Product: Who Framed Roger Rabbit [VHS] (1988)
Rating: 5.0
An all-inclusive look at the animated classic
1987's "marriage" of animation and live action still holds up quite well due to the performances of Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd and the vocal skills of Charles Fleischer and Kathleen Turner. The DVD offers the fan everything that he/she wants to know about the making of the movie.The only complaint that I could register would be in the first disc's compilation of the three theatrical Roger Rabbit "shorts". Viewing them back to back reveals their shortcomings. While it is obvious that Zemeckis and company were paying homage to the great Tex Avery 'toons of the thirties, forties, and fifties, these newer films lacked Avery's brilliant over-the-top "bite." Avery had a lunacy unlike any other director of animated films and he couldn't be imitated.I know Avery and Zemeckis is no Avery.