❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️ 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 NIV 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
It was never intended to be a kids movie, other than movies like Space Jam. I was 5 when this came out, and damn, I wanted to see it so bad. But I remember that my parents didn't allow me to watch it. It was based on a novel by Gary K. Wolf, but heavily altered for the movie. The movie clearly takes inspiration from classic film noire murder mysteries. So clearly something for adults. The toons were the special gimmick. Disney knew they could not advertise this as a family movie. So they released it under the label Touchstone Pictures. Touchstone Pictures was a sub company by Disney back in the day. And movies that were supposed for a more adult audience were released under the Touchstone label. So technically this was a Disney movie. The toon characters they created for this movie (Roger, Baby Herman, Benny the Cab and Jessica), are technically Disney characters, all the characters from other studios, for example the Looney Tunes, were used by permission. There were hard negotiations between Disney and Warner Bros, to get a guarantee that Looney Tunes get as much screentime as Disney characters. There was a Roger Rabbit ride in Disney Land, but as far as I know, they shut it down some years ago. So all in all you could say, Disney has a very ambivalent relationship with Roger Rabbit. Despite it being such an iconic, well received movie, winning multiple oscars. There was a script for a Roger Rabbit prequel film, set in Nazi germany. Never came to be, but again, this also would not have been a kids movie. But when you think a bit about it, these kinds of cartoons, especially from the 30ies, 40ies, 50ies, originally were more directed to adults than too kids. I feel a movie like that would never happen today, for multiple reasons. 1. No one would put our childhood icons into this adult setting, full of offense, violence, smoking, drinking and sexual innuendo. 2. All these different studios would never find an agreement on making such a multiverse character project. 3. The marketing department would get a headache when thinking about wich audience they wanted to reach with such a movie. And it's kinda sad. Because all about this is so original and creative. Movie projects these days (especially from those big major studios) are so predictable and interchangeable. This here is so unique. Still one of my absolute favorites.
This was definitely for kids in the 80s. My parents watched it with us (this was during the VCR, home movie night, era). Hilarious to think about now but my parents were the type that made us close our eyes during inappropriate scenes in PG movies. I was 12 and remembered being super disturbed by The Dip. Afraid, even. Great reaction, thanks for sharing.
Every generation typically has something pretty weird... If it's aimed at smaller kids, the more surreal it often gets... Teletubbies, In the Night Garden, Yo Gabba Gabba... A lot of it has remained weird, it's just weird in different ways maybe...
I couldn't tell if you realized this, but this wasn't just a combination of live-action and animation, it was a combination of hand-drawn animation and practical effects. There was no CGI back then. Every time a toon interacted with a person or object, they had to create a practical effect to do it, then animate over it.
@yonatan62 The first fully rendered cgi character was the plate glass window brought to life in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). Labyrinth (1986) also had some cgi, but the early 1980's had both Tron and the Last Starfighter as well. We even see some digital effects as early as 1973 with The Exorcist. A single projectile bit of vomit from the demon was digitally painted in by animators.
A couple of you are being a bit pedantic here. Yes, there was early, very primitive CGI prior to Roger Rabbit. But *quite obviously* I was referring to CGI at the level needed to duplicate the effects in the movie.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a great film. It's true noir, and a lot of fun. It's amazing the writer, director, cast, and production crew pulled this off. A master piece in true film making. Back in the 80s kids was part of the target audience. Adults who grew up on Disney, and Loony Toons, With their children who were watching them at the time. Sure there was a lot of heavy stuff in the film, but back then people didnt treat kids like they were stupid, or fragile. I saw this in theaters with a bunch of kids.
I mean, there were some people who still thought kids were stupid and/or fragile back then too, it was just in different ways... That said, in some ways kids are stupid and/or fragile... Although not necessarily in the ways people think... But yeah, In some ways, them being "stupid" allows this film (and others like it) to be fine... Kids typically don't have as strong concepts of sexualisation or death or whatever (this said, overly exposing them to graphic sex and/or violence has the potential to warp their minds more, given that their brains are developing a lot at that stage)... They might get some idea of it, but yeah it probably won't make a lot of sense to them what the sexual stuff is etc... It's mostly offset by other aspects, like the comedy too... Or it's not a huge focus... Whatever... Either way, while I would probably refer to this as a family film, rather than a kid's film, I still think it's great for kids too... Although damn is the judge nightmare fuel lol, especially towards the end...
Some of the best 2D animation ever, and compared to what the lawyers probably had to do to get the rights to...well, *everybody,* the animators were on vacation. 😊 And this'll never happen again.
"I didn't know he had it in him" actually, one of the pictures in Eddie's office the panned over at the beginning was him, his brother, and his father...who was a clown in the circus.
Easily one of the best films ever made from a technical perspective. Robert Zemeckis is no stranger to these kinds of films. No CGI was used, even to measure lighting, so when it looks like the cartoons are really there interacting with live action humans, they didn't have the technology to get that right. It was all done through reenactments and careful planning. I love it when they play around with lighting, like a lightbulb in a room swings back and forth, and they're constantly having to change the shadows on and around an animated character, and they get it right. Even the scene with Daffy and Donald playing the piano, they get the reflections in the piano perfectly. I also like that this is 80s PG. We're not talking about Frozen, which should have been G. This is actually a movie that you watch with your parents. Parental guidance suggested. This is a family film, not a kids film. They don't really make family entertainment anymore. They make movies for predictable demographics, usually 13 year old boys or toddlers who parents want to distract while they're having a glass of wine on the patio.
It’s a huge part of what makes it so special. While it would have been possible back then to do some of the compositing digitally, the artists knew it wouldn’t produce the best results with that technology, and taking shortcuts, so they went so many extra miles to develop new techniques, and improve old ones to achieve all this. It’s really no wonder that it’s still very highly revered.
