Who Framed Roger Rabbit (film): Difference between revisions

'''''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''''' is a 1988 American [[Wikipedia:Fantasy film|fantasy]]-[[Wikipedia:Comedy film|comedy]]-[[Wikipedia:Noir film|noir]] film directed by [[Wikipedia:Robert Zemeckis|Robert Zemeckis]] and [[File:Who-Framed-Roger-Rabbit_avi_download.jpg|thumb|260px]] released by [[Wikipedia:Touchstone Pictures|Touchstone Pictures]]. The film combines [[Wikipedia:Films with live action and animation|live action and animation]], and is based on [[Wikipedia:Gary K. Wolf|Gary K. Wolf]]'s novel ''[[Wikipedia:Who Censored Roger Rabbit?|Who Censored Roger Rabbit?]]'', which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings. ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' stars [[Wikipedia:Bob Hoskins|Bob Hoskins]] as a [[Wikipedia:Private detective|private detective]] who investigates a murder involving the famous cartoon character, Roger Rabbit. [[Charles Fleischer]] co-stars as the titular character's voice, [[Wikipedia:Christopher Lloyd|Christopher Lloyd]] as the villain, [[Wikipedia:Kathleen Turner|Kathleen Turner]] as the voice of Roger's cartoon wife, and [[Wikipedia:Joanna Cassidy|Joanna Cassidy]] as the detective's girlfriend.

*[[Jessica Rabbit]]

*[[Benny the Cab|Benny The Cab]]

=====See also: [[List Of Cameos in Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]=====

*The sun from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Father_Noah%27s_Ark Father Noah's Ark]''

*The orphans from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Orphan%27s_Benefit_(1941) Orphans' Benefit]''

*[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Toby_Tortoise Toby Tortoise], the girl bunnies and the animal pedestrians from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare The Tortoise and the Hare]''

*The Water Babies from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Babies Water Babies]''

*[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Jenny_Wren Jenny Wren] from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Who_Killed_Cock_Robin%3F Who Killed Cock Robin?]''

*[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_White_(character) Snow White], the Seven Dwarfs, [http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Queen The Queen] (appearing as the Witch) and [http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Forest_Animals_(Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs) the forest animals] from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]''

**[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Brooms The broomsticks] from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice The Sorcerer's Apprentice]''

**Pegasus, a unicorn, and the cupids from ''The Pastoral Symphony''

*[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Reluctant_Dragon The Reluctant Dragon] and Sir Giles from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Reluctant_Dragon The Reluctant Dragon]''

*[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Piglet Piglet] from ''[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Many_Adventures_of_Winnie_the_Pooh The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]''

'''Warner Bros.'''

==Plot==

In a stereotypical 1940`s cartoon, ``[[Somethin's Cookin'|Something`s Cookin`]]``, [[Roger Rabbit]] messes up (he sees birds instead of seeing stars). Detective [[Eddie Valiant]] watches him ``blow his lines``, and R.K. Maroon, Roger`s boss, tells Eddie that he thinks Roger`s wife, [[Jessica Rabbit]], has been making Roger suspicious that he is cheating on him. He sends Eddie to figure out if Jessica ha been cheating, to which Ediie replies he will not work with Toons. (A Toon killed Eddie`s brother.) RK convinces Eddie, and he finds out that Jessica has been playing patty-cake---literally---with Marvin Acme, the owner of [[Toontown|ToonTown]].

Eddie takes a few pictures of the patty-cake game and shows them to Roger. Roger gets drunk and storms off, declaring that him adn Jessica will be happy no matter what. Roger sits outside of the Acme Factory crying wile looking at pictures of him and Jessica. The next day, Eddie finds out that Marvin has been killed by a safe dropped on his head. Roger is the prime suspect, according to [[Judge Doom]], the Judge of ToonTown. Doom says that when he catches Roger, he will kill him using the Dip, the only thing capable of killing a cartoon character. Doom has enlisted the help of the [[Toon Patrol]], a gang of weasels named[[Smartass| Smartass]], [[Stupid]], Sleazy, Psycho, Greasy, and Wheezy, to capture Roger.

