My favourite in film thing is when Roger slips out of the handcuffs, Eddie yells "you could do that the whole time??" and he replies "no, only when it would be funny"
Bob Hoskins actually used to be part of a circus when he was younger. In the scene when he dances for the weasels you see eddy valiant do some back flips. People assume it's a stunt double doing this, but it in fact is actually Bob himself doing the back flips. If I remember correctly he does all his scenes, no stunt double.
Here's one for you... Judge Doom never blinks on camera. Seriously, watch him, he doesn't blink. I'm guessing it's hard to blink when you have knives right behind your eyes but it's just a little touch Christopher Lloyd added to make him even creepier
***** did christoper lloyd ever blink in back to the future? i remember doc having a sort of mad scientist stare but i dont remember if he ever blinked when it wasnt in amazement
morgan megurine I think he did. He was wide eyed a lot but he did blink. Judge Doom he did it because, if I recall correctly, he believed that a cartoon villain wouldn't blink so it's also just a hint that this guy isn't human.
You can also notice that when the drum of Dip gets tipped over, Doom steps back rather quickly and the group behind him backs up when he does. This was of course a subtle hint what Doom was a Toon becausem as we know, Dip doesn't hurt humans.
lol I noticed that too. But one subtle aspect about the scene is, the other humans didn't back away on their own. If you noticed, the Judge brings up his hands and pushes them back with him so it gives the impression they're all avoiding it, but since the Dip is harmless to humans it made little sense. It was a nice ploy to hide himself.
Netherwolf6100 I highly doubt dip is harmless to humans. It looks highly acidic and honestly looks like it's should have a biohazard label on it. I'd be afraid to even breath the fumes. Sure it won't melt us like it does a toon. But I'm sure it could tear up your hand pretty bad if you were to touch it.
One of the first movies with cartoon characters in real life to be fair could toon town be better then real life because in a cartoon if you fall you still be hurt but you still get back up unlike in real life
My favorite touch is that Jessica keeps her hands on the small of her back, not on her hips. Real women who are busty often have back pain issues, so if it was possible for a toon to experience anything similar, Jessica would have it worse than anyone else we see in the Toon world.
One detail that I really like is during the Betty Boop scene where she tells Eddie that she's selling cigarettes at the club because "Work's been kind of slow since cartoons went to colour!" Given the time period this is very likely a reference to the transition from Silent Movies to Sound where a lot of actors would lose their jobs if they weren't trained right for sound pictures, or didn't have the right sounding voice! Always makes me feel a bit sorry for her, cos she's still got it!
Betty Boop in this movie is voiced by the late Mae Questel, one of Betty Boop's original voice actresses all the way back in the 1930s. Mae also provided the voice of Popeye's girlfriend, Olive Oyl, in the majority of the Popeye theatrical shorts.
Bowmaj 86 It was tye last year for some of the greats. I hold this movie with extremely high regard. I think it is probibly the greatest movie ever made a imply because of its amazing animated feat. Nothing like it has ever been produced.
Some paints have a scent when it's fresh, so it's possible for Doom to figure out that Roger was there by how fresh the paint is; the stronger the wet paint smell, the more recent he's been there. And yes, how Doom sniffed the record is still creepy.
1. Prior to the DVD release, the "Allyson Wonderland" sign in the bathroom had a number, allegedly to then Disney CEO Michael Eisner's office. 2. Once Eddie goes into the alleyway brandishing the toon gun, you can clearly see the animators forgot to draw over the reference prop. After all this time & rereleases, this has never been fixed. Why?
For #2, it's because traditional cell animation is time consuming and expensive, which is also why pretty much all animated films are CGI now. It's not worth the time and money to fix.
@@tkayube And also the Queen of Hearts, by his own admission. But the character turns out to be much more complex in videos like the Scooby Doo review and "the review must go on".+@
The first time i saw this movie it was right at the end at the car chase right after Maroon is shot and im thinking this is some cop crime movie starring Bod Hoskins, but then he enters toon town and theres Bugs and Mikey skydiving, a talking taxi, Christopher Loyde in black with a rubbery face and i felt so lost inside
The first time I saw this movie was after the climax, where everyone was singing. My first thought was, "oh my God! Disney and Looney tunes together! I gotta check this out.
Go recheck the scenes in RK Maroon's office. Note that there is a poster for "Pistol Packin' Possum" in the background. The character is holding an extremely long gun that *always* points at RK Maroon whenever he is in frame. Foreshadowing...? Coincidentally Judge Doom uses the *same* gun to kill Maroon later in the film. Also this possum has a few similarities to Doom including those "burnin' red eyes" and a similar looking hat. Maybe Doom's identity was right in front of our faces the entire time...
If that's true, him being a rodent would actually be a good reason for the connection between Doom and a pack of weasels beyond just "they're slimy thugs, of course they'd be weasels".
Well, Judge Doom's real identity, Baron Von Rotten, was a character actor who was known as "The Toon With A Thousand Faces." So it's possible that Baron Von Rotten was also PPP before getting a brain injury that made him truly megalomaniacal.
Have you ever noticed that in the seen were all the Toons are clapping after getting the deed to Toon Town back; Bugs looks so disinterested, he's capping but not as enthusiastix. Everyone else is cheering and looks happy but Bugs is just like "Eh, who cares?"
+DarkraiNewmoon Yeah, Bob was amazing. Do you realize that probably half the scenes in the movie was acting to nothing? Not too many actors can do that effectively.
***** Oh, wow Cool World....took me years to finally finish it on Netflix. There is some neat stuff going on here and there, but ended up to just be as a cluster of nonsense which I did not enjoy.
I think the ending is what could have redeemed the movie for me but instead ruined it for me. I mean they kind of abandoned all structure, logic or plot to go full acid trip. Which can be admired on it's own accord.
