It's wild.
The first scene in Eddy's office is one of the best pieces of cinematic storytelling I've seen. It shows that he and his brother used to work with toons, that they both grew up on the circus (foreshadowing his comedy act at the end), and that Eddy used to be a goofy fun-loving guy! All shown with only about two minutes of footage, and no dialogue!
This was the multiversal movie of the '80s. It was such a big deal back then. If you are able to watch the behind-the-scenes footage of how that made it I would definitely suggest it. Fascinating! And it was awesome that you caught most of the references!
Watched it in theaters, immediately loved the craft of it. The plot was alright, but it earns double points for being different than the things out around that time.
So, I'm curious... why are you just a CASUAL nerd? As a nerd, myself, I think it's really not something one should only be casual about! Trust me - be a serious nerd. :p lol
I be who I be. My thought process was more or less that I enjoy nerdy stuff, but I don’t typically dive too deep into lore and such. I keep it casual. 😅 I’m sure there’s plenty to be serious about. Haha
@@CasualNerdReactions lol yes - some of us nerds are definitely TOO serious. You'd think they had money invested in the franchises or something lol (btw, i hope you knew i was just joking. Every time i see "casual nerd" i wonder "how can a nerd be casual?" Haha I really enjoy your content & reactions. Good luck as you grow in subscribers and keep up the great job :)
YES! I don't know where to start with this film, too many great bits to chose from. 1 funny bit for me was Bob's song and dance and the weights falling on his head. Glad I got to grow up with this film
What I love about this film is it was made before CGI was common. As I understand it, all the toons were hand drawn which means the real life actors had to perform all the physical work to nothing (a great example is when they were hiding in that room in the bar, Roger jumps to the hidden peep hole and takes Eddie and Dolores with him). Brilliant film
Good reaction! This is one that throws many people off, misinterpreting it as a gimmick-film "how is this a childrens movie!?" and completely missing the unique experience it is; it's a neo noir dark comedy, it just happens to be about animated characters while telling a real good story about class, corruption, gentrification - the book it's based on is of course, even darker. Obviously, none of that stopped 80s parents from seeing the jolly VHS cover, and rent it for their kids, me included. (Doom's red eyed reveal is probably one of the scariest moments of my childhood)
This film is technically based on the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit, but it really just takes the book's basic setting of a 1940s Los Angeles where cartoon characters exist alongside humans, and plants a script that was originally a Chinatown sequel into it. In fact, in the novel, the answer to "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" turns out to be NO ONE, because he actually did commit the murder Eddie has been trying to absolve him of. Yeah, it gets pretty dark. But I still liked it a lot on its own merits.
I love the fact that in-universe (and the movie's time) the second Judge Doom says, "not in the next 15 minutes anyway," it takes 14 minutes and 50 seconds for Doom to be completely submerged in the dip. He never is legally the owner of Toontown before his death.
if you liked the animation in this, you should watch The Thief and The Cobbler ( the recobbled cut,) it's from the animator who did Roger Rabbit, Richard Willliams.
You should drop the "Nerd" gimmick and do some research like I have. Watching 'Overboard' again with Moldy Spawn and Burt Brussell. Can you spot 20 details connecting this film to 'The Lost Boys'? I can. Hint: There is NO Happy Ending. 😎
In the graphic novel of the film published in 1989 by Marvel Comics, Valiant is the narrator of the story, telling the film through his eyes and in the style of a detective story. According to Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom, Valiant eats jellybeans to cope with his new-found teetotalism. In the novel Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?, Valiant has once again vowed to no longer take any Toon cases, but is forced to do so when Baby Herman is found dead.
this was one of my favorite movies as a kid, in fact I had a "Roger Rabbit" sleeping bag. and as adult, I love it even more. great music, fantastic acting, incredibly sharp writing, and phenomenal effects! You:Chris Lloyd is a bit of a toon... Me: wait about 15-20 minutes!
This was so trippy, but a real good time! Let me know YOUR thoughts and thanks for watching!
As a kid it thrilled and terrified me. As an adult, I can appreciate the technical virtuosity. Zemeckis' direction is terrific, and Richard Williams' animation is extraordinary. Speaking of Williams, I saw that someone else mentioned his labour of love, _The Thief and the Cobbler._ There is a Recobbled Cut trailer on YT if you want a taste of the greatest hand-drawn animation ever produced, and the documentary _Persistence of Vision_ shows how uncompromising artistry can be a boon and a curse.