For the longest time, it was IMPOSSIBLE to get any reactor to watch this movie. For close to a year I pushed for it across several different reactor's channels and nothing; and I got NO help from other commenters. Now, suddenly (over the last... 2 months or so?), I've seen about 5 or 6 reactors watch it. It's really weird how that happens, but man am I grateful; what a great, fun movie. Bob Hoskins is a legend, ditto Christopher Lloyd, the animation is fucking MIND-BLOWING (the way Roger and other cartoons are just constantly interacting with the world - Roger blows water out of his mouth when he comes out of the sink!! If this movie came out now it would be impressive!!)... and damn, just such a tight story. I just love how Valiant used to be in the circus with his brother and that comes back at the end. "You mean you coulda gotten out of those cuffs at any time?!?" "Not at any time - only when it was FUNNY."
@@asterix7842 Yeah. I get it when a movie is in the zeitgeist like Predator when Prey came out... and I imagine reactors are somewhat familiar with each other, at least the big ones... but I assume you wouldn't watch a reaction if it's to a movie you haven't seen, so I don't think it's "word of mouth" in that sense...
You might want to broaden your viewing habits. There are reactions for this movie going back years. E.g. Shanelle Riccio's reaction is over three years old by now. But yeah, there is a tendency for the same movies to come in a wave. I guess the reactors are checking in on each other.
A fantastic movie. The integration between live and animated elements is practically seamless. I've never seen a live action/2D animation that can match it.
1. First time I saw this was in the middle of the ocean. My ship (USS Tripoli LPH-10) was doing a Tiger Cruise. That's where crew members could bring "male only" family/friends to join us from Hawaii to San Diego. There were displays set up on the hanger bay. For entertainment there was an area to watch movies. This was one of them. 2. There had to be equal time for Disney and HB characters. 3. LOVE the adult inuendo😈 4. Christopher Lloyd as the heavy. 😎 5. One of the cartoon bullets is the voice of Pat Buttram. He played Mr. Haney on Green Acres. 6. This was Mae Questel's/Betty Boops third to last gig. Her last was" Christmas Vacation". (RIP)😇 7. To make it look more realistic they painted shadows into some scenes. 8. The tunnel going into Toon Town is the same one they use in the "Back to the Future" movies. 9. Favorite character is the Baby🤣
Kathleen Turner the voice of Jessica was my celebrity crush back in the 80's and 90's. You should checkout Undercover Blues starring her, Dennis Quaid and Stanley Tucci.
Ah one of those movies that will always be itself. never remade, no spin off's just revisited by generations of film fans. Like Back to the Future , E.T or Speed.
Actually, _Back to the Future_ had the film trilogy (the first film, II, and III), the theme park ride at Universal Studios (Back to the Future: The Ride, the footage from which is a bonus feature on the 3-film box set), an animated series (with wraparound segments hosted by Christopher Lloyd as the live-action Doc Brown), and a tie-in video game (Back to the Future: The Game).
Saw this in the theater at 9 years old. This was a tame PG for the 80’s. Nothing new having more adult themes. Except for having all the classic cartoons characters in a crime noir film. This movie confirmed in my young mind that Mickey wasn’t as wholesome as he puts on; because of how he laughed off Eddie falling to his death.
People tend to forget; the cartoon shorts these characters were created in weren't intended for children originally. They were rebranded as children's entertainment many years later.
@@darastarscreamBut the Movie Ratings Board didn't monitor PG ratings well enough. I mean, for goodness sake, _Beetlejuice_ in 1988 was rated TV-PG & not PG-13 despite the graphic imagery (Barbara ripping her face off, beheading her husband Adam, the hanging man in the Neitherworld afterlife, etc.), Michaeal Keaton's sleazy "Ghost With the Most" spouting an F-Bomb ("Nice FUCKING Model!" ~grabs his crotch & a 'honking' noise is heard~), and of course, the controversial almost-wedding between him & underage Winona Ryder as teenage proto-goth junior photographer Lydia Deetz who was partway suicidal in the film & had a weird fixation for dead people.
Fun fact: The sub plot was an unused second sequel to the movie "Chinatown". Just substitute Jake Giddies for Eddie Valiant. The book and the movie are very different from each other. The cast is 90% English, with only a few Americans in the main cast.
I saw this as a kid, in theaters, and my brothers and I dragged our dad to take us to see it. (He hated it. Said the frame rate of the animated parts was too low for his eyes and gave him eye strain.) Off, we also saw R-rates movies as kids alla time, and that was ‘80s R-rated movies. I even had a plush Roger Rabbit that might still exist somewhere in storage.
@@Cugastratos I doubt it. At best, they had figures, cardboard stand-ups, Halloween costumes, the static statues of her in Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin, and even -- very briefly -- a walk-around Disney character mascot version of her.
I saw this as a kid in the theaters, and bought the vhs when it came out. Blending adult and kid jokes is very doable. Shrek is a very popular movie that managed to do it too.
Roger Rabbit is also a modern Noir film. The original script, Cloverleaf, was intended to be the third movie in a trilogy starting with Chinatown. But The Two Jakes (2nd film) didnt do well. All three stories take place in LA when the city was expanding in the 50s. The core plot, control of land to build what will be a highway system, was the them of that third story. It was not until 56 that planning, and work, for an interstate highway system started. So just like the rail road in the previous century, there was opportunity in controlling land, and businesses, with a highway running through it.
Don’t forget that the “real Cloverleaf Industries” bought the various street car lines (the once famed Red Car), scrapped the street cars, and tore out the rails. That’s right, L.A. used to have decent public transportation. You could ride from Eaglerock to Santa Monica for a nickel, according to my late Grandmother.
@@MarcosElMalo2 The "real Cloverleaf Industries" were oil barons, rich tycoons, and others of their ilk who wanted a cross-country road system, which in turn, broke up low-income, segregated neighborhoods.