+pharaohyami5000 Honestly I'd go a step further and say this is the best kids film ever made. It has something for just about everyone, young and old. Absolutely adored "Toon Doom" when I was a kid.
FUN FACT: The graffiti on the bathroom wall @08:04 - "THE BEST IS YET TO BE" was a replacement line. The original graffiti was Michael Eisner's phone number. and was replaced following the theatrical release to home video. As you might imagine; Michael was not happy.
What else you can't see on DVD is the scene where Betty Boop does here catchphrase and her dress falls off; which happen in her old cartoons. It was cut out when it was released from home video, and the only way you can see it is on a bootleg that was ripped from a air flight movie.
There's a single, tiny clue to Judge Dooms actual toon identity as well. When Eddie is confronting RK Maroon in his office, Just before Maroon gets shot you see the silhouette of a gun against a picture of a little known toon called "Pistol Packin Possum" The gun in the picture matches the silhouette exactly, and he's also got Dooms same hat and red eyes =>
When Valliant comes into Maroon's office, you see the roman numeral date of the Pistol Packin' Possum cartoon which is a completely bogus date. Also if Doom is the possum, why is he yellow? I always saw him as an enormous villainous American Goldfinch or something.
I heard Popeye was going to have an actual scene in this movie but they couldn't afford the licensing fees. I guess they found a way to sneak him in after all.
JustinEvitable80 that's the one dirty joke I didn't like in this movie. I can take Sylvester saying pussy instead of cat, and an oven saying it's hotter in hell, but that just seems unnecessary.
4:19 _Harvey_ came out in 1950, but this movie takes place in 1947, indicating Angelo has seen a movie from the future and is OBVIOUSLY a time traveler. *X-Files theme plays*
One little tidbit that I always like is the hint that Judge Doom is really the toon, Pistol Packin Possum. Aside from some staging in Maroon's office (where P.P.P.'s poster is always pointing his gun at the executive, and then the reflection before he's shot), Doom's true form has the same color irises and uses the same gun to kill R.K. as the gun-toting marsupial in the poster.
7:17 I just noticed that in the bottom left area of the screen you can see a toon crossing the street with a newspaper, now I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but he looks exactly like goofy from the short “Motor Mania” ,and he’s even crossing the road in the same direction.
It was revealed in a comic that Judge Doom’s real name is Baron Von Rotten,who played villains in many toons. But after a blow to the head, he thought he was an actual villain, which made him into the crazed nutball we all know him as.
Huh, I thought he be the Pistol Packin Possum as we saw on the poster in Maroon's office. It could've make sense for the fact he had red eyes, he use a pistol to kill Maroon, and what pulls the key clue: He had one movie poster while Roger has a bunch showing sign his spotlight was taken and wasn't in the film at all. It would've make sense of why Roger is the target of framing
wasn't there that other nod where the judge is a toon, it was in the bar fight, and when eddie and roger escape dropping the dip, the judge quickly backs away from it.
Dip is basically a mix of every chemical paint thinner. Not pleasant stuff, even if you're human. Not saying you're wrong, just that anyone is going to back off from that stuff.
After rescuing Benny the Cab, they quickly go by a store called "McMarty's." I'm thinking this is possibly a "Back to the Future" reference (Marty McFly). Speaking of "Back to the Future," Jessica's vehicle looks surprisingly similar to the car that Marty and his mom "parked" in during "Back to the Future." The tunnel to Toontown is also the same tunnel used in "Back to the Future 2" when 1955 Biff attempting to run Marty over with his 1946 Ford. I also discovered that Eddie Valliant's brother was killed by Doom in 1942.
Another piece of trivia: Tim Curry auditioned for the role of Judge Doom but the writers found his performance would have been too terrifying, and we think Christopher Lloyd’s performance was scary!
Christopher Lloyd, Doom's actor, figured out that his character was a toon when he was told in his script not to blink. This shows in the movie, where Doom never blinks even once. This, along with the constantly bellowing cape, occasionally shiny glasses, overly dramatic monologuing of his master plan and he slips a couple of times on the fake eyes before he finally falls over all serve as the miniature hints that he isn't what he seems.
Even as a kid, I knew that there was something REALLY suspicious about Judge Doom whenever a gust of wind blew his cape, even when he's clearly indoors.
I do like how when you see Eddie standing on the street of Toontown after arriving there, you can see all the various buildings and their smiley faces. I love how the one building on the extreme left of the screen is a barber shop that literally says "Hare Cuts" and has a picture of a hare with a pair of scissors at his neck. I also love how in the center of the screen you can see the Bar building drunkenly leaning against the building next to it on one side and the Police building is on the other side constantly glaring at it.
Special effects maestro Ken Ralston body doubles for Christopher Lloyd with a nice bit of physical acting in the scene where Judge Doom runs from our heroes down a Toontown alley, vowing revenge.
Every time I watch this movie I'm just in awe. The amount of work that went into it is so staggering. It's still impressive, even by today's standards.
Here's a random fact about me that no one asked, or cares about: when I was 8, the scene with the squeaky boots being melted made me cry so much that I wasn't allowed to watch the rest of it....
I personally love the camera angles where they purposely cast a glare in Judge Doom's glasses. It's a technique often used for bad guys who wear glasses.
