Roger, shut the hell up!

Rating: 3/10 (26 June 2020)

I had such high hopes in 1988 when I first heard the details about this movie being made. I read every article about it, anticipating its opening. Add Robert Zemeckis to the mix and I wanted to see it as bad as "Back to the Future II" (another disappointment, by the way) and the release was finally here and I went on opening day. Sure, the combined animation and live action was genius, but the story itself needed a complete re-write, for starters. Bob Hoskins was totally miscast as the drunken detective. The opening cartoon was funny but that just started all the screaming from Roger to follow. When the title character is this pathetic and loud and annoying, it's not a fun experience. I tried it again twenty years after its premier and I still didn't like it much, if at all. Watch it with the sound off Eddie! Pl-leeeeze!