
‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Film Review
In a spectacle that is delightful for all ages, a healthy medium of the childishly innocent with the practically knowable tendencies of evil-doing brings out a cinematic performance which is par excellence. It is in this perspective of originality in considering cartoons as performers with real lives on the side which helps illuminate an imagination which is quintessentially cinematic.
Though I am opposed to consistent insularity in movie productions centered on cinema itself, this is the exception. For it is with this possibility of cartoons as working for stoogies that brings out the happy interplay of real life dramatics of purchasing real property with the toonish hilarity of slapstack that only fantasy can accurately capture.
To think of the originality of those awkward suspenseful pauses over the cliff. How that idea is unobservable to the race of man until the 20th century! That, mixed with industrial production, is the delightful nostalgia of intending theatrical productions to favor the children’s memory that awakens that cosmic wisdom in experiencing burlesque cartoon starlets and their famous
“hubbie wobbies” that shine on animated screens for the mass man.
In agreement with Wikipedia’s editors selection of reviews, it is a poignantly depicted era: that of the post-war, post-recession. That of an excitement of life because of the conveniences for entertainment that provides such honest paying gigs as Roger Rabbit has on the set. And what a playful creature this is; in his independency from Bugs. Though retaining that mischievousness in his outward form; if not more innocent than what “The Bunny” as his trailer likely demands, secretly imposes with a coy enjoyment of others unfortunate follies; such as Elmer losing his wife because of his obsessiveness with the rabbit.
This is a world where the motor car has not yet been massively coordinated. Where small town community was still present due to the limitations of travel. And yet, the masses and the potential to serve their common needs are available and impose upon civilized man demands to constantly meet them.
It is here where people can become short on cash and need to do dirty jobs.
It is here where the adult brightens the mind of what cannot yet be expressed to the perfectly innocent.
And it is here where the villain loses sight of childishness altogether.
Karma has a natural tendency of recoiling those malicious intents at spoiling childish fun.
Grade: A