Editing Who Framed Roger Rabbit (section)

===Critical response===
''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' received near-universal acclaim from critics, making ''[[Business Insider]]''{{'}}s "best comedy movies of all time, according to critics" list.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/best-comedy-movies-all-time-critics-2018-3|last=Lynch|first=John|date=March 16, 2018|title=The 100 best comedy movies of all time, according to critics|work=[[Business Insider]]|access-date=July 27, 2019|archive-date=July 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727223226/https://www.businessinsider.com/best-comedy-movies-all-time-critics-2018-3|url-status=live}}</ref> Review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on 76 reviews, and an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is an innovative and entertaining film that features a groundbreaking mix of live action and animation, with a touching and original story to boot."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/who_framed_roger_rabbit/ | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit | work = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] | date = June 21, 1988 | publisher = [[Flixster]] | access-date = October 15, 2020 | archive-date = September 30, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200930193220/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/who_framed_roger_rabbit | url-status = live }}</ref> Aggregator [[Metacritic]] has calculated a [[weighted average]] score of 83 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.metacritic.com/movie/who-framed-roger-rabbit/critic-reviews | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988): Reviews | work = [[Metacritic]] | publisher = [[CBS Interactive]] | access-date = November 1, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040311230559/http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/whoframedrogerrabbit/|archive-date=March 11, 2004|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' was placed on 43 critics' top ten lists, third to only [[The Thin Blue Line (1988 film)|''The Thin Blue Line'']] and ''[[Bull Durham]]'' in 1988.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGilligan |first1=Pat |last2=Rowland |first2=Mark |title=100 Film Critics Can't Be Wrong, Can They? : The critics' consensus choice for the 'best' movie of '88 is . . . a documentary! |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-08-ca-257-story.html |access-date=June 27, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 8, 1989 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308123835/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-08-ca-257-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 20, 2018|title=Cinemascore :: Movie Title Search|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|access-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|archive-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film four stars out of four, calling it "sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last-- a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera." He writes that the opening cartoon is "a masterpiece; I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at an animated short. But then when a stunt goes wrong and the cartoon 'baby' stalks off the set and lights a cigar and tells the human director to go to hell, we know we're in a new and special universe."<ref>{{cite news | author-link = Roger Ebert | first = Roger | last = Ebert | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit | work = [[Chicago Sun-Times]] | date = June 22, 1988 | access-date = March 23, 2021 | archive-date = April 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210413104818/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' praised the film's "dazzling, jaw-dropping opening four-minute sequence"; he noted that the sequence alone took nearly nine months to animate.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Siskel|first1=Gene|title=Tooned In|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160723/gene-siskel-on-who-framed-roger/|access-date=March 23, 2021|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|volume=142|issue=185|date=July 3, 1988|page=59|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211036/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160723/gene-siskel-on-who-framed-roger/|url-status=live}}</ref> Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Siskel|first1=Gene|title=Siskel's Flicks Picks|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160932/gene-siskels-35-star-review-of-who/|access-date=March 23, 2021|work=Chicago Tribune|volume=142|issue=344|date=December 9, 1988|page=179|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211001/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160932/gene-siskels-35-star-review-of-who/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ebert and his colleague Siskel spent a considerable amount of time in the ''[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|Siskel & Ebert]]'' episode in which they reviewed the film analyzing its painstaking filmmaking.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit/Aria/The Great Outdoors |series=Siskel & Ebert & the Movies |first1=Roger |last1=Ebert |first2=Gene |last2=Siskel |network=Syndicated |date=June 25, 1988 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwyuw7igyk |access-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109013728/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwyuw7igyk&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> In evaluating their top ten films of the year, Siskel ranked it number two<ref>{{cite news |title=TOP TEN MOVIES: 1969-1998 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-10-15-9910200020-story.html |access-date=March 23, 2021 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=October 15, 1999 |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105043457/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-10-15-9910200020-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> while Ebert ranked it as number eight.