83
Metascore
15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumCombines live-action and animation with breathtaking wizardry... Alternately hilarious, frightening, and awesome.
- 100San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackWhat is astonishing about this movie is how all the elements are so deftly mixed - the technology of real sets and people interwoven with the cartoon world, and yet Zemeckis hardly sacrifices a beat in laying out a curlicuing '40s-style thriller. [22 June 1988]
- 100Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonIf you don't like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, have your pulse checked... You'll forget yourself right through to the end when Porky Pig, dressed as a cop, says "M-move along, there's n-nothing more to s-see folks." [24 June 1988]
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is funny, but it's more than funny, it's exhilarating.
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIt's the year's cleverest comedy in more ways than one. The animated sequences are brilliant... Most important, the story also has dark overtones that lend a hint of seriousness to what could have been just silly. [24 June 1988]
- 100The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinA film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny, and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWhile flawlessly delivered, it's overkill--so loud and excessive, it makes our head swim... It's like a sumptous banquet composed entirely of fast food; fills you up but entirely forgettable.
- 60VarietyVarietyAn unparalleled technical achievement... Yet the story amounts to little more than inspired silliness about the filmmaking biz where cartoon characters face off against cartoonish humans.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenWithout warning, the picture falls hard into the very trap it had so studiously avoided, the one marked Expensive Gimmick... The same feature that begins like no film you've ever seen ends like every cartoon you've always avoided.
- 50TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissSomething got lost in the move from storyboard to screen, and in the stretch from seven minutes to 103. [27 June 1988]