Funny story: after the movie premiered, Bob Hoskins' son stopped talking to him for a week and when he asked him what was wrong he responded by saying he was upset because his dad worked with Bugs Bunny and other cartoons and didn't let him meet them.
I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie
When this was made, it was a kid's movie. I watched it as a kid, and so did lots of adults. It was a movie for both. If you go back and watch a lot of the "kids" movies from the 70s and 80s and before, you will see that some of them are pretty freaky and scary to people now. Look at the Dark Crystal. That movie could be hellishly terrifying to a kid today. Maybe it is a difference in how people are now as opposed to then. Maybe some kids thought this or the Dark Crystal or lots of other movies we watched then were scary, but most didn't. They were awesome and fun, mostly because, at least for me, I knew it was just a movie, even as a kid, and could enjoy it as simple entertainment. Maybe the wonky special effects then or the obvious costumes due to the tech at the time helped. I don't know.
I will never get over the shoe and the dip scene. As a kid the sound of it melting as it cries out before dying was such a brutal thing. Than again it cemented how evil the bad guy was. This is enhanced by how the shoe was innocent but still executed.
Nya, certainly. It's a terrifying scene. But believe it or not, it could have been worse. The original idea was to use one of Snow White's squirrels instead of a shoe. And she had dialogue, pleading for her life and a fair trial!
Actually, the shoe was a criminal. It assaulted the morgue attendant by kicking him in a place that one should not be kicked in. Doom witnessed this, tried, sentenced, and executed the shoe without benefit of a formal trial. Even being accused of a crime was equivalent to being guilty, and dipping was the standard sentence for any toon.
11:30 Did you notice how he ordered his drink "on the rocks" -- and even though he realized the risk and clarified that he meant "with ice," he still got served with actual rocks in his glass? 😁
41:20 these are cartoon characters that many, many adults grew up watching. So this movie is for the adults who used to watch them when they were kids. It's pure nostalgia
Touchstone was owned by Disney. They got permission from other studios to include their characters. Warner Bros had a requirement on equal screen time for certain characters, which is why in some scenes you have a Disney and Warner character on screen at the same time. They were also able to get many original voice actors, including for Betty Boop.
Touchstone was also Disney's studio for it's more "risque" productions - hence Rodger Rabbit and its PG rating. The cartoons from Warner/Disney got equal screen time, but a Disney had to be the last on screen. Hence Porky Pig delivers the last line and Tinkerbell disappears him.
@MrNoosphere Exactly. Any production that might even slightly tarnish Disney’s family friendly brand/image, they would just release under their Touchstone label. Kind of interesting how Disney at first wanted to keep their distance from The Nightmare Before Christmas, so they releases it under Touchstone, but after it became a successful holiday classic with lots of merchandising possibilities, and there was basically no concerned parents to worry about, they reclaimed it for the Disney brand and redid the title sequence years later, so it says “Walt Disney Presents” now, instead of Touchstone Pictures… which kind of annoys me. For the sake of historical accuracy (and nostalgia), I wanted the Touchstone logo! I was slightly surprised to see it here… guess Disney still doesn’t want their name on this one. Too risqué.
My favorite lines are 1) “he promised too leave too town too us toons” baby Herman’s accent in that moment is everything 😂 2) “toon killed his brother; dropped a piano on his head” that kills me everytime I hear it because it’s so unexpected. 😂
One interesting detail about toons verse people in this world is that human are attracted to looks but toons find humor above all attractive. That is why Betty Boop says Jessica is a lucky gal with being married to Roger, he is considered one of the funniest toons in there world, so one of the most desired. While Jessica has the classic looks that humans find attractive.
I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and what do you think about it same thing what I say right
This wasn't made for kids, despite the cartoons (hence, why Disney released the movie under its adult banner, Touchstone Pictures). It was a film noir murder mystery whodunit first & foremost. The cartoons were just an additional bonus for fans of classic animation.
Actually I can tell you as a child of the 80's, we used to watch this movie when I was in the 2nd grade in elementary school. It was a kids movie and was completely normal to us. Still one of my favorite movies as a child. Never scared me as a kid or anyone else my age not even once. Great movie reaction by the way 🙂. Keep them coming!
I think you underestimate a lot of what CHildren can comprehend. I watched it as a kid and some subtilities may not have impacted me as much, but honnestly children can understand a detective mystery, and even the Inuendo's part, Children aren't as innocent as you think. and this movie is a fond child memory.
Believe it or not, Looney Tunes were actually created for adults, not kids. I loved this movie (as an adult, I'm old) back when it came out. One of most prized possessions was a photo of me with my arm around Jessica Rabbit. All right, it was a wooden cutout Jessica Rabbit, but still. Unfortunately, that photo disappeared in one of my many moves since 1988. I mourn it still.
Yep my granny absolutely loved loony toons.(her fav was Tweety). She loved most old cartoons (she even showed me the Disney movie that shall not be named) she grew up seeing the shorts in theaters before features.
It's still watchable by kid today, Kids were watching "Grave of the firefly" and weren't as traumatized as adults when it was released in France, And not because they didn't get it, kid are much more resilient and understand more than people give them credit for especially if adults around them interact and talk about what they're watching.
I like this movie and i seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and what do you think about this movie same thing what I say right
SO much lingo....and much of it 1940's-specific. For example, if your wife is having an affair, she's playing pattycake on you. The joke, of course, is that the pictures show her playing a literal game known as pattycake. And when Roger flips through the pictures really quickly, it reproduces the way the illusion of motion in film actually works. I love this movie on so many levels.
Me too I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and do you agree with me about what I say right
I took the bus 15 miles each way to see this movie in the theater at the mall with my friends for $1.50 about 6 times when I was 11 years old. We always got there early enough to hit the arcade first and pick up some gummy worms at the candy store to sneak in, too. It was a different time. A far better one, if you ask me.
4:43 "Whatever happened to Touchstone? Are they still a thing?" Wow, what a timely question! I did a little research, and apparently Disney recently consolidated their brands to reduce costs. They closed the Touchstone distribution label in 2008 as part of this process.
@@gallendugall8913 No, not really. That was the whole reason Touchstone existed: to release non-G-rated films for Disney Studios that didn't exactly fit under the Disney brand.
@@gallendugall8913 Well that was the whole point of the Touchstone label. To release movies that didn't fit the "Kids" Disney mold, but still being put out by the Disney company, by having a seperate label.
Several small things you notice on repeat viewings, Doom's teeth are comically white and don't look to fit in his mouth just right. During the Shave and Haircut scene you can see him getting slowly more and more close to saying "two bits" even looking to start whispering the jingle. Showing he's a toon unable to resist for long. When the dip is tipped over, he actively recoils to get away from it. When he trips on the fake eyes and comes back up, he'd holding his eye cuz it fell out amongst the others. If anyone else spotted more than that, feel free to add here.
The one part of Chris walking through the eyeball field is such a cool moment. I have no clue how many takes they had to do just to get it right. His character purposely walks through it, stumbles, readjusts his balance and doesn’t bust his ass, lose concentration or eye contact, and is able to continue his monologue flawlessly. Just adds to the inhuman, determined and uncanny valley side of Judge Doom along with Christopher Lloyd being the consummate professional.
