@@antoinerideaux-porche6036 *pushes up nerd glasses* ummmm it’s Bugs and Mickey skydiving, Daffy and Donald on the piano. *does nerd laugh and runs away*
To the cartoon bullets were voiced by actors who are both in back to the Future 3 the one where Marty went to rescue doc from 1888 , they were in the saloon
The late great Bob Hoskins, and the always wonderful Christopher Lloyd. Throw in you three lovely gals, and this is a thumbs up video for me! (And oh boy did Jessica Rabbit make all the fellas swoon, for a darn toon at that.)
"I'm not bad...I'm just drawn that way." This movie kind of stands alone. It was mindblowing when it first came out. But there was never really a follow up in this kind of mix of traditional animation and live action.
In regards to the comment of it being the first to mix animation & live-action: There were quite a few prior to that. Probably the most famous feature film to use it was "Marry Poppins".
Oh! Good one! I was going to mention how, "Tom & Jerry", interacted with, Gene Kelly & Esther Williams. There's, "Song of the South", "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", "Pete's Dragon", countless commercials. So many examples! 😎👍
It actually goes all the way back to the advent of animation with Walt Disney’s first series of shorts called Alice Comedies where a live action girl would interact with an animated world!
As much as I adore the original "Mary Poppins," it was this film that truly PERFECTED the art of blended live-action and animated character interaction.
1:34 It's produced by Steven Spielberg but directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future trilogy & Forrest Gump). Another Zemeckis film that you should react to is Contact (1997).
What an interesting thought...but I do feel the role, at that time, would have been problematic, in that it sort of requires a 'straight man' to the rabbit's comedy -- Not that Murphy couldn't pull it off, but he would likely not have been seen as serious, regardless of his performance, just because we all considered him as a comedic actor at the time. Edit: Then again, what do I know? It may have been a great chance for him to show his range.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Exactly I believe that if Eddie Murphy had done this role then he would've transitioned to doing more serious roles a lot sooner!
Hell yeah! Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my all time favorite live-action animated hybrid film! Plus, this movie is the first movie to feature Disney characters and Looney Tunes in the same film! Like Donald Duck and Daffy Duck piano battle, and Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny sky diving! This movie is classic and a masterpiece! I'm so glad you guys react to this movie!
Second place, only beaten by Mary Poppins, at least rated on movie overall. Regarding the hybrid aspect, it is THE masterpiece of the technique (if we discount CGI, which I am inclined to do).
Before Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Three Caballeros (1944), Song of the South (1946), Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Pete's Dragon (1977) all featured live actors interacting with cartoon characters. None of these examples are as technically sophisticated and extensive as the use in Roger Rabbit, but it had been done before a little bit.
There was a deal struck saying that Disney and WB characters would get equal screen time, which is why you often see the characters on screen together.
Christopher Lloyd also starred in a 1996 PC adventure video game called Toonstruck, which also stars Dan Castellaneta aka Homer Simpson and Tim Curry. The game like Who Framed Roger Rabbit is also a blend of real life people (Christopher Lloyd) who goes into a cartoon world. The game is still available on platforms like Steam and GOG and I highly recommend it.
BTW there has been some confusion about what the liquid is that Toons are dipped in to "kill" them. Since they are ink drawn creations... it is just an ink remove.which is lethal for them.
Animation and live-action have been combined for over a hundred years (often by Disney), but this was the first film devoted to showing toons in the physical world for more than just a short sequence. It was also quite ambitious in showing multiple franchises. And CGI has been used since the 70's, it just wasn't used here, this was all old-school animation. This was originally marketed as a Touchstone picture. Disney was still recovering from not doing as well in the 70's and early 80's, so they had other labels like Touchstone for titles that generally catered more to adult viewers. They started claiming credit though after their comeback in the 90's. I remember having a great time seeing this with some friends back after high school. Even though certain characters like Tom & Jerry and the Hanna-Barbera list weren't able to be included, I still geeked out over the multiverse concept.
Yeah, Disney technically started his career with this idea (in the Alice shorts) and in the end made most of the "mixed" movies....Mary Poppins, Bednops and Broomsticks, Song of the South, Pete's dragon, but what they did in Who framed Roger Rabbit is on another level.
There may have been a few seconds here or there of what we'd only laughingly refer to as "CGI" in the 70s, but for all intents and purposes CGI didn't even approach practicality in terms of time or money or quality until the early to mid-80s. In fact, I'm having a hard time recalling ANY instances of computer generated graphics in the 70s outside of the Deathstar wireframe animation in Star Wars. Young Sherlock Holmes ('85) and The Wrath of Khan ('82) are generally cited as the earliest usages of what we'd recognize today as proper CGI. Roger Rabbit was remarkable for how relatively seamlessly the cartoon characters were integrated into the live action footage entirely via practical effects and optical compositing. It's STILL remarkable to this day!
@@Pixelologist Yeah, I know, but you said that they were the earliest use of CGI, and they actually weren't. Tron was the movie which was disqualified from an academy award due to its use of CGI.
