Review of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) by Gerry P — 08 Oct 2012

SPOILER ALERT:

Although Who Framed Roger Rabbit is supposed to be a family film, it's a little hard core. The plot is about a cartoon character who's accused of murder, the main character is an alcoholic, there's plenty of innuendos which'll have parents getting alarmed when they show the film to their kids, (especially the "Patty cake" scene) and the finale where the villain gets run over by the steam roller and appears to be a psychotic cartoon character. You can't make a film like this today.

Bob Hoskins is great as Eddie. Not only does he plays a character with a grudge (a subject when can all relate to), but he also is very good at acting to characters who are not there. He really makes you believe that he is talking to cartoon characters.

Oh, yeah. I'm supposed to talk about Jessica Rabbit. Yes, she is the sexiest cartoon character of all time, men still talk about her to this day, people have crushes on her and make websites about her. The whole thing makes me wanna grab men by the heads and scream in their faces "SHE'S NOT REAL!" But even if I did do that, they wouldn't care.

The effects, after 24 years, some hold up (such as Jessica performing at the club, Eddie talking to Roger in the office and the cinema) other effects don't (the car chase, Eddie in Toontown and some far away shots of the toons.).

My only flaw with this film is that Roger can get really annoying. Lindsay Ellis (the Nostalgia Chick) called him a "Jar Jar Binksian character". Fortunately, he gets crushed by several objects and strangled by Eddie to make up for it.

Overall, it's just a clever, clever, clever story that's timeless and watching it once is just not enough.