Also, when he infamously DIPS the Squeaky Shoe (voiced by Nancy Cartright, so basically just imagine Bright Eyes from the 1986 version of _Pound Puppies_ in the Squeaky Shoe's place & you have a general idea of how insidious cruel the appropriately named JUDGE DOOM could be), he puts an adhesive rubber glove over his already gloved Toon hand to keep it from getting melted off by the DIP (paint thinner combined with ink remover).
This movie is also about the General Motors streetcar conspiracy - where car manufactures bought up the LA tramcar system and trashed it and replaced the services with busses and lobbied the city council to build freeways. Making the whole city dependant on cars (or at least busses) to get around.
42:10 "...but the part when they revealed that he was a toon? I did not see that coming." You noticed hints, like when you commented on his unusually white teeth.
😎👍 In addition to Disney and Warner Brothers characters, there are also three other studios represented: Paramount (Betty Boop), MGM (Droopy Dog) and Universal (Woody Woodpecker). More than anything else, this is what really blew people's minds when this film came out. 🤯 All the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing to convince five different major studios to collaborate in the creation of one project must've been a complete legalistic nightmare. 😵
Fun Fact: the lead role of Eddy in this movie was actually supposed to be Bill Murray but the Director and producers literally could not get ahold of him so they went with their second option Bob Hoskins. Bill Murray found out about this years later during an interview on the Howard Stern show, and was very upset he missed an opportunity to be in Roger rabbit.
I love Murray but Hoskins was a better choice. Murray would have never played the role as straight up as Hoskins did. He would have played it like he did Frank Cross in Scrooged and it wouldn't have worked here. You can't have the detective be more over the top than Roger Rabbit is.
"Is this a toon club?" Sorta. The Ink & Paint Club is a reference to segregation era establishments where the staff and performers were minorites but only white customers were admitted. So all the staff and acts are toons, but they don't serve toons 😅 Just a little nod to America's racist history in a kids movie...
@@amandamiquilenaYes. In Fact "Toon Town" is a thinly veiled reference to (forgive me) "Coon Town" 🤮 The plot is a allusion to real events. Back in the 40's, the car and bus and tire companies conspired to buy up the mass transit lines -like the Red Line in Los Angeles - and then build freeways. In many cases, the new freeways erased or severely damaged African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods. On purpose. Judge Doom is the embodiment of General Motors, Good Year and Robert Moses.
When animation was starting off in the early 1900s it was new technology, therefore most animations target audience was for adults. During the 1960s animation was targeted towards kids. It wasn’t until the late 80s that adult animations came back in full swing starting off with The Simpsons.
They played this in my sixth or seventh grade class as well as the Michael Keaton Batman the princess Bride and the movie Oliver starring Sylvester Stallone (not the cat cartoon). They really weren't about sheltering us back then
32:06 In the day, it was found one release of this movie, I think it was Laserdisc, had an inserted frame looking up Jessica's dress as she spins around. Animators had a habit if doing things like that - a single frame is impossible for the eye to catch, but it does register as peculiar to the brain. So people buy the movie to watch and figure it out. This was similar to the alleged "subliminal messaging" allegedly inserted in a number of movies and the supposed "backward masking" in hard rock albums.
Congratulations on the Patreon. Yes it was created for people who watched these cartoon characters on television from the 1950’s through the early 1980’s. It was a very big hit and it took quite a bit of cooperation between not only Disney and Warner Brothers but a few other studios as well such as MGM and Hanna-Barbera. While Disney may have been the biggest I was always more partial to Warner Brothers. Bugs Bunny will always be the GOAT to me.
The 1980s were a very different time. This was intended for kids, and everyone else, just like many other movies of the time that were much more graphic. The whole idea of things even just being appropriate for certain age groups was a concept that was still just coming together. This was around the time when PG-13 was invented after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was rated PG even though it had a guy's heart getting ripped out when he was still alive. Those days, probably half the population thought that kids seeing gruesome stuff would "toughen them up" and get them ready for the real world, or something like that. People weren't so protective, back then. Nightmares were expected.
That's *Christopher Lloyd* who's also infamous for playing *Doc Brown* in *(Back to the Future)* & know those aren't his real teeth that you're saying are so WHITE
The name of the duck with Donald Duck is Daffy Duck. You didn't ask much about "Patty Cake"; its just a game you play with young kids where you kind of sing and clap your hands together in various ways. It was also used as a euphemism for sex in this movie or so everyone thinks, then you see the photos and realize they really were playing some kids game with each other, hence the joke. Watching people react to Doom's steam rolling and his screaming voice with knife eyes is always fun.
Actually, the pattycake scene is multi-layered. The sex euphemism (which is still a thing, even now, but used most in the 1940's when the movie is set) remains applicable, as does the kid's game. But the third thing that the morally questionable photos are good for is, since it is just pictures of Marvin Acme & Jessica Rabbit playing "pattycake" together (making it family appropriate, rather than actual Rule 34 between a human [specifically the owner of Toon Town] & a Toon [Jessica Rabbit, Roger's saucy & buxom wife]), when a dejected Roger angrily flipped through the photos, the fluidity of his movements began causing the "pattycake" scene to actually play out in real time, much like an old-school animator's animation flipbook.
My fav reactor. unique, funny and smart. Everytime you drop w reaction, it's gold no matter the content. Im watching you because you are funny and you are geniuine, your takes are differents and intresting. Keep up the good work.
Great comments. Well said and true. Came across Amanda for a Rocky reaction, then Gran Torino. Everything you state is exactly why I check back. Good health to you.
Yeah, the shoe getting "the dip" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit [holding hands] Artex dying in the Swamp of Sadness tough moments for kids watching these movies.
Also in an original draft it was revealed that the judge also killed Bambi's mother, which would have made him the most evil villain in all of history, but it was cut from the script.
Fun facts: There are three Roger Rabbit short animations. "Tummy Trouble" Trail Mix-up" and Rollercoaster Rabbit". -Because she's an animated human, Jessica is the toon equivalent of *light enough to pass.* Her marrying Roger is her way of climbing the social ladder. -the sub plot was a proposed second sequel to "Chinatown".
Just to address the preamble for a second. We all love our girl and want her to succeed. She is an adorable angel who needs to be protected at all costs. We all get this. We know this. Do not use this new Patreon thing to force her to watch horrible shit like Human Centipede or what have you. We need her takes on Escape From New York and Big Trouble in Little China way more than that edgelord shit.
While I agree that people should suggest films that caters to her likes, she's also a grown woman. She doesn't need to be coddled. Also, you don't NEED her to react to Escape from New York or Big Trouble in Little China. You WANT her to react to those films.
@@LuckySmurfGood lord, calm down. I beg of you. I'm not robbing her of any agency by hyping her up. I am obviously not trying to mandate what she watches. It's just language. You're twisting it in the most unfair way. We're having fun here. We love her and what she does. There is no ill will here. There is no enemy to find. So don't look for it.