Fun fact there are two exercises that did the voice of Jessica Jones Kathleen Turner did her regular voice while another actress who is also a singer did the singing parts
The guy who wakes Eddie up in his office by throwing the bottle of alcohol in the trashcan is the same guy Vader force chokes in A New Hope when Vader says he finds his lack of faith disturbing
Without a doubt one of my favorite Live-Action/Animated hybrid films and one of my Top 5 favorite Zemeckis films after Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, A Christmas Carol and The Polar Express. I just enjoy the castings of the late Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant and of course Christopher Lloyd as the wicked Judge Doom, even the cartoon characters cameos from Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, and Walter Lantz were such a sight to be held.
Interesting fact: before Christopher Lloyd got the role of Judge Doom, there were others that were close to getting it. For instance, Tim Curry almost got the part but was considered too scary when they did the reveal scene with test audience. So this is actually the LESS scary version.
My favourite thing about it is that you can watch it multiple times in your life, and it is a different experience. When I first saw it, it was fun, but the adult jokes and refernces went right over my head. Then I got the jokes and references, but I didn't really realise how complicated the technical aspect of the movie is. Then I was aware of the technical achievement, but I didn't really know enough about american Politics to understand the double meaning of the movie. I know have the feeling that I discovered each lawyer of the movie, but I wouldn't be surprised if I discouvered another one in a few years.
There’s video out there (saw on fb) of Bob (Eddie) acting “with” the toons via green screen. It’s INSANELY impressive especially for the late ‘80s!!! Definitely recommend finding it
While this wasn't the first time animation and live action were mixed, *Points to early Disney movies like Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks* I think it was the first where you had animated chars in a live action setting. I remember watching behind the scenes footage of this movie and was shocked just how groundbreaking this movie was. I was a kid too when this came out and had one of my first major fangams watching this movie because I recognized pretty much all of the cartoon characters here. The Dip scene did freak me out. Fun fact- Jessica and Roger Rabbit both make a cameo in my fav Tiny Toons episode. Buster and Babs Bunny try to get into Warner Brothers studio but the gate guard doesn't let them in, but lets Jessica and Roger in lol, which angers Buster and Babs lol.
Doom wearing gloves is a clue, but even though just touching that mixture of paint thinners isn't going to kill or cause immediate harm to a human (much of the danger would be from the fumes), it would still make sense to take precautions with exposure to The Dip on a regular basis. It makes the connection to Doom's true nature quite subtle. :)
Literally nobody can handle that poor shoe getting dipped. Poor thing. You really need to think of this as a classic film noir: hard boiled, usually alcoholic private eye with a tragic past; long suffering girlfriend; an is-she-good-or-is-she-bad femme fatale; convoluted plot, etc. The wild thing is that the storyline is actually a pretty accurate telling of how the once-brilliant public transit system in LA was deliberately trashed in the interest of building highways (minus the 'toon involvement, of course). The "making of" for this film is incredible. Bob Hoskins did an amazing acting job, how he did all this with cutout characters as stand-ins, his impeccable comedic timing, wow. The puppeteering was amazing, too, and the fact that Hoskins was essentially on a little go-kart, hanging on for dear life while a stunt driver did all of "Bennie's" driving ... can you even imagine? And I'm glad you mentioned the lighting in the scene in the rotgut room, when Eddie and Roger were in handcuffs. There's a phrase now about "bump the lamp" animation that refers to how they bumped the lamp and then had to match the shadows on all the animated characters for the rest of the scene; it's all about going above and beyond just for the sake of creating a more impressive shot. Love this film!
This story was originally a political satire which Disney almost completely scrubbed clean. James Kunstler (Geography of Nowhere, excellent read) said of this movie: "based on a true story." Have to go back aways. Street cars, first horse-drawn, then electrified, radically improved municipal transportation, making true cities out of medieval collections of clustered villages. A person prior to this could move at 3-5 mph, whether walking or by carriage. Trolleys could go 10x, which meant residents in an area 100x could now get downtown without an arduous dusty tiring journey. Population concentrations then allowed the development of such things like modern restaurants serving a la carte, night clubs, magnificent theaters for vaudeville/movies, department stores and the like. Problem was that all trolley systems were privately owned/operated and had to continue to make a sufficient profit. In the 1930's, GM, Standard Oil and one of the major tire companies set up holding companies all over America, with the intended idea of taking over the trolley systems - such was the idea of "Cloverleaf Industries." Put the trolleys out of business and people will either switch to buses or more importantly, private autos. It worked, including the Red Cars in Los Angeles. This isn't internet conspiracy theories. The three companies were actually convicted of such a conspiracy in the 1950's and fined $2000, but by then it was too late. The other aspect of this was that city planners such as Robert Moses deliberately ran the new highways through marginized neighborhoods (or sometimes just right through them). Specifically black areas. In the movie, this is represented by Toontown, a take-off of the pejorative "coon town" where "those crazy people live."
