Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Metascore
83 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    The movie is funny, but it's more than funny, it's exhilarating.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    100
    Brilliantly funny, bracingly smart and surprisingly moving. [22 June 1988]
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  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    It's the year's cleverest comedy in more ways than one. The animated sequences are brilliant... Most important, the story also has dark overtones that lend a hint of seriousness to what could have been just silly. [24 June 1988]
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  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    100
    What is astonishing about this movie is how all the elements are so deftly mixed - the technology of real sets and people interwoven with the cartoon world, and yet Zemeckis hardly sacrifices a beat in laying out a curlicuing '40s-style thriller. [22 June 1988]
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  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    100
    If it isn't flawless, neither is "Fantasia"... Here's a live-action/animated marvel with no screen antecedent; “Chinatown” may actually come closest. [22 June 1988]
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  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheila Benson
    100
    Dense, satisfying, feverishly inventive and a technical marvel… But--animation aside--the treasure of the piece is Hoskins' pungent, visceral comic performance. [22 June 1988]
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  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    100
    A film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny, and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed. [22 June 1988]
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  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    100
    If you don’t like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, have your pulse checked... You'll forget yourself right through to the end when Porky Pig, dressed as a cop, says "M-move along, there's n-nothing more to s-see folks." [24 June 1988]
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    100
    An instant slapstick classic from Disney and Steven Spielberg. Already, it's a hare's breadth away from legend. [22 June 1988]
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    100
    Combines live-action and animation with breathtaking wizardry... Alternately hilarious, frightening, and awesome.

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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. danjakubik
    9
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    I remember seeing this movie many times during it's summer 1988 theatrical release. I was much impressed and agreed it was deserving of it's critical rave reviews. Rarely does a film present such a sophisticated mix of style, technique, imagination and originality. The concept was simple: combine live action with animation, which was already done before, not so convincingly. Here's a case where the sum truly is greater than it's parts. A rather ordinary live action film is combined with traditional cell animation, in ways that were never seen before in cinema. These many individual techniques already existed, however no one took the time or trouble to put them all together before this film. Besides the realism of the live action and animated world interacting with each other, this film represented another historic first. It was the first time well known classic cartoon characters such as from Disney, Warner Brothers and other studios ever appeared together in a film. This was to be the last time Mel Blanc supplied the voices for so many famous and beloved Warner Brothers cartoon characters, such as Bugs Bunny. This is truly an inspired film in many ways. Unique, highly entertaining, influential and amazing, for children and adults of all ages. Masterfully done.    … Full Review »
  2. Rox22
    9
    This movie has got to be one of my favorite movies of my childhood. A true classic. The crossover that almost everyone wanted to see. While time has been a little hard on the movie, it still think it is highly entertaining. There is nothing much I can say about this movie that the Nostalgia Critic didn't say in his review. This movie manages to bring two big studios together and still retain their individuality within the movie all at the same time being completely loyal to their characters.

    Overall:
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit will always be a timeless classic for me and one of my favorite movies.    … Full Review »
  3. sil3nt_nick
    7
    A creative movie where animations are alongside humans. The story line is decent, satisfactory acting performance.
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