I really don't care for many of the Looney Tunes cartoons made after the classic era and even less for those made from the '90s on. This is one of the more well-regarded and I can't for the life of me see why. It's a parody of Casablanca that tries to shoehorn in every character they can, even if they're only in it briefly. So it was seemingly targeted at an older audience that not only had seen a lot of Looney Tunes but had seen Casablanca, as well. Obviously you don't have to be older to know Casablanca but, let's be real, there aren't a lot of kids who have seen it or would even want to. That was as true in 1995 as it is today. The animation is showy but hollow. The voice work is the usual weak Blanc mimicry the later Looney Tunes have. The biggest problem with it is that it's just not funny. I didn't laugh once when I first saw it twenty years ago and, seeing it again today, I'm still not laughing. I love Looney Tunes and I love Casablanca. I appreciate that the effort behind this was sincere but I'm not really going to bump its rating up because of that. I just don't like it and I don't really understand why the heck they made it.
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