There is so much about it. Foundation and I "think" this actually tracks back to the series Amazing Stories as does much. Technique. What I think about when this comes up is Bob Hoskins. One of his contributions as I read would he insisted on the dimensions being established in order for him to create a sense of spatial awareness and make it look right for the audience. So he would insist on knowing the height of Roger and where his neck and face would be adjacent to him so it would look right when he interacted with the to be added cartoon. He insisted on knowing the measurements of the magnet that would trap him to a metal drum so he knew where to put his hands and where to place the imaginary black hole. And so on. He is such an underrated name in acting just for this alone if nothing else.
Oh, yes; kids saw it, all right. Kids films in the '80's were hardcore; the whole PG/PG-13 business wasn't quite ironed out yet, so 'safe for kids' still covered a lot of stuff that we would consider for teens or adults nowadays. I don't quite remember when I first saw the movie - I was five when it first came out, so it didn't really cross my radar - but I was definitely still in elementary school, and by the time I did see it, it was after most of my classmates.
I was an adult when this came out, didn't have a kid yet, and this was definitely for adults. Kids wouldn't have known all these cartoons, but adults would have. And it's a film noir plot, not something kids would get. So it was for adults but really for the kid in us. We loved, BTW! And still do!
I’d say for both. We had still been pretty heavily getting reruns of the classic cartoons back then, so it was easy enough to recognize a lot of them (as well as what archetypes the characters original to the movie were referencing), even if we didn’t know some of the older ones that well.
I was eight, and I understood enough of the plot to enjoy it. Now that I'm older, I get more of what's going on and I love it more. Same is true of the cartoons, as a matter of fact. Rewatching things like Duck Amuck and Knighty Knight Bugs, I find new reasons to love them.
80s were a different time I was a kid when this came out I remember going to see it in theaters and even had a plush roger rabbit that talked when you pulled the string
It's rumored that the reason why the Judge wanted to kill all the toons is because he 'used' to be a cartoon villain who had his heart broken (like Roger), but instead of doubling down on the classic comedic approach, he discovered dark humor.
Back in the 80s this movie was ok for kids to watch. I've always loved it since it came out. Disney agreed to have their toons in the movie as long as they had enough screen time as the Looney Toons. No cgi back then.
I think it's so cute the way all the toons were singing together with joy and happiness at the end. Just so cute. Great movie and you look adorable in rabbit ears. lol Did you recognize the voice of the head weasel?? Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley.
i actually saw this in theaters a few times as a kid, but the 80's had alot of kids movies that were not really for kids. like beetlejuice, ghostbusters, gremlins, and even rated R stuff like robocop and terminator were marketed to kids with action figures cereal and cartoon shows
Two things: 1) They tell you who the killer is early on in the movie. At the crime scene, they tell you the judge bought the election with a gazillion samolians. Then in the movie theater, when he is recounting the story about how his brother died, he says it was a bank robbery and the thief got away with a gazillion samolians. 2) Just for reference, in the bar scene where the guy says he saw a rabbit in the bar, and he pretends to put his arm around a rabbit named Harvey... "Harvey" is an old Jimmy Stewart movie in which he befriends a six foot invisible rabbit named Harvey. Just a clever way to introduce another character along with all of the toons from all the different animation studios.
There are deliberate racial overtones in the movie echoing racism as it occurred in LA at the time. The Ink and Paint Club, for instance, represented the clubs that had black entertainment and service, but only white clientele. Putting the freeway through Toontown was typically what happened to the black part of town. Also, that they had to sit in balcony of the theater. "A laugh can be a powerful thing. It's the only weapon we have." It was years before I realized that was foreshadowing the conclusion.
Great reactions I was watching some of your videos I will leave you with a movie suggestion to add to your list its by the same director of the movie Psycho who was famous for thrillers.. The Birds (1963) oh and a bonus one The Deep (1977)
i think you might have missed the photograph where Eddie and his brother were performers in the circus, and that might have caused you confusion when Eddie was performing to make the weasels laugh during the ''drawn out'' conclusion.
When the guy talked about his friend rabbit "Harvey", it's referring to an old movie of the same name. This is based on a book, but the animations and action are very Looney Toons and older cartoons which were shown as shorts in theatres. Ouite a few had more adult themes. Daffy Duck was really hyper back in the day, and notice Bugs' face has a different shaped face, closer to a real hare.
"Why would she leave her baby alone with a 'wabbit'?" Absentee parental figures/caretakers/guardians are commonplace in old-school cartoons. "This is insane." As most old-school cartoons typically were, whether made exclusively for this film (the Roger Rabbit shorts) or in reality (see the old _Looney Tunes_ / _Merry Melodies_ cartoons).
27:03 Kids like me seen this, and Robocop, Rambo, Predator, Terminator, Conan, Commando, etc. I was 8 when this came out. Also, R-rated movies HAD toy lines, Robocop for example. I also seen anime, way before it got hot in the US during the 90's, and uncensored. And we did not go around blowing up shopping malls or whatever. Hell, you outta see the anime in Japan, same thing, no one goes crazy.
I would have been nearly twelve when this came out, and my brother would have been going on 10. We went to see it with our mother, and we all loved it. A lot of work (and love) went into this film, and it shows. Legally/license-wise, this movie was sort of the Ready Player One of its day. Technology-wise, it was likely even more innovative. As far as adult content goes, for the 80s, this movie didn't really contain anything kids hadn't seen before. My favorite Kathleen Turner movie... almost certainly Romancing The Stone.
The actual voice actors stood off to the side of the camera and performed the scenes with the human actors, so they could play off each other, even though they were performing to nothing. It helped a lot.
