Comments on: Who Buried Roger Rabbit?

by: Jim Palmer Jr.

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:01:26 +0000

Roger Rabbit always have complete style back in the early heydays and he
still does today. But things went sour when former Disney CEO Michael Eisner made things alot worse for Roger Rabbit and Steven Spielberg and that’s why Roger along with Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and Benny The Cab has not been in any current Disney film/TV projects. I’m still praying and hoping that current Disney CEO Robert Iger (who just finished with the Disney/Pixar thing) will get in touch with Steven Spielberg and pacth up the Disney/Amblin partnership so that Roger Rabbit & Co. will be revived, seen and heard again in brand new Disney TV and motion picture projects with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and the others along with Roger Rabbit based theme park rides, animated movies for theaters/direct-to-video, animated shorts for theaters,
A new Roger Rabbit TV show and new Roger Rabbit regular/holiday TV specials in primetime for the ABC network and finally new Roger Rabbit based products like Video Games, DVD’S, VHS, CD’S and lots more.

by: Tag

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:16:49 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Heidi. WFRR was and remains to this day perhaps my favorite movie ever. I remember I saw it five times in the theaters when it came out, and my knack for voice mimicry began with an obsessive attempt to nail Roger’s voice. (My second specialty, Christopher Lloyd’s voice, was thanks to another Zemeckis classic, Back to the Future.) I will forever be disappointed that Disney didn’t capitalize on Roger’s popularity to a greater extent, though that may have been due to legal issues. Certainly, that Spielberg is allied with Jeff Katzenberg makes that even more unlikely. Still such a waste.

Todd, you left out the biggest adult theme in the movie: racism. Tell me that movie isn’t all about racial profiling. It would have been even more pronounced in the abandoned prequel, The Toon Platoon, a copy of the script of which I own; in it, echoing segregation, Toons were restricted to riding the bumpers of buses.

Bryce, Gary Wolf wrote a sequel to Who Censored Roger Rabbit entitled Who P-p-p-plugged…. It morphed together some elements of the original novel with the movie, unsuccessfully. In the mid-90’s I encountered Wolf online; unfortunately, he quickly proved himself far less enjoyable than his books.

by: Todd Alcott

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:39:48 +0000

I just watched RR recently and was surprised at how adult it was. Murder, alcoholism, bestiality, it isn’t really a movie for young children, more a movie for adults who grew up on cartoons. Still, it was so exciting and groundbreaking in its time it made me sad to read the tales of how rights disputes stalled a sequel until it would be beside the point.

by: Bryce

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:23:01 +0000

Roger Rabbit was based on a kinda unnerving novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit that, as a kid, made me feel weird when I read it. There’s something really creepy about the synthesis of humans and cartoons in Roger Rabbit. Much less, the copyright stuff involved in doing another movie would probably have a studio’s contracts department punching each other in the nards.

by: Segundus

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:43:21 +0000

Sadly, it’s all about technology. I used to think Bob Zemeckis was a fantastic director with great vision, and using technology only when necessary to create the vision he wanted. Now, it seems, he’s gone overboard with the results looking utterly without soul.

by: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:15:48 +0000

Disney should just make a movie combining traditional pen and ink animated characters with CGI characters — Woody and Buzz versus Mickey and Donald.

Complete sell out? Or wry introspective observation of the modern animation scene? You make the call!