Also I feel like between Evil Dead and The Thing she's sorta already gone through the "youtube reaction gauntlet" and absolutely nothing further is expected of her. And yes, it IS weird that things like that are EXPECTED in that way, and it's not good. Do I want her to watch Mr. Mom and fall in love with Michael Keaton like I did as a kid? YES. But I don't expect her to ever watch that movie or to have the same reaction to it. She has an entirely different background, and that's what makes her videos so compelling to me. The absolute last thing I ever want to see is some white American dude's opinion of a movie or TV show. THAT'S ME. I don't need that. I want to hear from the people with distance, with perspective. Infinitely more interesting to me. So much more valuable.
Wonderful choice. A virtually perfect movie, so fun and funny and clever... it's up there with "The Princess Bride" and "Walk Hard" as perfect movies. I just can't imagine anybody watching it (them) and not having a blast. "Not at any time... only when it was *funny*."
@@Krucifus I know. Jessica explicitly says it: "he makes me laugh." I just love that line. Primarily because of Betty Boop's delivery, how she says "goil".
"Carrot Cake", Roger is a rabbit, and rabbits love carrots. 🙂 At the beginning, when the intro cartoon ends, something naughty happens. As Baby Herman passes underneath the woman's dress, he does something very adult with his finger. This was in the original film run in theaters, and on at least the first release on VHS in '89 or '90. It was only caught after the movie was released on video. I saw proof of this when I was inside the Disney Animation Studios in Buena Vista, Florida on a bulletin board. Nine frames was all it took. It's what they call a hidden Easter egg within the movie. Disney films with two frames for every movement, so technically it was 18 frames in less than one second. If you have access or ownership of one of the first VHS runs, it will be on there. Save it, because it is a collectors gem. Disney has since corrected this. It was in 1991 when I saw that Disney had caught this "Easter egg". BTW - I have handled or been in all those cars, trucks, and vehicles used in this movie. Some of them were even used in filming Dick Tracy. I love watching your reactions Amanda! 😀
Great Reaction Video... Disney and Warner Brothers had stipulations that their cartoon characters had to have equal screen time..... It is believed that Robert Zemecks cast Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom to prevent the sutdio from trying to film "Back the Future 2/3" without him directing.... The speakeasy room created an Effect now called "rocking the lamp".... cause of how the shadows rock with the lamp... "Harvey (the Rabbit)" is a 1944 play, they made into a Movie with James Stewart in 1950..... "DIP" is made from Acetone and another chemical that are used to "Clean" animation cells/film...... In the club, Betty Boop is voiced by Mae Questel, who Ariginally voiced the Character Betty Boop and Oylive Oil in the original Cartoons, and provides the "Blessing" in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation..... Jessica Rabbit's Voice is Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone).... Other movies with Human/Animatied scenes: Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the South (1946), Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Cool World (1992), Space Jam (1996). There are more but these are the ones that spring to mind......
I saw this as a kid and loved it! Doom was terrifying, and all the adult stuff went over my head. Then years later rewatching it as an adult, it’s like a whole new movie!
It DID. You can see both of the pair running around among all the other loose shoes. Also, just to note- while the punishment was definitely *_WAY_* too severe… the shoe isn’t quite perfectly innocent either! Watch again carefully- the part when the buzzer gets dropped.
In 1988 the kids were tough-minded, resilient Gen-Xers. Gen-X kids were not traumatized by cartoon humor. My then 13 and 11 year old children took me to this film in 1988.
The plot was initially conceived as being the last part of a Chinatown trilogy but it was never made. I also like when Maroon tells Valiant to show him the will he actually did but neither of them knew it was the will at the time.
JAJAJAJA! My abuela is the same damned way!! Your face showed me the exact expressions and thoughts of what I must look/feel like when mine does it to me; hilarious.
Not for kids? I was 9 when this came out, my mum took me to the cinema to see it and I loved every second. We treat kids like fragile china these days.
I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and do you agree with me about what I say right and what do you think about this movie same thing what I say right
We were a bit less sheltered back then. I saw this movie at the premier when I was 9. I saw Gremlins in theaters when I was 5. I even saw Robocop when it came out.
The original Looney Tunes weren't made for kids. Also, Droopy. Maybe Disney cartoons were more family friendly but Warner Brothers, MGM and Paramount cartoons were originally produced usually for adults.
It’s worth saying that in the 1980’s and 1990’s, in general you didn’t have the same attitudes about “protecting” children from content that included violence, or even topics like sex and death. After all, like you said, cartoonish violence was commonplace in cartoons. (As the old director of the Coyote and Road Runner cartoons said, the rule was that the Coyote needed to be more humiliated than hurt by any violence that befell him.). Topics like sexual attraction were around both in cartoons and live-action shows that kids and teens watched. I often think of “Hello Nurse” from the acclaimed 90’s cartoon Animaniacs, and how her character is all but removed from the current revival on Hulu. I’ll let others debate whether then or now are better (I definitely grew up unaware of a lot of misogyny and stereotypes I was being exposed to), but it was definitely different in those days.
When I grew up in the 60s, cartoons had lots of violence in them. My favorite were the Road Runner cartoons. I don't think there were any scientific studies that were able to prove any harm. But some would still force their opinions on others through their legislators. Anyway, it is a fun and funny movie. Thanks for the reaction.
I saw this movie when I was 5, but I only remembered bits and pieces of it. I watched it again around 6 years later, and was so thankful that I couldn’t remember much of it from the first time because I pretty much had the same reaction as you.. Disturbed
I think I watched this movie for the first time when I was around 7 years old, the scene where Doom gets rolled over and stand back up was nightmare fuel lol
Someone probably said this already, but they made Jessica with impossible proportions on purpose so they couldn’t be accused of rotoscoping a real actress. They wanted everyone to know they weren’t messing around. Just real, authentic, animation of the highest quality possible. (Plus she’s a “toon” so… makes sense.)
*Watch your mouth naughty lil girl...LOL* The movie was created in such a way where young children who know no better can enjoy it & adults parents can too. That's why the patty cake scene adults think it's sex kids think it's just patty cake Because of your commentary & questions during the movie reaction I wish you would have included a couple of scenes like when she says "I'm not bad I'm just drawn that way" & then later when he asked "what do you see in Rodger?" & she says "he makes me laugh" bringing attention to relationships & people are more than just looks
I see your point. But as an 80s baby, I saw this movie as kid after its theatrical run. A lot of it flew over my head of course. 😂😂😂😂😂 Great reaction! 👍🏿
Zemeckis, a legend. He also did the Back to the Future trilogy. Obviously Chris Lloyd was Doc in BttF and the Judge in WFRR. Zemeckis has other stuff that would be recognizable, but the BttF trilogy and WFRR are the all-time classics.