Great reaction, Chris, to this hilarious film!! You get 5 out of 5 stars.
I saw this opening weekend in the theaters and enjoyed it. After film school I watched it again and appreciated it on a whole new level.
Doc really went over to the dark side...!
The movie this shares a lot of DNA with is Chinatown (the story here is similar, taking photos, government corruption)
"Not at any time. Only when it was funny!" Is one of my most favorite lines in all of cinema. This movie is a classic, but I still think it's underrated.
Which implies that if the situation wasn't funny he couldn't do it.
It's a pretty great line, my favorite in the movie for sure.
Growing up in Los Angeles, we all heard that National City Lines (the bus company that replaced the streetcars and funded by the car/ tire companies) bought out the Los Angeles Railway and the Red Cars (among the world's largest streetcar systems at the time) so they could tear out the streetcars and build freeways to sell more cars. While there is an element of truth in it, the whole truth is much more complicated but it's a favorite LA myth and referenced in many Los Angeles themed movies.
Is there anyone who doesn't absolutely adore this film? I honestly couldn't imagine anyone disliking it
The thing about hand drawn animation, is that it will always hold up. It will look just as good as it did when it came out. I miss it.
Hahhhahah! 14:30 i love that that you finished the "shave and hair cut" out of instinct lol
It’s impossible to resist.
@@CasualNerdReactions Are you a toon, too? Or are we all, at heart, in our sense of humor?
I know you like older movies one you might want to check out is "THEM" from 1954 with James Whitmore and James Arness (Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke fame)
that reaction was gold! You and Roger make a great pair
I made a comment about this movie being sequel-ish to "Chinatown!' So it might have been me. I hope you caught all of the parallels -- the original gig for Eddie/Jake is taking pictures of the unfaithful wife, the murder of an unusual target that initially seems cut and dried but actually had much more going on, the villain buying up L.A. real estate for an ugly purpose, the spectacles/invisible ink being introduced earlier and then becoming the key evidence later, Eddie's avoidance of Toon Town (Chinatown) after something terrible happened there, then having to return to Toon Town for the climax of the story....
For "how they did it," there are several behind-the-scenes/making-of videos, including stuff about how they got the rights to all of those characters, as well as all of the *practical effects* that went into making the movie (robots, stripped cars, etc.) where you would imagine it was done in post-:
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On the Criterion DVD of "Chinatown," there are interviews with production people who talk about how it was meant to be a trilogy about corporate interests destroying public works in Los Angeles - water, power, and transportation. "Roger Rabbit" takes the plot of Chinatown, changes the subject from water to transportation, and gives us a happy ending. I'm so glad you enjoyed this movie so much! It's just brilliant, but now overlooked/forgotten since the move to 3D animation. Such a shame. Zemeckis should have gotten an Oscar nomination for directing and Bob Hoskins should have been nominated for Best Actor - if you watch the behind-the-scenes videos you'll understand why!
1. First time I saw this was in the middle of the ocean. My ship (USS Tripoli LPH-10) was doing a Tiger Cruise. That's where crew members could bring "male only" family/friends to join us from Hawaii to San Diego. There were displays set up on the hanger bay. For entertainment there was an area to watch movies. This was one of them.
2. There had to be equal time for Disney and HB characters.
3. Adult innuendo galore.😜😜🤣🤣
4. Christopher Lloyd as the heavy. 😎
5. One of the cartoon bullets is the voice of Pat Buttram. He played Mr. Haney on Green Acres.
6. This was Mae Questel's/Betty Boops third to last gig. Her last was" Christmas Vacation". (RIP)😇
7. The tunnel going into Toon Town is the same one they use in the "Back to the Future" movies.
8. Favorite character is the Baby🤣
I loooove this movie...¨you had plenty money 1922...¨ I dont know why they didnt do the second one....
Love this movie! TWOOOOOOO BITS! Great reaction! Now you have to react to the movie Harvey with Jimmie Stewart to get the big rabbit reference.
"Christopher Lloyd is kind of a cartoon."