Mark 17:00. Oh! You ladies might just enjoy, C.L., in his other villainous role as the Klingon, "Lord Kruge", in the 1984 movie, "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock". The movie in which Admiral James Tiberius Kirk & Doctor Carol Marcus, have an adult son, Doctor David Marcus. 🤔🖖
Not the first to mix live action with animation. In the 1950's Gene Kelly danced with Tom and Jerry for a scene in one of his movies. And way before that 1916(?) 1920(?) a film pioneer made a movie called Gertie the Dinosaur, where he acted with a chalkboard animation of a dinosaur. There may have been others but these two come to mind for me.
I think there's not another movie from my childhood that appeals so much to me as an adult. Actually it's like a film noire/crime/conspiracy with Toons. Wich is such an interesting mix. A lot of classic hollywood vibes.
Mark 33:16. Pepé Le Pew? Have people not noticed that the female black cat would get the white stripe on her back that made her look like a skunk to him? That she is a zoo escapee? It wasn't so much his amorous advances that turned her off, it was the odor! Plus, she didn't want to be put back on the zoo. 🤔
Yeah, and people always seems to forget that by the end of those cartoons she turned the tables on him. His stench is the only reason she wasn't attracted to him at first.
Pepe was never the hero of the story. His antics were funny because he was operating under false assumptions. It's also a French stereotype and we can all agree it's okay to laugh at the French. That's a joke, btw.
If I can name 3 movies I’ve watched more times in my life than any others it would be who framed Roger rabbit,Little shop of horror‘s,and the nightmare before Christmas
i wouldnt call it first of it's kindn heckthere is even a Mary Poppins one ....but usualy the ones before this movie had only the cartoons overlayed not interacting physicaly with the real life cast much
Here's a theory about the weasels the weasels die but we see their ghost well the ones who didn't fall in the dip they did say that there's no way to truly kill a tune and who's to say the weasels didn't come back after dying and multiple old-fashioned cartoons from Warner Brothers or MGM or even Disney when the cartoon character dies you see their ghost and they come back by the next cartoon for example Sylvester died more than twenty times in the original cartoons so the theory is that the weasels only went to toon heaven and did not truly die
One in a million people they sure dont make masterpieces like this anymore especially Disney when there movies actually had real purpose back then instead of another garbage reboot in 4k this was a time when great actors and great story telling mattered more than everything has to be 4k gold to be good in today's generations eyes 👀
I thought the unmasked Christopher Lloyd character looked like Rick Scott of Florida. Kathleen Turner supplied the voice for Jessica Rabbit but Amy Irving supplied her singing voice. It's a shame Disney stopped using Mickey once he became their mascot, they didn't want to ruin their brand by having him act crazy or do weird things.
Thanks for the insight! Jessica's knowledge of Roger and Roger's inability to control himself explained her hitting him with the pan. I never thought of that before.
But there are some things that you don't want to analyze too closely. Like why do the dead weasels get angel wings? Were they really good enough to go to toon heaven? What would happen if you tried to dip a toon ghost?
The thing is, this film is more "adult" than you expected because it wasn't really made "for kids." It's more of a film geared toward adults, more specifically adults who grew up on those older classic cartoons, a love letter to their own childhoods. I personally don't find it TOO risque for kids to enjoy, but they aren't the target audience, in my opinion.
Yeah in that world, toons are only made to make people laugh. The weasels’ weakness was not to laugh too much like their hyena cousins. The only exception was Judge Doom. He was the only disturbed toon that wanted to kill humans and toons.
Fun facts: Nancy Cartwright voices the dipped shoe. Kathleen Turner voices Jessica Rabbit uncredited. Betty Boop is the only cartoon character that Eddie has any respect for.
Mark 35:19. I would like to see your reactions to, "Cool World", that I hope you enjoy too. 😎👍 "Cool World" Frank Mancuso Jr. "Cool World" is a 1992 American live-action/animated black comedy fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, but actually exists with or without him.
Mark 32:12. What about, Betty Boop? I felt sorry for her. Having seen her in color though, I wondered why she was still B&W. But in retrospect, she may not have yet been drawn in color in 1947? 🤔
There is only one short in which Betty Boop is actually in Colour. The success of her cartoon pretty much ended when black and white cartoons ended, though.
Mark 29:03. $50 in 1947 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $598.78 today, an increase of $548.78 over 74 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.41% per year between 1947 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,097.55%.
This comment about the dollar's worth within a given period reminds me of one of my favorite elements of Good, Bad and The Ugly and how they paced the film so that you knew that, if one of the main characters were willing to kill over anywhere from $500-$2000, they'd do anything for $200,000.
Okay. 'Mom and Kimmie 'hadn't seen it. When I saw the thumbnail I'd thought What!?! Storm was fannish Cosplay's and con attending before starting these reviews so how could she have missed this?
Both Mickey and Bugs were stinkers in their early years, but had to be softened as they became the public faces of Disney and Looney Toons, respectively. That forced the introduction of the new screwy stinkers Donald and Daffy.