I've also got some facts for you! Marvin Acme's funeral was gonna have Foghorn Leghorn delivering the sermon and having Acme's pallbearers being Goofy, Popeye, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Felix the Cat and even Casper! This was cut not only due to budget costs but also because the film didn't have the right to use Popeye, Little Lulu, Chip and Dale, Pepe Le Pew, Mighty Mouse, Casper, Tom and Jerry and even Superman! This movie was one of the last times that Mel Blanc did his famous Looney Tunes characters before his 1989 death. The penguins in the Ink and Paint Club are actually from Mary Poppins which wasn't even released until 1964 which is a couple of years after the film takes place. To be fair since toons are real in the film chances are that they weren't really discovered yet. This could also be the same for when Marvin the Martian appears among the toons in the final scene of the film since Marvin's first cartoon would be released in 1948. The ToonTown tunnel is the same tunnel in the climax of Back to the Future Part II which also has the same producer, director and star Christopher Lloyd. Some of the animators in the film would later go on to be big names in the medium like Andreas Deja who would be an animator for several characters like Gaston, Jafar, Scar, Hercules and even Lilo. Howy Parkins would later go on to animate The Simpsons, Rocko's Modern Life and Recess. Bruce W Smith would later be the animation co-director for Space Jam and creator of the TV series The Proud Family. And even Chuck Jones is on this project as an animation consultant Charlie Fliescher did not just Roger but also Benny the Cab and when he was doing the shoots he would wear a Roger Rabbit suit. Talk about cosplaying as your own character! Roger Rabbit's box office and critical success sparked new interests for both companies of the project. Spielberg's company Amblin would work on Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid for Warner Bros TV Animation and of course this movie would give Disney the green light to make The Little Mermaid which would introduce us to the Disney Renaissance!
Here's an interesting tidbit. The production crew made life sized figures for Roger and the weasel, as well as a few other characters, and would run through the scenes a few times moving the figures around so that the actors would know where to look. They had a human actress for Jessica.
I'm surprised you did not mention the scene where Eddie, Roger, and Dolores are hiding in the bar. The swinging light source made it so difficult to animate Roger, in fact many of the animators have gone on record saying that scene was the hardest thing to animate in the movie, some of them saying it was the hardest thing they have ever animated
@Meh...whatever In the book the toon double is called a "doppleganger" and can be mentally created by the toon. They are used for stunts since the actual toon is just a vulnerable to death as a human. But dopplegangers only last for a short time. The book is quite different from the movie, and very little, other than the characters (who are different for the most part too) made it into the final movie. For one thing, Roger is comic strip performer rather than a cartoon performer.
@@Solitaire001 Yeah, it's a lot less positive than the movie. Both Roger and Jessica are major jerkasses, and Jessica despises Roger. She only married him because he was rich and famous. So, basically she's everything R.K. Maroon accused her of in the movie. Interestingly, the author of the novel has stated he actually prefers what they did in the film over his novel, and the sequels he wrote later actually retcon the story to be make them sequels to the film, with the original novel being a nightmare Jessica had.
@@jonathonbartos3061 The reason Jessica married Roger was due to a wish Roger was unknowingly granted by a toon genie. The wish compelled Jessica to be a devoted wife to Roger, and she was helpless against the wish. One year later, the wish ended and Jessica left Roger. The Genie granted the wish, but put a twist in it in the form of a time limit.
I actually knew about fact #4, but only by accident. I was watching this film on Netflix one day, I paused it during one of those action scenes & discovered Eddi was a toon in those scenes!!! Also, anyone else noticed the EVIL RABBIT shadow that usually appeared behind Judge Doom in the warehouse at the end?
For 9 I did the play Harvey.....I am going to spoil it a bit but.... Harvey is actually there and is real he only let's certain people he likes see him
4:26 Well, yes and no. The 1950 movie Harvey with Jimmy Stewart is based on a play written by Mary Chase in 1944. There’s no way that Who Framed Roger Rabbit would ever be referencing the film with Jimmy Stewart because that movie came out in 1950 and Who Framed Roger Rabbit takes place in 1947. HA! Something YOU didn’t know about the movie!! :)
According to Jim Cummings at a Q&A, who voiced one of the bullets (and one of the weasel gangsters, although most of his speaking parts were deleted but can be found on the DVD extras), all of the bullets fired from the toon gun have voices that are meant to resemble the actors that usually played the sidekicks to famous leading men in Westerns. Sadly, I am not familiar enough with Westerns to remember the ones he named or which one he played.
During the theatrical run of the movie, that "for a good time, call Allyson Wonderland" marking in the bathroom had a REAL phone number written below it. I remember seeing it. The animators jokingly put it in; it was Disney executive Michael Eisner's office phone number. They took it out afterwards for all home video.
Yosemite Sam in this movie was actually NOT voiced by Mel Blanc in this movie, as he couldn't do Sam's voice anymore. Sam was instead voiced by Joe Alaskey (who would later voice many of the other Looney Tunes characters after Blanc's passing).
As you know, in the scene where Eddie & Roger are hiding in the movie theater, the cartoon that's playing on the screen is "Goofy Gymnastics". Now, that particular short was originally released in 1949 & this film takes place in 1947.
Judge Doom was "Pistol Packin Possom" You can see the full poster every time they are in RK Maroons office (Even right when he gets shot ) Cant believe I never noticed before!
There’s another thing I noticed when watching the movie on Disney+. Another hint that Doom is a toon is a shot in the acme factory and he’s descending down an elevator and there are rows and rows of rubber masks all around him. His face somehow seems to blend in well with those masks....
the voice of Betty Boop was voiced by Mae Questel who also voice the original Betty Boop in the 1930s to the 1950s this was one of her last performances before her death a decade later in January 1998 at the age of 89....
Me before video: Oh please I'm sure I know everything about Roger Rabbit. After all it's my favorite movie of all time. Me after video: I NEVER KNEW THAT!!!!!
