My favourite in film thing is when Roger slips out of the handcuffs, Eddie yells "you could do that the whole time??" and he replies "no, only when it would be funny"
Bob Hoskins actually used to be part of a circus when he was younger. In the scene when he dances for the weasels you see eddy valiant do some back flips. People assume it's a stunt double doing this, but it in fact is actually Bob himself doing the back flips. If I remember correctly he does all his scenes, no stunt double.
Here's one for you... Judge Doom never blinks on camera. Seriously, watch him, he doesn't blink. I'm guessing it's hard to blink when you have knives right behind your eyes but it's just a little touch Christopher Lloyd added to make him even creepier
***** did christoper lloyd ever blink in back to the future? i remember doc having a sort of mad scientist stare but i dont remember if he ever blinked when it wasnt in amazement
morgan megurine I think he did. He was wide eyed a lot but he did blink. Judge Doom he did it because, if I recall correctly, he believed that a cartoon villain wouldn't blink so it's also just a hint that this guy isn't human.
You can also notice that when the drum of Dip gets tipped over, Doom steps back rather quickly and the group behind him backs up when he does. This was of course a subtle hint what Doom was a Toon becausem as we know, Dip doesn't hurt humans.
lol I noticed that too. But one subtle aspect about the scene is, the other humans didn't back away on their own. If you noticed, the Judge brings up his hands and pushes them back with him so it gives the impression they're all avoiding it, but since the Dip is harmless to humans it made little sense. It was a nice ploy to hide himself.
Netherwolf6100 I highly doubt dip is harmless to humans. It looks highly acidic and honestly looks like it's should have a biohazard label on it. I'd be afraid to even breath the fumes. Sure it won't melt us like it does a toon. But I'm sure it could tear up your hand pretty bad if you were to touch it.
My favorite touch is that Jessica keeps her hands on the small of her back, not on her hips. Real women who are busty often have back pain issues, so if it was possible for a toon to experience anything similar, Jessica would have it worse than anyone else we see in the Toon world.
One detail that I really like is during the Betty Boop scene where she tells Eddie that she's selling cigarettes at the club because "Work's been kind of slow since cartoons went to colour!" Given the time period this is very likely a reference to the transition from Silent Movies to Sound where a lot of actors would lose their jobs if they weren't trained right for sound pictures, or didn't have the right sounding voice! Always makes me feel a bit sorry for her, cos she's still got it!
Betty Boop in this movie is voiced by the late Mae Questel, one of Betty Boop's original voice actresses all the way back in the 1930s. Mae also provided the voice of Popeye's girlfriend, Olive Oyl, in the majority of the Popeye theatrical shorts.
Bowmaj 86 It was tye last year for some of the greats. I hold this movie with extremely high regard. I think it is probibly the greatest movie ever made a imply because of its amazing animated feat. Nothing like it has ever been produced.
One of the first movies with cartoon characters in real life to be fair could toon town be better then real life because in a cartoon if you fall you still be hurt but you still get back up unlike in real life
1. Prior to the DVD release, the "Allyson Wonderland" sign in the bathroom had a number, allegedly to then Disney CEO Michael Eisner's office. 2. Once Eddie goes into the alleyway brandishing the toon gun, you can clearly see the animators forgot to draw over the reference prop. After all this time & rereleases, this has never been fixed. Why?
For #2, it's because traditional cell animation is time consuming and expensive, which is also why pretty much all animated films are CGI now. It's not worth the time and money to fix.
Some paints have a scent when it's fresh, so it's possible for Doom to figure out that Roger was there by how fresh the paint is; the stronger the wet paint smell, the more recent he's been there. And yes, how Doom sniffed the record is still creepy.
@@tkayube And also the Queen of Hearts, by his own admission. But the character turns out to be much more complex in videos like the Scooby Doo review and "the review must go on".+@
Go recheck the scenes in RK Maroon's office. Note that there is a poster for "Pistol Packin' Possum" in the background. The character is holding an extremely long gun that *always* points at RK Maroon whenever he is in frame. Foreshadowing...? Coincidentally Judge Doom uses the *same* gun to kill Maroon later in the film. Also this possum has a few similarities to Doom including those "burnin' red eyes" and a similar looking hat. Maybe Doom's identity was right in front of our faces the entire time...
If that's true, him being a rodent would actually be a good reason for the connection between Doom and a pack of weasels beyond just "they're slimy thugs, of course they'd be weasels".
Well, Judge Doom's real identity, Baron Von Rotten, was a character actor who was known as "The Toon With A Thousand Faces." So it's possible that Baron Von Rotten was also PPP before getting a brain injury that made him truly megalomaniacal.
