Roger is Jar Jar Binks level of annoying

It's funny that you bring that up because...

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/elgw5m/roger_rabbits_influence_on_george_lucas_and_the/

Watching the extensive behind the scenes of the Star Wars Prequels, one thing begins to become clear: George Lucas’ influence by way of other films.

It becomes abundantly clear that, on the years following the conclusion of Lucas’ original film a. Number of other films were subsequently release that massively shaped pop culture and influenced audiences.

It seems apparent that Lucas all this time was paying attention and felt compelled in his follow up trilogy to pull some of that magic back into his films.

In the behind the scenes of TPM he gushes enviously over the success of Titanic. In his films he riffs on Blade Runner during the Coruscant chase, he lifts the Gladiator Arena sequence in the Geonosis battle. All obvious “homages”

But I funnily enough of all things I think Who Framed Roger Rabbit probably wasn’t an influence that’s been named much if at all before.

Creatively, when Jar Jar Binks comes to mind, it’s baffling how someone would devise this character and feel compelled to introduce and highlight him in a film such as this.

And yet, as I rewatched the film last night, as I came across it on Disney + it became overwhelmingly apparent.

When you watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the film ingeniously pits Rogers wild, over the top antics against Bob hoskins’ ineffable straight man. Every move Roger makes pops off the screen as he knocks about in each shot randomly effecting live action elements and characters, a perfect character to immerse in a live action setting.

As I was watching it clicked “of course, this is what Lucas was thinking of when he devised Jar Jar, from the high intonation voice, the comedic antics right down to the big floppy rabbit like ears”

I can see the influence and what you're saying, but I don't think its an apples to apples comparison. Roger was a cartoon character in our world, doing wacky and zany stunts and gags for laughs in a comedy movie. But that is what he was supposed to be doing. Jar Jar is a CGI creation that we're supposed to believe is a flesh and blood being, just like the people around him. While he was a technical marvel for his time, he still wasn't quite believable as a real being. And while his purpose was to provide comedic relief to an other wise serious movie, his slapstick and blundering was just to out of place.

Also, unlike Jar Jar, Roger has some genuinely funny moments that I can still laugh at as an adult. Like sticking his eyes thru the peak holes and knocking over the beer, slipping his hands out of the handcuffs despite him and Eddie having been stuck together for hours. Then one confusing prostate and probate.

I re-watched it today and that's exactly how I felt. I can't think of one second where he was on screen and not annoying me.

I am the opposite. I hated him as a kid but as an adult I like him.

Nah, Roger works in context. The film is full of insane cartoons that contrast with the noir human world. Also Eddie constantly berates and assaults Roger whenever he’s getting too ADHD.

Jar Jar doesn’t work because he’s too goofy for a relatively serious sci-fi fantasy, and Qui-Gon Jinn doesn’t grab his ears and throw him around when he starts being a prick, so there’s no ‘outlet’ for the audience’s irritation.

Roger is funny. Jar Jar is not.