I'm sure it's been pointed out before, but the Dip is comprised of turpentine, acetone, and benzene which were/are paint thinners/removers. Which would make sense that it would kill a toon because it's erasing the ink that makes them
What I Like About This Movie Is Because It's A Rare Movie,It's A Crossover Movie Of Fictional Characters,Other Movies Include Wreck It Ralph And Pixels Hopefull There's A Crossover Movie Where All Genres Come Together :);)
Two things I noticed in the finale is the appearance of the Harveytoon Jack In The Box and Bozo The Clown. I checked Wikipedia and both should have not been in the movie since they debuted after the time of the movie. Robert Zemeckis had a rule that the movie would only feature characters who existed at the time the movie was set (1947). Despite this, The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote do appear in the finale because they were his favorite characters.
You're right about the faces but did you realize that EVERYWHERE in Toontown is being watched at EVERY moment? The buildings are holding up their skirts with Mickey mouse gloves, the canopy in Nina Hyena (ugly Jessica) bed is also held back with them, Kim fact it would seem that "Mickey Mouse" ie Disney , has its "hands" in everything Toontown related. Take that for what you will.
My favourite in film thing is when Roger slips out of the handcuffs, Eddie yells "you could do that the whole time??" and he replies "no, only when it would be funny"
Eddie: "You meanin' to tell me you could've taken your hand out of that cuff at any time?!"
Roger: "No, not at any time. Only when it was funny."
Another nod to the fact that Judge Doom is actually a toon is that he never blinks on-screen
LordJokester bbbut hes wearing dark glasses
Except he does blink and that is even shown in this video.
He doesn't blink at all. Watch it again.
Neither does Michael Caine.
@Zakareya Alatoli Not a lot of people know that.
Bob Hoskins actually used to be part of a circus when he was younger. In the scene when he dances for the weasels you see eddy valiant do some back flips. People assume it's a stunt double doing this, but it in fact is actually Bob himself doing the back flips. If I remember correctly he does all his scenes, no stunt double.
DaveDynamite1 except of course during the cab scenes when they actually animated him.
Wow. He doesn't appear like the kind of guy you would assume to be able to move that way. 😅
Wow, pretty good for someone of his shape
BRUH
I didn't know this, but the camera cuts away too quickly, making the stunt double assumption hold water.
Here's one for you... Judge Doom never blinks on camera. Seriously, watch him, he doesn't blink. I'm guessing it's hard to blink when you have knives right behind your eyes but it's just a little touch Christopher Lloyd added to make him even creepier
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***** did christoper lloyd ever blink in back to the future? i remember doc having a sort of mad scientist stare but i dont remember if he ever blinked when it wasnt in amazement
morgan megurine I think he did. He was wide eyed a lot but he did blink. Judge Doom he did it because, if I recall correctly, he believed that a cartoon villain wouldn't blink so it's also just a hint that this guy isn't human.
but he does blink and that scene is in this review...
(1. (For the movie)Because he's a toon.
(2. (In real life) Idfk how Chris did it
Turpentine, acetone, and benzene (i.e. the ingredients for "dip") are what animators use to clean toons off of animation cells.
C.M. Waters it was a cartoons weakness in epic Mickey, and it's a cartoons weakness here.
C.M. Waters gem
WHAT
In other words, those are ingredients of paint thinner.
That's a great observation
You can also notice that when the drum of Dip gets tipped over, Doom steps back rather quickly and the group behind him backs up when he does. This was of course a subtle hint what Doom was a Toon becausem as we know, Dip doesn't hurt humans.
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Or he didn't want to get wet?
lol I noticed that too. But one subtle aspect about the scene is, the other humans didn't back away on their own. If you noticed, the Judge brings up his hands and pushes them back with him so it gives the impression they're all avoiding it, but since the Dip is harmless to humans it made little sense. It was a nice ploy to hide himself.
Netherwolf6100 I highly doubt dip is harmless to humans. It looks highly acidic and honestly looks like it's should have a biohazard label on it. I'd be afraid to even breath the fumes. Sure it won't melt us like it does a toon. But I'm sure it could tear up your hand pretty bad if you were to touch it.
Eddie ran through ankle-deep Dip near the end and it didn't hurt him.
Think of it like acid for toons but colored water for humans
"...if you've watched the movie a million times like I have." And I have! This movie is the reason I'm an animator!
Reaally?
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Good on you mate😊
@Nicholas Barbee Exhausting. Don't do it. XD
One of the first movies with cartoon characters in real life to be fair could toon town be better then real life because in a cartoon if you fall you still be hurt but you still get back up unlike in real life
My favorite touch is that Jessica keeps her hands on the small of her back, not on her hips. Real women who are busty often have back pain issues, so if it was possible for a toon to experience anything similar, Jessica would have it worse than anyone else we see in the Toon world.
CassyEvelyn that's just how she's drawn, but a very good inference to be made.
Plus her breath are so huge that it must hurt having to carry all that around on cuzh a small waist
@@amadmadmadhatter276 I mean, in the film she kindve shows them being light. Like when Eddie bumped into them when standing up.
@@amadmadmadhatter276 you mean her breasts right?
Or probably from her inability to stand
Tim Curry was originally gonna play Judge Doom but they decided against it because his performance was "too terrifying"
Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
+Nerd Squid You do?! Well, you better let the poor guy out! WAH HEH WAH HEH WAH HEH WAH HEH!!!
WerewolfMonkey whatt nooo poor Tim, he got rejected for the same reason from a Joker role! Sexy scary Tim
I would love to see footage of that performance if it exists, like 'Tim Curry as Judge Doom' just sounds great.
I heard he was also almost going to play The Joker on Batman:TAS.
One detail that I really like is during the Betty Boop scene where she tells Eddie that she's selling cigarettes at the club because "Work's been kind of slow since cartoons went to colour!" Given the time period this is very likely a reference to the transition from Silent Movies to Sound where a lot of actors would lose their jobs if they weren't trained right for sound pictures, or didn't have the right sounding voice! Always makes me feel a bit sorry for her, cos she's still got it!
Bowmaj 86 I watched the movie a long time ago and now that's the only thing I remember about it.