The first time i saw this movie it was right at the end at the car chase right after Maroon is shot and im thinking this is some cop crime movie starring Bod Hoskins, but then he enters toon town and theres Bugs and Mikey skydiving, a talking taxi, Christopher Loyde in black with a rubbery face and i felt so lost inside
The first time I saw this movie was after the climax, where everyone was singing. My first thought was, "oh my God! Disney and Looney tunes together! I gotta check this out.
Have you ever noticed that in the seen were all the Toons are clapping after getting the deed to Toon Town back; Bugs looks so disinterested, he's capping but not as enthusiastix. Everyone else is cheering and looks happy but Bugs is just like "Eh, who cares?"
***** Oh, wow Cool World....took me years to finally finish it on Netflix. There is some neat stuff going on here and there, but ended up to just be as a cluster of nonsense which I did not enjoy.
I think the ending is what could have redeemed the movie for me but instead ruined it for me. I mean they kind of abandoned all structure, logic or plot to go full acid trip. Which can be admired on it's own accord.
+pharaohyami5000 Honestly I'd go a step further and say this is the best kids film ever made. It has something for just about everyone, young and old. Absolutely adored "Toon Doom" when I was a kid.
+DarkraiNewmoon Yeah, Bob was amazing. Do you realize that probably half the scenes in the movie was acting to nothing? Not too many actors can do that effectively.
FUN FACT: The graffiti on the bathroom wall @08:04 - "THE BEST IS YET TO BE" was a replacement line. The original graffiti was Michael Eisner's phone number. and was replaced following the theatrical release to home video. As you might imagine; Michael was not happy.
There's a single, tiny clue to Judge Dooms actual toon identity as well. When Eddie is confronting RK Maroon in his office, Just before Maroon gets shot you see the silhouette of a gun against a picture of a little known toon called "Pistol Packin Possum" The gun in the picture matches the silhouette exactly, and he's also got Dooms same hat and red eyes =>
When Valliant comes into Maroon's office, you see the roman numeral date of the Pistol Packin' Possum cartoon which is a completely bogus date. Also if Doom is the possum, why is he yellow? I always saw him as an enormous villainous American Goldfinch or something.
What else you can't see on DVD is the scene where Betty Boop does here catchphrase and her dress falls off; which happen in her old cartoons. It was cut out when it was released from home video, and the only way you can see it is on a bootleg that was ripped from a air flight movie.
4:19 _Harvey_ came out in 1950, but this movie takes place in 1947, indicating Angelo has seen a movie from the future and is OBVIOUSLY a time traveler. *X-Files theme plays*
It was revealed in a comic that Judge Doom’s real name is Baron Von Rotten,who played villains in many toons. But after a blow to the head, he thought he was an actual villain, which made him into the crazed nutball we all know him as.
Huh, I thought he be the Pistol Packin Possum as we saw on the poster in Maroon's office. It could've make sense for the fact he had red eyes, he use a pistol to kill Maroon, and what pulls the key clue: He had one movie poster while Roger has a bunch showing sign his spotlight was taken and wasn't in the film at all. It would've make sense of why Roger is the target of framing
I heard Popeye was going to have an actual scene in this movie but they couldn't afford the licensing fees. I guess they found a way to sneak him in after all.
JustinEvitable80 that's the one dirty joke I didn't like in this movie. I can take Sylvester saying pussy instead of cat, and an oven saying it's hotter in hell, but that just seems unnecessary.
One little tidbit that I always like is the hint that Judge Doom is really the toon, Pistol Packin Possum. Aside from some staging in Maroon's office (where P.P.P.'s poster is always pointing his gun at the executive, and then the reflection before he's shot), Doom's true form has the same color irises and uses the same gun to kill R.K. as the gun-toting marsupial in the poster.
Another piece of trivia: Tim Curry auditioned for the role of Judge Doom but the writers found his performance would have been too terrifying, and we think Christopher Lloyd’s performance was scary!
After rescuing Benny the Cab, they quickly go by a store called "McMarty's." I'm thinking this is possibly a "Back to the Future" reference (Marty McFly). Speaking of "Back to the Future," Jessica's vehicle looks surprisingly similar to the car that Marty and his mom "parked" in during "Back to the Future." The tunnel to Toontown is also the same tunnel used in "Back to the Future 2" when 1955 Biff attempting to run Marty over with his 1946 Ford. I also discovered that Eddie Valliant's brother was killed by Doom in 1942.
7:17 I just noticed that in the bottom left area of the screen you can see a toon crossing the street with a newspaper, now I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but he looks exactly like goofy from the short “Motor Mania” ,and he’s even crossing the road in the same direction.
