Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 by AverageMansReviews

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/disintegrating/shooting/disfigurement/electrocution/racism/medical. Even though in the UK this film has a PG rating, I would strongly recommend 12A, because of its to begin with elements of the dark nature, but in the final quarter more less than dark things are present until the end and just a little bit of extra advice; never seen this title into a device, because it will take it as a literal question and tell you the answer; so if it should happen that you have never seen this film, you may want to avoid doing this.

So who did it then?: In 1947 Los Angeles; a partially owned Disney performer; Roger Rabbit/other characters [voice by: Charles Fleischer:] he is a nice rabbit, but a bit of a dimwit that has allegedly shot and killed somebody, Judge Doom [Christopher Lloyd:] he is a ruthless Supreme County Judge of Toontown; that has created this substance known as Dip; the substance can kill all cartoons better known as toons, so you would like to get his hands on Rabbit to pass sentence and carry out justice, but there is only one person standing in the way of this possible outcome; Eddie Valiant [Bob Hoskins:] he is a private investigator that owns his own private investigation business; which is self-titled with his family last name twice; once to represent him and the other to represent his brother; which sadly was killed by a toon so Eddie uses drink to get through every day now.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script, the framework and pacing of this 104 minutes film isn't the most quickest, but it doesn't have to be based on the facts that we have a lot to experience, which throughout this content we will be covering at some point or another.

Art, comedy, action and character developments; throughout be it set designs, wardrobe and accessories; it is very fitting and very authentic to the time period of what this film is based in, but also simultaneously; we have the hand drawn, I will say that again the hand drawn/optical compositing through this project is absolutely massive and quite clearly beautiful; basically it gave the illusion of; live-action [which I guess it was in theory back then;] but this was extremely just about 1000 times better instead of computer animation of today's standards; because in this film you get a more genuine and authentic cohesion between our world and in this case the toon world and even though I'm not an expert I can take an educated guess that; producing animation like this would be so astronomically high that it just wouldn't be worth spending millions upon millions of dollars and then run the risk of it flopping at the box office.

We do have some iconic crossovers such as Disney; Donald Duck [voices by: Tony Anselmo/Clarence Nash] and Acme; Daffy Duck [voice by: Mel Blanc:] these two are a double act on two pianos and because individually they are known for being a hothead for the individual companies and clearly not wanting to share the limelight this performance quickly disintegrates into chaos where at one point you will see a old-fashioned pirate ship cannon with cannon ball being shot

later on Roger arrests Valiant to himself; but then Valiant angrily points out he doesn't have the keys for these handcuffs; after dealing with some unwanted guests looking for Rabbit; where Rabbit had to hide in the sink full of water where he was clearly struggling to hold his breath, they had to go somewhere to find this saw to get these handcuffs off; where halfway through Valiant was struggling on this makeshift table of sorts; so Rabbit just slipped out of these handcuffs to hold this makeshift table still; Valiant furiously asks; where just to cover my back I am paraphrasing this; " You could have done this at any time?" Rabbit responds with "Not until it becomes funny." Which on one hand he is right there; it is hilarious and not only that on the other hand it is a very intelligent/intellectually sound/integral character wrinkle to being a cartoon/toon character.

Character developments, performances and voice performances; the character developments are in-depth, coinciding with performances and voice performances of immaculate standard; the chemistry throughout the cast of every character is priceless; in particular the names I have mentioned in the storyline/script section, but I am absolutely furious that Hoskins didn't receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actor; I mean I'm not saying he should have won it, but nominations without question; considering putting this really nicely; he broke his mind for this role; he trained his brain to hallucinate where these characters were on screen, so much so he can stop, so he was told after completing this film to have 5 months off, but he did some recognition by positive awards in one way or another.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; it showed or in my opinion it will forever be a film that you need to see once in your lifetime and a film that is a classic for everything about it; please keep in mind about my warning for those that are especially sensitive to violence, this film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 26 Winners Academy Awards, USA 1989 Oscar Best Film Editing Arthur Schmidt, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing Charles L. Campbell Louis L. Edemann, Best Effects, Visual Effects Ken Ralston Richard Williams Ed Jones George Gibbs and  Special Achievement Award Richard Williams For animation direction and creation of the cartoon characters. 25 Nominees which also includes but not limited to returning this event/ceremony with Best Cinematography Dean Cundey, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Elliot Scott Peter Howitt, Best Sound Robert Knudson John Boyd Don Digiro lamo Tony Dawe