Funny story: after the movie premiered, Bob Hoskins' son stopped talking to him for a week and when he asked him what was wrong he responded by saying he was upset because his dad worked with Bugs Bunny and other cartoons and didn't let him meet them.

Kids in the 80s weren't so over protected as they are today. This movie is rated PG, for all ages with guidance from parents.

11:30 Did you notice how he ordered his drink "on the rocks" -- and even though he realized the risk and clarified that he meant "with ice," he still got served with actual rocks in his glass? 😁

Re: This isn't a film for kids - It's a film for 80s kids, compared to some of the other stuff it's actually quite tame.

Christopher Lloyd scared the sh*t out of me as a kid with his role in this

I will never get over the shoe and the dip scene. As a kid the sound of it melting as it cries out before dying was such a brutal thing. Than again it cemented how evil the bad guy was. This is enhanced by how the shoe was innocent but still executed.

One interesting detail about toons verse people in this world is that human are attracted to looks but toons find humor above all attractive.  That is why Betty Boop says Jessica is a lucky gal with being married to Roger, he is considered one of the funniest toons in there world, so one of the most desired.  While Jessica has the classic looks that humans find attractive.

41:20  these are cartoon characters that many, many adults grew up watching. So this movie is for the adults who used to watch them when they were kids. It's pure nostalgia

Touchstone was owned by Disney.  They got permission from other studios to include their characters. Warner Bros had a requirement on equal screen time for certain characters, which is why in some scenes you have a Disney and Warner character on screen at the same time.

They were also able to get many original voice actors, including for Betty Boop.

Back in the day movies like this weren't considered too dark or disturbing for kids

SO much lingo....and much of it 1940's-specific. For example, if your wife is having an affair, she's playing pattycake on you. The joke, of course, is that the pictures show her playing a literal game known as pattycake. And when Roger flips through the pictures really quickly, it reproduces the way the illusion of motion in film actually works. I love this movie on so many levels.

Groundbreaking animation.  
Brilliant choreography.
And the best line ever:  "I'm not bad.  I'm just drawn that way."  (Jessica Rabbit)

I first saw this when I was a kid. Movies for kids in the 80s  were different than now.

When this was made, it was a kid's movie.  I watched it as a kid, and so did lots of adults.  It was a movie for both.  If you go back and watch a lot of the "kids" movies from the 70s and 80s and before, you will see that some of them are pretty freaky and scary to people now.  Look at the Dark Crystal.  That movie could be hellishly terrifying to a kid today.  Maybe it is a difference in how people are now as opposed to then.  Maybe some kids thought this or the Dark Crystal or lots of other movies we watched then were scary, but most didn't.  They were awesome and fun, mostly because, at least for me, I knew it was just a movie, even as a kid, and could enjoy it as simple entertainment.  Maybe the wonky special effects then or the obvious costumes due to the tech at the time helped.  I don't know.

I saw this in the theater. I was 9 or something and it was mind blowing!

Believe it or not, Looney Tunes were actually created for adults, not kids. I loved this movie (as an adult, I'm old) back when it came out. One of most prized possessions was a photo of me with my arm around Jessica Rabbit. All right, it was a wooden cutout Jessica Rabbit, but still. Unfortunately, that photo disappeared in one of my many moves since 1988. I mourn it still.

Fun fact: All the ingredients listed for Dip are paint thinners. Perfect for erasing a cartoon.

I think you underestimate a lot of what CHildren can comprehend.
I watched it as a kid and some subtilities may not have impacted me as much, but honnestly children can understand a detective mystery, and even the Inuendo's part, Children
aren't as innocent as you think.
and this movie is a fond child memory.

There's a saying called laughing yourself to death which is what are happening to the weasels

I love all the cartoons at the end swaying and singing together. Just a cute movie.