Special effects maestro Ken Ralston body doubles for Christopher Lloyd with a nice bit of physical acting in the scene where Judge Doom runs from our heroes down a Toontown alley, vowing revenge.
wasn't there that other nod where the judge is a toon, it was in the bar fight, and when eddie and roger escape dropping the dip, the judge quickly backs away from it.
Dip is basically a mix of every chemical paint thinner. Not pleasant stuff, even if you're human. Not saying you're wrong, just that anyone is going to back off from that stuff.
I've also got some facts for you! Marvin Acme's funeral was gonna have Foghorn Leghorn delivering the sermon and having Acme's pallbearers being Goofy, Popeye, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Felix the Cat and even Casper! This was cut not only due to budget costs but also because the film didn't have the right to use Popeye, Little Lulu, Chip and Dale, Pepe Le Pew, Mighty Mouse, Casper, Tom and Jerry and even Superman! This movie was one of the last times that Mel Blanc did his famous Looney Tunes characters before his 1989 death. The penguins in the Ink and Paint Club are actually from Mary Poppins which wasn't even released until 1964 which is a couple of years after the film takes place. To be fair since toons are real in the film chances are that they weren't really discovered yet. This could also be the same for when Marvin the Martian appears among the toons in the final scene of the film since Marvin's first cartoon would be released in 1948. The ToonTown tunnel is the same tunnel in the climax of Back to the Future Part II which also has the same producer, director and star Christopher Lloyd. Some of the animators in the film would later go on to be big names in the medium like Andreas Deja who would be an animator for several characters like Gaston, Jafar, Scar, Hercules and even Lilo. Howy Parkins would later go on to animate The Simpsons, Rocko's Modern Life and Recess. Bruce W Smith would later be the animation co-director for Space Jam and creator of the TV series The Proud Family. And even Chuck Jones is on this project as an animation consultant Charlie Fliescher did not just Roger but also Benny the Cab and when he was doing the shoots he would wear a Roger Rabbit suit. Talk about cosplaying as your own character! Roger Rabbit's box office and critical success sparked new interests for both companies of the project. Spielberg's company Amblin would work on Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid for Warner Bros TV Animation and of course this movie would give Disney the green light to make The Little Mermaid which would introduce us to the Disney Renaissance!
Here's a random fact about me that no one asked, or cares about: when I was 8, the scene with the squeaky boots being melted made me cry so much that I wasn't allowed to watch the rest of it....
I do like how when you see Eddie standing on the street of Toontown after arriving there, you can see all the various buildings and their smiley faces. I love how the one building on the extreme left of the screen is a barber shop that literally says "Hare Cuts" and has a picture of a hare with a pair of scissors at his neck. I also love how in the center of the screen you can see the Bar building drunkenly leaning against the building next to it on one side and the Police building is on the other side constantly glaring at it.
Even as a kid, I knew that there was something REALLY suspicious about Judge Doom whenever a gust of wind blew his cape, even when he's clearly indoors.
Every time I watch this movie I'm just in awe. The amount of work that went into it is so staggering. It's still impressive, even by today's standards.
I personally love the camera angles where they purposely cast a glare in Judge Doom's glasses. It's a technique often used for bad guys who wear glasses.
I'm surprised you did not mention the scene where Eddie, Roger, and Dolores are hiding in the bar. The swinging light source made it so difficult to animate Roger, in fact many of the animators have gone on record saying that scene was the hardest thing to animate in the movie, some of them saying it was the hardest thing they have ever animated
Christopher Lloyd, Doom's actor, figured out that his character was a toon when he was told in his script not to blink. This shows in the movie, where Doom never blinks even once. This, along with the constantly bellowing cape, occasionally shiny glasses, overly dramatic monologuing of his master plan and he slips a couple of times on the fake eyes before he finally falls over all serve as the miniature hints that he isn't what he seems.
Here's an interesting tidbit. The production crew made life sized figures for Roger and the weasel, as well as a few other characters, and would run through the scenes a few times moving the figures around so that the actors would know where to look. They had a human actress for Jessica.
As you know, in the scene where Eddie & Roger are hiding in the movie theater, the cartoon that's playing on the screen is "Goofy Gymnastics". Now, that particular short was originally released in 1949 & this film takes place in 1947.
According to Jim Cummings at a Q&A, who voiced one of the bullets (and one of the weasel gangsters, although most of his speaking parts were deleted but can be found on the DVD extras), all of the bullets fired from the toon gun have voices that are meant to resemble the actors that usually played the sidekicks to famous leading men in Westerns. Sadly, I am not familiar enough with Westerns to remember the ones he named or which one he played.