Ohhhhhh....you have noooooo idea. Hehehehehehehe...
I nailed it and I didn’t even know!
Chinatown! OMG it's so obvious and I never saw it! Gosh I feel dumb.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.? is an absolute triumph in movie making, an all time classic that's not aged a day in my opinion.!, so much work involved in the making of this film, I remember seeing it the cinema when it came out in 1988 as a 13 year old, I'm now 48, it never gets old, still a great film nearly 35 years later.!!!.
Check out a similar film from 1992 "Cool World" with Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne, it's not as big a budget as Who Framed Roger Rabbit.?but still worth a watch, it's funny and with Ralph Bakshi Animation aimed more at an adult audience I think.!?. I like it, I think it got bad reviews on release though, still worth a look, enjoy if you watch it.
Speaking of "Chinatown," are you ever going to react to its actual sequel, "The Two Jakes"? I believe you'd be the first person to do so.
Not sure. I’d like too one day, but there’s too much fighting for my attention at the moment
@@CasualNerdReactions No hurry. I know how in demand many reactors can become.
I hate this movie, as it made my life hell at school, and the fact here in the UK to"Roger"is slang term for something rabbits famous for doing (and I do not mean eating carrots). was just cherry o top.
Ooh that does sound pretty terrible. Hopefully you don’t get that three days!
This animation was actually pretty innovative. Animation with live action usually looked horrible because of the shading of the cartoons, they never really look like they're there in the scene because there's no shading. But if you pay attention to the characters sides of them are darker, depending on where the light is coming from in the live action scenes, really brilliant stuff, expert coordination.
I saw this a dozen times in the theater as a kid, and collected the trading cards. I was obsessed.
One misconception was that Disney did all the animation.. while this was produced by Disney, and some of their team worked on it, this movie was in development hell for years til Spielberg and Zemekis reworked it.. and they decided that Disney alone was not up to the task.. their animation dept. was only starting to come back from it's "dark age".. so they brought in Richard Williams, a prodigy Canadian indie animator that had been trained by some of Walt Disney's "9 Old Men" (actually he hired them to train him and his staff) and had been working on his own pet project / animation showcase Thief and the Cobbler for 20 years by that point.. the leaked footage of which is what got Richard the interview.
Richard could animate in any style, and they wanted a cross between Disney, Warner Bros, and Tex Avery (MGM)... and they wanted to be able to film the movie without a locked down camera.. which was the 'preferred' way of animating on top of live action footage (it was easier)... a moving camera required the animator to keep changing the perspective with every frame.. but Williams had done that for commercials. Spielberg and Zemekis asked him "isn't that gonna be hard".. .he was like "Yeah, it's gonna be hard, and expensive.. but this is my job... to figure this stuff out.".
The most amazing thing to me is, this is one of the last blockbuster films to be completely analog... no CGI, just blood sweat, tears, pencils, inks, and Bob Hopkins (Eddie) to pull off the believability of the world. He's the key to the whole movie.
Everything about this film is pure quality. I will never tire of seeing skilled professionals produce amazing work, without compromising or talking down to their audience. It's a joy.
And I hope the Bob Hoskins in particular knew how much admiration kids and adults alike had for him.
Disney has alot of policy regulations for their IPs. One of the biggest ones is that if there are Disney characters in ANY media that is not strictly made by Disney, they have to at least have the same amount of screentime as non-Disney characters. Warner Bros had the same policy during production, which led to some interesting, but necessary decisions for certain scenes (the Daffy and Donald Duck scene is the most well known example).
it may have been mentioned but Warner Bros and Disney agreed to let their cartoon characters be used together in this movie so long as they got equal screen time. I love how the agreed to come together so we got all these amazing cartoon cameos! Such a great movie, I'm glad you got to check this out and enjoyed it! Jessica and Roger
which is why we see Daffy and Donald together, and Mickey with Bugs. Showed that they were given equal time.
SO! Who more completely embodies Couple Goals: Roger & Jessica, or Gomez & Morticia?
They also had to agree that each character had the same amount of lines as well.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Jean-Paul out here with the tough questions!!
Yeah, Warner would only agree if Disney got no more screen time then their major characters and Disney said the same. Rather than try to count the times which could get messed up in editing they decided to just show them in pairs. Rather clever really.
