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Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.
April Winchell
- Young Baby Herman
- (voice)
- …
Lou Hirsch
- Adult Baby Herman
- (voice)
Corey Burton
- Droopy Dog
- (voice)
Frank Welker
- Bull
- (voice)
Charlie Adler
- Carnival Barker
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaOriginally a special in-joke was planned. It was to have taken place when Roger and Baby Herman reached the top of the roller coaster's ridiculously high first lift hill. At the top would have been a crossroads with a traffic light that turned red, pausing the pair's car. At this point, the "Long Car" was have zoomed through the intersection in front of them. Riding in this roller coaster train was supposed to have been every single animated character that has ever appeared in a Disney film. Mickey and Minnie were to have been seated in the front car, while Monstro the Whale from Pinocchio (1940) would have been towering over everyone from his seat at the very back of the train. Disney animators worked for weeks to get this brief flash of a scene just right. Ancient model sheets pulled from the studio's animation research library, to make sure every single character looked perfect. Where each character should go on the train was endlessly debated. However, despite all the effort put into the gag, it had to eventually be cut. If the "Long Car" zoomed through the scene as fast as it was originally supposed to, none of the audience would have been able to recognize any of the characters. But if it was slowed down, it threw off the frantic pace of the rest of the short. So the joke was left on the cutting room floor.
- Quotes
Fritz: My first film! My masterpiece is ruined! You clumsy idiot!
Roger Rabbit: But you don't understand!
Fritz: You call yourself an actor!
Roger Rabbit: It's not my fault!
Fritz: Now, you go back and do this entire scene again!
Roger Rabbit: Not this hare, cue ball.
[Runs into a Maroon Cartoon title card with the words "THE END" on top of it]
- Crazy creditsToon Wrangler: Steve Starkey
- ConnectionsEdited into The Best of Roger Rabbit (1996)
- SoundtracksOrange Blossom Special
written by Ervin T. Rouse
Featured review
A dizzying sequence cannot save a generic short
Rollercoasters are an ideal inclusion in animated films because they possess the ability to be devices for high-flying, gravity-defying, unapologetically ridiculous situations for the story's characters. Consider Bébé's Kids and its emphasis on misadventures at a local theme park involving a slew of toddlers. Roller Coaster Rabbit looks to have that same kind of emphasis, but its end result is a messy and fairly uninteresting blend of visual gags and routine silliness that shouldn't be so casually accepted by fans of the once-visceral and original Roger Rabbit character.
The film revolves around Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), Baby Herman, and Mrs. Herman (April Winchell), all of whom are spending their day at a fair. When Baby Herman winds up losing his red balloon, Roger goes to fetch him a new one, but not before Baby Herman attempts to get another one; here is what sets the film's plot into motion. Baby Herman escapes the company of his mother, which sends Roger into a panic and various desperate attempts to recover both Herman and the balloon. At one point, the two end up provoking a bull in a bull-riding arena, in addition to climbing aboard a roller coaster for a frightening ride, all while Roger tries to rescue Baby Herman and Baby Herman continues to escape danger just as easily as he found it, leaving Roger to bear all the battle wounds.
There is one truly great scene in Roller Coaster Rabbit and it comes when Roger leaps onto a roller coaster in order to fetch Baby Herman. During this time, for about five seconds, we see a point-of-view shot of the roller coaster's path, which sends us into a dizzying, almost hallucinatory, trance as it shows the cars of the roller coaster essentially eating up the track at the speed of light. It's a phenomenally executed scene in a short that unfortunately finds the need to settle for rather perfunctory sight gags that make this a monotonous and foreseeable Tom & Jerry skit done without any of the flair and less remarkable excitement.
Voiced by: Charles Fleischer and April Winchell. Directed by: Rob Minkoff and Frank Marshall.
The film revolves around Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), Baby Herman, and Mrs. Herman (April Winchell), all of whom are spending their day at a fair. When Baby Herman winds up losing his red balloon, Roger goes to fetch him a new one, but not before Baby Herman attempts to get another one; here is what sets the film's plot into motion. Baby Herman escapes the company of his mother, which sends Roger into a panic and various desperate attempts to recover both Herman and the balloon. At one point, the two end up provoking a bull in a bull-riding arena, in addition to climbing aboard a roller coaster for a frightening ride, all while Roger tries to rescue Baby Herman and Baby Herman continues to escape danger just as easily as he found it, leaving Roger to bear all the battle wounds.
There is one truly great scene in Roller Coaster Rabbit and it comes when Roger leaps onto a roller coaster in order to fetch Baby Herman. During this time, for about five seconds, we see a point-of-view shot of the roller coaster's path, which sends us into a dizzying, almost hallucinatory, trance as it shows the cars of the roller coaster essentially eating up the track at the speed of light. It's a phenomenally executed scene in a short that unfortunately finds the need to settle for rather perfunctory sight gags that make this a monotonous and foreseeable Tom & Jerry skit done without any of the flair and less remarkable excitement.
Voiced by: Charles Fleischer and April Winchell. Directed by: Rob Minkoff and Frank Marshall.
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- StevePulaski
- Mar 23, 2016
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- Roger Rabbit: Roller Coaster Rabbit
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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By what name was Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) officially released in Canada in English?
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