Betty Boop in this movie is voiced by the late Mae Questel, one of Betty Boop's original voice actresses all the way back in the 1930s. Mae also provided the voice of Popeye's girlfriend, Olive Oyl, in the majority of the Popeye theatrical shorts.
Bowmaj 86 this was also the last voice performance the actress gave before her death wich came soon after the movie
I think that Mel Blanc also died about a year after this movie! One of the last times he voiced Bugs Bunny!
Bowmaj 86 It was tye last year for some of the greats. I hold this movie with extremely high regard. I think it is probibly the greatest movie ever made a imply because of its amazing animated feat. Nothing like it has ever been produced.
Some paints have a scent when it's fresh, so it's possible for Doom to figure out that Roger was there by how fresh the paint is; the stronger the wet paint smell, the more recent he's been there. And yes, how Doom sniffed the record is still creepy.
1. Prior to the DVD release, the "Allyson Wonderland" sign in the bathroom had a number, allegedly to then Disney CEO Michael Eisner's office.
2. Once Eddie goes into the alleyway brandishing the toon gun, you can clearly see the animators forgot to draw over the reference prop. After all this time & rereleases, this has never been fixed. Why?
Guernicaman I think the writing in the bathroom only changed to a phone number for a single frame.
@@DTBootlegs Not Rescue Rangers it was the movie Rescuers.
For #2, it's because traditional cell animation is time consuming and expensive, which is also why pretty much all animated films are CGI now. It's not worth the time and money to fix.
I always thought Doug was a toon in disguise. That's why his voice sounds....just....like...that.
Didn't he pretty much base the Nostalgia Critic character directly on Daffy Duck?
@@tkayube And also the Queen of Hearts, by his own admission. But the character turns out to be much more complex in videos like the Scooby Doo review and "the review must go on".+@
He might as well be Judge Doom’s son
Oh I think your onto something! Lol
I didn't realize that the bathroom door doorknob was the Doorknob from Alice in Wonderland until just know. #HowDeepDoesTheRabbitHoleReallyGo
know or now?
The first time i saw this movie it was right at the end at the car chase right after Maroon is shot and im thinking this is some cop crime movie starring Bod Hoskins, but then he enters toon town and theres Bugs and Mikey skydiving, a talking taxi, Christopher Loyde in black with a rubbery face and i felt so lost inside
The first time I saw this movie was after the climax, where everyone was singing. My first thought was, "oh my God! Disney and Looney tunes together! I gotta check this out.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is basically one of my fav films, being both live-action and animation come together!
Go recheck the scenes in RK Maroon's office. Note that there is a poster for "Pistol Packin' Possum" in the background. The character is holding an extremely long gun that *always* points at RK Maroon whenever he is in frame. Foreshadowing...? Coincidentally Judge Doom uses the *same* gun to kill Maroon later in the film. Also this possum has a few similarities to Doom including those "burnin' red eyes" and a similar looking hat. Maybe Doom's identity was right in front of our faces the entire time...
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If that's true, him being a rodent would actually be a good reason for the connection between Doom and a pack of weasels beyond just "they're slimy thugs, of course they'd be weasels".
Well, Judge Doom's real identity, Baron Von Rotten, was a character actor who was known as "The Toon With A Thousand Faces." So it's possible that Baron Von Rotten was also PPP before getting a brain injury that made him truly megalomaniacal.
In Toontown, you can see Snow White helping the Evil Queen in disguise.
All of the looney tunes (except Yosemite Sams) were voiced by Mel Blanc. He didn't do Sam because that voice was too tough for aging vocal cords
Theo Stadick The late Joe Alaskey voiced Yosemite. Sam. He could do a decent Bugs Bunny, but his Daffy Duck and Sylvester were worthy of Mel Blanc!
Mel didn’t do Elmer Fudd.
and this movie, besides the Daffy Duck Quackbusters compilation which doesnt really count, was the last time he voiced the characters.
@@fredarok579 (technically he has never voiced Elmer)
Kevin Treanor That's what I said.
Have you ever noticed that in the seen were all the Toons are clapping after getting the deed to Toon Town back; Bugs looks so disinterested, he's capping but not as enthusiastix. Everyone else is cheering and looks happy but Bugs is just like "Eh, who cares?"
I noticed it but haven't thought about it.
It was uncanny that this came out on the very day that Bob Hoskins died. :(
I guess that's why he uploaded this.
alma zoe You can't find out, film edit and upload a video in a day. #as spooky coincidence
+DarkraiNewmoon Yeah, Bob was amazing. Do you realize that probably half the scenes in the movie was acting to nothing? Not too many actors can do that effectively.
No, but he could have already had this filmed and ready for uploading later but decided to upload it after learning Bob died.
True; True.😔
The final song is called" smile darn ya smile" and it's based on a "marrie melodies" cartoon under the same name
Creepy shadow in the backround at 6:43
Billy McChucks it’s look’s like a demonic Pluto
@@wokenlunatic2849 How'd I not see that??
Still the best drawn movie ever created. Others like Cool World tried, but... they just couldn't draw them this way.
***** Oh, wow Cool World....took me years to finally finish it on Netflix. There is some neat stuff going on here and there, but ended up to just be as a cluster of nonsense which I did not enjoy.
DizzleJay27 Yeah, they should have developed the artist and Holli Would relationship better than what the ending delivered.
I think the ending is what could have redeemed the movie for me but instead ruined it for me. I mean they kind of abandoned all structure, logic or plot to go full acid trip. Which can be admired on it's own accord.
+pharaohyami5000 Honestly I'd go a step further and say this is the best kids film ever made. It has something for just about everyone, young and old. Absolutely adored "Toon Doom" when I was a kid.
Cool World isn't bad. It's just drawn that way!
