![]() The "Ink and Paint Club" features previews for Schoolhouse Rock and Ultimate X. "Trouble in Toontown" is a little interactive game. "Who Made Roger Rabbit" is a ten-minute feature hosted by Charles Fleischer, and is a "making of" that's tooled to be easily understood by kids. ![]() There's a "family friendly featurette here as well. These shorts are "Tummy Trouble", "Rollercoaster Rabbit", and "Trail Mix-Up". On this first disc, you can visit the "Acme Warehouse" to view the Roger Rabbit animated shorts in Dolby Digital 5.1 and anamorphic widescreen. Loading up Disc One, we find a combination live action/animated menu where Benny the Cab acts as your tour guide through the DVD. The Extras This Vista Series release is split into two discs, with the first focusing on the mass-market style of DVD extras (as well as the full screen version of the movie). Toons just aren't this voilent these days. Roger Rabbit came along after the original Back to the Future, and the movie is basically a giant special effect. ![]() Back to the Future, Contact, and Cast Away are all effects heavy movies, and in the latter two there are moments where it's almost impossible to tell that a special effect was used. I believe that he is one of the best "effects" directors out there. Helmed by Robert Zemeckis, I honestly don't think there is a director out there that could've handled this flick as well as Zemeckis. So Eddie reluctantly goes along with the rabbit to get to the bottom of the mystery. When he gets a job to blackmail a Toon by the name of Roger Rabbit, he gets a little more than he bargained for when the bunny is framed for the murder of Marvin Acme (yep the same man that Wiley Coyote made a millionaire). When his brother is killed by a Toon during a case in Toontown, Eddie swears off working with the ink and paint and instead focuses on the liquor. Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) was one half of a detective agency that dealt almost exclusively with "Toon" cases. The Movie Set in 1940's Los Angeles, Who Framed Roger Rabbit combines live actors with animated characters to tell a story set in a long lost Hollywood where cartoon characters were just actors that happened to be animated. Touchstone released a bare-bones non-anamorphic DVD a couple of years ago, but now the Academy Award-winning movie has received the full Vista Series release on a two-disc set that includes one of the best commentary tracks ever.
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