Sure, the special effects in Avatar were astounding, mixing live action and computer animated footage in an organic and fluid way that I can only imagine made George Lucas wet his pants. But even with all of that sound and fury (and Academy Awards), it doesn’t touch my favorite mix of film and animation. That would be Robert Zemeckis’ somewhat unlikely pairing of cartoon zaniness and film noir in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which holds up surprisingly well for a film released in 1988 (and without the luxury of computer assistance). In many ways the final word on traditional hand-drawn
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