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Summary: Simply the Best!
Review: My brother and I count Roger Rabbit as one of the best movies ever made. We used to have all-day Roger Rabbit festivals, where we would watch the movie over and over again. The movie is THAT fun. I venture to say it is a movie for all ages. Adults will find subtle humor that will go over kids heads, and kids will love the animation and slap-stick jokes. This is one of the most visually amazing movies ever made, and you forget that most of the characters are cartoons. This is a movie where the toons truly come to life.
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Summary: Pat-a-cake shmat-a-cake!
Review: The 1 star is for the DVD not the film. Roger Rabbit is EXCELLENT, but the DVD is very poor. The menu is borning and rushed, the conversion from video to DVD is not amazing and you can see a lot of grains of dust on the film which cause the blobs you associate with old movies...The sound is excellent and colour too. No extras, no trailer, no good as a DVD. I would wait for Disney to make a 'Collector's Edition' which to you and I is what we expect of an normal DVD. 5/5 for the film, 1/5 for the DVD!
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Summary: Quality Problems
Review: I love Roger Rabbit. Most of you have seen it at the movies or on VHS so I wont bore you with those details. Its still the same old movie. It does appear to have been censored from stories I have heard -- where you could freeze frame at certain points in the video and see clever things inserted by the animators. The reason for the 4 stars are a) There are no extra features at all b) The transfer production is not great. Looks like very little work was done on this movie to restore the video quality or upgrade the sound track. Its just VHS quality video and sound. There is no advantage over the VHS version except it may last a little longer. :-/
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Summary: One of the Glorious Entertainments of the 80's!
Review: Technicaly Dazzling. This is one of the best animated films of all time, it is certainly different, but in a good way. It vaguely resembles detective movies, particularly 'Chinatown' and 'The Maltese Falcon'. It is one of the most entertaining movies of the 80's. Demanding of multiple viewings to spot all of the cartoon stars. The voices for the 'toons' are perfect especially Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit and Kathleen Turner as the sexy Jessica Rabbit. Filled with lots of memorable characters, stand-outs on the 'human' cast are Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd. Great Entertainment. From a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 9!
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Summary: A few thoughts that other reviews have missed ......
Review: I already have two copies of this movie, original release VHS and Laserdisk. The Laserdisk has developed some sort of plague in the metal sheet. It looks the same on both sides. I ordered the DVD today to replace the Laserdisk. I hope that the reports of censoring are exagerated, too much tamperiong would be a travesty against this wonderful film...But to the point! Something that the prior reviews have missed is that "Roger" is essentially a remake of "Chinatown." Watch "Chinatown" and then watch "Roger", but do it at your own risk -- you may heve to go to the ER with a busted gut from laughing so hard!
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Summary: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Review: The King Kong of "live" animation. Still the bes
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Summary: A thoroughly astounding and delightful film!
Review: Simply stated, the movie is WONDERFUL. It gives us our only glimpse, ever, of Donald and Daffy together! It provides a (rather bumblingly) heroic rabbit lead! It is a fine mix of live action and animation! It is a great detective film! It has everything needed in a great movie: drama, suspense, sexy heroines, loathsome villains, cuteness, wit, etc. A MUST SEE! A MUST BUY! The movie is particularly noteworthy for two reasons: it marks a fine collaboration between Warner Brothers and Disney Studios (and thus the interactions of their characters), and it has a flawless combination of live action and animation, and uses this very well. It still holds up even with the sophistication of effects in more recent movies.
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Summary: a unique movie
Review: a marveleous unbelievable movie that makes you mouth opened for almost 2 houres, nothing like it
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Summary: I love the film, loathe this disc
Review: I have not seen this film on DVD, as nearly every review I have read has advised otherwise, but I can say that to release a featureless disc of one of the most technically significant films of all time is nothing short of travesty. I'm ignoring the fact that Disney actually removed footage from this film, and we're not talking about the infamous laserdisc edition. Is it possible for Criterion to get their hands on this? They did do the super edition of "Armageddon", now let's see them work on a film that actually deserves it. I don't care if it costs $60, issue a two-disc set with commentaries (by Zemeckis and Richard Williams, the great animation director who was completely screwed over on his labor of love, "The Thief and the Cobbler), an extensive documentary, every piece of promotional material, an anamorphic transfer, a guide to all the cartoon characters who appear, and, while we're at it, how about those three "Maroon Cartoons" (Tummy Trouble, Rollercoaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-up) that were until recently available on video and laserdisc before the Mouse house decided to pull them off the market. All right, I've ranted long enough. The point is, put out an edition of this film that truly does justice to the film itself and people will spend the necessary currency to obtain it. May the dream of an ultimate "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" DVD one day become a reality!
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Summary: Dashed Potential
Review: This is one of the more disappointing DVDs I've purchased. Contrary to what Greg Lovern believes (below), the censorship is indeed a big deal--even if we're only talking about a few frames of film. It's the principle of the thing. This kind of censorship is akin to blacking out words in a literary classic. You wouldn't stand for that, right? Well, we shouldn't stand for it in film. Frankly, I'm somewhat alarmed by some studios' efforts to alter their films in later incarnations. For example, George Lucas not only "enhanced" his famous "Star Wars" film with new digital footage; he also removed extra-violent frames of stormtrooper deaths. A few frames here and there don't matter, right? Wrong. Art doesn't work that way. And I believe this influential film qualifies as art. On top of the censorship (which alone should convince you to avoid this disc), Disney has released "Roger Rabbit" with absolutely no supplemental features--including the great theatrical trailer promised on the cover. Imagine the special edition DVD this could have been! Zemeckis and Hoskins commentary, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, featurettes, pre-production animation footage--oh, and the promised trailer. You're better off finding a beat-up VHS copy at a used-tape sale. At least that copy won't have censored scenes.
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