Honestly, you put most all the puzzle pieces together pretty durn quick!
Zaniness:
The Dip is a real solution animators used to remove ink from animation cells so they could reuse them. It literally dissolved Toons.
Charles Fleischer, voice of Roger, showed up on set in a homemade Roger Rabbit outfit to remain in character. (He's apparently a bit of a...well...looney tune.)
In some ways, yes! In other ways, no! I definitely had no idea Christopher Lloyd was ACTUALLY a toon 🤣 love that the dip is REAL. Truly, brilliant. 👏
@@CasualNerdReactions in the original script the dip was called "the final solution." (Haha, it's a chemical solution! And it also refers to...oh...oh, no...)
Wise of them to have changed that, obviously.
And with the Benny scenes, Fleischer showed up as a car
It's totally worth watching the behind the scenes and the making-of to see the insane lengths they went through to make the animated characters look good in frame and interact with the real world.
seconded. the whole thing could have so easily been a total disaster, but it's absolutely wild how good this movie * still * looks. nothing really beats hand drawn animation when you're animating on the ones at 24 fps. it's a huge part of why something like akira still looks better than 99 percent of current anime. and hoskins truly deserves all the accolades for essentially acting alone in many (most?) scenes, without even a guy in a green screen suit to bounce lines off of.
I remember when I first saw this, the one thing that impressed me more than the fun story, amazing effects and great cast, was the idea that ENDLESS hoops must have been jumped through and negotiated in order to secure the rights to use the characters from Disney, Warner Bros. and other studios interacting in the same film! I was also blown away by the use of so many of the original voice actors ...for Donald, Daffy, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Droopy Dog...this movie was a miracle for animation and film buffs!
The crossing of studios is definitely one of the more impressive feats. I would have thought that impossible to be honest. I’d love to see the fine print of how they each profited.
Especially considering, Disney famously denied MGM use of Mickey Mouse for the movie Anchors Aweigh 1945, stating Mickey only works for Disney Studios. They ended up using Jerry Mouse, which was one of MGMs cartoon characters.
I heard that one of the conditions, is that the main cartoon characters had equal screen time, Daffy & Donald and then Mickey & Bugs, the Porky Pig ending then Tinkerbells ending. It's wonderful movie magic.
I believe this just before the Disney renaissance, so they were in no position to say no. They needed the money then.
@@CasualNerdReactions funny, didn't you say on a live stream a couple of years ago that you wouldn't react to this movie?, not that I'm complaining mind you since this movie is my childhood in a nutshell, so I'd like to thank you personally for doing this.
Guys, this is a Touchstone movie. Touchstone is a branch of Disney, the same one that did Nightmare Before Christmas. They didn't have to negotiate to get their own characters. lol. The rest of that is accurate, though!
When this came out theatrically I thought I would be a cool uncle and I took my 5 year old niece to see this. Everything was going great until Judge Doom put the adorable shoe in the dip. I finally calmed her down and then Doom’s evil red eyes popped out and the war was lost.🤣👍
Haha still the cool uncle- even if you i unintentionally caused some serious trauma with this one.
Did they really need to sell the emotion with the shoe's eyes so well? You see fear, confusion, pleading, agony, horror and more in just the few seconds that innocent little shoe is on screen. Legit traumatized by that and Doom's red eyes to this day.
Notice that in the final scene, Betty Boop finally gets to be drawn in color! Apparently during the classic era, for budget reasons there was only one color Betty Boop film, but the 1960s reboot series was animated in color, and subsequently some the old B&W episodes have been computer-colorized (not without controversy, but less than when Ted Turner et al. started colorizing classic live-action films in the 1980s).
There is a similarity to _Chinatown_ , and to the later film _L.A. Confidential_ . All three have a mystery that involves the seamy underbelly of Tinsel Town, and all three loosely incorporate historical events; water wars and land speculation in the 1930s, the behind-the-scenes GM-funded buyout and subsequent closure of the streetcar companies to promote cars and buses in the 1940s, and organized crime feuds over drugs and prostitution in the 1950s.
Fun imaginative movie, Jessica voiced by Kathleen Turner who along with the late great William Hurt star in “Body Heat” a wonderful film noir from 1981, highly recommend if you haven’t seen it, thanks Chris!
