Who Framed Roger Rabbit Reviews and Ratings



  • October 13, 2008
    This is One One of Those Films Where You Can Watch Over and Over Agian and Never (and I Mean NEVER) Get Tired of It!

    This Was The Film Was The One That Started The Great Live-Action Mixed With Animation. Afterwards, There Were Two Other Great Movies That Had Live-Action With A...( read more)nimation (Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back in Action).

    This is A Must See, Not To Be Missed.
  • October 11, 2008
    una de mis peliculas favoritas
  • October 9, 2008
    A wonderful mix between a cartoon & a real people movie.
    I just love it!
  • October 6, 2008
    As a technical accomplishment combining live action and animation, it's impressive! As a story.....not so much.
  • September 25, 2008
    One of Zemeckis' best and most innovative films.
  • September 24, 2008
    ROGER RABBIT WE HAVE ALL OF THE MOVIES
  • September 22, 2008
    i love this show so much.
  • September 10, 2008
    amazing and hilarious
  • September 9, 2008
    One of the first movies to put cartoons and real people together, it's a classic!
  • September 9, 2008
    great movie... ridiculously funny!
  • September 5, 2008
    I gotta find this one! Very good movie!
  • September 4, 2008
    That movie is not badd.
  • September 3, 2008
    love it it is so fuuny
  • September 2, 2008
    Still as fun as when it came out 20yrs ago.
  • September 1, 2008
    Entertaining late '80s comedy.
  • August 28, 2008
    roger rabbit is a total drama queen!
  • August 28, 2008
    this movie is so old but i love it
  • August 27, 2008
    its good for kids, but i dont like it as much anymore...
  • August 26, 2008
    The drawings really seem real. Much better than some movies more recent like "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"!
  • August 23, 2008
    old movie but i had watched it! ^_^ hahaha
  • August 21, 2008
    my fav movie when i was i kid :D
  • August 19, 2008
    A 1980s cinematic masterpiece. You don't see movies like that anymore, thanks in part to the much over used CGI.
  • August 16, 2008
    this movie was funny
  • August 16, 2008
    A ground-breaking Live-action/Animation amalgamation. Out of all the films of this type I've ever seen (and I've seen them all) this is the best. A 1940s style Noir mystery mixed with classic cartoon comedy, what's not to like? For me that makes this a winner, I love films from t...( read more)he 1940s, especially Noir films, and I most definitely love the classic cartoons from back then, hell who doesn't?


    Bob Hoskins plays Eddie Valiant, the boozing P.I. who gets hired to get evidence that Roger's wife is cheating on him with a mysterious Suger Daddy. Bob plays an american so well that for years I thought he was one, turns out he's british in case some of you didn't know. He did a great job here, it ain't easy playing opposite to a bunch of characters that aren't actually there and it does it magnificently. He also does a great job of conveying Eddie's sorrow upon remembering his late brother. A great performance all around.

    Comedian Charles Fleischer give voice to Roger Rabbit, and I think he was suitably zany in the part. Some folks seem to be annoyed by Roger, but I don't see why, he's only doing what toons do the best, being silly. Fleischer was so gung-ho about this roll he wore a full sized Roger Rabbit costume whenever he was on the set.

    Comedian Stubby Kaye played Marvin Acme, and to be honest, I don't know who else could have played the cartoon gag king and owner of Toontown better. He just looked like how you'd imagine the founder of the fictional Acme Company would look.

    Joanna Cassidy played Dolores, Eddie's sweetheart and bartender at the trolly station bar. She was quite good, though we didn't get to see much of her throughout. She certainly was convincing in her role IMO.

    Kathleen Turner (voice) and Amy Irving (singing voice) played the seductive Jessica Rabbit, Roger's loving wife and femme fatale. Ms. Irving did a wonderful job during Jessica's musical number, playing the classic Noir sultry siren to a T. Ms. Turner of course was alway good at the Femme Fatale roles, so its no surprise she pulls it off well here and also adds a bit of humor to the mix. The Character of Jessica herself conjures up images of such sexy screen seductresses like Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and of course Veronica Lake. Mrs. Rabbit I think is the most famous part of this movie, people might not remember the film itself too well, but Jessica is instantly recognizable.

    Last but not least, we have Chrisopher Lloyd playing Judge Doom, The ruthless Judge of Toontown who wants to destroy it all and put a freeway in its place (after dismantling the Trolley system). Lloyd was quite creepy as the Judge, which was a real switch from his previously well loved characters like Rev. Jim Ignatowski and Emmett "Doc" Brown. He showed his versitility here and should be commended for it.

