![]() I have to say I think all the sexuality went well over my precious, little head in 1988. Now I suppose it’s time for the scene all you perverts have been waiting for: Jessica Rabbit’s performance at the Ink and Paint Club. In the meantime, here’s Benny’s big scene.Īnd here’s my favorite Roger scene, foreshadowing Eddie’s song and dance at the end. So feel free to ask me the next time you see me to find out how I’m feeling that day. It’s always been a close race between Benny and Baby Herman (voiced by Lou Hirsch). ![]() (Also note David Lander–aka Squiggy from “Laverne and Shirley”–as the voice of Smart Ass, the head of the Toon Patrol weasels.)Īnd special kudos should also go to Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger and several other characters in the movie, including Benny the Cab, who might be my favorite. Of course, his shining moment comes at the end, as he sings to save his pals Roger and Jessica from getting a lethal spray of The Dip. Hoskins, while not quite as good as Lloyd, is still pretty damn good. But, c’mon, he’s really good as Judge Doom. I was just kidding about the fighting thing. In fact, I’d be so bold as to say that Lloyd is better as Judge Doom than he was as Doc Brown in “Back to the Future.” Yeah, I said it. And I still think it’s a good movie.Īside from its pro–public transit plot (Judge Doom, played by Christopher Lloyd, vows to dismantle the LA transit system in favor of his plans for a freeway), the acting work by both Bob Hoskins (as drunken detective Eddie Valiant) and Christopher Lloyd is still pretty impressive. I’ve seen the movie a few times since, but it’s been awhile, so I was a little hesitant to watch it again, for fear that I would think it was so stupid that I would have no other choice but to hurl my mug against the wall in a blind rage. And I bought the book the movie was based on, “Who Censored Roger Rabbit?” (rejoice, for there is a question mark!), though I must admit I never made it through that.Īll of that is to say I was a pretty huge “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” fan in 1988. I also remember pre-ordering my VHS copy of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” which I think was the second and last time I did that (actually, it might technically be the only I think the pre-order of “Good Morning, Vietnam” was mainly my dad’s doing). (In decidedly more embarrassing news, the Strawberries two doors down from the Fairview is where I bought my first and only piece of Grateful Dead music, the grey 45 of “Touch of Grey” I’m sure I have told you this already, but I need to unburden myself of this information on a regular basis.) ![]() I first saw it at the legendary Fairview Cinema in Hudson, NY, at which I’m pretty sure I saw only three movies: “Dragnet,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” and “My Blue Heaven.” All three of those are classics to me (though “WFRR” is a distant third behind “Dragnet”), so the Fairview will always hold a special place in my heart. I likely bought all of these after seeing the movie a second time, at the UA in Staten Island (during which my sister fell asleep…apparently she was not as swept up in the fever). I do, however, still have one of my all-time favorite mugs, derived from one of Roger’s lines in the movie. And I’ve also misplaced my McDonald’s collector’s cup. So much for my million-dollar pencil collection. They are currently either shoved inside a box in my mom’s house or in a landfill somewhere. I dared not sharpen these pencils, lest they lose their value. One was Baby Herman in his carriage, another was Benny the Cab, and the third was Roger Rabbit twirling away from a can of The Dip (the only way to kill a toon, in case this fact has slipped your mind in the last 20 years). I’m pretty sure I had a T-shirt, but I know I had a series of three pencils that all had twirling tops where the erasers would be. The malls were flooded with Roger Rabbit-related items, and I was happy to spend my parents’ money securing said items. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” was also likely helped along in its quest to be James Sigman’s Summer Movie Obsession over “The Great Outdoors” by the immense marketing push it got as a Disney (via Touchstone) production (but, oh, how I wish there were “Great Outdoors” action figures). Plus it would feature cartoon characters from different worlds (Warner Brothers, Disney, etc.) interacting with each other. That would be “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (that missing question mark still rankles me a bit), a movie that one-upped the massive feat that was bringing John Candy and Dan Aykroyd together by combining live action and animation. Starring: Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd, Kathleen Turner, and Joanna Cassidyįor all the joy that the release of “The Great Outdoors” brought, it was not the Summer Movie of 1988 for me.
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