Jessica's singing voice is Amy Irving.
As if I couldn’t love Christopher Llyod enough, he comes in with one of my favorite villains I have ever seen. And he portrays it within the same year as he’s portraying Doc Brown in the Back to the Future sequels! May his gifts as an actor never be undermined.
I met him at comic con.
So, the reason Donald and Daffy shared a scene, same with Mickey and Bugs, was because Disney made it a stipulation that in order to use them, the Disney characters had to have the same amount of screentime as the Looney Tunes characters. So, they put them in the same scenes.
Same number of _frames,_ as I recall.
Actually this was an Amblin entertainment/ Disney production. It was Warner Bros. And the other studios. That would only allow their characters use with equal screen time.
Fun fact: the actress Amy Irving was the singing voice of Jessica. She was married to Steven Spielberg at the time.
Wrong he never married her
False. They actually were married.
There's a reference to a classic Jimmy Stewart film Harvey, which is about an imaginary rabbit I'm certain you will enjoy
Kathleen Turner is the voice of Jessica & Amy Irving does her singing. Fun film and a great groundbreaking blend of animation & live action.
Great film. I also suggest you check out The Thief And The Cobbler (the Recobbled Cut that’s unfinished that’s close to what Richard Williams wanted). It was in production from 1964 to 1993 when it was released behind Richard Williams’ back.
Oh wild story! Could be worth looking into for that alone.
Yes! This is such a unique movie, and one of the rare live action + animation success stories.
I saw this in the theater. It was a date-night movie and was considered a huge deal when it came out.
Fun fact, the voice for Betty Boop in this movie was Mae Questel, one of the early original voices of Betty Boop reprising her role from the 1930s. Mae was also the original voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye Cartoons.
She plays the old lady in Christmas Vacation.
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“Play Ball!!” She was great. 😉
Oneof my absolute favorites growing up..
Great Reaction..
Daffy and Donald together. So awesome.
Probably will never happen again.
I always wondered why they just didn’t rewrite that one small part of the script to birds when he couldn’t get stars.
Plus if a human was killed by a toon, wouldnt it have made headlines around the world? And then everyone in the bar would’ve known.
The actor playing Eddie is British. I like to suggest you watch Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
Yeah, Hoskins probably had the best American accent this side of Hugh Laurie.
After this we got a few Rodger Rabbit shorts
He also appeared in Micky Mouse's 60th Birthday special which can be found on RUclips
one of the 1st movies to Imitate this film was Cool World as it came out while the franchise was still hot
there have been talks of a new film but nothing official however many movies have tried
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle brought toons in to the real world
Space Jam crossed over several Loony Toons cartoons in a sports star team up based on some TV advertisements that were popular at the time
Looney Toons Back in action was the next best follow up to Space Jam
then for a long time we had a break from these sorts of films then we got
Space Jam 2 which really stepped up the cameos
the Tom and Jerry Movie .. not to be confused with the other Tom and Jery movies
The Rescue Rangers Movie the next time a mega all toons crossover did a mystery
other movies I could discuss brought one cartoon character to life such as
Fat Albert
Casper
Woody Wood Pecker
Scooby Doo
Yogie Bear
Muppet movies are also very full of back ground cameos , mystery and silliness you need to know Muppets to catch all the references and they also love movie star cameos
Animaniacs and Tiny Toons enjoys there back ground cameos too but has not done a live action crossover
Anchors Aweigh 1945 contains cartoon and live action mixing but its only one part
Marry Poppins did it and so did Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks but only for one world. Also Mary Poppins Returns did it too
cartoon and live action mixing goes all the way back to the silent era however. and I can list more if I have to
Detective Pikachu also gives us CGI characters and many cameos and a mystery but that's more of a video games to life thing.
some movies like Osmosis Jones and Page Master have a cartoon part and a live action part but kept separately
and the Lego movies also have a lot of cameos and some times live action.
and the animated series Bonkers also tried to do this style but with out live action, but it is of the same rules as this.
Epic Mickey and Cupheads also dives in to these vibes a little
Check out the "making of" part when you get a chance....some ground breaking stuff like how a toon can spit real water and how tennis balls on a stick were utilized
Chris, I enjoyed your reaction, but then, I always do. You must have missed the reference to the movie "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart. While not film noir, it is a fun film. I recommend it for a future reaction. Keep those reactions coming.
