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...result was Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, a movie in which Toons and humans interact with decidedly PG results. Here, live-action detectives fire cowardly cartoon bullets, and voluptuous cartoon women try to seduce live-action men. Children enjoyed its slapstick, adults enjoyed its more mature humor and all marveled at the smooth blend of actors and Toons. The entire entertainment industry was forced to reassess their ideas about how animation should be done, and for whom...
...answer, in 2001, appears to be: not quite. Another Luther has appeared, in the form of writer/director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused). With his new film, Waking Life, which opens today, he reaffirms the two theses of Roger Rabbit and adds two more...
...Roger Rabbit was not just for kids, then Waking Life is not for kids at all. The bulk of the movie is comprised of Wiggins sitting across from different characters as they philosophize about dreams, life and existence. The combination of their ethereal musings with the hallucinative landscape can give adults a headache, much less children. It takes a bit of stamina, but Linklater’s experiment in the world of dreams works in the end. But exploring the nature of reality is mentally exhausting, so make sure you’re feeling adventurous before you take this latest...
...childlike and uneven multi-colored (but predominantly black) squiggles dance around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines, as it turns out, are no product of innocence, but are the result of Fuss’ experimentation with the chemical interaction of rabbit intestines with photographic paper. The ultimate in worldliness—an organ that facilitates surviva—transforms into illusion, abstraction on a photographic surface...
...always got so annoyed with the kids making fun of the Trix rabbit. If he came over to my house, I would give him some cereal...