It’s an impossibly perfect film that still holds up decades later. There are so many reasons why it shouldn’t work, but each and every piece of it clicks perfectly: the script, the tone, the performances, the animation, the physical set pieces mixed with animation, the casting, Hoskins’ performance. It’s why I don’t mind Zemeckis doing his weird CG motion capture stuff because in my mind he’s earned a blank check for life after his streak from the early 80’s into the late 90’s.It’s one of Disney’s best movies, it’s proved to translate well to the parks, and ToonTown itself has a reach well beyond the film. With or without Roger, a colourful cartoon land where you get to hang out with Mickey is not a hard sell. It’s disappointing they haven’t gone further with it at WDW than the under-built fair.
It’s a shame it’s caught in the middle of the Disney-Spielberg dust up. If D+ were still producing big budget stuff I’d love to see a RR miniseries in the vein of Perry Mason / LA Confidential set in 1950’s LA.