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ebert | first=Roger | date=December 31, 1988 | title=The Best 10 Movies of 1988 | publisher=Roger Ebert's Journal | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-10-movies-of-1988 | access-date=August 3, 2016 | archive-date=July 25, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725093123/http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-10-movies-of-1988 | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' commented that this is "a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed."<ref>{{cite news | author-link = Janet Maslin | first = Janet | last = Maslin | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit | work = [[The New York Times]] | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/22/movies/review-film-new-laws-of-gravity-twist-humor-too-in-roger-rabbit.html | date = June 22, 1988 | access-date = June 7, 2012 | archive-date = May 25, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150525091220/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/22/movies/review-film-new-laws-of-gravity-twist-humor-too-in-roger-rabbit.html | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Desson Thomson]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' considered ''Roger Rabbit'' to be "a definitive collaboration of pure talent. Zemeckis had Walt Disney Pictures' enthusiastic backing, producer Steven Spielberg's pull, Warner Bros.'s blessing, Canadian animator Richard Williams' ink and paint, [[Mel Blanc]]'s voice; [[Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman]]'s witty, frenetic screenplay; [[George Lucas]]' Industrial Light and Magic, and Bob Hoskins' comical performance as the burliest, shaggiest private eye."<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Desson Thomson |first=Desson |last=Thomson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whoframedrogerrabbitpghowe_a0b16f.htm |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=June 24, 1988 |access-date=November 1, 2008 |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111130734/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whoframedrogerrabbitpghowe_a0b16f.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Gene Shalit]] on the ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today Show]]'' also praised the film, calling it "one of the most extraordinary movies ever made".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVLnju0xq0 |title=Roger Rabbit TV spot |website=[[YouTube]] |date=June 27, 2010 |access-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715192028/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVLnju0xq0&feature=youtu.be |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Filmsite.org]] called it "a technically-marvelous film" and a "landmark" that resulted from "unprecedented cooperation" between Warner Bros. and Disney.<ref>[https://www.filmsite.org/whof.html AMC Filmsite: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106232834/https://www.filmsite.org/whof.html |date=November 6, 2020 }} Retrieved December 15, 2014</ref> On [[CNN]]'s 2019 miniseries ''[[The Movies (miniseries)|The Movies]]'', [[Tom Hanks]] called it the "most complicated movie ever made."<ref>{{cite web | last=Croot | first=James | date=October 20, 2019 | title=The Movies: Why you need to see Tom Hanks' impressive chronicle of US cinema | publisher=[[Stuff (company)|stuff]] | url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116274917/the-movies-why-you-need-to-see-tom-hanks-impressive-chronicle-of-us-cinema | access-date=May 2, 2021 | archive-date=May 2, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502203820/https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116274917/the-movies-why-you-need-to-see-tom-hanks-impressive-chronicle-of-us-cinema | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Richard Corliss]], a writer for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', said, "The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it". Corliss was mainly annoyed by the [[Homage (arts)|homages]] to the [[Golden Age of American animation]].<ref>{{cite news | author-link = Richard Corliss | first = Richard | last = Corliss | title = Creatures of A Subhuman Species | url = https://time.com/archive/6712601/cinema-creatures-of-a-subhuman-species-who-framed-roger-rabbit/ | format = Registration required to read article | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = June 27, 1988 | access-date = November 1, 2008 | archive-date = July 14, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714045504/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967766,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Chuck Jones]] made a rather scathing attack on the film in his book ''Chuck Jones Conversations''. Among his complaints, Jones accused Zemeckis of robbing Richard Williams of any creative input and ruining the piano duel that both Williams and he storyboarded.<ref>{{cite book | last=Furniss | first=Maureen | author-link=Maureen Furniss | date=2005 | title=Chuck Jones: Conversations | pages=152–153 | series=Conversations with Comic Artists | location=Jackson, Miss. | publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] | isbn=1-578067-2-86}}</ref>