![]() ![]() There’s Roger Rabbit, of course, a lovably inept, stuttering vaudevillian with an impossibly elastic body and a heart of gold as well as his wife Jessica, a bombshell who played a central role in the sexual awakening of multiple generations of young people and has a solid (and dubious) claim to being perhaps the sexiest character in the history of film, animated or otherwise. Robert Zemeckis’ groundbreaking, miraculous, never to be matched, let alone topped fusion of live-action and animation rocked my world as a twelve-year-old and introduced a plethora of unforgettable characters who could stand alongside the greatest creations of Warner Brothers and Disney and not suffer by comparison. 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn’t just a towering masterpiece of technology and storytelling it was a pop culture phenomenon. If your child falls instantly in love with Roger Rabbit, as my six-year-old did recently when I introduced the character to him via the short films available for streaming on Disney+ you are out of luck, however, because Roger Rabbit’s journey through pop culture ended not long after it began, with a stone-cold instant masterpiece that has only gotten better with time and a few similarly masterful shorts. If your kid digs Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers they too can pursue that passion for the rest of their lives and never run out of comic books or blockbuster movies or direct-to-video animated films related to their area of obsession. If your child falls in love with the world of Star Wars, for example, they can spend years, decades, even lives exploring all of the nooks and crannies of this immense universe through movies, of course, but also television shows and comic books and video games and role-playing games and countless other iterations of George Lucas’ brainchild. The world of children’s entertainment is one of almost obscene abundance. ![]()
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