Bringing up the Roger rabbit myth doesn't help. The GM streetcar conspiracy is a myth persisting since Ever. In 1910, 750 American cities had streetcars. Conversions of streetcar lines to buses began as early as 1918, and by 1933, when the conspiracy began, more than half of these streetcar systems had gone out of business or converted to buses. Over the next sixteen years, when the conspiracy was active, more than 300 streetcar systems converted to buses. National City had an interest in fewer than thirty of these systems - along with at least thirty more that did not convert to buses during this time. Twelve of the National City lines that converted during this period completed the conversion in the same year that National City bought the line, suggesting that the decision to convert may have been made before National City took control. The reason street cars declined was two fold. Regulations by government treat streetcar lines as utilities; such was they needed government permission to do anything, expand operations, shrink operations. etc. The other was WWI, When the war ended, government agencies removed their controls on the economy. ... People raced to buy goods that had been rationed, while businesses rapidly raised prices they had been forced to keep low during the war. The result was rapid inflation and the Nickel rides were no longer economical. Govt price controls made streetcar operators keep the fares even thou they lost money. Most streetcar systems built for wealthier suburbanites; cost of construction was covered not by anticipated transit fares but by the sales of homes. After the homes sold, transit fares covered the cost of operating the streetcars, but could not pay for the periodic replacement of rail, electrical facilities, and other infrastructure. When the infrastructure wore out, streetcar service quality naturally declined, and both transit companies and transit riders were relieved by the conversion to buses, which shared the costs of roads with autos and trucks.
IF you don't like this there's something wrong with YOU. You guys are fun. A great movie and an even better cry to first time/share HINT HINT "The Green Mile" Stephen King......Tom Hanks.
That's one of the reasons why Disney released it through their Touchstone division, which handled content aimed at a slightly older audience than traditional Disney family movies.
I’ll never forget how mind blowing it was to see Bugs and Mickey on screen together. Such a great movie.
Also daffy and Donald duck playing the pianos
@@antoinerideaux-porche6036 *pushes up nerd glasses* ummmm it’s Bugs and Mickey skydiving, Daffy and Donald on the piano. *does nerd laugh and runs away*
Another fun fact cartoon Betty boop is actually based on a black woman
@@antoinerideaux-porche6036 Wow! That’s interesting. ...and I guess considering the era, kind of predictable that they whitewashed her.
To the cartoon bullets were voiced by actors who are both in back to the Future 3 the one where Marty went to rescue doc from 1888 , they were in the saloon
The late great Bob Hoskins, and the always wonderful Christopher Lloyd. Throw in you three lovely gals, and this is a thumbs up video for me! (And oh boy did Jessica Rabbit make all the fellas swoon, for a darn toon at that.)
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"
_"REMEMBER ME EDDIE? When I Killed your Brother. I TALKED....JUST....LIKE....THIIIIIISSSS!!"_
"I'm not bad...I'm just drawn that way."
This movie kind of stands alone. It was mindblowing when it first came out. But there was never really a follow up in this kind of mix of traditional animation and live action.
"When I killed your brother, I talked just ... like ... THIS!"
Christopher Lloyd has never been more disturbing.
That scene scared the crap out of me and hurt my ears.
I saw Roger Rabbit at a very young age and I don't think I was scared of Doom?
In regards to the comment of it being the first to mix animation & live-action: There were quite a few prior to that. Probably the most famous feature film to use it was "Marry Poppins".
Oh! Good one! I was going to mention how, "Tom & Jerry", interacted with, Gene Kelly & Esther Williams. There's, "Song of the South", "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", "Pete's Dragon", countless commercials. So many examples! 😎👍
I was gonna say "The Phantom Tollbooth"
It actually goes all the way back to the advent of animation with Walt Disney’s first series of shorts called Alice Comedies where a live action girl would interact with an animated world!
As much as I adore the original "Mary Poppins," it was this film that truly PERFECTED the art of blended live-action and animated character interaction.
I think the first was the creator that started the animation using rotoscoping
1:34 It's produced by Steven Spielberg but directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future trilogy & Forrest Gump). Another Zemeckis film that you should react to is Contact (1997).
You guys should watch the “Mask” ❤️
Yesyesyes
Oh yeah!!!
There are many movies w/ that title. Gotta be more specific for them.
The Mask with Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz!
Eddie Murphy was originally offered the role of Eddie Valiant but he turned it down. Murphy said it's the one role he regretted not doing!
What an interesting thought...but I do feel the role, at that time, would have been problematic, in that it sort of requires a 'straight man' to the rabbit's comedy -- Not that Murphy couldn't pull it off, but he would likely not have been seen as serious, regardless of his performance, just because we all considered him as a comedic actor at the time.
Edit: Then again, what do I know? It may have been a great chance for him to show his range.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Exactly I believe that if Eddie Murphy had done this role then he would've transitioned to doing more serious roles a lot sooner!