I'm sorry. That was bad
I NEVER KNEW THAT
Lel
Halflander23 ME TOOOO
Darina Jorgensen COOL
Halflander23 SAME!!!... WHAT PART THOUGH?
FUN FACT: The graffiti on the bathroom wall @08:04 - "THE BEST IS YET TO BE" was a replacement line. The original graffiti was Michael Eisner's phone number. and was replaced following the theatrical release to home video. As you might imagine; Michael was not happy.
The tunnel to toon town is the same tunnel Marty Mcfly chased Biff in Back to the Future Part 2.
What else you can't see on DVD is the scene where Betty Boop does here catchphrase and her dress falls off; which happen in her old cartoons. It was cut out when it was released from home video, and the only way you can see it is on a bootleg that was ripped from a air flight movie.
+Ryan G Which by the way, the author of the book told me.
proof
There's a single, tiny clue to Judge Dooms actual toon identity as well.
When Eddie is confronting RK Maroon in his office, Just before Maroon gets shot you see the silhouette of a gun against a picture of a little known toon called "Pistol Packin Possum"
The gun in the picture matches the silhouette exactly, and he's also got Dooms same hat and red eyes =>
MischiefMeerkat I would love it if that nightmare fuel of a man was secretly an evil possum!
When Valliant comes into Maroon's office, you see the roman numeral date of the Pistol Packin' Possum cartoon which is a completely bogus date. Also if Doom is the possum, why is he yellow? I always saw him as an enormous villainous American Goldfinch or something.
8:14
I noticed that giraffe with the Necktie is from the Elmer Elephant Silly Symphony
Here's one: Did you know the voice of one of the weasels is done by June Foray, aka Granny, from classic Looney Tunes?
She was also the voice of Lena Hyena (I fairly sure that was the case and confirmed it via Wikipedia).
Rocket J Squirrel
Another weasel was voiced by David L. Lander.
6:50 I think maybe it's intended as prop for tying characters to railroad tracks
in the clouds with faces one of the clouds if you look closely is in fact POPEYE THE SAILOR
POPEYE THE SAILOR MANNNNNN
I wasn't expecting that easter egg to be discovered.
The Jerkinator 101 Which one?
I heard Popeye was going to have an actual scene in this movie but they couldn't afford the licensing fees. I guess they found a way to sneak him in after all.
One more: In the Toontown train windows, (the one that rams the dip machine), you can see silhouettes of murders/suicides.
JustinEvitable80 that's the one dirty joke I didn't like in this movie. I can take Sylvester saying pussy instead of cat, and an oven saying it's hotter in hell, but that just seems unnecessary.
And a silhouette of Piglet can be spotted hanging at the end of the train.
4:19 _Harvey_ came out in 1950, but this movie takes place in 1947, indicating Angelo has seen a movie from the future and is OBVIOUSLY a time traveler. *X-Files theme plays*
Not necessarily. The original play upon which the film was based came out in 1944. Perhaps Angelo's simply a theatregoer.
One little tidbit that I always like is the hint that Judge Doom is really the toon, Pistol Packin Possum. Aside from some staging in Maroon's office (where P.P.P.'s poster is always pointing his gun at the executive, and then the reflection before he's shot), Doom's true form has the same color irises and uses the same gun to kill R.K. as the gun-toting marsupial in the poster.
7:17 I just noticed that in the bottom left area of the screen you can see a toon crossing the street with a newspaper, now I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but he looks exactly like goofy from the short “Motor Mania” ,and he’s even crossing the road in the same direction.
Why not do a full review of it.
He eventually did years later.
Pausing at 3:45 god that is just creepy.
That smile is gonna haunt me now.
It was revealed in a comic that Judge Doom’s real name is Baron Von Rotten,who played villains in many toons. But after a blow to the head, he thought he was an actual villain, which made him into the crazed nutball we all know him as.
Huh, I thought he be the Pistol Packin Possum as we saw on the poster in Maroon's office.
It could've make sense for the fact he had red eyes, he use a pistol to kill Maroon, and what pulls the key clue: He had one movie poster while Roger has a bunch showing sign his spotlight was taken and wasn't in the film at all. It would've make sense of why Roger is the target of framing
It's Clarence Nash, not Clarence Charles 1:49
Abel Flores Mite Clarence"s nickname was Ducky.
did anyone else notice the eye in the mens bathroom? why is that even there if its out of order?
wasn't there that other nod where the judge is a toon, it was in the bar fight, and when eddie and roger escape dropping the dip, the judge quickly backs away from it.
Dip is basically a mix of every chemical paint thinner. Not pleasant stuff, even if you're human. Not saying you're wrong, just that anyone is going to back off from that stuff.
+Jeffrey Willy (reyinpoetic) good point, i never thought of that actually
Happy 30th birthday, Roger!
After rescuing Benny the Cab, they quickly go by a store called "McMarty's." I'm thinking this is possibly a "Back to the Future" reference (Marty McFly). Speaking of "Back to the Future," Jessica's vehicle looks surprisingly similar to the car that Marty and his mom "parked" in during "Back to the Future." The tunnel to Toontown is also the same tunnel used in "Back to the Future 2" when 1955 Biff attempting to run Marty over with his 1946 Ford. I also discovered that Eddie Valliant's brother was killed by Doom in 1942.
Another piece of trivia: Tim Curry auditioned for the role of Judge Doom but the writers found his performance would have been too terrifying, and we think Christopher Lloyd’s performance was scary!
Christopher Lloyd, Doom's actor, figured out that his character was a toon when he was told in his script not to blink. This shows in the movie, where Doom never blinks even once. This, along with the constantly bellowing cape, occasionally shiny glasses, overly dramatic monologuing of his master plan and he slips a couple of times on the fake eyes before he finally falls over all serve as the miniature hints that he isn't what he seems.
