WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit there is a very unique mixture of cartoon

and imaging combined with live action. Animation is a wonderful thing, but yet very hard

to do and very cost worthy. Animation can be very difficult to create let alone going and

mixing it with real live action which was a big test for the makers of Who Framed Roger

Rabbit. The Makers of this Film did a very good job making the mixture of these two

intractable things look so very real and run in sync with each other. Although it was not an

easy task to do, they had to use lots of robots and machinery to make the two look and act

realistic.

The Animation used in Roger Rabbit was in many ways different from just about all

other cartoons animation. Roger Rabbit had cutting edge animation with the best possible

team to make the animation. The animation consisted of much more detail and had to be

visualized by all the actors in order for the to perform. This made the animators jobs a lot

more complicated and difficult, but they were certainly up for the task at hand. They

delivered one of the most perfect and realistic cartoon animation's ever when they

delivered Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was said that this type of film could never be

done, and how it was impossible to create. The effectiveness of the animation used with

live action is just uncanny. Other films that used this mixture was "Mary Poppins" and

"Bedknobs and Broomsticks" although it was only used for a short period of time in the

each and they were not even close to the exact details that Roger Rabbit consisted of, they

were probably the best mixtures of animation and live action up until Who Framed Roger

Rabbit came along. This film was one of the milestones in the history of animation because

it proved many people wrong and now gave people even higher expectations when it came

to film making.

A huge part of animation has to do with the sound effects and voices of the cartoon

and in Roger Rabbit the voices and sound effects were spectacular. Among the voices that

made the most impression were the voice of Roger Rabbit which was perfectly done by

Charles Fleicher, Roger Rabbit's wife, Jessica Rabbit's voice which was done by Kathleen

Taylor, Doloris's voice was played by Joanna Cassidy, Evil Judge Dooms voice was done

by Christopher Lloyd and Baby Herman's voice was done by Lou Hirsch. All of these

people made a huge contribution to the success of this film. Other historical cartoon

characters were in parts of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as well. Daffy and Donald Duck

play a piano duet together in a very funny scene, and Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have a

dialog between each other. Other appearances are made by Dumbo as he flies by Eddie

Valiant's private eye office and Betty Boop who is a waitress in a bar where Eddie goes

to. I even believe I saw the penguins from Mary Poppins as waiters bussing tables in that

bar.

Overall Who Framed Roger Rabbit was one of the greatest animated films ever and

I would give it a 5 out of 5 without any hesitation. Roger Rabbit will always be one of the

great cartoons to me when I look back on my childhood. The special effects were

brilliantly done by Ken Ralston who performed the painstaking task of combining live-

action footage wonderfully with animation. Roger Rabbit was the top grossing film of

1988 and received two very worthy Academy Awards, one for best visual effects and one

for best film editing. While researching This Film I came across a rumor that a Roger

Rabbit 2 is very possible and has been heavily discussed. So we may be in for a treat

some time in the future.