Eddie goes home and recieves a tip from Roger`s co-star,[[ Baby Herman]], that Roger did not kill Marvin. He said that whoever ''did'' kill him, however, must have been after Marvin`s will, which supposedly left ToonTown to the Toons. Without it, anyone could destroy ToonTown. Eddie discovers Roger in his room, pleading innocent. Eddie decides to take his case, only because whoever set Roger up was also making Eddie look bad. He hides Roger in a bar, only to have Doom find him the next day. Now, Doom and the Patrol are after both Eddie ''and'' Roger.

After saving [[Benny the Cab|Benny The Cab]] from being ``dipped`` for driving on the sidewalk, Benny drives Eddie and Roger to safety. They go to a movie theater, where a news bulletin says that RK has signed a deal with Cloverleaf Industries, who want to buy ToonTown.

Eddie and Roger go to interrogate RK, and Eddie tells Roger to stay outside and guard. Roger gets captured by Jessica, who throws him in the trunk of her car. While questioning RK, RK tells Eddie that Cloverleaf wanted ToonTown, but it would ``become land for the free-`` then RK is shot before he can finish the word. When Eddie goes to see who shot RK to death, he sees Jessica running to her car and leaving. He follows her into ToonTown. While chasing her, Eddie thinks he has found her. He is fooled, as he has just found[[ Lena Hyena]], who wants to marry him all of a sudden. Scared, Eddie runs away into the men`s bathroom, except...there is no men`s bathroom! Eddie starts falling to what he thinks is his doom. While falling, Eddie runs into [[Mickey Mouse]] and [[Bugs Bunny]], who are skydiving. They both taunt him by saying they have a spare, but Bugs says that Eddie probably doesn`t want it. Thinking Bugs means a spare parachute, Eddie pleads Bugs to give it to him until Mickey says, ``Better let him have it, Bugs!`` Turns out the ``spare`` was a tire, which weighs Eddie down.

Eddie thinks he is about to die, until Lena catches him. After escaping her, Eddie encounters Jessica and finds out that she is innocent, and that Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme and RK Maroon. Benny comes and drives Jessica and Eddie to chase Doom, until, Doom makes Benny slip. Jessica and Eddie fall out to the ground, and Benny pretends to be dead. Doom and the Patrol take Jessica and Eddie to the Acme Factory.

Roger comes by Benny, and Benny finds the strength to get up and drive Roger to where Doom is holding Eddie and Jessica. Roger grabs a gun and tells Benny to call the cops. Doom revelas that he is the boss of Cloverleaf, and that he will dip ToonTown off the face of earth and put a freeway in it`s place. Roger then comes and starts threatening Doom with a gun, until Sleazy drops a pile of bricks on him. He sees stars, and becomes happy because he couldn`t see stars at the beggining of the movie. Doom has Roger and Jessica tied up, and leaves the weasels alone to dip Roger and Jessica with a dip cannon. Eddie gets an idea and makes the weasels laugh themselves to death, except for Smarty, who falls in a pool of dip.

Eddie gets ready to shut the dip cannon off, until Doom stops him. Eddie then runs over Doom with a steamroller, but Doom survives, because he was a Toon. But not just ''any'' Toon---he killed Eddie`s brother! After a long fight, Eddie reversed the dip cannon and fires all the dip left in the world at Doom, killing him. He lets Roger and Jessica down just as the cops show up, as well as a bunch of famous cartoon characters. Roger is proven innocent, and Marvin`s will shows up. ToonTown now belongs to the Toons! Everyone sings ``Smile, Darn Ya, Smile`` as [[Porky Pig]] closes the movie with his famous ``Th-th-tha-th-th-th-that-th-that`s all, folks!`` and Tinkerbell flies by.

 

 

