Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Is a Testament to Several Ideals in Cinema, and a Precedence-setting Film.

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2006)

*Spoilers eeverwharr* Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was one of my favourite titles as a youth, and even now that I'm eighteen, I still thoroughly enjoy every second of it. I watched it just the other day, and even though I can pretty much recite every second of it, it's still an almost magical experience for any variety of individualistic movie-goer.
For starters, this movie is big. The inclusion of cartoon characters ranging from Disney to Warner Brothers is a massive undertaking that I can only guess as to how much time it actually took to gather licenses and credits for it. In their respective roles, all of them held true to their etched origin and personas ranging from Bugs Bunny's free-fall antics on Eddy Valiant to Betty Boop's showgirl-esquire personality, featured in the club where Daffy and Donald Duck are dueling it out with pianos(Again proving Daffy will always be better solo than with Bugs). The interaction with the 40's and 50's setting American characters was flawless as well, as it easily captured the early-American, smoothe vibe even with the inclusion of their comic, pencil-drawn counterparts.
The main point this movie excels at is personality. The newly-crafted cartoon characters have a riotous appearance, especially Baby Herman, the womanizing, dwarfed man. I'm partial especially to the appearance of Roger's wife, Jessica Rabbit. While, still a cartoon, she manages to pull off a distinctly human character based slightly in the moronic antics of her cartoon ilk, such as cheating on Roger by way of playing patty-cake with Marvin Acme. However, she manages to resign herself to a relatively shady and intriguing figure throughout the movie. You'll be surprised how elusive to protagonism or antagonism she is, especially for being a cartoon. Not to mention, being an animator myself, she's been one of the characters that I've idolized most since I was young(I've even got a custom guitar with a graphic of her. The model name is the JESSICA-7821) Of course, the cast of quirky characters doesn't end there. Christopher Lloyd plays Judge Doom, a new character on the political scene with an intense aversion to toons, which reveals it's own plot twist in the end. The Toon Patrol is also a lovable bunch, consisting of a mob of jackals that break out into uncontrollable fits of laughter throughout every miniscule joke. The war between them all is a riot on it's own.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is not only an inventive, but heartfelt, ingenious, memorable and funny movie that will stand the test of time very well.