Who Framed Roger Rabbit

One of my favourite films of all time is Who Framed Roger Rabbit. To me it is absolutely incredible for many reasons, great plot, characters, incredible inventiveness. But just from an animators point of view the film is breathtaking. Now, in this day and age young viewers have been exposed to CGI characters acting alongside live action people e.g. kids cereal adverts and basically most adverts with a mascot, the movies e.g. Space Jam and Looney Tunes Back in Action.



But in 1988, no one had seen this sort of thing before. I mean cartoon characters have appeared on screen with live action actors before e.g. Mary Poppins...



...but those characters were drawn in traditional 2D style so did not have the same effect of the characters in Roger Rabbit that, rendered in 3D, look like they naturally co-exist with the humans.



I also love how Bob Hoskins interacts with the toons. The chemistry between Eddy Valiant (Hoskins) and Roger in the movie is just brilliant. That is why I admire the film so much because Hoskins basically had to create chemistry with nothing and act with nothing, something that had barely been done before had been done with incredible quality. It paved the way for not just animated movies but also movies in general.