Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Rating: 6/10 (14 September 2009)

This half-animation/ half-live-action tribute to the film-noir genre, crossed with the effervescent gag spirit of the old "Looney Tunes" series, is good and enjoyable, but not as good as it's reputation would suggest. At the time there was lots of bragging about the "revolutionary" mixing of animation and live-action, which is sort of mystifying, seeing as it was already done way back in the 40's with films like The Three Caballeros. Oh well, the manipulative force of the media at it again. On a side-note, Bob Hoskins is just marvelous as declined alcoholic detective Eddie Valiant, and Christopher Lloyd (of "Back to the Future" fame) fits perfectly as the paranoid Judge Doom.