Yes, this was considered kid-safe in the 1980s. It was just a social FACT that animation was made "for kids", though this doesn't necessarily mean a parent should let their kids watch it _unsupervised._ It's actually kind of amazing how much difference having Mom or Dad next to you in the audience (or living room) makes.
AHHH, this is such a good film for us folks from Los Angeles! I live in the old Red Car subway building downtown, so I'm always excited to watch the film again. :D
kids defiantly saw this in the theater. It revitalized cartoons too. It had a few follow up shorts until rights got all tangled up. A proper sequel has never been worked out but Rodger has been in other things. Part of the deal between WB and Disney was that there charters appear together and get the same screen time. two things were common back in the day. 1. Kids parents took them to R rated movies with no big deal 2. Kids cartoons had adult jokes and scary parts. At some point G rated became "Preschooler" when G rated used to have fights and action and PG became more like a G rated film and PG 13 became what PG used to be and R rated films became more like a PG 13. the ratings really soften up over time. Despite all that we still make a fuss over things that should not be a big deal.
There was lots of legal dealings to have all of these characters from different studios to be in this film. That is why Daffy is with Donald. Also, negotiations were made that Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse have the same number of lines.
Christopher Lloyd played Judge Doom. His most famous role is that of Doctor Emmet Brown in the Back To The Future Series. If you haven't seen those movies I would love a reaction!
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 to the 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 Originally 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......
Pixar. a Disney company, knew WB would not give them permission to use their characters, so they gave Steven Spielberg an Executive Producer credit to go to Warner and appeal to them personally. No one says no to Spielberg, and they agreed on the condition that their biggest stars, Bugs and Daffy got equal screen time as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and thus the duets.
The weirdest thing is that Who Framed Rodger Rabbit is loosely based on a true story. The old public transportation system (the Red Car) that covered L.A. was bought by a combo that tore out the old rails to make way for L.A.’s freeway system. You could look it up, keywords Los Angeles Red Car.
This is absolutely amazing and it's my favorite cartoon live cartoons in the weasels in the dipMobile the and of course Jessica rabbit she still the gorgeous
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Roger rabbit is not hilarious but cute rabbit but not funny 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
This was the peak of the era when behind the scenes footage was still fun to watch. Like no disrespect to modern VFX people, but... it's not interesting to watch you sit at a computer being underpaid for 26 hours straight fiddling with a wireframe. The how-it-was-made for the Ink & Paint Club though? That's worth burning an afternoon to see.
❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️
2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 NIV
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
It was never intended to be a kids movie, other than movies like Space Jam. I was 5 when this came out, and damn, I wanted to see it so bad. But I remember that my parents didn't allow me to watch it. It was based on a novel by Gary K. Wolf, but heavily altered for the movie. The movie clearly takes inspiration from classic film noire murder mysteries. So clearly something for adults. The toons were the special gimmick. Disney knew they could not advertise this as a family movie. So they released it under the label Touchstone Pictures. Touchstone Pictures was a sub company by Disney back in the day. And movies that were supposed for a more adult audience were released under the Touchstone label. So technically this was a Disney movie. The toon characters they created for this movie (Roger, Baby Herman, Benny the Cab and Jessica), are technically Disney characters, all the characters from other studios, for example the Looney Tunes, were used by permission. There were hard negotiations between Disney and Warner Bros, to get a guarantee that Looney Tunes get as much screentime as Disney characters. There was a Roger Rabbit ride in Disney Land, but as far as I know, they shut it down some years ago. So all in all you could say, Disney has a very ambivalent relationship with Roger Rabbit. Despite it being such an iconic, well received movie, winning multiple oscars. There was a script for a Roger Rabbit prequel film, set in Nazi germany. Never came to be, but again, this also would not have been a kids movie. But when you think a bit about it, these kinds of cartoons, especially from the 30ies, 40ies, 50ies, originally were more directed to adults than too kids. I feel a movie like that would never happen today, for multiple reasons. 1. No one would put our childhood icons into this adult setting, full of offense, violence, smoking, drinking and sexual innuendo. 2. All these different studios would never find an agreement on making such a multiverse character project. 3. The marketing department would get a headache when thinking about wich audience they wanted to reach with such a movie. And it's kinda sad. Because all about this is so original and creative. Movie projects these days (especially from those big major studios) are so predictable and interchangeable. This here is so unique. Still one of my absolute favorites.
You are so adorable! Ms. Personality. Keep up the great reviews!
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This film is a staggering achievement that has not been duplicated. And it has aged very well. Great reaction! 👍🏿
This was definitely for kids in the 80s. My parents watched it with us (this was during the VCR, home movie night, era). Hilarious to think about now but my parents were the type that made us close our eyes during inappropriate scenes in PG movies. I was 12 and remembered being super disturbed by The Dip. Afraid, even. Great reaction, thanks for sharing.
Never clicked so fast! 😂 this is such a foundational movie to my personality 😂😂😂 kids from the 80s have some weird movies and shows that raised us
Every generation typically has something pretty weird... If it's aimed at smaller kids, the more surreal it often gets... Teletubbies, In the Night Garden, Yo Gabba Gabba... A lot of it has remained weird, it's just weird in different ways maybe...
I couldn't tell if you realized this, but this wasn't just a combination of live-action and animation, it was a combination of hand-drawn animation and practical effects. There was no CGI back then. Every time a toon interacted with a person or object, they had to create a practical effect to do it, then animate over it.
no good CGI till 1992 era
@yonatan62 The first fully rendered cgi character was the plate glass window brought to life in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). Labyrinth (1986) also had some cgi, but the early 1980's had both Tron and the Last Starfighter as well. We even see some digital effects as early as 1973 with The Exorcist. A single projectile bit of vomit from the demon was digitally painted in by animators.
