It stared the late Bob Hopkins as a detective who use to work for cartoons solving crimes until an accident made him go south of the end of the bottle.
A crazy cartoon villain killed his brother and he had never been the same. But after a famous cartoonist gets killed, Roger Rabbit gets framed for murder.
The first time I saw this, I was either ten or eleven and never really understood what was going on. But as I got older, I followed every detail of the movie. Like the scene where Bob's character, Eddy, goes to the so called, Ink and Paint club, Daffy and Donald duck play piano side by side. They use the old audio voice of the first voice actor that played Donald Duck and the recreant voice actor that is voicing him today, Tony Anselmo. They used both Disney and WB cartoons side by side, literally side by side.
Donald would be on one side, and Daffy would be at the other, same with Bugs and Mickey Mouse. The late Mel Blanc was still voicing many of the characters like Tweety Bird and Bugs at the time this movie came out in 1988.
There also is this creepy judge, portrayed by Doc Brown himself Christopher Lloyd. His most creepiest performance ever. And believe me they were going to use Tim Curry, but the director thought he was too scary.
His character is named Judge Doom, taking over Toon Town and wanted to destroy it so he could build a freeway, and he also bought Cloverleaf, which Eddie thought was responsible for the death of Acme, but it was all him.
And believe the, ending was the creepiest of all. Oh by the way, Judge Doom is accompanied by some weasels who wouldn't stop laughing quoting the line "if you don't stop laughing, you're going to end up dead like your stupid hyena cousins."
And there is Roger's girlfriend, the most beautiful drawn women ever in the world (to any man that have sexual fantasies about her) Jessica Rabbit. Voiced by Kathleen Turner, her singing voice was done by Stephen Spielberg's wife (at the time) Amy Irving. Eddie always thought it was her after the pictures he took of her with Acme, but he was set up to take those pictures by his boss.
To see most of the movie more than just one time, you get to understand the whole story. Maybe there was a reason on why Roger Rabbit was the target of this bizarre murder. On why it was him. And what is alibi was, was pretty funny. I can never take the ending with Christopher Lloyd at the end, just too creepy. Every time I see it, it scares me and still to this day, his most scariest performance ever.
I believe this one of the movies you can watch over and over and over and not get tired of. And every time you do, you learn something extra about the movie, more detail, more interesting facts, I miss Bob Hopkins and the movie is not the same without him. They were saying that they were going to do a sequel but I don't think it will be happening now since his sudden death of pneumonia. I will still enjoy watching it like I do the original Freaky Friday or the Big Lebowski you learn something new about the movie every time you see it again.
Till then, enjoy the movies you love, over and over and over. Pray for Paris. Ciao Bloggers!
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