Love the movie and its so well made that even tho its this old it still looks pretty good today.
Some insight for u, Jessica is very appealing to humans because of the way she looks, but toons dont care about that for them the most attractive quality is humor thats why she is lucky Roger choose her because he is the funniest toon.
The dip was actually a nickname for something used to erase animations from cards back in the day.
Also if u pay attention there are several clues that the judge is a toon, the most obvious one being that his teeth are toonish the whole time, another one is that he never blinks and well the dip cant really hurt people but he puts on gloves when dealing with it and is always careful not to touch it, for example we see him step out of the way when it gets on the floor.
It took until I was an adult to realize that The Dip was a mixture of paint thinners.
"You don't know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do."
"You don't know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do."
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."
Drink it in. You will never see another movie where Tinkerbell, Porkie Pig, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Micky Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and many others come together in one movie ever again.
This movie is also a technical marvel. The hard work in filming live-action scenes and then animating them, is legendary. It's also beyond the scope of this comment.
Fun Fact: Bob Hoskins said that, for two weeks after seeing the movie, his young son wouldn't talk to him. When finally asked why, his son said he couldn't believe his father would work with cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and not let him meet them.
Real Science Fact: The dip that kills the toons is made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene. All are paint thinners used to remove paint and images from cels.
Pause Button Opportunity Fact: When the toon train hits the Dip Machine, each window shows a murder or death taking place (if viewed frame-by-frame).
Jessica was based loosely on Veronica Lake, the Film Noir queen of the 40s and early 50s (and a couple more ladies) and thus got her peek-a-boo hair style from Veronica. Pretty good movie concept at the time. Try Steve Martin's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" he's in a movie with a lot of old actors via film clips from the 40s and 50s, the movie is OK, but seeing him acting with Bogart, and other actors was a pretty cool concept.
I second "Plaid"!
There are three Roger Rabbit short films to look for.
My favorite line: "I'm not bad I'm just drawn that way."
It’s a classic!!
Cloverleaf Industries were telegraphing their intentions... their cloverleaf logo is a freeway interchange.
BTW, an old movie that was briefly referenced here (14:05) is Harvey (1950) starring Jimmy Stewart. It's a good one.
The lady that originally voiced Betty Boop was a lady named Mae Questle. They searched her out and got her to voice Betty's part in this movie. She is more famous, recently, for her last role. She was Aunt Bethany in Christmas Vacation
A classic Bob Hoskins film is the 1979 Gangster movie The Long Good Friday. An absolutely brilliant performance
He was also excellent in the film Mona Lisa, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
Every time I see that first scene's 'director', I keep thinking, "Is that a slim Wayne Knight? Newman?!!"
For a more mature version of this style you should react to Cool World. Directed by Ralph Bakshi and starring Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt. From Wikipedia: In 1945, Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. The two are involved in a traffic collision where Frank's mother dies. Afterwards, Frank is inadvertently transported to a cartoon-like alternate universe called the "Cool World", where he restarts his life as a detective for Cool World's local police department.
I am seriously a sucker for someone who can really make me laugh. Laughter, as said in this film, is a powerful weapon. As the Rabbit said… “Those people needed to laugh” and people do. It’s so important for mental health to have moments of just stupid, can’t breathe, roll on the floor laughter. It makes everything more palatable.
"Christopher Lloyd is kinda a cartoon."
Yeah. Kinda. Hehehe.
Don't you wonder what kind of cartoons Jessica appeared in?
There were a couple of short Roger Rabbit cartoons released after the movie. Pretty sure they're all on RUclips.
Jessica Rabbit was voiced by Kathleen Turner. She was a huge movie and tv star and known for her sultry good looks and smokey voice. In her later years she got obese and started to look like a man. Instead of living in her past or regretting her lost femininity she actually embraced it and took work guest starring on Friends playing a cross-dressing man. That’s kinda badass.
0:35 - This does not have anything to do with Chinatown. It's just live action mixed with animated characters against the backdrop of a whodunit.
You know why those cartoon bullets didn't work? They were Dum Dums
Another fun (and much more adult) cartoon/human blend movie is "Cool World".