4:14 Dick Tracy also appeared in the novel which had comic strip characters and humans instead of animated cartoons & Humans
Even as a kid, I knew that there was something REALLY suspicious about Judge Doom whenever a gust of wind blew his cape, even when he's clearly indoors.
RIP Richard Williams. Who else watched this video again after hearing the news?
I still have a copy of the Film VHS right now
Christopher Lloyd was a really underrated character actor in the 80s and early 90s.
I do like how when you see Eddie standing on the street of Toontown after arriving there, you can see all the various buildings and their smiley faces. I love how the one building on the extreme left of the screen is a barber shop that literally says "Hare Cuts" and has a picture of a hare with a pair of scissors at his neck. I also love how in the center of the screen you can see the Bar building drunkenly leaning against the building next to it on one side and the Police building is on the other side constantly glaring at it.
Special effects maestro Ken Ralston body doubles for Christopher Lloyd with a nice bit of physical acting in the scene where Judge Doom runs from our heroes down a Toontown alley, vowing revenge.
that moment you realize the reason jessica doesnt choke is because she has NO GAG REFLEX
I wish he would bring this series back
Every time I watch this movie I'm just in awe. The amount of work that went into it is so staggering. It's still impressive, even by today's standards.
Jessica Rabbit doesnt choke because she has no gag reflex :^)
Lol good one friend (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+KarRuptAssassin pretty sure rope around your windpipe would still make you choke because you cant breathe, gag reflex or no
+disneydork100 Wow, way to ruin a perfectly good joke.
LieutenantJoey its the little things in life
She has to have a "gag" reflex.
She's a toon. *ba-dum-tsh*
Here's a random fact about me that no one asked, or cares about: when I was 8, the scene with the squeaky boots being melted made me cry so much that I wasn't allowed to watch the rest of it....
I personally love the camera angles where they purposely cast a glare in Judge Doom's glasses. It's a technique often used for bad guys who wear glasses.
I've also got some facts for you! Marvin Acme's funeral was gonna have Foghorn Leghorn delivering the sermon and having Acme's pallbearers being Goofy, Popeye, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Felix the Cat and even Casper! This was cut not only due to budget costs but also because the film didn't have the right to use Popeye, Little Lulu, Chip and Dale, Pepe Le Pew, Mighty Mouse, Casper, Tom and Jerry and even Superman!
This movie was one of the last times that Mel Blanc did his famous Looney Tunes characters before his 1989 death.
The penguins in the Ink and Paint Club are actually from Mary Poppins which wasn't even released until 1964 which is a couple of years after the film takes place. To be fair since toons are real in the film chances are that they weren't really discovered yet. This could also be the same for when Marvin the Martian appears among the toons in the final scene of the film since Marvin's first cartoon would be released in 1948.
The ToonTown tunnel is the same tunnel in the climax of Back to the Future Part II which also has the same producer, director and star Christopher Lloyd.
Some of the animators in the film would later go on to be big names in the medium like Andreas Deja who would be an animator for several characters like Gaston, Jafar, Scar, Hercules and even Lilo. Howy Parkins would later go on to animate The Simpsons, Rocko's Modern Life and Recess. Bruce W Smith would later be the animation co-director for Space Jam and creator of the TV series The Proud Family. And even Chuck Jones is on this project as an animation consultant
Charlie Fliescher did not just Roger but also Benny the Cab and when he was doing the shoots he would wear a Roger Rabbit suit. Talk about cosplaying as your own character!
Roger Rabbit's box office and critical success sparked new interests for both companies of the project. Spielberg's company Amblin would work on Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid for Warner Bros TV Animation and of course this movie would give Disney the green light to make The Little Mermaid which would introduce us to the Disney Renaissance!
So, how about that poster of Porky Pig selling sausages? How messed up is that?
Here's an interesting tidbit. The production crew made life sized figures for Roger and the weasel, as well as a few other characters, and would run through the scenes a few times moving the figures around so that the actors would know where to look. They had a human actress for Jessica.
I'm surprised you did not mention the scene where Eddie, Roger, and Dolores are hiding in the bar. The swinging light source made it so difficult to animate Roger, in fact many of the animators have gone on record saying that scene was the hardest thing to animate in the movie, some of them saying it was the hardest thing they have ever animated
what's the background music that plays during 2:57?
Another thing about Judge Doom is the fact he never blinks, which is another hint he’s a cartoon character in disguise
I have a problem with number 14 because NC said clarance Charles but its clarence nash (I don't know how to spell his name)
in the seen with the train if you play it frame by frame in the windows it's all people getting murders
I also heard that in the book the movie is based on Roger Rabbit is actually dead and it is his copy that is companying Eddie
@Meh...whatever In the book the toon double is called a "doppleganger" and can be mentally created by the toon. They are used for stunts since the actual toon is just a vulnerable to death as a human. But dopplegangers only last for a short time.
The book is quite different from the movie, and very little, other than the characters (who are different for the most part too) made it into the final movie. For one thing, Roger is comic strip performer rather than a cartoon performer.
@@Solitaire001 Yeah, it's a lot less positive than the movie. Both Roger and Jessica are major jerkasses, and Jessica despises Roger. She only married him because he was rich and famous. So, basically she's everything R.K. Maroon accused her of in the movie.
Interestingly, the author of the novel has stated he actually prefers what they did in the film over his novel, and the sequels he wrote later actually retcon the story to be make them sequels to the film, with the original novel being a nightmare Jessica had.
@@jonathonbartos3061 The reason Jessica married Roger was due to a wish Roger was unknowingly granted by a toon genie. The wish compelled Jessica to be a devoted wife to Roger, and she was helpless against the wish. One year later, the wish ended and Jessica left Roger. The Genie granted the wish, but put a twist in it in the form of a time limit.