He did do Coming To America the same year though (#2 at the box office for 1988 while Roger Rabbit was #1)
It's hard to picture Murphy playing this serious Film Noir style detective like Sam Spade.
I heard Harrison Ford was originally considered.
Hell yeah! Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my all time favorite live-action animated hybrid film! Plus, this movie is the first movie to feature Disney characters and Looney Tunes in the same film! Like Donald Duck and Daffy Duck piano battle, and Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny sky diving! This movie is classic and a masterpiece! I'm so glad you guys react to this movie!
Second place, only beaten by Mary Poppins, at least rated on movie overall. Regarding the hybrid aspect, it is THE masterpiece of the technique (if we discount CGI, which I am inclined to do).
@@swanpride What? What's Mary Poppins got to do with my comment?
@@movies798 ...Mary Poppins is a live-action animated hybrid film? I was just sharing my ranking in this particular category.
@@swanpride I see.
Before Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Three Caballeros (1944), Song of the South (1946), Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Pete's Dragon (1977) all featured live actors interacting with cartoon characters. None of these examples are as technically sophisticated and extensive as the use in Roger Rabbit, but it had been done before a little bit.
It goes back to the 20's with Disney's Alice Comedies
There was a deal struck saying that Disney and WB characters would get equal screen time, which is why you often see the characters on screen together.
Christopher Lloyd also starred in a 1996 PC adventure video game called Toonstruck, which also stars Dan Castellaneta aka Homer Simpson and Tim Curry. The game like Who Framed Roger Rabbit is also a blend of real life people (Christopher Lloyd) who goes into a cartoon world. The game is still available on platforms like Steam and GOG and I highly recommend it.
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The voice of Roger Rabbit played the guy that got the manure out of Biff’s car in back to the future.
Back to the Future part 2, to be exact.
I believe he's also the guy who was talking to Marty about the Cubs.
@@jp3813 yes he was but you couldn't notice him because they made him old
BTW there has been some confusion about what the liquid is that Toons are dipped in to "kill" them.
Since they are ink drawn creations... it is just an ink remove.which is lethal for them.
i was a 6 yr old kid in 1988 when this came out. my mom took me and my cousin to see it in the movies. this was a big movie in my childhood.
Hope Judge Doom didn't you too many nightmares lol
@@rommix0 naw. i was too fixated on Jessica Rabbit. i was in love!!!
@@CharlesMosley129 she's one sexy mama. I can see why she loves playing patty cake.
This was NOT the first live action/animation film at all. There was Mary Poppins and Pete's Dragon to name but 2 way before this.
"Scotch on the rocks. And I mean ICE!"
*(Penguin Waiter serves Eddie his drink.)*
Eddie: _"Thank You."_
*(Eddie looks down to see something in his drink in frustration)*
Eddie: _"Toons!"_
Animation and live-action have been combined for over a hundred years (often by Disney), but this was the first film devoted to showing toons in the physical world for more than just a short sequence. It was also quite ambitious in showing multiple franchises. And CGI has been used since the 70's, it just wasn't used here, this was all old-school animation.
This was originally marketed as a Touchstone picture. Disney was still recovering from not doing as well in the 70's and early 80's, so they had other labels like Touchstone for titles that generally catered more to adult viewers. They started claiming credit though after their comeback in the 90's.
I remember having a great time seeing this with some friends back after high school. Even though certain characters like Tom & Jerry and the Hanna-Barbera list weren't able to be included, I still geeked out over the multiverse concept.
Yeah, Disney technically started his career with this idea (in the Alice shorts) and in the end made most of the "mixed" movies....Mary Poppins, Bednops and Broomsticks, Song of the South, Pete's dragon, but what they did in Who framed Roger Rabbit is on another level.
There may have been a few seconds here or there of what we'd only laughingly refer to as "CGI" in the 70s, but for all intents and purposes CGI didn't even approach practicality in terms of time or money or quality until the early to mid-80s. In fact, I'm having a hard time recalling ANY instances of computer generated graphics in the 70s outside of the Deathstar wireframe animation in Star Wars. Young Sherlock Holmes ('85) and The Wrath of Khan ('82) are generally cited as the earliest usages of what we'd recognize today as proper CGI.
Roger Rabbit was remarkable for how relatively seamlessly the cartoon characters were integrated into the live action footage entirely via practical effects and optical compositing. It's STILL remarkable to this day!
@@Pixelologist Don't forget Tron in your list. But yes, the movie is still remarkable.
@@swanpride You're right, thanks! But Tron, like Wrath of Khan, was released in '82.
@@Pixelologist Yeah, I know, but you said that they were the earliest use of CGI, and they actually weren't. Tron was the movie which was disqualified from an academy award due to its use of CGI.
Fun fact there are two exercises that did the voice of Jessica Jones Kathleen Turner did her regular voice while another actress who is also a singer did the singing parts
The guy who wakes Eddie up in his office by throwing the bottle of alcohol in the trashcan is the same guy Vader force chokes in A New Hope when Vader says he finds his lack of faith disturbing
This movie received over 3x its budget and won a academy awards including best animation and sound
Without a doubt one of my favorite Live-Action/Animated hybrid films and one of my Top 5 favorite Zemeckis films after Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, A Christmas Carol and The Polar Express.