A couple of you are being a bit pedantic here. Yes, there was early, very primitive CGI prior to Roger Rabbit. But *quite obviously* I was referring to CGI at the level needed to duplicate the effects in the movie.
@@stevensauer8539 Nobody is being pedantic....just adding to the conversation. Did you learn anything?
@@PorterJustPorter Yes. That you don't know what "pedantic" means.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a great film. It's true noir, and a lot of fun. It's amazing the writer, director, cast, and production crew pulled this off. A master piece in true film making. Back in the 80s kids was part of the target audience. Adults who grew up on Disney, and Loony Toons, With their children who were watching them at the time. Sure there was a lot of heavy stuff in the film, but back then people didnt treat kids like they were stupid, or fragile. I saw this in theaters with a bunch of kids.
@gonzoyork1908 Because their parents over protected them.
I mean, there were some people who still thought kids were stupid and/or fragile back then too, it was just in different ways... That said, in some ways kids are stupid and/or fragile... Although not necessarily in the ways people think... But yeah, In some ways, them being "stupid" allows this film (and others like it) to be fine... Kids typically don't have as strong concepts of sexualisation or death or whatever (this said, overly exposing them to graphic sex and/or violence has the potential to warp their minds more, given that their brains are developing a lot at that stage)... They might get some idea of it, but yeah it probably won't make a lot of sense to them what the sexual stuff is etc... It's mostly offset by other aspects, like the comedy too... Or it's not a huge focus... Whatever...
Either way, while I would probably refer to this as a family film, rather than a kid's film, I still think it's great for kids too... Although damn is the judge nightmare fuel lol, especially towards the end...
Re: Say hello Harvey - that's a reference to the film, & play, Harvey (1950) starring James/Jimmy Stewart, it's well worth a watch.
The license holders agreeing to this film is a thing of wonder.
Some of the best 2D animation ever, and compared to what the lawyers probably had to do to get the rights to...well, *everybody,* the animators were on vacation. 😊
And this'll never happen again.
Part of the agreement was that major characters had equal screen time. That’s why Bugs and Mickey shared a scene, as did Daffy and Donald.
Animation was on a down turn at that time, so it was easier to get the rights.
@@ToledoSanta And Porky & Tinkerbelle.
"I didn't know he had it in him" actually, one of the pictures in Eddie's office the panned over at the beginning was him, his brother, and his father...who was a clown in the circus.
Easily one of the best films ever made from a technical perspective. Robert Zemeckis is no stranger to these kinds of films. No CGI was used, even to measure lighting, so when it looks like the cartoons are really there interacting with live action humans, they didn't have the technology to get that right. It was all done through reenactments and careful planning. I love it when they play around with lighting, like a lightbulb in a room swings back and forth, and they're constantly having to change the shadows on and around an animated character, and they get it right. Even the scene with Daffy and Donald playing the piano, they get the reflections in the piano perfectly. I also like that this is 80s PG. We're not talking about Frozen, which should have been G. This is actually a movie that you watch with your parents. Parental guidance suggested. This is a family film, not a kids film. They don't really make family entertainment anymore. They make movies for predictable demographics, usually 13 year old boys or toddlers who parents want to distract while they're having a glass of wine on the patio.
It’s a huge part of what makes it so special. While it would have been possible back then to do some of the compositing digitally, the artists knew it wouldn’t produce the best results with that technology, and taking shortcuts, so they went so many extra miles to develop new techniques, and improve old ones to achieve all this. It’s really no wonder that it’s still very highly revered.
For the longest time, it was IMPOSSIBLE to get any reactor to watch this movie. For close to a year I pushed for it across several different reactor's channels and nothing; and I got NO help from other commenters.
Now, suddenly (over the last... 2 months or so?), I've seen about 5 or 6 reactors watch it. It's really weird how that happens, but man am I grateful; what a great, fun movie. Bob Hoskins is a legend, ditto Christopher Lloyd, the animation is fucking MIND-BLOWING (the way Roger and other cartoons are just constantly interacting with the world - Roger blows water out of his mouth when he comes out of the sink!! If this movie came out now it would be impressive!!)... and damn, just such a tight story. I just love how Valiant used to be in the circus with his brother and that comes back at the end.
"You mean you coulda gotten out of those cuffs at any time?!?" "Not at any time - only when it was FUNNY."
That happens a lot with reactors. I noticed the same thing with Casablanca. Several seemed to start the Doctor Who tv series around the same time.
@@asterix7842 Yeah. I get it when a movie is in the zeitgeist like Predator when Prey came out... and I imagine reactors are somewhat familiar with each other, at least the big ones... but I assume you wouldn't watch a reaction if it's to a movie you haven't seen, so I don't think it's "word of mouth" in that sense...
You might want to broaden your viewing habits. There are reactions for this movie going back years. E.g. Shanelle Riccio's reaction is over three years old by now.
But yeah, there is a tendency for the same movies to come in a wave. I guess the reactors are checking in on each other.
A fantastic movie. The integration between live and animated elements is practically seamless. I've never seen a live action/2D animation that can match it.
100 bucks in 1940’s was some serious money
1. First time I saw this was in the middle of the ocean. My ship (USS Tripoli LPH-10) was doing a Tiger Cruise. That's where crew members could bring "male only" family/friends to join us from Hawaii to San Diego. There were displays set up on the hanger bay. For entertainment there was an area to watch movies. This was one of them.
2. There had to be equal time for Disney and HB characters.
3. LOVE the adult inuendo😈
4. Christopher Lloyd as the heavy. 😎
5. One of the cartoon bullets is the voice of Pat Buttram. He played Mr. Haney on Green Acres.
6. This was Mae Questel's/Betty Boops third to last gig. Her last was" Christmas Vacation". (RIP)😇
7. To make it look more realistic they painted shadows into some scenes.
8. The tunnel going into Toon Town is the same one they use in the "Back to the Future" movies.
9. Favorite character is the Baby🤣
I watched this movie once a day for most of my childhood lol.. easily a classic ! 🔥
One of my all time favorites!!
