“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is a movie that brings character and laughs. It’s a race-around “who done it” and a lot of silly stuff goes on. It has camaraderie, the little mischiefs Roger Rabbit gets into, and how his buddies run around and try to clear his name.
The story starts off with Marvin Acme playing patty cake with Roger Rabbit’s wife. So studio head R.K. Maroon hires Private Eye Eddie Valiant to investigate. Finding all this information is true, the next day Marvin Acme is found murdered and Roger Rabbit is the prime suspect.
Now Judge Doom of the Toontown Superior Court is on the lookout for Roger Rabbit. So they go to the warehouse and Eddie is getting all of the Toons.
Eddie causes the weasels of the Toon Patrol to die of fatal hilarity, through various comic antics. Eddie and Doom fight, and it turns out that Doom is in fact a Toon himself. He gets sprayed with the dip, which dissolves Toons. Jessica is reunited with Roger, and Eddie is reunited with Dolores.
The movie is funny because Roger Rabbit was holding up production on the movie set and he wasn’t reliable – always slow-poking, slow-moving, and holding up production. He had trouble following the director’s commands. Roger is lackadaisical – taking his time. Then when all hell breaks loose, we ask with the director “Why did this happen to me? Is this my fault?”
We laugh at the director’s frustration – because we wonder why he hired that kind of person in the first place. We ask, didn’t you see this coming?
And you can also laugh because anyone could have played the part in the movie, but Roger Rabbit is the person he got to do it.
One of the funniest things is when Jessica gets up and sings about her love for Roger Rabbit. He gets dazed by this, and you can see that he is really in love with her. The way Roger swoons for her is both funny and sweet. It’s like young love.
And opposites attract – Jessica is a beautiful woman, and Roger is a scrawny little thing. It’s funny to see the difference between these two lovers, especially because they still love each other so much.
The movie is also funny because of how it is made. It has cartoon animation and real people together in each scene. You get used to this, and it’s interesting. You see the Toons running around and the real people running around too.
We’re drawn in to the lives of the cartoon characters. And we want to see them come out on top and keep the race going.
And it really truly is a love-scene movie. Like when Jessica has on a very seductive dress and sings a seductive love song.
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is definitely a movie that’s a comedy, and a love story, too. It’s rated PG, and would be good for some 14-year-olds, and for anyone older, of any age.
Patty has been a vendor for three years and likes pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.