I just enjoy the castings of the late Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant and of course Christopher Lloyd as the wicked Judge Doom, even the cartoon characters cameos from Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, and Walter Lantz were such a sight to be held.
Robert Zemiekis who directed Back to the Future directed this.
Great director. Also directed Forrest Gump and Castaway
The Judge Doom scene at the end traumatized me as a kid.
Interesting fact: before Christopher Lloyd got the role of Judge Doom, there were others that were close to getting it. For instance, Tim Curry almost got the part but was considered too scary when they did the reveal scene with test audience. So this is actually the LESS scary version.
Great film! Amazing mix of live action and animation
My favourite thing about it is that you can watch it multiple times in your life, and it is a different experience. When I first saw it, it was fun, but the adult jokes and refernces went right over my head. Then I got the jokes and references, but I didn't really realise how complicated the technical aspect of the movie is. Then I was aware of the technical achievement, but I didn't really know enough about american Politics to understand the double meaning of the movie. I know have the feeling that I discovered each lawyer of the movie, but I wouldn't be surprised if I discouvered another one in a few years.
This is by far the best of this type of animation/live action blends, but it is nowhere near the first. "Mary Poppins" did it for example.
It's funny to see the penguins of Mary Poppins in the movie
Wish they made movies like this now.
Hide me Eddie!! PPPPLEASE!!😂😂😂
There’s video out there (saw on fb) of Bob (Eddie) acting “with” the toons via green screen. It’s INSANELY impressive especially for the late ‘80s!!! Definitely recommend finding it
While this wasn't the first time animation and live action were mixed, *Points to early Disney movies like Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks* I think it was the first where you had animated chars in a live action setting. I remember watching behind the scenes footage of this movie and was shocked just how groundbreaking this movie was. I was a kid too when this came out and had one of my first major fangams watching this movie because I recognized pretty much all of the cartoon characters here. The Dip scene did freak me out.
Fun fact- Jessica and Roger Rabbit both make a cameo in my fav Tiny Toons episode. Buster and Babs Bunny try to get into Warner Brothers studio but the gate guard doesn't let them in, but lets Jessica and Roger in lol, which angers Buster and Babs lol.
I remember watching this movie for the first time some 20 years ago, and thought "someone with good imagination had a lot of fun drawing Jessica".
One of my all time favorite movies, I had it on 📼 VHS.
Doom wearing gloves is a clue, but even though just touching that mixture of paint thinners isn't going to kill or cause immediate harm to a human (much of the danger would be from the fumes), it would still make sense to take precautions with exposure to The Dip on a regular basis. It makes the connection to Doom's true nature quite subtle. :)
Literally nobody can handle that poor shoe getting dipped. Poor thing.
You really need to think of this as a classic film noir: hard boiled, usually alcoholic private eye with a tragic past; long suffering girlfriend; an is-she-good-or-is-she-bad femme fatale; convoluted plot, etc. The wild thing is that the storyline is actually a pretty accurate telling of how the once-brilliant public transit system in LA was deliberately trashed in the interest of building highways (minus the 'toon involvement, of course).
The "making of" for this film is incredible. Bob Hoskins did an amazing acting job, how he did all this with cutout characters as stand-ins, his impeccable comedic timing, wow. The puppeteering was amazing, too, and the fact that Hoskins was essentially on a little go-kart, hanging on for dear life while a stunt driver did all of "Bennie's" driving ... can you even imagine? And I'm glad you mentioned the lighting in the scene in the rotgut room, when Eddie and Roger were in handcuffs. There's a phrase now about "bump the lamp" animation that refers to how they bumped the lamp and then had to match the shadows on all the animated characters for the rest of the scene; it's all about going above and beyond just for the sake of creating a more impressive shot.
Love this film!
remember seeing this when it came out absolutely love it so cute
This story was originally a political satire which Disney almost completely scrubbed clean. James Kunstler (Geography of Nowhere, excellent read) said of this movie: "based on a true story."
Have to go back aways. Street cars, first horse-drawn, then electrified, radically improved municipal transportation, making true cities out of medieval collections of clustered villages. A person prior to this could move at 3-5 mph, whether walking or by carriage. Trolleys could go 10x, which meant residents in an area 100x could now get downtown without an arduous dusty tiring journey. Population concentrations then allowed the development of such things like modern restaurants serving a la carte, night clubs, magnificent theaters for vaudeville/movies, department stores and the like.
Problem was that all trolley systems were privately owned/operated and had to continue to make a sufficient profit. In the 1930's, GM, Standard Oil and one of the major tire companies set up holding companies all over America, with the intended idea of taking over the trolley systems - such was the idea of "Cloverleaf Industries." Put the trolleys out of business and people will either switch to buses or more importantly, private autos.