I'm one of those people who saw WFRR in the theater in 1988!
Kathleen Turner the voice of Jessica was my celebrity crush back in the 80's and 90's. You should checkout Undercover Blues starring her, Dennis Quaid and Stanley Tucci.
Oh! And Romancing The Stone.
Prizzi's Honor
Speaking of her, Romancing the Stone is 40 years old this year
@@darastarscreamyes, Romancing the Stone is 40 years old this year
Ah one of those movies that will always be itself. never remade, no spin off's just revisited by generations of film fans. Like Back to the Future , E.T or Speed.
_Bonkers_ tried to ape what this film did & failed. The recent _Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers_ film came close, but fell short.
Actually, _Back to the Future_ had the film trilogy (the first film, II, and III), the theme park ride at Universal Studios (Back to the Future: The Ride, the footage from which is a bonus feature on the 3-film box set), an animated series (with wraparound segments hosted by Christopher Lloyd as the live-action Doc Brown), and a tie-in video game (Back to the Future: The Game).
well all the legal red tape surrounding prevents anything further from being made
Saw this in the theater at 9 years old. This was a tame PG for the 80’s. Nothing new having more adult themes. Except for having all the classic cartoons characters in a crime noir film. This movie confirmed in my young mind that Mickey wasn’t as wholesome as he puts on; because of how he laughed off Eddie falling to his death.
People tend to forget; the cartoon shorts these characters were created in weren't intended for children originally. They were rebranded as children's entertainment many years later.
I believe PG-13 wasn't a rating yet😂. You either had PG then R ratings... no in between😅
@@Cugastratos No it existed; it was introduced in 1984.
@@darastarscreamBut the Movie Ratings Board didn't monitor PG ratings well enough. I mean, for goodness sake, _Beetlejuice_ in 1988 was rated TV-PG & not PG-13 despite the graphic imagery (Barbara ripping her face off, beheading her husband Adam, the hanging man in the Neitherworld afterlife, etc.), Michaeal Keaton's sleazy "Ghost With the Most" spouting an F-Bomb ("Nice FUCKING Model!" ~grabs his crotch & a 'honking' noise is heard~), and of course, the controversial almost-wedding between him & underage Winona Ryder as teenage proto-goth junior photographer Lydia Deetz who was partway suicidal in the film & had a weird fixation for dead people.
#justiceforsqueakyshoe
The two most scarring moments for a certain generation of kids: Artex in the Swamp of Sadness, and Judge Doom demonstrating the dip.
Poor Squeaky
Fun fact: The sub plot was an unused second sequel to the movie "Chinatown". Just substitute Jake Giddies for Eddie Valiant.
The book and the movie are very different from each other.
The cast is 90% English, with only a few Americans in the main cast.
Donald Duck is a US WW2 vet, whatchyu talkin bout, Prickly?
I saw this as a kid, in theaters, and my brothers and I dragged our dad to take us to see it. (He hated it. Said the frame rate of the animated parts was too low for his eyes and gave him eye strain.) Off, we also saw R-rates movies as kids alla time, and that was ‘80s R-rated movies.
I even had a plush Roger Rabbit that might still exist somewhere in storage.
I wonder if they sold plushes of Jessica Rabbit 🤣
@@Cugastratos I doubt it. At best, they had figures, cardboard stand-ups, Halloween costumes, the static statues of her in Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin, and even -- very briefly -- a walk-around Disney character mascot version of her.
too low, this is one of the very few animated films that fill every frame rate with new images
I saw this as a kid in the theaters, and bought the vhs when it came out.
Blending adult and kid jokes is very doable. Shrek is a very popular movie that managed to do it too.
The behind the scenes and making of this movie are worth checking out.
They will never make a movie the same way again.
YES, you took the ears off!!! Its OK because I enjoyed watching this again especially with you.
Roger Rabbit is also a modern Noir film. The original script, Cloverleaf, was intended to be the third movie in a trilogy starting with Chinatown. But The Two Jakes (2nd film) didnt do well. All three stories take place in LA when the city was expanding in the 50s. The core plot, control of land to build what will be a highway system, was the them of that third story. It was not until 56 that planning, and work, for an interstate highway system started. So just like the rail road in the previous century, there was opportunity in controlling land, and businesses, with a highway running through it.
Don’t forget that the “real Cloverleaf Industries” bought the various street car lines (the once famed Red Car), scrapped the street cars, and tore out the rails. That’s right, L.A. used to have decent public transportation. You could ride from Eaglerock to Santa Monica for a nickel, according to my late Grandmother.
@@MarcosElMalo2 The "real Cloverleaf Industries" were oil barons, rich tycoons, and others of their ilk who wanted a cross-country road system, which in turn, broke up low-income, segregated neighborhoods.
I was 20 when this came out. This movie was made for people like me. People that grew up with these characters.
I was like 5. It was made for me too.
@@kelleygreengrassNo, it wasn't. This movie was NOT made for impressionable children.
There is so much about it. Foundation and I "think" this actually tracks back to the series Amazing Stories as does much. Technique. What I think about when this comes up is Bob Hoskins. One of his contributions as I read would he insisted on the dimensions being established in order for him to create a sense of spatial awareness and make it look right for the audience. So he would insist on knowing the height of Roger and where his neck and face would be adjacent to him so it would look right when he interacted with the to be added cartoon. He insisted on knowing the measurements of the magnet that would trap him to a metal drum so he knew where to put his hands and where to place the imaginary black hole. And so on. He is such an underrated name in acting just for this alone if nothing else.
