The more you watch this movie, the more you realize just how incredible the effects work is. You notice all the little things they do to help fully immerse these cartoons in the 3D world. A dude hands Roger a real glass of alcohol. Jessica Rabbit physically touches Eddie and *moves his coat*. People should be studying this movie in classrooms.

"The Dip" was a chemical formula they actually used to clean old animation cels back in the day to be used in new animations. So in a way they "killed" old toons with it. It was named "The Dip" by the animators.

i love the detail that jessica is the one punching above her weight in the cartoon world. roger is a picture star, and he's hilarious, so even betty calls her lucky. jessica is a two bit lounge singer, but she loves her husband and would do anything for him. i absolutely love them.

This film was a true once in a lifetime moment where by some strange twist of fate all the stars aligned and Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Kings Feature Syndicate all came to an agreement to feature all their major cartoon characters in the exact same feature.

Director  Robert Zemeckis never thought in a million years they would all agree and especially thought Disney and Warner both together was absolutely impossible, but just for the heck of it he asked all the studios anyway and they ALL actually said YES!

It has never EVER happened in the entire history of Hollywood and probably never will again.  This is one film that really should be preserved for all time and shown to future generations. The preservation part is now taken care of.  In 2016 it recieved the honor of being selected for preservation by The Library of Congress.

40 years later, you watch this movie and still frequently think "how did they do that?!"

The answer isn't just "genius Disney animators" - they didn't animate a real world Bob Hoskins driving a cartoon car, or any of the other real world objects. There are some behind the scenes videos and what the whole production crew pulled off is nothing short of astounding.

I love the low key super dirty joke of “dabbling in watercolors, Eddie?”.  I NEVER noticed it as a kid.

I loved this movie as a kid, but as an adult a realized the most insane detail I've ever seen in a movie: Judge Doom has TOON TEETH!
Also, the Dip is basically paint remover.

"Can cartoons and humans mate?"  Well.. How do you think we get 3D animation?

The phrase "Bump the lamp" is used to explain how insane the lengths the animators went to make the cartoons seem like they really were on set.
It means going above and beyond what was expected, to create something genuinely great.
“Seemingly superfluous details help sell the effect at a subconscious level”
When Eddie bumps the lamp in the hidden room it made that sequence 1000 times harder to sell to the audience because of the swinging light.
They could have ignored it to make their jobs easier. Nope they had shaded everything so it matched the live action film.

$100 in 1947 is worth $1,246.40 today if anyone's wondering.

"Two bits" means two eighths of a dollar, or 25 cents. It's a throwback to the old pirate-y saying "pieces of eight" from the practice of cutting gold coins into eight pie shaped wedges to make small change.

I got the insane weasel called "Psycho" tattooed😂😂....this movie is so much childhood memory for me

Richard Williams, the animation director, won an Oscar for his work on this movie. His book 'The Animators survival kit' is required reading for most animation students.

35 years later, and Judge Doom murdering the shoe is still the saddest thing I've seen in all of cinema

This is what I love about the making of this movie: not only it was a really ambitious, long and hard to do project, but at the time was the most expensive movie ever made. Today, you would expect that that kind of movie would play it safe in order to make sure they'd at least make the money back, so it would be a generic action movie with some comedy so both the adults and the kids would wanna go see it. In 1988 tho, they chose to make it a noir film, a genre that, not only the kids are not particularly interested in, but neither are most adults, since the genre's been all but dead for 40 years.

And that, my son, were the good old days when Disney had balls.

So the Only Film you’ll ever See Warner and Disney Toons TOGETHER

I feel like we watched George repeat his trip through puberty when Jessica was introduced.

Christopher Lloyd is genuinely terrifying in this movie.

no CG, all hand drawn animation, this is an absolute classic and a kind of film that will never happen again, and is an absolute masterclass in how to do character exposition without having a word of dialog spoken