It worked, including the Red Cars in Los Angeles.
This isn't internet conspiracy theories. The three companies were actually convicted of such a conspiracy in the 1950's and fined $2000, but by then it was too late.
The other aspect of this was that city planners such as Robert Moses deliberately ran the new highways through marginized neighborhoods (or sometimes just right through them). Specifically black areas. In the movie, this is represented by Toontown, a take-off of the pejorative "coon town" where "those crazy people live."
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Mark 17:00. Oh! You ladies might just enjoy, C.L., in his other villainous role as the Klingon, "Lord Kruge", in the 1984 movie, "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock". The movie in which Admiral James Tiberius Kirk & Doctor Carol Marcus, have an adult son, Doctor David Marcus. 🤔🖖
This was written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale directed by Robert Zemeckis
Mark 19:26. Haha! Ever since "WandaVision", more and more people want to say the phrase, "It was _____ all along!" 😉
A pretty common phrase for movie & tv audiences way before WandaVision. It's even a notable statement by Vince McMahon for wrestling fans.
The first live action/animation film was The Last World (1925).
Awesome another request of mine granted!
Not the first to mix live action with animation. In the 1950's Gene Kelly danced with Tom and Jerry for a scene in one of his movies. And way before that 1916(?) 1920(?) a film pioneer made a movie called Gertie the Dinosaur, where he acted with a chalkboard animation of a dinosaur. There may have been others but these two come to mind for me.
I think there's not another movie from my childhood that appeals so much to me as an adult. Actually it's like a film noire/crime/conspiracy with Toons. Wich is such an interesting mix. A lot of classic hollywood vibes.
"Do you mean to tell me you could've taken your hand out of that cuff at any time???"
"No, not at any time. Only when it was funny!"
Mark 33:16. Pepé Le Pew? Have people not noticed that the female black cat would get the white stripe on her back that made her look like a skunk to him? That she is a zoo escapee? It wasn't so much his amorous advances that turned her off, it was the odor! Plus, she didn't want to be put back on the zoo. 🤔
And by the end of the cartoon, the cat was always pursuing a resisting Pepe!
Yeah, and people always seems to forget that by the end of those cartoons she turned the tables on him. His stench is the only reason she wasn't attracted to him at first.
Pepe was never the hero of the story. His antics were funny because he was operating under false assumptions. It's also a French stereotype and we can all agree it's okay to laugh at the French.
That's a joke, btw.
The book was written by Gary K. Wolf who loved the movie so much more than what he wrote
Betty boop!!!!🥰😍😘
Yay! You finally reacted to it!
If I can name 3 movies I’ve watched more times in my life than any others it would be who framed Roger rabbit,Little shop of horror‘s,and the nightmare before Christmas
I still have not watched a nightmare before Christmas. I watch who framed Roger rabbit and Little shop of horrors all the time though. 😝
For me it's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park. Lost count of how many times I've watched all of them
Such a good film!! Are you going to continue the old batman films and watch ‘batman returns’? Or the 1966 version?
I have to admit my favorite characters were the weasels.
I highly recommend watching The World's End
i wouldnt call it first of it's kindn heckthere is even a Mary Poppins one ....but usualy the ones before this movie had only the cartoons overlayed not interacting physicaly with the real life cast much
Here's a theory about the weasels the weasels die but we see their ghost well the ones who didn't fall in the dip they did say that there's no way to truly kill a tune and who's to say the weasels didn't come back after dying and multiple old-fashioned cartoons from Warner Brothers or MGM or even Disney when the cartoon character dies you see their ghost and they come back by the next cartoon for example Sylvester died more than twenty times in the original cartoons so the theory is that the weasels only went to toon heaven and did not truly die
One in a million people they sure dont make masterpieces like this anymore especially Disney when there movies actually had real purpose back then instead of another garbage reboot in 4k this was a time when great actors and great story telling mattered more than everything has to be 4k gold to be good in today's generations eyes 👀
RIP Bob Hoskins.
"The Dip" is literally paint thinner
This is probably the only time you will every see the Looney Tunes and Disney characters on the same screen, truly historic
I thought the unmasked Christopher Lloyd character looked like Rick Scott of Florida. Kathleen Turner supplied the voice for Jessica Rabbit but Amy Irving supplied her singing voice. It's a shame Disney stopped using Mickey once he became their mascot, they didn't want to ruin their brand by having him act crazy or do weird things.
ah yes Bob Hoskins...
*he was mario once*
This is a cinematic masterpiece and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Thanks for the insight! Jessica's knowledge of Roger and Roger's inability to control himself explained her hitting him with the pan. I never thought of that before.
Robert Zemeckis had to make a deal between Disney and Warner Bros. that each had to have equal screentime
But there are some things that you don't want to analyze too closely. Like why do the dead weasels get angel wings? Were they really good enough to go to toon heaven? What would happen if you tried to dip a toon ghost?
