It should be noted for historical purposes that the entirety of the animation that appears in the film was done 100% by hand - no computers of any kind were used, not even for Jessica Rabbit's sparkling dress during her song - except for the necessary blue-screening when Eddie Valiant went to Toontown, where everything was animated, and to operate the player pianos during Donald Duck and Daffy Duck's piano duel note Equally impressive but not as well-known is that all of the effects of Roger moving around and interacting with the set were practical effects, filmed at the same time as Bob Hoskins was acting. The book series itself used the film as canon. There were also two novels, both written by Wolf as sequels to the movie and not his original novel: Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? (1991) and Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? (2013). It also had three Spin-Off theatrical shorts that ran from 1989 to 1993, all of which were included in the film's special edition DVD release. The film is notable for being the biggest crossover of famous Western cartoon characters pre-50s than anything that has come before it (it is the first and only official time Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear in a scene together).

The title of the film officially has no question mark at the end rumor has it this was the result of a marketing survey which said films with question marks in the title make less money. He gets dragged into the story anyway, and he and Roger ultimately uncover a conspiracy far greater than either of them imagined. Eddie used to specialize in this kind of case, but he has refused to work for toons ever since one of them killed his brother. His only hope is Eddie Valiant ( Bob Hoskins), an alcoholic human ex-cop turned private investigator. See Does This Remind You of Anything? below. At the center of the story is Roger Rabbit, a toon movie star falsely accused of murdering Marvin Acme, a human manufacturer of cartoon props, after photos surfaced of Acme 'playing patty-cake' with Roger's wife. Set in an Alternate Universe in the city of Los Angeles in 1947, during The Golden Age of Animation to be specific, this Hardboiled Film Noir depicts a world where cartoon characters are a real ethnic minority living alongside human beings. The film really owes more to Roman Polański's Chinatown, with its main plot following a detective who stumbles into a conspiracy related to Los Angeles real estate.

Roger Rabbit is loosely based on Gary Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (so loosely, in fact, that you might more accurately say the book merely inspired the movie, though Wolf enjoyed the film adaptation enough to base his sequel books directly off of it). Disney incognito) and Amblin Entertainment ( Steven Spielberg), Who Framed Roger Rabbit is currently the only official crossover with classic Disney, MGM, and Warner Bros. Its success is largely responsible for setting off The Renaissance Age of Animation, having had a huge influence on executives' attitudes toward seeing animation as more than what it had been in the Dark Age - Disney's animated films from the '90s and onward, the Pixar films, The Simpsons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Batman: The Animated Series, Nicktoons, MTV cartoons, Cartoon Network original series, and any other influential animated series or film from 1989 and onward, would probably never have existed if it weren't for this film.Ī co-production between Touchstone Pictures (i.e.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 combination live-action/animated Film Noir, with Robert Zemeckis directing the live-action and Richard Williams directing the animation. Enjoy your dish of madcap, murderous, sexy, animated mayhem. Let it cook to perfection, and Voila! Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Confidential, Mulholland Falls, and Dick Tracy, then throw it in a pressure cooker with healthy portions of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Disney's Silly Symphonies.

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