Looney Tunes Back In Action Details

2003

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Starring	Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton
Director	Joe Dante
Genres	Children, Family

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Looney Tunes Back In Action

Joe Dante directs this fast-paced, inventive combination of animation and live action with irreverent, comic flair. In Hollywood, Daffy Duck is jealous of Bugs Bunny's success and demands a pay increase. Instead of giving him a rise, Kate (Jenna Elfman) a fed-up studio executive, fires Daffy and has him escorted off the lot by security guard D.J. Drake (Brendan Fraser). Drake is a wannabe stunt man who is heading to Las Vegas to find his missing father, Damian Drake (Timothy Dalton), a famous actor/secret agent in search of the elusive Blue Monkey Diamond (a diamond that turns humans to monkeys). Out of work, Daffy joins D.J. while Kate and Bugs Bunny follow, desperate to re-hire Daffy. Meanwhile, Damian Drake is being held captive by the evil Mr. Chairman (Steve Martin), a mad scientist who wants the Blue Monkey Diamond for his own nefarious plot to rule the world. Their quest for Damian and the Diamond sends Daffy, D.J., Kate and Bugs on a global adventure, full of hilarious Hollywood spoofs and pop culture trivia. References to INDIANA JONES in the African jungle, or STAR WARS while in space are just a few of the nonstop Hollywood parodies. The entire Looney Tunes cast of characters join the stars, including Elmer Fudd, Tweety Pie, Foghorn Leghorn and many others in this dizzying adventure.

Starring	Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack
Director	Joe Dante
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate
Genres	Children, Family
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 19 Jul 2004 Production year: 2003
Format	DVD

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This is no Who Framed Roger Rabbit? — unlike that near-seamless mix, the live actors interact awkwardly with the animation — but it is better than Space Jam, Warner Brothers last stab at putting its cartoon stable on the big screen. The dumb story has studio security guard DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser), Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny attempting to foil the world domination plans of Mr Chairman (Steve Martin). Director Joe (Gremlins) Dante packs every frame with his brand of referential humour (including a few B-movie homages so oblique that only the most knowledgeable of genre scholars will appreciate them). However, for all its reliance on introducing skewed cartoon logic into the real world and spoofing recent movie hits, the most inspired moments of this uneven adventure come during a classic Looney Tunes chase through the Louvre, when Daffy and Bugs leap into paintings and are transformed into the style of artists such as Salvador Dali and Edvard Munch.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Unsuccessful mix, with its human stars at their hammiest and its cartoon characters losing their vitality in a series of self-referential gags.
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Not As Looney As You Deserve

It's a great idea, there is no doubt about that, the crazed world of Bugs and Co embarks on a madcap adventure to retrieve the Blue Monkey Diamond before the Chairman of Acme (Steve Martin in a deliriously terrible performance) can turn the people of the world into...you guessed it...monkeys.

The film is a hoot for kids, and tries hard to provide ample jollies for the adults forced to watch along with them, but this is a film that tries just so damn hard it ultimately fails. The film is a triumph technically, but something was...well..left out. The looniness I think, because although there are scenes which capture the anarchy of the original cartoons (The Louvre sequence and Area 52 are ones to watch out for)there are loads of jokes that fall so flat you can hear them hit the ground with a thud...

Give it a go, anyone under 10 will thank you for it, you, however, may want to a stiff drink to hand.
- - Marc Smith from Bishop Auckland
  - Posted 29 Jul 2004 21:52
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

One for cameos only

So we have seen it all before in roger rabbit and space jam. Did we need to see it again?

Well actually yes, we did or perhaps we should have if anything new was to have been introduced but unfortunately it wasn't.

There were good bits no doubt about it. I laughed. WB brings out all the memrobela from crashing the batmobile into the water tower to the robot from the return to the forbidden planet and the original shaggy grilling his real life counterpart.

Watch out for the subtile stuff. For me Tazz and Wile coyete steal the show.

Steve Martin is bad. Goldberg [wrestling fans] is big and bugs and daffy just go thro the motions.

The story line is a little limp almost the concept of a cartoon - well what did you expect.

Tim Dalton looks old but does what he does best - play James Bond.
- - macoxy from wakefield
  - Posted 21 Sep 2004 17:21
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