I wanted to go back to my childhood, and see with adult eyes an iconic and groundbreaking movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
It's an eye candy, and not for the cartoons. Technological and creative solutions to make real actors and cartoons interact aside, the movie is visually beautiful and the astestics, costumes, scenery and framing of the alternate Hollywood of 1947 is gorgeous.
Now, for the movie itself.... who thought it was a brilliant idea to show it to kids?
it's basically a noir filled with violence, sexual overtones and a straight up horror villian. Christopher Lee as Judge Doom (and we complain about Nafayrus as a name?
) is menacing and scary as I remembered him. His plan was a bit wacky - building a freeway? and committing genocide in order to accomplish - but at least it was a plan and it was not a generic world domination scenario.
If you take away the cartoons from the movie, you'd need minimal adjustments of the script to make it a completely adult-oriented film. It IS a great movie, and it's fully deserving of the fame it got over the years, but while I was not personally "scarred" by it, I can imagine some younger kids' reaction in going to see a movie full of toons, and seeing deaths, giant boobs over which all adult men drool over, and a horrific villain. Well, maybe not the villain per se, I thought the final fight scene in the factory was absolutely badass when I saw it back in the day.