I actually knew about fact #4, but only by accident. I was watching this film on Netflix one day, I paused it during one of those action scenes & discovered Eddi was a toon in those scenes!!! Also, anyone else noticed the EVIL RABBIT shadow that usually appeared behind Judge Doom in the warehouse at the end?
the voice of Betty Boop was voiced by Mae Questel who also voice the original Betty Boop in the 1930s to the 1950s this was one of her last performances before her death a decade later in January 1998 at the age of 89....
Judge Doom was "Pistol Packin Possom" You can see the full poster every time they are in RK Maroons office (Even right when he gets shot ) Cant believe I never noticed before!
@Meh...whatever In the book the toon double is called a "doppleganger" and can be mentally created by the toon. They are used for stunts since the actual toon is just a vulnerable to death as a human. But dopplegangers only last for a short time. The book is quite different from the movie, and very little, other than the characters (who are different for the most part too) made it into the final movie. For one thing, Roger is comic strip performer rather than a cartoon performer.
@@Solitaire001 Yeah, it's a lot less positive than the movie. Both Roger and Jessica are major jerkasses, and Jessica despises Roger. She only married him because he was rich and famous. So, basically she's everything R.K. Maroon accused her of in the movie. Interestingly, the author of the novel has stated he actually prefers what they did in the film over his novel, and the sequels he wrote later actually retcon the story to be make them sequels to the film, with the original novel being a nightmare Jessica had.
@@jonathonbartos3061 The reason Jessica married Roger was due to a wish Roger was unknowingly granted by a toon genie. The wish compelled Jessica to be a devoted wife to Roger, and she was helpless against the wish. One year later, the wish ended and Jessica left Roger. The Genie granted the wish, but put a twist in it in the form of a time limit.
Me before video: Oh please I'm sure I know everything about Roger Rabbit. After all it's my favorite movie of all time. Me after video: I NEVER KNEW THAT!!!!!
During the theatrical run of the movie, that "for a good time, call Allyson Wonderland" marking in the bathroom had a REAL phone number written below it. I remember seeing it. The animators jokingly put it in; it was Disney executive Michael Eisner's office phone number. They took it out afterwards for all home video.
4:26 Well, yes and no. The 1950 movie Harvey with Jimmy Stewart is based on a play written by Mary Chase in 1944. There’s no way that Who Framed Roger Rabbit would ever be referencing the film with Jimmy Stewart because that movie came out in 1950 and Who Framed Roger Rabbit takes place in 1947. HA! Something YOU didn’t know about the movie!! :)
I'm sure it's been pointed out before, but the Dip is comprised of turpentine, acetone, and benzene which were/are paint thinners/removers. Which would make sense that it would kill a toon because it's erasing the ink that makes them
You're right about the faces but did you realize that EVERYWHERE in Toontown is being watched at EVERY moment? The buildings are holding up their skirts with Mickey mouse gloves, the canopy in Nina Hyena (ugly Jessica) bed is also held back with them, Kim fact it would seem that "Mickey Mouse" ie Disney , has its "hands" in everything Toontown related. Take that for what you will.
Yosemite Sam in this movie was actually NOT voiced by Mel Blanc in this movie, as he couldn't do Sam's voice anymore. Sam was instead voiced by Joe Alaskey (who would later voice many of the other Looney Tunes characters after Blanc's passing).
Great video, it was really well done. Just one minor thing: the name of the dude who originally did donald duck’s famous duck voice was actually in fact Clarence _NASH,_ not Clarence Charles. But great nonetheless! 👍🏾
There’s another thing I noticed when watching the movie on Disney+. Another hint that Doom is a toon is a shot in the acme factory and he’s descending down an elevator and there are rows and rows of rubber masks all around him. His face somehow seems to blend in well with those masks....
Two things I noticed in the finale is the appearance of the Harveytoon Jack In The Box and Bozo The Clown. I checked Wikipedia and both should have not been in the movie since they debuted after the time of the movie. Robert Zemeckis had a rule that the movie would only feature characters who existed at the time the movie was set (1947). Despite this, The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote do appear in the finale because they were his favorite characters.
What I Like About This Movie Is Because It's A Rare Movie,It's A Crossover Movie Of Fictional Characters,Other Movies Include Wreck It Ralph And Pixels Hopefull There's A Crossover Movie Where All Genres Come Together :);)
And he shows signs he was a toon such as rubber glove, taking a few steps away from spilled Dip, and making a hilarious dance as he tripped over eyeballs
The Yosemite Sam Dum-Dum pistol does NOT have its animated overlay when Eddie is going through the dark alley looking for Jessica. More of a blooper than a little known fact, but still....