I think you're missing the point that adults were once children, and these were the cartoons that they watched when they were, so there's a lot of nostalgia for them. Besides, I was a kid when this came out, and people were less concerned about what their children watched, did, or felt back then as compared to now. At least my parents didn't give much of a shit, but when I watch younger people like yourself react to these things, you'd be surprised at how much we used to do as children, and how little parental supervision or care we had. We were left alone, and didn't even have a cartoon rabbit to watch us. We just had a TV, where we watched them, and that's the point. This movie was made for all those adults that had once been kids that were raised by a television. I thought the whole freeway bit was clever as a kid. Like just making fun of our current culture, at least in Los Angeles, but I really didn't get how clever it was until I got older, and learned the historical context. One of the things that makes Los Angeles so unique as a city is that it's so spread out over such a large area. Most cities in America, particularly older ones on the East coast, were built on a European model. Meaning that there was a downtown, or old town, and over time, the city grew outwards with the downtown being the center of the city. Los Angeles had originally been like that too, and there was a rail system for public transportation, and everything, just like in most cities, but after World War 2, automotive interests, like Firestone Tires who owned a huge factory here, bought up the rail system and ripped it out of the ground to force people to buy cars. Once people had cars and were mobile, we had lots of open space, so everything spread out all over the place. Downtown Los Angeles today, doesn't really hold any significance as the heart of the city. In my own lifetime, after this movie was made, the city of Los Angeles has spent probably billions of dollars rebuilding a metro system, but it's really not that effective. Compared to Europe, public transportation in America, outside a handful of cities, is pretty shitty in general, but it's particularly true in Los Angeles because everything is spread out so far, that the infrastructure needed to cover it all is just too much. In LA, you really do need to have a car to survive, and any real estate where the cars go, is worth an unbelievable amount of money.
They deliberately threw in some adult humor in order to definitely NOT make it for kids, as they didn't want it to be shrugged off as childish. This is also a satire of the Film Noir of the 1940's and '50's (like the Maltese Falcon), with a hard-boiled, hard-drinking detective and the fem fatale, a beautiful woman who may or may not be the villain. (By the way, Jessica is drawn with her hair falling over one eye, which was an identifying feature of Veronica Lake, one such fem fatale of the era.) What gets lost in the movie's commotion is the underlying story, the demise of the American trolley car systems. (Just type in "Roger Rabbit" and "trolleys" in UA-cam to see a lot of discussion, pros and cons.) Rail systems - including mass transit, i.e., trolleys - in this country have always been privately owned, unlike the nationalized trolleys in most other countries, and like all the other transportation systems here (like highways, canals, airports). Trolleys have to make a profit and pay taxes on their land holdings which go to subsidized the other systems. The biggest electrified rail system in the country was Pacific Electric in southern California, the "Red Cars." In the '30's and '40's, General Motors, Standard Oil, and Goodyear banded together to set up holding companies (i.e., "Cloverleaf") in cities and towns across the country, with the express purpose of buying up the local trolley system in order to put them out of business. Then as planned, people had to switch to using buses, or better yet, buy their own auto, which obviously benefited the three partners of this plan. This isn't some crazy conspiracy system - in the 1950's, they were convicted and fined, a total of $2,000, way too little, way too late. Part of this plan (as they wind up doing) was to run freeways through the hearts of cities, often bisecting marginalized neighborhoods, or creating a barrier between them and the prosperous downtown. People who could afford cars had a hard time finding parking downtown, so this led to the flight to suburbia, and the shopping malls and big box stores putting the downtown merchants out of business. Meanwhile, poor people who couldn't afford a car were left with remnants of the mass transit system. Included in the satire was the highly pejorative term for these remaining neighborhoods, "Coontown," (Toontown), where "those crazy people live."
What do you mean? Kids at the time definitely watched and enjoyed this film. I was 10 when it was released and I loved it. Back then, kids weren't babied like they are today.
Me and my best friend Sold Out movie in the theaters when we were really young we got such a kick out of that movie who framed Rodger rabbit it was awesome
I watched this as a kid, as well as some other kids films that wouldn't fly today. Things like Cloak & Dagger, Child of Glass and Something Wicked This Way Comes that were normal for us would scare the hell out of kids now.
Funny story: after the movie premiered, Bob Hoskins' son stopped talking to him for a week and when he asked him what was wrong he responded by saying he was upset because his dad worked with Bugs Bunny and other cartoons and didn't let him meet them.
Kids in the 80s weren't so over protected as they are today. This movie is rated PG, for all ages with guidance from parents.
Yea I was like 7 or 8 when I first saw this movie
I don't think kids today are overprotected. They're given iPads and access to every horrible thing on the internet.
My dad watched this movie when he grew up and i also watched it when i was growing up.
@@bonchbonch Not over protected by the own media, hollywood, etc.
I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie
When this was made, it was a kid's movie. I watched it as a kid, and so did lots of adults. It was a movie for both. If you go back and watch a lot of the "kids" movies from the 70s and 80s and before, you will see that some of them are pretty freaky and scary to people now. Look at the Dark Crystal. That movie could be hellishly terrifying to a kid today. Maybe it is a difference in how people are now as opposed to then. Maybe some kids thought this or the Dark Crystal or lots of other movies we watched then were scary, but most didn't. They were awesome and fun, mostly because, at least for me, I knew it was just a movie, even as a kid, and could enjoy it as simple entertainment. Maybe the wonky special effects then or the obvious costumes due to the tech at the time helped. I don't know.
It was always a movie for grown ups. It's just that there are people who think anything animated must be for kids.
Well, yeah. We had a stronger grip on reality back in the 20th century.
I will never get over the shoe and the dip scene. As a kid the sound of it melting as it cries out before dying was such a brutal thing. Than again it cemented how evil the bad guy was. This is enhanced by how the shoe was innocent but still executed.
Nya, certainly. It's a terrifying scene.
But believe it or not, it could have been worse. The original idea was to use one of Snow White's squirrels instead of a shoe. And she had dialogue, pleading for her life and a fair trial!
Actually, the shoe was a criminal. It assaulted the morgue attendant by kicking him in a place that one should not be kicked in. Doom witnessed this, tried, sentenced, and executed the shoe without benefit of a formal trial. Even being accused of a crime was equivalent to being guilty, and dipping was the standard sentence for any toon.
11:30 Did you notice how he ordered his drink "on the rocks" -- and even though he realized the risk and clarified that he meant "with ice," he still got served with actual rocks in his glass? 😁
41:20 these are cartoon characters that many, many adults grew up watching. So this movie is for the adults who used to watch them when they were kids. It's pure nostalgia
Touchstone was owned by Disney. They got permission from other studios to include their characters. Warner Bros had a requirement on equal screen time for certain characters, which is why in some scenes you have a Disney and Warner character on screen at the same time.
They were also able to get many original voice actors, including for Betty Boop.
So far this is the only time that the two studios have made a show together.
Touchstone was also Disney's studio for it's more "risque" productions - hence Rodger Rabbit and its PG rating.
The cartoons from Warner/Disney got equal screen time, but a Disney had to be the last on screen. Hence Porky Pig delivers the last line and Tinkerbell disappears him.
@@stevedavis5704 They didn't make it together. Warner's involvement was giving permission for the use of their IP.