That was the original voice actor of Betty Boop from the thirties! She reprised her role, and then the very next year, appeared as a grandmother in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
The shoe that got dipped was voiced by Nancy Cartwright, you might recognize her as Bart from The Simpsons.
Eddie's sudden gymnastics are actually explained earlier on in the film. When we see his desk, we see a picture of him and his brother were originally from the circus as clowns.
This is more like a parody of Chinatown. Only with cartoon characters intermingling with real people.
I heard tim curry was originally supposed to be cast as judge doom. He was over qualified as even more terrifying for children so the part went to Christopher lloyd.
I honestly wanted to see tim curry as judge doom now. 😅
1:20 - Honestly, not the worst thing a character in a cartoon short ever did to a main toon character. Also fun bit of trivia, this opening animated sequence was part of the inspiration for the Buttons and Mindy cartoons in Animaniacs.
19:50 Yakko: Goodnight Everybody!
I have a theory on who Doom was. Who was the one prominent Disney or Warner Brothers character who is not in the crowd at the end add to this the fact that Doom has a very very slight lisp and I think that Doom was Elmer Fudd
I love this movie❤
The opening is the Warner Brothers Loony Toons (1940s on).
I saw this as a kid and though some themes were beyond my interest I did overall enjoy it.
If no one told you… Harvey was an invisible rabbit a man saw in another movie
I remember hearing somewhere that in order to clear the licensing for some of the animated characters from competing studios, they had to agree to give some of them exactly equal amounts of screen time and the only way to do that was to have them both on screen at the same time. That's why we got Donald and Daffy Duck on screen together and later Bugs and Mickey. (If I've gotten that wrong and anyone knows for sure, please comment.)
This film is one of my favorites from my childhood very classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy and music score by Alan Silvestri and of course the iconic cartoons for example Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck and many others. Thank you Chris great reaction excellent
Actress that voices Jessica - Kathleen Turner, actually resembles her - the overall charm and sensuousness. She stars in two very good 90s movies:
"Undercover Blues" - great comedy about family of secret agents.
"V.I. Warshawski" - about a female detective
Cannot leave out "Romancing the Stone"!
Thanks, i think i first saw this in high school and i dug it this time, too.
You should checkout Short Circuit 1 & 2 !
Though uncredited, Kathleen Turner provides Jessica's sultry speaking voice.
Be sure not to miss her in live-action - Romancing The Stone is probably her best
With Amy Irving providing JR's singing voice, also uncredited.
Please do keep up with the classic black and whites, the film noirs especially. They mentioned the comedy "Harvey" have you seen that one? A classic starring James Stewart.
Definitely need to see Harvey! I’m taking a detour for a bit from that time period. I enjoy it, but i know I can’t stay there too as it’s a not my natural leaning. I want to make sure I get peak enjoyment. There will be a couple oldies popping into October that I’m looking forward to. (And one or two sneaking on to Patreon as exclusives).
The land grab plot was also a riff on Chinatown
This movie is a little silly, but really it does sorta mark the pinnacle of this type of filmmaking that you don't really get nowadays. I would say this movie, Labyrinth, and Beetlejuice are kind of the last of the great pre-CGI special effects-driven blockbusters. The craftsmanship and imagination on display is incredible, in my opinion
Hello its suppose to be silly. Didn't you ever watch the cartoons from the 30s and 40s?
The movie was based (Very Loosely) on the book "Who Censored Roger Rabbit" where Roger is actually killed (Or Censored) and Eddie has to solve the mystery.
My go-to example of an adaptation that was far superior to the book.
They basicly took the plot from "chinatown" and added the characters from the rodger rabbit book. They even offered the lead role to jack Nicholson.
That would have interesting with Jack… different. Lol
This is just one of the best movies ever made, no doubt about it.
I love Doom's extremely in-depth plan. He robs a bank, kills Eddie's brother, makes a human suit, buys an election with the stolen money, starts the dummy corporation Cloverleaf, murders Acme and Maroon(and a shoe), and plans to murder unknown thousands of his fellow toons AND destroy the city they live in so he can level it to build a freeway and, I'm guessing, he probably plans to own all those hotels and gas stations and whatnot through Cloverleaf. It's wild.
It’s diabolical.
This was the crossover we didn’t know we needed.
