I say “casually” because it took many, many years before I fully processed just how impressive a technical feat Who Framed Roger Rabbit actually was. The high-def transfer is substantial, though: the movie’s painstaking pre-computer effects shots still look casually impressive. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is now on Blu-ray in a 25th anniversary edition, though as far as I can tell the primary function of the anniversary distinction is to make me feel old (with the secondary function of selling more copies) apart from the upgrade of the movie to high definition, it’s mostly a rehash of the Vista Series DVD that came out a decade ago. Who Framed Roger Rabbit had enormous influence on me, in other words (I may, in fact, be paraphrasing from my college application essays in relating this). It was the movie that turned me from a kid who liked going to the movies to a kid and adult who needed to go to the movies all the time. It had pretty much everything I wanted from a movie before I saw it (Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, cartoon violence), everything I wanted from a movie for the next few years (Steven Spielberg, Christopher Lloyd, in-jokes), and a lot of things I still cherish (all of the above, plus detective stories). But Who Framed Roger Rabbit was different it was, to that point and for many years subsequent, the movie. It was not the first movie I saw in a theater in fact, I quite liked movies by age seven and had already seen a variety of Disneys, Muppets, and even - sorry, mom and dad - Care Bears. I first saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit when I was seven years old.
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