@MrNoosphere
Exactly. Any production that might even slightly tarnish Disney’s family friendly brand/image, they would just release under their Touchstone label. Kind of interesting how Disney at first wanted to keep their distance from The Nightmare Before Christmas, so they releases it under Touchstone, but after it became a successful holiday classic with lots of merchandising possibilities, and there was basically no concerned parents to worry about, they reclaimed it for the Disney brand and redid the title sequence years later, so it says “Walt Disney Presents” now, instead of Touchstone Pictures… which kind of annoys me. For the sake of historical accuracy (and nostalgia), I wanted the Touchstone logo!
I was slightly surprised to see it here… guess Disney still doesn’t want their name on this one. Too risqué.
Groundbreaking animation.
Brilliant choreography.
And the best line ever: "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." (Jessica Rabbit)
Groundbreaking studio cooperation as well.
@@0okaminoA level of which we may never see again.
My favorite lines are
1) “he promised too leave too town too us toons” baby Herman’s accent in that moment is everything 😂
2) “toon killed his brother; dropped a piano on his head” that kills me everytime I hear it because it’s so unexpected. 😂
Re: This isn't a film for kids - It's a film for 80s kids, compared to some of the other stuff it's actually quite tame.
One interesting detail about toons verse people in this world is that human are attracted to looks but toons find humor above all attractive. That is why Betty Boop says Jessica is a lucky gal with being married to Roger, he is considered one of the funniest toons in there world, so one of the most desired. While Jessica has the classic looks that humans find attractive.
So Roger is like Brad Pitt in his prime.
Roger is out of Jessica's league.
@@Logan_Baronyep and Jessica would have been like Rosanna Barr circa 25 years ago
@@fedosyou really don’t get toon logic
Rogers ability to make people laugh is why no one would rat him out to Judge Doom.
I first saw this when I was a kid. Movies for kids in the 80s were different than now.
I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and what do you think about it same thing what I say right
This wasn't made for kids, despite the cartoons (hence, why Disney released the movie under its adult banner, Touchstone Pictures). It was a film noir murder mystery whodunit first & foremost. The cartoons were just an additional bonus for fans of classic animation.
Actually I can tell you as a child of the 80's, we used to watch this movie when I was in the 2nd grade in elementary school. It was a kids movie and was completely normal to us. Still one of my favorite movies as a child. Never scared me as a kid or anyone else my age not even once. Great movie reaction by the way 🙂. Keep them coming!
I think you underestimate a lot of what CHildren can comprehend.
I watched it as a kid and some subtilities may not have impacted me as much, but honnestly children can understand a detective mystery, and even the Inuendo's part, Children
aren't as innocent as you think.
and this movie is a fond child memory.
Believe it or not, Looney Tunes were actually created for adults, not kids. I loved this movie (as an adult, I'm old) back when it came out. One of most prized possessions was a photo of me with my arm around Jessica Rabbit. All right, it was a wooden cutout Jessica Rabbit, but still. Unfortunately, that photo disappeared in one of my many moves since 1988. I mourn it still.
Yep my granny absolutely loved loony toons.(her fav was Tweety). She loved most old cartoons (she even showed me the Disney movie that shall not be named) she grew up seeing the shorts in theaters before features.
Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially. There were many adult themes and jokes within those wonderful gags.
Fun fact: All the ingredients listed for Dip are paint thinners. Perfect for erasing a cartoon.
Paint thinner combined with ink remover.
Back in the day movies like this weren't considered too dark or disturbing for kids
Also, Warner Bros cartoons could get pretty risqué back in the day, so that carried over. Helloooooo, Nurse! 😉
Yes, as someone who watched Jaws in a theater when I was eight years old, I snortled at that.
It's still watchable by kid today,
Kids were watching "Grave of the firefly" and weren't as traumatized as adults when it was released in France,
And not because they didn't get it, kid are much more resilient and understand more than people give them credit for
especially if adults around them interact and talk about what they're watching.
They really still shouldn't be now.
I like this movie and i seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and what do you think about this movie same thing what I say right
SO much lingo....and much of it 1940's-specific. For example, if your wife is having an affair, she's playing pattycake on you. The joke, of course, is that the pictures show her playing a literal game known as pattycake. And when Roger flips through the pictures really quickly, it reproduces the way the illusion of motion in film actually works. I love this movie on so many levels.
This movie still looks so good it's unbelievable. I love it so much.
Me too I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and do you agree with me about what I say right
Christopher Lloyd scared the sh*t out of me as a kid with his role in this
The expression on Amanda's face when she saw Jessica Rabbit for the first time jajaja 😅
I took the bus 15 miles each way to see this movie in the theater at the mall with my friends for $1.50 about 6 times when I was 11 years old. We always got there early enough to hit the arcade first and pick up some gummy worms at the candy store to sneak in, too. It was a different time. A far better one, if you ask me.
4:43 "Whatever happened to Touchstone? Are they still a thing?" Wow, what a timely question! I did a little research, and apparently Disney recently consolidated their brands to reduce costs. They closed the Touchstone distribution label in 2008 as part of this process.
Touchstone became increasingly involved in not family friendly productions and Disney cared about that back then.
@@gallendugall8913 No, not really. That was the whole reason Touchstone existed: to release non-G-rated films for Disney Studios that didn't exactly fit under the Disney brand.
@@gallendugall8913 Well that was the whole point of the Touchstone label. To release movies that didn't fit the "Kids" Disney mold, but still being put out by the Disney company, by having a seperate label.
Some Touchstone films move to the Disney banner like Roger Rabbit & Nightmare Before Christmas.
The cartoons you watched in the 90s from the 30s-40s like Looney Tunes weren’t specifically for kids either.
I saw this in the theater. I was 9 or something and it was mind blowing!
Several small things you notice on repeat viewings, Doom's teeth are comically white and don't look to fit in his mouth just right. During the Shave and Haircut scene you can see him getting slowly more and more close to saying "two bits" even looking to start whispering the jingle. Showing he's a toon unable to resist for long.
When the dip is tipped over, he actively recoils to get away from it. When he trips on the fake eyes and comes back up, he'd holding his eye cuz it fell out amongst the others.
If anyone else spotted more than that, feel free to add here.
The one part of Chris walking through the eyeball field is such a cool moment. I have no clue how many takes they had to do just to get it right. His character purposely walks through it, stumbles, readjusts his balance and doesn’t bust his ass, lose concentration or eye contact, and is able to continue his monologue flawlessly. Just adds to the inhuman, determined and uncanny valley side of Judge Doom along with Christopher Lloyd being the consummate professional.
Also, when he infamously DIPS the Squeaky Shoe (voiced by Nancy Cartright, so basically just imagine Bright Eyes from the 1986 version of _Pound Puppies_ in the Squeaky Shoe's place & you have a general idea of how insidious cruel the appropriately named JUDGE DOOM could be), he puts an adhesive rubber glove over his already gloved Toon hand to keep it from getting melted off by the DIP (paint thinner combined with ink remover).
