Excellent Spielberg/Zemeckis Production besides Back to the Future

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2006)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit/1988/****
Main Stars: Bob Hoskins Charles Fleischer Christopher Lloyd Joanna Cassidy Stubby Kaye Alan Tilvern
Okay, I know I've seen this movie thousands of times. It's just I've never had a chance to review it so don't wonder that I've never seen this or the classic Jaws just now! Especially not Jaws that I have seen countless times. Now this is a wonderful most original film yet it could have been extended. Anyone knows that yet it is still the enchanted, original, ultra loud, excellent film brought to you by the people that brought to you Back to the Future: Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg among others! So, where do the filmmakers get the title? Well, Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer) was framed for killing the famous Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye). But since he was "framed", who really did the killing? Well there's one person so sinister, so dark, and so evil, it's not even funny. Who, WHO could possibly be that person? Well, you'll find out the answers even though it's pretty obvious. Who's the most evil character that tries to kill the valiant Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins)? Who's the evil immoral jerk that killed Eddie's brother ("D-dropped a piano on his head!")? Who tried to kill Eddie himself by trying to kill him with a razor sharp yellow cartoon wheel that spins round and round to slice him in half? Who's the "inhuman" toon that has bulging eyes? All those answers are revealed in the movie for you. Because the movie is so great but too short, it has bunches and bunches of things you need to follow that are actually surprisingly "fun" to follow! The movie opens with a scene from a cartoon starring Roger Rabbit himself. Roger has to save the baby that's stuck on the counter who could careless about Roger. He just wants to get to the jar of cookies at the top of the refrigerator and then Roger gets injured a lot in that. So at the end of the cartoon, Roger gets smashed in the head carelessly, and sees tweedy birds around his head instead of stars that he was supposed to see. So the director starts yelling at him. Surprisingly the innocent baby in the cartoon even started yelling at him in an annoying raspy middle-aged fat man's voice. So Roger starts hitting his head trying to prove to the director that he can see stars instead of chirping tweedy birds around his head. Then it focuses in on Eddie who then says in a typical-annoyed-basically-stating-that-all-toons-are-that-way voice, "Toons". Anywaaazz, how would Roger try to keep secret and hide by neither keeping secret nor hiding? By hiding in a bar owned by Valiant's "friend" Dolores (Joanna Cassidy). He would have to make sure not to cause too much attraction unless he wants to be submerged face down into Judge Doom's (Christopher Lloyd's) THE DIP! So Valiant keeps him with Dolores in a bar that shakes every time a trolley goes by causing the lights to shake and almost hit someone in the head. Yet Roger is a TOON and can't keep secret at all. He "has to make people laugh!" So he sings to them and uses a record as background music. When the record gets stuck in one spot and does the same note over and over and over again, Roger will also do the same thing over and over and over again using plates to crash on his head (do-do, CRASH, do-do, CRASH, do-do, CRASH, do-do, CRASH)! So Eddie picks him up from the bar knocking over the remaining plates and lets them shatter and throws him in to a dark room to shut him up. That's where he needs to hide but not for long In the movie there's the will of Marvin Acme involved in the external conflict and the body and soul of R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern), owner of Maroon Cartoons. But then Cloverleaf butts in and la-di-da and if you haven't seen the film, I suggest you do since it's a classic and will remain one. Toon Town, Maroon Cartoons, Acme Cartoons, the whole story of Judge Doom and the freeway needing to be built, THE DIP, the characters themselves and the names of them are rather clever, the whole deal/package! What a wonderful, excellent film! Movie directed by Robert Zemeckis.