Oh, yes; kids saw it, all right. Kids films in the '80's were hardcore; the whole PG/PG-13 business wasn't quite ironed out yet, so 'safe for kids' still covered a lot of stuff that we would consider for teens or adults nowadays. I don't quite remember when I first saw the movie - I was five when it first came out, so it didn't really cross my radar - but I was definitely still in elementary school, and by the time I did see it, it was after most of my classmates.
How have you never seen Who framed Roger Rabbit I mean seriously this movie is a classic
She's young...I think
I was an adult when this came out, didn't have a kid yet, and this was definitely for adults. Kids wouldn't have known all these cartoons, but adults would have. And it's a film noir plot, not something kids would get. So it was for adults but really for the kid in us.
We loved, BTW! And still do!
I’d say for both. We had still been pretty heavily getting reruns of the classic cartoons back then, so it was easy enough to recognize a lot of them (as well as what archetypes the characters original to the movie were referencing), even if we didn’t know some of the older ones that well.
I was eight, and I understood enough of the plot to enjoy it. Now that I'm older, I get more of what's going on and I love it more. Same is true of the cartoons, as a matter of fact. Rewatching things like Duck Amuck and Knighty Knight Bugs, I find new reasons to love them.
80s were a different time I was a kid when this came out I remember going to see it in theaters and even had a plush roger rabbit that talked when you pulled the string
Who Framed Roger Rabbit has always been one of my VHS favorites since my 90's childhood!😉🤣
It's rumored that the reason why the Judge wanted to kill all the toons is because he 'used' to be a cartoon villain who had his heart broken (like Roger), but instead of doubling down on the classic comedic approach, he discovered dark humor.
I think he was just a bad Toon. He was a criminal at heart, and like some of the smarter criminals, he got into politics.
"Dumbo", "Tarzan", and "Snow White" ... three fine Disney films -- especially the latter one -- you might be interested in watching.
i did an audible gasp when she said that
Back in the 80s this movie was ok for kids to watch. I've always loved it since it came out. Disney agreed to have their toons in the movie as long as they had enough screen time as the Looney Toons. No cgi back then.
22:32 Remember in Eddie's office, he and his brother worked in the circus when they were boys.
I saw this in the theater when I was 10.
The little squeaky shoe that gets dipped is voiced by (Nancy Cartwright) Bart Simpson
Let me stop you on who saw this in the 80s. I did see it in theaters!
I LOVED roger rabbit, and in fact believed in a Roger rabbit world.
I watched this film as a child
Turpentine, acetone and benzene...the "toon poison" is actually paint thinner!
Which can still be harmful or fatal to humans, but of course, won’t erase you from just spilling it on you.
Omg! Yes!!! Right when I needed it too!
This is an amazing film. I’m so happy to see you enjoy it!
I think it's so cute the way all the toons were singing together with joy and happiness at the end. Just so cute. Great movie and you look adorable in rabbit ears. lol Did you recognize the voice of the head weasel?? Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley.
Yeah, David Lander had such a distinctive voice and accent. This was basically a slightly pitched down, menacing version of Squiggy.
Chilly Willy (the penguin). I didn't catch that reference before. I had the record (a 45) of his song when i was a kid. :D
I was 11 when this came out and I saw it in theatres 4 times! Kids saw stuff like this all the time back the and nobody really thought anything of it.
*This was a child hood classic but more importantly I'm reminded of by your thumbnail that a smile can make you smile even when you don't want to*
i actually saw this in theaters a few times as a kid, but the 80's had alot of kids movies that were not really for kids. like beetlejuice, ghostbusters, gremlins, and even rated R stuff like robocop and terminator were marketed to kids with action figures cereal and cartoon shows
I wore out the vhs on this film from watching over and over as a kid 😂
Two things:
1) They tell you who the killer is early on in the movie. At the crime scene, they tell you the judge bought the election with a gazillion samolians. Then in the movie theater, when he is recounting the story about how his brother died, he says it was a bank robbery and the thief got away with a gazillion samolians.
2) Just for reference, in the bar scene where the guy says he saw a rabbit in the bar, and he pretends to put his arm around a rabbit named Harvey... "Harvey" is an old Jimmy Stewart movie in which he befriends a six foot invisible rabbit named Harvey. Just a clever way to introduce another character along with all of the toons from all the different animation studios.
I saw this movie on my tenth birthday. The day it was released.
80's kid here. Watched it a lot as a kid. Just what we were lucky enough to have been deemed to watch.
Man times were simpler....
Same! I watched it all the time at my friends house when we were 6
There are deliberate racial overtones in the movie echoing racism as it occurred in LA at the time. The Ink and Paint Club, for instance, represented the clubs that had black entertainment and service, but only white clientele. Putting the freeway through Toontown was typically what happened to the black part of town. Also, that they had to sit in balcony of the theater.
"A laugh can be a powerful thing. It's the only weapon we have." It was years before I realized that was foreshadowing the conclusion.
Love your reactions . Hope all is well and we see you again soon
This is one of my all time favorites ❤
Great reactions I was watching some of your videos I will leave you with a movie suggestion to add to your list its by the same director of the movie Psycho who was famous for thrillers..
The Birds (1963) oh and a bonus one
The Deep (1977)
i think you might have missed the photograph where Eddie and his brother were performers in the circus, and that might have caused you confusion when Eddie was performing to make the weasels laugh during the ''drawn out'' conclusion.
When the guy talked about his friend rabbit "Harvey", it's referring to an old movie of the same name.
This is based on a book, but the animations and action are very Looney Toons and older cartoons which were shown as shorts in theatres.
Ouite a few had more adult themes.
Daffy Duck was really hyper back in the day, and notice Bugs' face has a different shaped face, closer to a real hare.
I got jump scared by Dumbo too back in the day. 😅 Anyway, best part was all the voice impressions 😂
Great reaction! You should react to Fight Club (1999) next.