Lmao@the beginning look on Amanda's face when her mom walks in😅 Nice reaction btw
Latina mothers and boundaries 😅
Haha good point. After this video Amanda bought a lock haha 😄
I love all the cartoons at the end swaying and singing together. Just a cute movie.
This movie is almost 40 years old put back in the day it was absolutely for kids I remember my father bringing me to see it
12:52 Animator here. The best part about animation is that we can make things that would be impossible in the real world.
This movie was absolutely hilarious and revolutionary for it's time...and still is. Christopher Lloyd so good at being a bad guy ❤
When his voice goes shrill after the steamroller 😱 The stuff of childhood nightmares, though I did find him melting to be hilarious as a kiddo 😅
He was great as a Klingon in Star Trek 2, too.
@@bobbuethe1477 Star Trek 3. 2 is Khaaaan!
@@LordVolkov Oops, you're right.
@@bobbuethe1477 I never remember the character names 😅, but he and Christopher Plummer are some of the best Klingon villains👍
This movie is also about the General Motors streetcar conspiracy - where car manufactures bought up the LA tramcar system and trashed it and replaced the services with busses and lobbied the city council to build freeways. Making the whole city dependant on cars (or at least busses) to get around.
41:34 Remember: children eventually turn into adults! This film was made for adults who had grown up with the Looney Tunes and Disney characters.
42:10 "...but the part when they revealed that he was a toon? I did not see that coming." You noticed hints, like when you commented on his unusually white teeth.
😎👍 In addition to Disney and Warner Brothers characters, there are also three other studios represented: Paramount (Betty Boop), MGM (Droopy Dog) and Universal (Woody Woodpecker). More than anything else, this is what really blew people's minds when this film came out. 🤯 All the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing to convince five different major studios to collaborate in the creation of one project must've been a complete legalistic nightmare. 😵
Fun Fact: the lead role of Eddy in this movie was actually supposed to be Bill Murray but the Director and producers literally could not get ahold of him so they went with their second option Bob Hoskins.
Bill Murray found out about this years later during an interview on the Howard Stern show, and was very upset he missed an opportunity to be in Roger rabbit.
I love Murray but Hoskins was a better choice. Murray would have never played the role as straight up as Hoskins did. He would have played it like he did Frank Cross in Scrooged and it wouldn't have worked here. You can't have the detective be more over the top than Roger Rabbit is.
"Is this a toon club?"
Sorta. The Ink & Paint Club is a reference to segregation era establishments where the staff and performers were minorites but only white customers were admitted. So all the staff and acts are toons, but they don't serve toons 😅 Just a little nod to America's racist history in a kids movie...
OH WOW, I would have never imagined. Thanks for the explanation.
@@amandamiquilenaYes. In Fact "Toon Town" is a thinly veiled reference to (forgive me) "Coon Town" 🤮
The plot is a allusion to real events. Back in the 40's, the car and bus and tire companies conspired to buy up the mass transit lines -like the Red Line in Los Angeles - and then build freeways. In many cases, the new freeways erased or severely damaged African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods. On purpose. Judge Doom is the embodiment of General Motors, Good Year and Robert Moses.
There's a saying called laughing yourself to death which is what are happening to the weasels
"Harvey" is a reference to an old Jimmy Stewart movie about a man with a 6' invisible rabbit friend
The movie with James Stewart was from 1950, a few years after when this movie is set, but the play it was based on was from 1944.
And to think this was one of my favorite childhood movies...
When animation was starting off in the early 1900s it was new technology, therefore most animations target audience was for adults. During the 1960s animation was targeted towards kids. It wasn’t until the late 80s that adult animations came back in full swing starting off with The Simpsons.
Even _The Flintstones_ was originally aired in a prime time evening slot.
They played this in my sixth or seventh grade class as well as the Michael Keaton Batman the princess Bride and the movie Oliver starring Sylvester Stallone (not the cat cartoon). They really weren't about sheltering us back then
32:06 In the day, it was found one release of this movie, I think it was Laserdisc, had an inserted frame looking up Jessica's dress as she spins around. Animators had a habit if doing things like that - a single frame is impossible for the eye to catch, but it does register as peculiar to the brain. So people buy the movie to watch and figure it out. This was similar to the alleged "subliminal messaging" allegedly inserted in a number of movies and the supposed "backward masking" in hard rock albums.
Congratulations on the Patreon. Yes it was created for people who watched these cartoon characters on television from the 1950’s through the early 1980’s. It was a very big hit and it took quite a bit of cooperation between not only Disney and Warner Brothers but a few other studios as well such as MGM and Hanna-Barbera. While Disney may have been the biggest I was always more partial to Warner Brothers. Bugs Bunny will always be the GOAT to me.
The 1980s were a very different time. This was intended for kids, and everyone else, just like many other movies of the time that were much more graphic. The whole idea of things even just being appropriate for certain age groups was a concept that was still just coming together. This was around the time when PG-13 was invented after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was rated PG even though it had a guy's heart getting ripped out when he was still alive. Those days, probably half the population thought that kids seeing gruesome stuff would "toughen them up" and get them ready for the real world, or something like that. People weren't so protective, back then. Nightmares were expected.
I wonder how kids would take to the 1972 Watership Down today. I saw it when I was 7.
Didn't expect this reaction but I'm all for it! Watched this with the family when I was like 10 and it was an instant classic for me
That's *Christopher Lloyd* who's also infamous for playing *Doc Brown* in *(Back to the Future)* & know those aren't his real teeth that you're saying are so WHITE
The name of the duck with Donald Duck is Daffy Duck. You didn't ask much about "Patty Cake"; its just a game you play with young kids where you kind of sing and clap your hands together in various ways. It was also used as a euphemism for sex in this movie or so everyone thinks, then you see the photos and realize they really were playing some kids game with each other, hence the joke. Watching people react to Doom's steam rolling and his screaming voice with knife eyes is always fun.
Actually, the pattycake scene is multi-layered. The sex euphemism (which is still a thing, even now, but used most in the 1940's when the movie is set) remains applicable, as does the kid's game. But the third thing that the morally questionable photos are good for is, since it is just pictures of Marvin Acme & Jessica Rabbit playing "pattycake" together (making it family appropriate, rather than actual Rule 34 between a human [specifically the owner of Toon Town] & a Toon [Jessica Rabbit, Roger's saucy & buxom wife]), when a dejected Roger angrily flipped through the photos, the fluidity of his movements began causing the "pattycake" scene to actually play out in real time, much like an old-school animator's animation flipbook.
My fav reactor. unique, funny and smart. Everytime you drop w reaction, it's gold no matter the content. Im watching you because you are funny and you are geniuine, your takes are differents and intresting. Keep up the good work.
Great comments. Well said and true. Came across Amanda for a Rocky reaction, then Gran Torino. Everything you state is exactly why I check back.
Good health to you.
Toontown looks like something out of a child's nightmare.
Yeah, the shoe getting "the dip" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
[holding hands]
Artex dying in the Swamp of Sadness
tough moments for kids watching these movies.
Also in an original draft it was revealed that the judge also killed Bambi's mother, which would have made him the most evil villain in all of history, but it was cut from the script.