| style="text-align:right;"|Edward "Eddie" Valiant

| style="text-align:right;"|Judge Doom

|Christopher Lloyd

| style="text-align:right;"|Dolores

|Joanna Cassidy

| style="text-align:right;"|Roger Rabbit

|Charles Fleischer

| style="text-align:right;"|Benny The Cab

|Don Hahn

| style="text-align:right;"|Jessica Rabbit <small> (Speaking Voice)</small>

| style="text-align:right;"|Jessica Rabbit <small> (Singing Voice)</small>

| style="text-align:right;"|Jessica Rabbit <small> (Performance Model)</small>

| style="text-align:right;"|Baby Herman <small> (Baby Voice)</small>

| style="text-align:right;"|Baby Herman <small> (Adult Voice)</small>

|Lou Hirsch

| style="text-align:right;"|Marvin Acme

|Stubby Kaye

| style="text-align:right;"|R. K. Maroon

| style="text-align:right;"|Lt. Santino

| style="text-align:right;"|Raoul J. Raoul

|Joel Silver

| style="text-align:right;"|Augie

|Paul Springer

| style="text-align:right;"|Angelo

|Richard Ridings

| style="text-align:right;"|Arthritic Cowboy/Man in Bar

| style="text-align:right;"|Soldier In Bar

|Lindsay Holiday

| style="text-align:right;"|Stretch

|Mike Edmonds

| style="text-align:right;"|Editor

|Morgan Deare

| style="text-align:right;"|Kid #1

| style="text-align:right;"|Kid #2

| style="text-align:right;"|Kid #3

|John-Paul Sipla

| style="text-align:right;"|Blonde Starlet

|Laura Frances

| style="text-align:right;"|Andy Devine

|Andrew Robinson

| style="text-align:right;"|Forensic #1

| style="text-align:right;"|Forensic #2

|Billy J. Mitchell

| style="text-align:right;"|Mailman

|Eric B. Sindon

| style="text-align:right;"|Newscaster

|Ed Herlihy

| style="text-align:right;"|Conductor

|James O'Connell

| style="text-align:right;"|Teddy Valiant

|Eugene Guirterrez

| style="text-align:right;"|Mrs. Herman

|April Winchell

| style="text-align:right;"|Betty Boop

|Mae Questel

| style="text-align:right;"|Bongo the Gorilla

|Tom Hiddleston

| style="text-align:right;"|Mickey Mouse

|Wayne Allwine

| style="text-align:right;"|Bugs Bunny

|Joe Alaskey

| style="text-align:right;"|Goofy

|Tony Pope

| style="text-align:right;"|Porky Pig

|Bob Bergen

| style="text-align:right;"|Donald Duck

|Tony Anselmo

| style="text-align:right;"|Daffy Duck

|Mel Blanc

| style="text-align:right;"|Tweety Pie

|Anna Paquin

| style="text-align:right;"|Sylvester the Cat

|Jeff Bergman

| style="text-align:right;"|Hyacinth Hippo

|Mary T. Radford

| style="text-align:right;"|Yosmite Sam

|Billy West

| style="text-align:right;"|Foghorn Leghorn

|Christian Bale

| style="text-align:right;"|Bullet #1

|Pat Buttram

| style="text-align:right;"|Bullet #2

|Jim Cummings

| style="text-align:right;"|Bullet #3

|Jim Gallant

| style="text-align:right;"|Additional Weasels

|Sam Raimi

| style="text-align:right;"|Minnie Mouse

| style="text-align:right;"|Toontown Bluebirds #1

|Wyatt Smith

| style="text-align:right;"|Toontown Bluebirds #2

|Steven Yeun

| style="text-align:right;"|Toontown Bluebirds #3

|Jordan Kaiser

| style="text-align:right;"|Toontown Bluebirds #4

|Alyson Stoner

| style="text-align:right;"|Pinnochio

|Peter Westy

| style="text-align:right;"|Mr. Toad

|Les Perkins

| style="text-align:right;"|Dumbo

|Frank Welker

| style="text-align:right;"|Woody Woodpecker

|Cherry Davis

| style="text-align:right;"|Big Bad Wolf

|Marton Csokas

| style="text-align:right;"|Smart Ass

|David Lander

| style="text-align:right;"|Greasy

|Cillian Murphy

| style="text-align:right;"|Stupid

|Frank Sinatra

|-

| style="text-align:right;"|Earl <small> (Bar Customer)</small>

==Trivia==

 

This is the final movie where Mel Blanc voiced the [[Looney Tunes]] before his death in 1989.

 

Joe Alaskey was originally to voice Foghorn Leghorn (who also voiced Yosemite Sam in this film), but gotten deleted. However, he appears as a background character with the others but he doesn't have any lines.

 

Disney plans on making a sequel to the film but so far was unreleced. It had mainly been titles as ''Roger Rabbit 2''.

The film inspired 3 cartoon shorts "[[Tummy Trouble]]", "[[Roller Coaster Rabbit]]" and "Trail-Mix Up". It also inspired a comic book series called "Roger Rabbit Comics" and a short comic book series called "Roger Rabbit's Toontown".

==Who Framed Roger Rabbit Films==

[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]] | [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2]] | [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit 3]] | [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit 4]]

[[Category:Animation films]]