"Why would she leave her baby alone with a 'wabbit'?" Absentee parental figures/caretakers/guardians are commonplace in old-school cartoons.
"This is insane." As most old-school cartoons typically were, whether made exclusively for this film (the Roger Rabbit shorts) or in reality (see the old _Looney Tunes_ / _Merry Melodies_ cartoons).
I'm trippin how you said you had Rabbit ears like every body has some. Like "Sure, I have Rabbit ears... who doesn't?" 😅
We all had them back in the day, but they were the kind that were on top of our TV sets. 😉
See more Bob Hoskins (Eddy Valiant) in MERMAIDS starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci! 🧜♀️ 🍿
27:03 Kids like me seen this, and Robocop, Rambo, Predator, Terminator, Conan, Commando, etc. I was 8 when this came out. Also, R-rated movies HAD toy lines, Robocop for example. I also seen anime, way before it got hot in the US during the 90's, and uncensored. And we did not go around blowing up shopping malls or whatever.
Hell, you outta see the anime in Japan, same thing, no one goes crazy.
I would have been nearly twelve when this came out, and my brother would have been going on 10. We went to see it with our mother, and we all loved it.
A lot of work (and love) went into this film, and it shows. Legally/license-wise, this movie was sort of the Ready Player One of its day. Technology-wise, it was likely even more innovative.
As far as adult content goes, for the 80s, this movie didn't really contain anything kids hadn't seen before.
My favorite Kathleen Turner movie... almost certainly Romancing The Stone.
The actual voice actors stood off to the side of the camera and performed the scenes with the human actors, so they could play off each other, even though they were performing to nothing. It helped a lot.
Yes, this was considered kid-safe in the 1980s. It was just a social FACT that animation was made "for kids", though this doesn't necessarily mean a parent should let their kids watch it _unsupervised._ It's actually kind of amazing how much difference having Mom or Dad next to you in the audience (or living room) makes.
You have a beautiful smile! Reminds me of the 50’s and 60’s actress Elenor Donahue.
AHHH, this is such a good film for us folks from Los Angeles! I live in the old Red Car subway building downtown, so I'm always excited to watch the film again. :D
There will never be another movie like this. This was lightning in a bottle.
As a child I watched this
The plot is basically the plot of Chinatown, 1974.
"That literally makes no sense; to make a poison that kills toons when you yourself are a toon." Aw jeeze, do I have some bad news about humans....
kids defiantly saw this in the theater. It revitalized cartoons too. It had a few follow up shorts until rights got all tangled up.
A proper sequel has never been worked out but Rodger has been in other things.
Part of the deal between WB and Disney was that there charters appear together and get the same screen time.
two things were common back in the day.
1. Kids parents took them to R rated movies with no big deal
2. Kids cartoons had adult jokes and scary parts.
At some point G rated became "Preschooler" when G rated used to have fights and action and PG became more like a G rated film and PG 13 became what PG used to be and R rated films became more like a PG 13. the ratings really soften up over time.
Despite all that we still make a fuss over things that should not be a big deal.
There was lots of legal dealings to have all of these characters from different studios to be in this film. That is why Daffy is with Donald. Also, negotiations were made that Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse have the same number of lines.
Christopher Lloyd played Judge Doom. His most famous role is that of Doctor Emmet Brown in the Back To The Future Series. If you haven't seen those movies I would love a reaction!
Sand director as this movie… Robert Zemeckis
RIP Bob Hoskins
I love him more than any woman’s ever loved a rabbit… hmm… that rabbit was a thing when this was made!
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 to the 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 Originally 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......
Judge Doom as a toon gave me nightmares as a kid...lol
Always enjoy your reactions! 😃👍🏻
For anyone worried about the Shoe put in dip, just know its sole went to heaven.
This was before Space Jam to me and Jeasica was my 9 old year first waifu xDD.
Pixar. a Disney company, knew WB would not give them permission to use their characters, so they gave Steven Spielberg an Executive Producer credit to go to Warner and appeal to them personally. No one says no to Spielberg, and they agreed on the condition that their biggest stars, Bugs and Daffy got equal screen time as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and thus the duets.
You’ve never seen Tarzan!?
Such a good soundtrack
My mom took me and my cousins to see this in theaters. We didn’t get the adult jokes of course but that Jessica stood out for sure. Lol
Be honest-- how old do you have to be to find 'Nice booby trap' hilarious? 😀
Remember these actors were interacting with nobody
Yeah thier 100th special was´t a movie just a short Once upon a Studio with every movie and some Disney shorts characters.
The weirdest thing is that Who Framed Rodger Rabbit is loosely based on a true story. The old public transportation system (the Red Car) that covered L.A. was bought by a combo that tore out the old rails to make way for L.A.’s freeway system. You could look it up, keywords Los Angeles Red Car.
Thought it was based on a book
I'm in love with your laughter)
Hope all is well with you. God Bless.
This is absolutely amazing and it's my favorite cartoon live cartoons in the weasels in the dipMobile the and of course Jessica rabbit she still the gorgeous
Fascinating
In the 80s there was no chill
Watch "Cool World" and "Dick Tracy" next
You also have to think about what was considered a kids movie back then as well. They were considered family movies not kids movies
I was not yet 10. I did go see it. We loved it!! Of course, a lot of things went WAY over my head. I laughed a lot and thought the cartoons were cool.
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Roger rabbit is not hilarious but cute rabbit but not funny 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
This was the peak of the era when behind the scenes footage was still fun to watch.
Like no disrespect to modern VFX people, but... it's not interesting to watch you sit at a computer being underpaid for 26 hours straight fiddling with a wireframe.
The how-it-was-made for the Ink & Paint Club though? That's worth burning an afternoon to see.
Now that you've seen Who framed Roger Rabbit are you ready for Cool World?