I watched this movie hundreds of times as a kid. The 80's/90's were a very different time.
with toons the funnier they are, the more attractive. that final note jessica sings always send shiver down my spine lmao, she was my awakening lmao!
Fun facts: There are three Roger Rabbit short animations. "Tummy Trouble" Trail Mix-up" and Rollercoaster Rabbit".
-Because she's an animated human, Jessica is the toon equivalent of *light enough to pass.* Her marrying Roger is her way of climbing the social ladder.
-the sub plot was a proposed second sequel to "Chinatown".
this is probably the only Disney / WB collab =)
Just to address the preamble for a second. We all love our girl and want her to succeed. She is an adorable angel who needs to be protected at all costs. We all get this. We know this. Do not use this new Patreon thing to force her to watch horrible shit like Human Centipede or what have you. We need her takes on Escape From New York and Big Trouble in Little China way more than that edgelord shit.
Oh god yes I would give anything to see her watch big trouble in Little China
While I agree that people should suggest films that caters to her likes, she's also a grown woman. She doesn't need to be coddled.
Also, you don't NEED her to react to Escape from New York or Big Trouble in Little China. You WANT her to react to those films.
Someone get her to watch smiling friends lol
@@LuckySmurfGood lord, calm down. I beg of you. I'm not robbing her of any agency by hyping her up. I am obviously not trying to mandate what she watches. It's just language. You're twisting it in the most unfair way. We're having fun here. We love her and what she does. There is no ill will here. There is no enemy to find. So don't look for it.
Also I feel like between Evil Dead and The Thing she's sorta already gone through the "youtube reaction gauntlet" and absolutely nothing further is expected of her. And yes, it IS weird that things like that are EXPECTED in that way, and it's not good. Do I want her to watch Mr. Mom and fall in love with Michael Keaton like I did as a kid? YES. But I don't expect her to ever watch that movie or to have the same reaction to it. She has an entirely different background, and that's what makes her videos so compelling to me. The absolute last thing I ever want to see is some white American dude's opinion of a movie or TV show. THAT'S ME. I don't need that. I want to hear from the people with distance, with perspective. Infinitely more interesting to me. So much more valuable.
"Dabbling in watercolors" that went over my head as a kid
It was a great kids movie. 90s kids were just built different.
Wonderful choice. A virtually perfect movie, so fun and funny and clever... it's up there with "The Princess Bride" and "Walk Hard" as perfect movies. I just can't imagine anybody watching it (them) and not having a blast.
"Not at any time... only when it was *funny*."
Listen, i don't know why i didn't appreciate that line when i filmed this video. It sure made me laugh when i was editing.
"She's married to Roger Rabbit?"
"Yeah... what a lucky goil."
@@Krucifus I know. Jessica explicitly says it: "he makes me laugh."
I just love that line. Primarily because of Betty Boop's delivery, how she says "goil".
"Carrot Cake", Roger is a rabbit, and rabbits love carrots. 🙂
At the beginning, when the intro cartoon ends, something naughty happens. As Baby Herman passes underneath the woman's dress, he does something very adult with his finger. This was in the original film run in theaters, and on at least the first release on VHS in '89 or '90. It was only caught after the movie was released on video. I saw proof of this when I was inside the Disney Animation Studios in Buena Vista, Florida on a bulletin board. Nine frames was all it took. It's what they call a hidden Easter egg within the movie. Disney films with two frames for every movement, so technically it was 18 frames in less than one second. If you have access or ownership of one of the first VHS runs, it will be on there. Save it, because it is a collectors gem. Disney has since corrected this. It was in 1991 when I saw that Disney had caught this "Easter egg".
BTW - I have handled or been in all those cars, trucks, and vehicles used in this movie.
Some of them were even used in filming Dick Tracy.
I love watching your reactions Amanda! 😀
'Walks in anyways', such a mom power move.
Great Reaction Video...
Disney and Warner Brothers had stipulations that their cartoon characters had to have equal screen time.....
It is believed that Robert Zemecks cast Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom to prevent the sutdio from trying to film "Back the Future 2/3" without him directing....
The speakeasy room created an Effect now called "rocking the lamp".... cause of how the shadows rock with the lamp...
"Harvey (the Rabbit)" is a 1944 play, they made into a Movie with James Stewart in 1950.....
"DIP" is made from Acetone and another chemical that are used to "Clean" animation cells/film......
In the club, Betty Boop is voiced by Mae Questel, who Ariginally voiced the Character Betty Boop and Oylive Oil in the original Cartoons, and provides the "Blessing" in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.....
Jessica Rabbit's Voice is Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone)....
Other movies with Human/Animatied scenes: Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the South (1946), Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Cool World (1992), Space Jam (1996). There are more but these are the ones that spring to mind......
I saw this as a kid and loved it! Doom was terrifying, and all the adult stuff went over my head. Then years later rewatching it as an adult, it’s like a whole new movie!
I still feel sad about that cartoon shoe the Judge dipped. It probably had a mate.
A sole mate?
It DID. You can see both of the pair running around among all the other loose shoes.
Also, just to note- while the punishment was definitely *_WAY_* too severe… the shoe isn’t quite perfectly innocent either! Watch again carefully- the part when the buzzer gets dropped.
In 1988 the kids were tough-minded, resilient Gen-Xers. Gen-X kids were not traumatized by cartoon humor. My then 13 and 11 year old children took me to this film in 1988.
"They weren't traumatized by cartoon humor" they are the people making the laws about them now, genius.
The plot was initially conceived as being the last part of a Chinatown trilogy but it was never made. I also like when Maroon tells Valiant to show him the will he actually did but neither of them knew it was the will at the time.
JAJAJAJA! My abuela is the same damned way!! Your face showed me the exact expressions and thoughts of what I must look/feel like when mine does it to me; hilarious.
Not for kids? I was 9 when this came out, my mum took me to the cinema to see it and I loved every second. We treat kids like fragile china these days.
I like this movie and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and do you agree with me about what I say right and what do you think about this movie same thing what I say right
When I was 16 I took my little sister, who was 8, to see this film when it first came out. It was made for kids and adults.
We were a bit less sheltered back then. I saw this movie at the premier when I was 9. I saw Gremlins in theaters when I was 5. I even saw Robocop when it came out.
The original Looney Tunes weren't made for kids. Also, Droopy. Maybe Disney cartoons were more family friendly but Warner Brothers, MGM and Paramount cartoons were originally produced usually for adults.
It’s worth saying that in the 1980’s and 1990’s, in general you didn’t have the same attitudes about “protecting” children from content that included violence, or even topics like sex and death. After all, like you said, cartoonish violence was commonplace in cartoons. (As the old director of the Coyote and Road Runner cartoons said, the rule was that the Coyote needed to be more humiliated than hurt by any violence that befell him.). Topics like sexual attraction were around both in cartoons and live-action shows that kids and teens watched. I often think of “Hello Nurse” from the acclaimed 90’s cartoon Animaniacs, and how her character is all but removed from the current revival on Hulu.
