directed by: Robert Zemeckis
written by: Peter S. Seaman, Jeffrey Price + Gary K. Wolf (book)
starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy
seen: 2nd October, 2010
I wish the editors of "1001 movies" would refrain from including films like this. I watched Babe, I watched The Lion King, I watched Roger Rabbit getting framed and I am quite sure I could have died without doing so. I was mortified by the looks of the femme fatale and then I was mortified by... well, everything else.
I strongly believe that children have actual brains in their heads and that we should treat them accordingly. That includes the thoughts put into cinemathography/entertainment aimed at them. Altough I'm not really sure. Is this a movie for kids? Is this mainly aimed at adult audiences? And I also kind of don't care because I could see myself being dissatisfied with either.
I am at least trying to solve the puzzle if the film-makers use the main formal gimmick cleverly. But I am inclined to say that they don't. I mean, the beginning is quite clever, they are aware of audience's expectations and turn them around. But that's it. Apart from Baby Herman, all the toons really are as stupid as they look. I guess I would like to see the movie somehow adress the blatant rasism (and sexism) of its internal universe. They may have defeated that one capitalist villain, but the disturbing society keeps going. But no disrespect to Christopher Lloyd, I would still like to marry him, I mean, he almost has thunderbolts coming out of his eyes.
