But the first coming died out quickly
We give modern-day Hollywood a lot of crap because they seemingly can only rebrand and re-sell the same dumb Star Wars crap over and over until consumers realize they’re being ripped off (still hasn’t happened. check out Andor, it’s as great as every other Star Wars thing ever made!!!), but that’s not an entirely new thing. They did try to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was Who Framed Roger Rabbit by once again mixing animation with live-action in films like Cool World.
Paramount, Bakshi Animation
But Roger Rabit was such a labor of love, such a milestone in cinema and animation in general that all copycats ended up looking weird and off-putting. Like, let’s take a look at Jessica Rabbit. She’s totally not real, yes, but the film’s actual camera work and dynamic shadows make her presence in the real world so believable that it’s only just a little bit weird to have the hots for her.
Touchstone, Amblin
Meanwhile, Holli Would, the femme fatale from Cool World looks just like what she is, an overtly sexualized cartoon.
Paramount, Bakshi Animation
Then there’s Space Jam, which also made use of a lot of Warner Bros. characters,
Warner Bros.
1990 also gave us Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, another ambitious crossover where characters from various studios got together to warn kids about drugs. The whole thing sucked ass even if you forget it was presented by the original President Bush and financed by Mcdonald’s, which kind of made it look like they just wanted kids to overlook the fact that fast food kills way more people than licking Kermit the frog.
Disney, Mcdonalds