The thing is, this film is more "adult" than you expected because it wasn't really made "for kids." It's more of a film geared toward adults, more specifically adults who grew up on those older classic cartoons, a love letter to their own childhoods. I personally don't find it TOO risque for kids to enjoy, but they aren't the target audience, in my opinion.
I loved this movie, when I was a little kid! Today I'm 30 years old and I still love this movie ❤️
Yeah, I was obsessed with this film when I was a kid.
Yeah in that world, toons are only made to make people laugh. The weasels’ weakness was not to laugh too much like their hyena cousins. The only exception was Judge Doom. He was the only disturbed toon that wanted to kill humans and toons.
*I ❤️ this movie.*
Everything in this movie is literally hand painted
Show you the movie Space Jam. A favorite film. I love this movie
Fun facts: Nancy Cartwright voices the dipped shoe.
Kathleen Turner voices Jessica Rabbit uncredited.
Betty Boop is the only cartoon character that Eddie has any respect for.
Mark 35:19. I would like to see your reactions to, "Cool World", that I hope you enjoy too. 😎👍
"Cool World"
Frank Mancuso Jr. "Cool World" is a 1992 American live-action/animated black comedy fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, but actually exists with or without him.
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Mark 32:12. What about, Betty Boop? I felt sorry for her. Having seen her in color though, I wondered why she was still B&W. But in retrospect, she may not have yet been drawn in color in 1947? 🤔
There is only one short in which Betty Boop is actually in Colour. The success of her cartoon pretty much ended when black and white cartoons ended, though.
Did you guys ever watch 101 dalmatians?
Mark 29:03.
$50 in 1947 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $598.78 today, an increase of $548.78 over 74 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.41% per year between 1947 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,097.55%.
This comment about the dollar's worth within a given period reminds me of one of my favorite elements of Good, Bad and The Ugly and how they paced the film so that you knew that, if one of the main characters were willing to kill over anywhere from $500-$2000, they'd do anything for $200,000.
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No. The first of its kind was Mary Poppins
If a Toon and a human had a baby, would it be a CGI character?
One of my favorite films of my childhood
Jessica Rabbit was partially based on Veronica Lake...
Actor Bob Hoskins had to take miming classes in order to learn how to react to nothing
Tim Curry auditioned for the part of Judge Doom but Robert Zemeckis thought he was too terrifying. Christopher Lee also turned down the role.
I think that's also the same reason that he wasn't cast as The Joker in Batman TAS.
Okay. 'Mom and Kimmie 'hadn't seen it. When I saw the thumbnail I'd thought What!?! Storm was fannish Cosplay's and con attending before starting these reviews so how could she have missed this?
Both Mickey and Bugs were stinkers in their early years, but had to be softened as they became the public faces of Disney and Looney Toons, respectively. That forced the introduction of the new screwy stinkers Donald and Daffy.
Toon Town looks like something out of a child's nightmare. Yes, we live in a different world. Everyone is like Eddie. No sense of humor.
Bringing up the Roger rabbit myth doesn't help. The GM streetcar conspiracy is a myth persisting since Ever. In 1910, 750 American cities had streetcars. Conversions of streetcar lines to buses began as early as 1918, and by 1933, when the conspiracy began, more than half of these streetcar systems had gone out of business or converted to buses. Over the next sixteen years, when the conspiracy was active, more than 300 streetcar systems converted to buses. National City had an interest in fewer than thirty of these systems - along with at least thirty more that did not convert to buses during this time. Twelve of the National City lines that converted during this period completed the conversion in the same year that National City bought the line, suggesting that the decision to convert may have been made before National City took control. The reason street cars declined was two fold. Regulations by government treat streetcar lines as utilities; such was they needed government permission to do anything, expand operations, shrink operations. etc. The other was WWI, When the war ended, government agencies removed their controls on the economy. ... People raced to buy goods that had been rationed, while businesses rapidly raised prices they had been forced to keep low during the war. The result was rapid inflation and the Nickel rides were no longer economical. Govt price controls made streetcar operators keep the fares even thou they lost money. Most streetcar systems built for wealthier suburbanites; cost of construction was covered not by anticipated transit fares but by the sales of homes. After the homes sold, transit fares covered the cost of operating the streetcars, but could not pay for the periodic replacement of rail, electrical facilities, and other infrastructure. When the infrastructure wore out, streetcar service quality naturally declined, and both transit companies and transit riders were relieved by the conversion to buses, which shared the costs of roads with autos and trucks.
I love this movie so much but I hate that scene where the poor little shoe gets murdered. You evil screenwriters!
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IF you don't like this there's something wrong with YOU.
You guys are fun. A great movie and an even better cry to first time/share HINT HINT
"The Green Mile" Stephen King......Tom Hanks.
Now i can see that this wasn't actually for children
That's one of the reasons why Disney released it through their Touchstone division, which handled content aimed at a slightly older audience than traditional Disney family movies.
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Jessica Rabbit! Do I need to say more?!
Get her out of here
Please watch "HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS" (1987)!