I decided to encapsulate it here, for those of you who may not have had the opportunity to see it. Luckily since then, I managed to finally read what this ‘mid-quel’ between the 1988 film and Tummy Trouble held. I can still remember my parents balking at the $8.95 price tag for the piece, when they saw it in the local bookstore. This was known as Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Judge Doom. Unknown to quite a few people, Disney had released a graphic novel some time before Tummy Trouble’s release.
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Roger would then be given a series of shorts, beginning with 1989’s Tummy Trouble, attached before the start of that year’s Disney summer release, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. I was enthralled by animated characters interacting in our world, giving in to the illusion the filmmakers had crafted.
Roger would take hold of my young mind in a big way. With his demise, a happily-ever-after was in order as Eddie had avenged his brother’s death, and the fate of Toontown was revealed in Marvin Acme’s hidden will, bequeathing the property to the toons who resided there. Of course, Doom soon met his own doom by way of his own Dip creation (a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzyne, or the stuff used to wash off old animation cels).
There was already something ominous about the stone-faced Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd), but things got even stranger when he was flattened by a steamroller…and rose up, to become the screechy-voiced, red-eyed toon that was revealed to have killed Eddie Valiant’s brother, Teddy! It also ingrained in many of our young minds, one of the freakiest scenes of all. With Steven Spielberg producing, the film noir homage also united characters from both The Walt Disney Studios and Warner Brothers, in a tour-de-force that many have never seen since. The film was Robert Zemeckis’ second big hit following Back to the Future in 1985, and it was in essence, a perfect storm of a film. If you were a kid in the late 80’s, chances are you saw 1988’s blockbuster film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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