Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Hollywood and Toontown, 1947 GridlockedHere's a fun fact, Shmoopers: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is based on a true story. Well, take away the whole cartoon element. And the fact that Eddie Valiant ne...

Would anyone have seen Alien if it were titled Star Beast? Or The Breakfast Club if it were called The Lunch Bunch? Probably not. Although we'd still see Annie Hall if it went by its working title...

Film-Noir Cartoon Fantasy Robert Zemeckis describes Roger Rabbit as being three, three, three films in one. No wonder it had the budget of three films at the time. According to Zemeckis, it was "a...

Witless ProtectionWhat's up with the title? Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Hey, we know it's rude to answer a question with a question. But this question drives the movie, although it is a teeny bit of a...

A noir isn't a noir without one shocking twist after another hitting the viewer in the last ten minutes, like one of those cartoon sequences where a character ends up ricocheting around a room, bei...

PGRoger Rabbit is a PG-rated movie. All of the violence in it is nothing you wouldn't see during a typical Warner Bros. cartoon. It's violence that, if it were to happen to a human, would be insane...