Roger Rabbit never looked so suave (Who framed Roger Rabbit?) (1988)
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Joanna Cassidy, Kathleen Turner
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Synopsis: Los Angeles, 1947. A toon-despising private detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to investigate the murder case of Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye), the head of Maroon Cartoons and of Toon Town, with the prime suspect being Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer), the husband of the voluptuous Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner), who was seen playing patty-cake with Acme the day before the alleged murder.
Review: Think you’re too old for cartoons? Think again! For the first time on the big screen, cartoon characters of Disney, Warner Bros., and humans come together, to bring the magical world of Los Angeles to you.
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Worf “Who censored Roger Rabbit?”, the plot is centered around a wildly emotional Roger Rabbit going through a tough time in life. The world of animated cartoons meet the real human world, in shiny and wild Hollywood. It’s a place where Dumbo can fly around the blue sky, working for peanuts, Donald and Daffy Duck play piano duels, with one of them ending up bashing the piano on the other’s head in one of the film’s high point scenes, and where Roger has a problem seeing birds, instead of stars. Does this seem confusing to you? Well it gets even weirder and loonier. What could probably be seen for about a 100 times more, are the scenes where Eddie Valiant visits Toon Town. What I love is the introduction to Toontown - the suspense, the fear in Eddie’s eyes, which then transitions to a musical, sunny world of Toontown. The movie contains elements of slapstick comedy (who could forget the opening scene of Roger Rabbit getting electrocuted, almost getting stabbed by flying knives and getting cooked to death, while babysitting Baby Herman), mystery, and maybe even drama, since it is a triangle between a rabbit, a man and a