@@Solitaire001 Forgot about that part. It's been years since I actually read the book, lol.
@@jonathonbartos3061 I read the Book before the movie. I happened upon it in a Used Book Store and it looked interesting.
I actually knew about fact #4, but only by accident. I was watching this film on Netflix one day, I paused it during one of those action scenes & discovered Eddi was a toon in those scenes!!!
Also, anyone else noticed the EVIL RABBIT shadow that usually appeared behind Judge Doom in the warehouse at the end?
For 9
I did the play Harvey.....I am going to spoil it a bit but....
Harvey is actually there and is real he only let's certain people he likes see him
4:26 Well, yes and no. The 1950 movie Harvey with Jimmy Stewart is based on a play written by Mary Chase in 1944. There’s no way that Who Framed Roger Rabbit would ever be referencing the film with Jimmy Stewart because that movie came out in 1950 and Who Framed Roger Rabbit takes place in 1947. HA! Something YOU didn’t know about the movie!! :)
According to Jim Cummings at a Q&A, who voiced one of the bullets (and one of the weasel gangsters, although most of his speaking parts were deleted but can be found on the DVD extras), all of the bullets fired from the toon gun have voices that are meant to resemble the actors that usually played the sidekicks to famous leading men in Westerns. Sadly, I am not familiar enough with Westerns to remember the ones he named or which one he played.
Patt Buttram was the mustached one; he also played one of the saloon old-timers in "Back to the Future, Part III".
During the theatrical run of the movie, that "for a good time, call Allyson Wonderland" marking in the bathroom had a REAL phone number written below it. I remember seeing it. The animators jokingly put it in; it was Disney executive Michael Eisner's office phone number. They took it out afterwards for all home video.
Yosemite Sam in this movie was actually NOT voiced by Mel Blanc in this movie, as he couldn't do Sam's voice anymore. Sam was instead voiced by Joe Alaskey (who would later voice many of the other Looney Tunes characters after Blanc's passing).
As you know, in the scene where Eddie & Roger are hiding in the movie theater, the cartoon that's playing on the screen is "Goofy Gymnastics". Now, that particular short was originally released in 1949 & this film takes place in 1947.
6:00 With the cartoons in this universe just being regular films with toons, this one makes me think about stunt doubles
Judge Doom was "Pistol Packin Possom" You can see the full poster every time they are in RK Maroons office (Even right when he gets shot ) Cant believe I never noticed before!
whats the music that plays at 0:53
lol in the thumbnail.
I didn't know a lot of these. Bravo, Critic. Bravo.
I believe it was stated that Tim Curry was up for the role of Judge Doom. I can only imagine how many nightmares HIS toon voice would have induced.
There’s another thing I noticed when watching the movie on Disney+.
Another hint that Doom is a toon is a shot in the acme factory and he’s descending down an elevator and there are rows and rows of rubber masks all around him. His face somehow seems to blend in well with those masks....
what's the song that plays at 0:53?
the voice of Betty Boop was voiced by Mae Questel who also voice the original Betty Boop in the 1930s to the 1950s this was one of her last performances before her death a decade later in January 1998 at the age of 89....
0:53 Song name? Dayumn I want to take a summer stroll listening to that track! :D
I know I'm late to the party, but it's called "Carioca Girl"
6:00 Stunt double
Ah, Harvey. In my senior year of high school we did the play Harvey and I got to play Elwood. It was a lot of fun.
What is the song called? 0:53
You know now that i think about it i am pretty sure i still have this on VHS somewhere....
Me before video: Oh please I'm sure I know everything about Roger Rabbit. After all it's my favorite movie of all time.
Me after video: I NEVER KNEW THAT!!!!!
I'm sure it's been pointed out before, but the Dip is comprised of turpentine, acetone, and benzene which were/are paint thinners/removers. Which would make sense that it would kill a toon because it's erasing the ink that makes them
Adding to #12. Toontown was a pun on the racist term c***town.
really? around here in means racoon
KOTYAR0 Really...?
Ohhhh
What I Like About This Movie Is Because It's A Rare Movie,It's A Crossover Movie Of Fictional Characters,Other Movies Include Wreck It Ralph And Pixels Hopefull There's A Crossover Movie Where All Genres Come Together :);)
cameron henderson aH, cAPTAIN cAPITALS. wE mEET aGAIN, mY aRCH-nEMESIS!
colebowlin68 It wasn't as bad as I anticipated it to be, honestly.
+Jack Husinger Okay, have to admit, I snickered at that.
Wreck-It Ralph is mostly a Roger Rabbit-like video game universe... surely they forgot to put Mario, but it was awesome nevertheless
They didn't forget to. They just couldn't find a good part to have Mario cameo. They do reference him by name in the movie though.
2:15 MMMAWW! GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!
Bob Hoskins temporarily went crazy during filming where he started to see cartoon characters where ever he went, on and off set.
This is one of the reasons why this film is one of my all time favourites, even as a kid I adored this movie and still do :D
Two things I noticed in the finale is the appearance of the Harveytoon Jack In The Box and Bozo The Clown. I checked Wikipedia and both should have not been in the movie since they debuted after the time of the movie. Robert Zemeckis had a rule that the movie would only feature characters who existed at the time the movie was set (1947). Despite this, The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote do appear in the finale because they were his favorite characters.
8:14 Marvin the Martin is in the background
You're right about the faces but did you realize that EVERYWHERE in Toontown is being watched at EVERY moment? The buildings are holding up their skirts with Mickey mouse gloves, the canopy in Nina Hyena (ugly Jessica) bed is also held back with them, Kim fact it would seem that "Mickey Mouse" ie Disney , has its "hands" in everything Toontown related. Take that for what you will.
What was the music used in the background of the video?