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Hey Peaches! A surprising First Watch reaction for Jay, who somehow never saw this movie growing up. How does this singular classic hold up? Does the mystery and movie magic still wow audiences? Yes it absolutely does!

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Taylor

I was too young when my friend and I watched this movie the first time, and that shoe has HAUNTED me ever since. I also wondered why everyone thought “patty-cake” was such a big deal. It was years later before that clicked.

Shennon

I loved this movie as a kid! Thanks for doing this one! I loved seeing Jay's face in awe and thanks for the added info about the practical effects Adam!!!

Corey Leaman

I highly recomend everyone checking out the making of this movie!

Kevin Rubio

Glad you guys got to see this one. As Adam said this is one of the most incredible technological achievements in film and it will never be seen again. This movie was done before the advent of digital filmmaking and digital compositing. Everything was hand drawn. 24 drawings per second. This thing came together largely because of the efforts of the producer, Steven Spielberg, and the Director Robert Zemeckis, who were both at the top of their game. It was Spielberg, who was able to negotiate the appearances of all of the animated characters that you see. Particularly hard were the contracts for Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Daffy. Each one had to be guaranteed the exact same amount of screen time down to the frame. The animation Director was Richard Williams, whom I have had the honor of working with in the mid 90s. Rector Robert Zemeckis did not want to lock the camera down, as it had been in all previous animation films with live action actors. He asked Richard Williams why it couldn’t be done and Richard responded. It can be done. Bob, then ask why don’t people do it. Richards answer, “because it’s hard.“ As Adam said, the actors had to interact with nothing and all motion by the animated characters had to be performed in someway with Rod puppets or invisible wire when they were interacting with physical objects in the real world. These rods would then be painted over with the animated character. The sets were built approximately 10 feet off the ground to allow for the puppeteers to work underneath. When it came to Jessica and her nightclub number, when she was interacting with Bob Hawkins, that was an actor in close-up that they painted over. This was the last film that legendary voice actor Mel Blanc performed in before his passing.

Billy Alston

During the reaction, Adam mentioned there were other movies that had Roger Rabbit shorts in front of them. Those movies were, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Dick Tracy, and A Far Off Place.

Bernard Manansala

I was just a little older than Adam when I saw this in theaters and the same adult humor went over my head.

Bernard Manansala

Bob Hoskins was nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance. RIP

Bernard Manansala

Paramount Pictures tried to do a similar Toon Noir four years later. Staring Brad Pitt & Drew Barrymore, COOL WORLD. Brad was the Normie and Drew voiced the Toon.

Skallywag

I disagree that it's not special anymore. If another movie was made like this with the time and care it would take to do everything practically like this one I believe it would put even more recent attempts at live action/animation films to shame. But not only do studios not want to spend the money to do it this way you would probably never get WB and Disney to allow there IP to interact like this again, never mind all the other animation studios that that would lend to really fun crossover moments.

Chris K

One of the greatest movies of all time, so I'm glad Jay has finally seen it! And yes, the villain is modern-day capitalism. Apart from Cool World, there's also Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and the upcoming nearly-cancelled-by-the-idiots-at-Warner-Bros movie Coyote Vs Acme.

quincy martin

When I was a child I didn't know either of their names, but I thought Bob Hoskins and Phil Collins were the same person. I was so impressed with how talented that one man was, like what do you mean he makes cool movies when he isn't singing and making music videos?

Stephanie Krutsick

Jessica’s intro was an AWAKENING for so many people in so many ways 😅 Do you want to be her, kiss her, or both, basically. But I also encourage you guys to watch Chip And Dale: Rescue Rangers. They did a LOT of the interactions between the real people and the toons practical as well. They also got a lot of the cross-studio interactions, it’s a bit spicy sometimes, it’s a mystery investigation story, and it’s canonically in the same universe and even has nods to RR.

Stephanie Krutsick

Damn, I just saw that you did watch rescue rangers. I think you will appreciate it a lot more now that you’ve done this one. :) they did use a lot of the same techniques and tried to keep as much practical as they could.