In 1985, then-new Disney CEO Michael Eisner revamped a dead project about an adaptation of Gary K. Wolf’s 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Spielberg returned the favor and agreed to help produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The result was the most ambitious project in the history of American animation.
This was the first time that a movie like this was made to serve the cartoons first and the people second.
The cartoons cast real shadows, seem to occupy real space and look three-dimensional before computer animation became dominant.
Nothing can compare to seeing Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse onscreen together — that is until someone greenlights a Justice League/Avengers movie.
isn't just an homage to American animation and 1940s detective films, it is a great animated film and a great detective film by itself. »