While the film was very well received by critics, it has not been without criticism, especially - and surprisingly - among actual Golden Age veterans and fans. The film is notable for being the biggest crossover of famous Western cartoon characters pre-50's than anything that has come before it (it is the first and only official time Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear in a scene together). The title of the film officially has no question mark at the end rumor has it this is the result of a marketing survey which said films with question marks in the title make less money. The film is ( very) loosely based on Gary Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? It also owes a lot to Chinatown. Together, the two of them uncover something much bigger than either of them expected. He winds up getting sucked into the investigation after Roger hides out at his apartment. His only hope is Eddie Valiant, an alcoholic human detective who has refused to work for Toons ever since one killed his brother by dropping a piano on his head during one of their cases. At the center of the story is Roger Rabbit, a Toon movie star on the run from the police after having been accused of murdering Marvin Acme, a human manufacturer of cartoon props, with whom Roger's wife Jessica happened to be playing patty-cake. Set in the city of Los Angeles during late 1947, during The Golden Age of Animation to be specific, the Hardboiled Detective Film Noir tribute depicts a hypothetical world where cartoon characters are a real ethnic minority living alongside human beings. It is so far the only collaboration between Disney and Steven Spielberg's former studio Amblin Entertainment, and is the only official crossover with classic Disney, MGM and Warner Bros characters. It had a huge influence on executives' attitudes toward seeing animation as more than what it had been in the Dork Age - Disney's 90s animated films, the Pixar films, The Simpsons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Batman the Animated Series, and the Nicktoons and MTV cartoons would probably never have existed if it weren't for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. A brilliant (and very expensive by that time's standards ) 1988 film largely responsible for setting off The Renaissance Age of Animation.
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