The first scene in Eddy's office is one of the best pieces of cinematic storytelling I've seen. It shows that he and his brother used to work with toons, that they both grew up on the circus (foreshadowing his comedy act at the end), and that Eddy used to be a goofy fun-loving guy! All shown with only about two minutes of footage, and no dialogue!
Yes! Really well done.
This was the multiversal movie of the '80s. It was such a big deal back then. If you are able to watch the behind-the-scenes footage of how that made it I would definitely suggest it. Fascinating! And it was awesome that you caught most of the references!
"She's Married to Roger Rabbit?"
Me: I need to get out more, I could do ok.
😅 same.
Bob Hoskins dancing and singing the weasels to death is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time.
This was the one and only time Donald and Daffy duck appeared on screen at the same time.
A wonderful occurrence.
Watched it in theaters, immediately loved the craft of it. The plot was alright, but it earns double points for being different than the things out around that time.
So, I'm curious... why are you just a CASUAL nerd? As a nerd, myself, I think it's really not something one should only be casual about! Trust me - be a serious nerd. :p lol
I be who I be. My thought process was more or less that I enjoy nerdy stuff, but I don’t typically dive too deep into lore and such. I keep it casual. 😅 I’m sure there’s plenty to be serious about. Haha
@@CasualNerdReactions lol yes - some of us nerds are definitely TOO serious. You'd think they had money invested in the franchises or something lol (btw, i hope you knew i was just joking. Every time i see "casual nerd" i wonder "how can a nerd be casual?" Haha I really enjoy your content & reactions. Good luck as you grow in subscribers and keep up the great job :)
YES! I don't know where to start with this film, too many great bits to chose from. 1 funny bit for me was Bob's song and dance and the weights falling on his head. Glad I got to grow up with this film
What I love about this film is it was made before CGI was common. As I understand it, all the toons were hand drawn which means the real life actors had to perform all the physical work to nothing (a great example is when they were hiding in that room in the bar, Roger jumps to the hidden peep hole and takes Eddie and Dolores with him). Brilliant film
Good reaction! This is one that throws many people off, misinterpreting it as a gimmick-film "how is this a childrens movie!?" and completely missing the unique experience it is; it's a neo noir dark comedy, it just happens to be about animated characters while telling a real good story about class, corruption, gentrification - the book it's based on is of course, even darker.
Obviously, none of that stopped 80s parents from seeing the jolly VHS cover, and rent it for their kids, me included.
(Doom's red eyed reveal is probably one of the scariest moments of my childhood)
This film is technically based on the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit, but it really just takes the book's basic setting of a 1940s Los Angeles where cartoon characters exist alongside humans, and plants a script that was originally a Chinatown sequel into it. In fact, in the novel, the answer to "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" turns out to be NO ONE, because he actually did commit the murder Eddie has been trying to absolve him of. Yeah, it gets pretty dark. But I still liked it a lot on its own merits.
#Justiceforsqueakyshoe!
I love the fact that in-universe (and the movie's time) the second Judge Doom says, "not in the next 15 minutes anyway," it takes 14 minutes and 50 seconds for Doom to be completely submerged in the dip. He never is legally the owner of Toontown before his death.
if you liked the animation in this, you should watch The Thief and The Cobbler ( the recobbled cut,) it's from the animator who did Roger Rabbit, Richard Willliams.
You should drop the "Nerd" gimmick and do some research like I have.
Watching 'Overboard' again with Moldy Spawn and Burt Brussell.
Can you spot 20 details connecting this film to 'The Lost Boys'?
I can.
Hint:
There is NO Happy Ending.
😎
In the graphic novel of the film published in 1989 by Marvel Comics, Valiant is the narrator of the story, telling the film through his eyes and in the style of a detective story. According to Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom, Valiant eats jellybeans to cope with his new-found teetotalism. In the novel Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?, Valiant has once again vowed to no longer take any Toon cases, but is forced to do so when Baby Herman is found dead.
this was one of my favorite movies as a kid, in fact I had a "Roger Rabbit" sleeping bag. and as adult, I love it even more. great music, fantastic acting, incredibly sharp writing, and phenomenal effects!
You:Chris Lloyd is a bit of a toon...
Me: wait about 15-20 minutes!