I’ll let others debate whether then or now are better (I definitely grew up unaware of a lot of misogyny and stereotypes I was being exposed to), but it was definitely different in those days.
They put you in another episode of Invincible
"Daffy Duck" is the name in English "Daffy" meaning "Silly".
This wasn't made for kids. It was made for adults that grew up with these cartoon characters.
When I grew up in the 60s, cartoons had lots of violence in them. My favorite were the Road Runner cartoons. I don't think there were any scientific studies that were able to prove any harm. But some would still force their opinions on others through their legislators. Anyway, it is a fun and funny movie. Thanks for the reaction.
This movie is definitely not funny
"Carrot cake, paddy cake" 😅 😂🤣 I didn't think of that
I saw this movie when I was 5, but I only remembered bits and pieces of it. I watched it again around 6 years later, and was so thankful that I couldn’t remember much of it from the first time because I pretty much had the same reaction as you.. Disturbed
The beautiful and charming Amanda graces us once again.
I watched it as a kid. At least around 10.
I think I watched this movie for the first time when I was around 7 years old, the scene where Doom gets rolled over and stand back up was nightmare fuel lol
I love how they hint the baddy was a toon from his very first appearance.
I was 12 when this came out, and I loved it when I saw in the theater, obviously I didn't get some of the references.
Someone probably said this already, but they made Jessica with impossible proportions on purpose so they couldn’t be accused of rotoscoping a real actress. They wanted everyone to know they weren’t messing around. Just real, authentic, animation of the highest quality possible. (Plus she’s a “toon” so… makes sense.)
*Watch your mouth naughty lil girl...LOL*
The movie was created in such a way where young children who know no better can enjoy it & adults parents can too. That's why the patty cake scene adults think it's sex kids think it's just patty cake
Because of your commentary & questions during the movie reaction I wish you would have included a couple of scenes like when she says "I'm not bad I'm just drawn that way" & then later when he asked "what do you see in Rodger?" & she says "he makes me laugh" bringing attention to relationships & people are more than just looks
I see your point. But as an 80s baby, I saw this movie as kid after its theatrical run. A lot of it flew over my head of course. 😂😂😂😂😂 Great reaction! 👍🏿
Zemeckis, a legend. He also did the Back to the Future trilogy.
Obviously Chris Lloyd was Doc in BttF and the Judge in WFRR.
Zemeckis has other stuff that would be recognizable, but the BttF trilogy and WFRR are the all-time classics.
Love your reactions you had me smiling all the way through
I think you're missing the point that adults were once children, and these were the cartoons that they watched when they were, so there's a lot of nostalgia for them. Besides, I was a kid when this came out, and people were less concerned about what their children watched, did, or felt back then as compared to now. At least my parents didn't give much of a shit, but when I watch younger people like yourself react to these things, you'd be surprised at how much we used to do as children, and how little parental supervision or care we had. We were left alone, and didn't even have a cartoon rabbit to watch us. We just had a TV, where we watched them, and that's the point. This movie was made for all those adults that had once been kids that were raised by a television.
I thought the whole freeway bit was clever as a kid. Like just making fun of our current culture, at least in Los Angeles, but I really didn't get how clever it was until I got older, and learned the historical context. One of the things that makes Los Angeles so unique as a city is that it's so spread out over such a large area. Most cities in America, particularly older ones on the East coast, were built on a European model. Meaning that there was a downtown, or old town, and over time, the city grew outwards with the downtown being the center of the city. Los Angeles had originally been like that too, and there was a rail system for public transportation, and everything, just like in most cities, but after World War 2, automotive interests, like Firestone Tires who owned a huge factory here, bought up the rail system and ripped it out of the ground to force people to buy cars. Once people had cars and were mobile, we had lots of open space, so everything spread out all over the place. Downtown Los Angeles today, doesn't really hold any significance as the heart of the city. In my own lifetime, after this movie was made, the city of Los Angeles has spent probably billions of dollars rebuilding a metro system, but it's really not that effective. Compared to Europe, public transportation in America, outside a handful of cities, is pretty shitty in general, but it's particularly true in Los Angeles because everything is spread out so far, that the infrastructure needed to cover it all is just too much. In LA, you really do need to have a car to survive, and any real estate where the cars go, is worth an unbelievable amount of money.
Also,she loved him. ^_^. Power of laughter
Just imagine me as my 11-year-old self watching this movie in the theaters
They deliberately threw in some adult humor in order to definitely NOT make it for kids, as they didn't want it to be shrugged off as childish.
This is also a satire of the Film Noir of the 1940's and '50's (like the Maltese Falcon), with a hard-boiled, hard-drinking detective and the fem fatale, a beautiful woman who may or may not be the villain. (By the way, Jessica is drawn with her hair falling over one eye, which was an identifying feature of Veronica Lake, one such fem fatale of the era.)
What gets lost in the movie's commotion is the underlying story, the demise of the American trolley car systems. (Just type in "Roger Rabbit" and "trolleys" in UA-cam to see a lot of discussion, pros and cons.) Rail systems - including mass transit, i.e., trolleys - in this country have always been privately owned, unlike the nationalized trolleys in most other countries, and like all the other transportation systems here (like highways, canals, airports). Trolleys have to make a profit and pay taxes on their land holdings which go to subsidized the other systems.
The biggest electrified rail system in the country was Pacific Electric in southern California, the "Red Cars."
In the '30's and '40's, General Motors, Standard Oil, and Goodyear banded together to set up holding companies (i.e., "Cloverleaf") in cities and towns across the country, with the express purpose of buying up the local trolley system in order to put them out of business. Then as planned, people had to switch to using buses, or better yet, buy their own auto, which obviously benefited the three partners of this plan.
This isn't some crazy conspiracy system - in the 1950's, they were convicted and fined, a total of $2,000, way too little, way too late.
Part of this plan (as they wind up doing) was to run freeways through the hearts of cities, often bisecting marginalized neighborhoods, or creating a barrier between them and the prosperous downtown. People who could afford cars had a hard time finding parking downtown, so this led to the flight to suburbia, and the shopping malls and big box stores putting the downtown merchants out of business. Meanwhile, poor people who couldn't afford a car were left with remnants of the mass transit system.
Included in the satire was the highly pejorative term for these remaining neighborhoods, "Coontown," (Toontown), where "those crazy people live."
What do you mean? Kids at the time definitely watched and enjoyed this film. I was 10 when it was released and I loved it. Back then, kids weren't babied like they are today.
36:27 Nice to hear I'm not the only one who thought the glue looks like gooey boogers. 😆
The part where your mom participates was the best 😂
Me and my best friend Sold Out movie in the theaters when we were really young we got such a kick out of that movie who framed Rodger rabbit it was awesome
I watched this as a kid, as well as some other kids films that wouldn't fly today. Things like Cloak & Dagger, Child of Glass and Something Wicked This Way Comes that were normal for us would scare the hell out of kids now.
That’s doc from back to future 3
I think this is the best real world/animated movie of all time. But there are a few more like *(Cool World)* starring *Brad Pitt & Kim Basinger*
This movie is 1988 it’s great