    This film was the start of what could have been a really great franchise. It had some fun new cartoon characters in the classic style. It revived the classic Cartoon shorts that come in front of the movies with 3 hilarious Roger Rabbit & Baby Herman cartoons, there was supposed to be a whole TV series for The cartoon cast, and a prequel film "Who Discovered Roger Rabbit. But Some time in the early 90s, everyone got greedy and a falling out between Disney Corp, Amblin Entertainment, and Roger Rabbit Creator Gary K. Wolf smashed it all to pieces.

    It saddens me because I loved the characters, I loved the 3 shorts they made, they were great. and I would have loved to see the characters in another film. I really loved the concept of Toontown, and that humans and cartoons were living and working along side eachother. Its was alot of fun, a pity it couldn't last.

    Anyways, if you love classic cartoons and 1940s style Noir films, go out and get this one.
  • August 15, 2008
    I LOVE ROGER RABBIT...SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS LITTLE
  • August 12, 2008
    Theres truly nothing else like it, a great groundbeaking film.
  • August 9, 2008
    this movie use to scare me as a child
  • August 8, 2008
    A lot more adult oriented then I remember as a kid, but still a fantastic and groundbreaking movie.
  • August 8, 2008
    Cool during the more heavily animated sequences. Flat, predictable and lacking effort otherwise.
  • August 7, 2008
    Review will be written when/if re-watched (Probability: Low).

    First viewing: 06.07.2001
  • August 5, 2008
    wow who framed roger rabbit that name is not wierd at all. I hope they taught the little kids not to frame people.
  • July 31, 2008
    i want to be a cartoon
  • July 31, 2008
    Fantastic movie! Super original and creative. Its amazing that all of these separate cartoon companies were able to work together. That fact alone gives this movie a great rating.
  • July 29, 2008
    PPPPPBBBBLLLEEEAAASSEE Eddie. One of the movies of my childhood.
  • July 28, 2008
    Ever wanted to see the "Looney Tunes" on the screen with "Betty Boop" (voiced by Mae Questel), then this is certainly the movie for you. However, due to some studios that loaned their characters to the movie, you won't see a few of the classic characters we love.

    It's the lat...( read more)e 1940's, and "Private Detective Eddie Valiant" (Bob Hoskins) has been hired by the head of "Maroon Studios," and creator of "Maroon Cartoons," "R.K. Maroon" (Alan Tilvern) to get photographic proof of an adulterous affair between "Marvin Acme" (Stubby Kaye), creator of some of the greatest gags in cartoon history and owner of "Toontown", and popular lounge singer "Jessica Rabbit" (voiced by Kathleen Turner), the wife of popular cartoon star "Roger Rabbit" (voiced by Charles Fleischer). "Valiant" gets his proof, and shows the evidence to "Roger," who goes berserk and runs out of "Maroon's" office.

    The next morning, after a night of drinking, "Eddie" reads the newspaper and discovers that "Roger" has been arrested for the murder of "Acme."

    Now, despite his grown hatred for "Toons" since one killed his brother (Eugene Guirterrez, in his only movie role and seen in flashbacks), goes in search for "Acme's" last will and testiment that reportedly gives ownership of "Toontown" to his beloved "Toons" as he protects "Roger" from being dunked in "Dip," a chemical solution created by "Judge Doom" (Christopher Lloyd) that is the only thing known to kill "Toons."

    The first thing you will notice in this movie is how great the cartoon characters blend into the real world. Thanks to some robotic technology that were used to place the animated characters which interact with their human co-stars makes their reality quite convincing. The characters are also nicely animated. The animators did a great job adding shadow and other tricks to make the characters interact with real people and objects nicely.

    The script is nicely written. It's got great dialogue filled with some memorable lines and some fantastic one-liners that I guarantee will make you laugh. The characters, not counting "Toons," feel like they belong in a film-noir flick, which this movie gets a good chunk of inspiration from.

    Everything about this film, from the wardrobe to the score, nails the time the movie is set in. And the performances of all the human actors just added to the movie, as they made their performances a great tribute to 1940's movies similar to this one.

    The only problem I had with the film is that the version I watched was full-screen. There are numerous scenes with a lot of animated action going on that a wide-screen format would be the only way to see everything.

    A lot of the humor is targeted to the adult audience, but there are some jokes which target the younger members of the audience, as well as the adults. We also get to see many of the comedic bits from various cartoon characters that make a cameo in the movie that helped us grow to love them.

    There is very little violence, most of which is done for a laugh. But there is no blood anywhere to be seen in this film.

    If you want a good movie to rent this weekend, check this one out. You won't be disappointed.
  • July 28, 2008
    Until Wall-E, this was the greatest "animated" movie.
  • July 27, 2008
    It was hysterical and Really i love movies with my favorite cartoons. Good movie and some really memorable characters.
  • July 23, 2008
    quite enjoyed dis film gt rite into it wen watched it

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