AC2: Random Movie Review - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

I kind of feel bad that after putting this film on so many ranking lists that I have never done a proper review. So let's get on that today. So after finishing the Back to the Future films, Robert Zemeckis (the protege of Steven Spielberg at the time) began work on this film. What many of us may not know is that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is based on a book and although much of the book is used in the film, most of the film differ greatly from it and for good reason. It attempts to not just be a live action and animation hybrid (something of which had been experimented on beforehand, but never was as full on until this film), but also attempts to combine Disney's high quality animation, Warner Bros. characterisation and Tex Avery humour. It was a technical masterpiece at the time and it just goes to show much later films that maybe cheaply made CGI characters in live action films are nothing compared to the 2D cartoons of old. So let's look at this masterpiece of a film:

So the film begins with Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer) doing a typical slapstick cartoon with his co-star Baby Herman (voiced by Lou Hirsch). But it then cuts to a typical Hollywood set in which we learn that this a film set in a world where humans and cartoons co-exist, but cartoons are treated like how people of a different race were treated back when equal rights were non-existent. Our main hero Detective Eddie Valiant (played by the late Bob Hoskins) was once ready and willing to help toons until his brother died at the hands of a toon and vowed never to help them again. But he soon finds himself helping Roger Rabbit when its discovered that his wife Jessica (voiced by Kathleen Turner) might be having an affair until the man she was with gets killed and it then falls to Eddie to find out the truth while also finding out some harsh truths about what happened to his brother.

Although the film has had controversy, countless re-edits (though not as much as the Star Wars films) and is arguably one of Disney's most mature and darkest of films (so much so that Touchstone had to distribute it on their behalf), its still a great film. Its probably one of a few times where we get a mature film about cartoons and it is still the technical masterpiece that I'm sure it was when it first came out (I wouldn't know because I was born a few years after it came out). Great fun, a bit scary but definitely one for fans of those old cartoons that came before it and definitely not a family friendly film that's for sure. 9/10