6/10
A mix of animation with live action including a lot of rapid-fire surreal sight gags
2 January 2023
When the Warner Bros company studio in Hollywood announces a "Bugs Bunny: The Movie" starring the world's greatest cartoon characters, Daffy Duck doesn't like his roles and quits his Hollywood acting job . On the way he meets Kate Houghhton (Jenna Elfman) ,a studio exec powerful enough to send Daffy packing and recently fired security guard stuntman (Brendan Fraser) who's acting in Hollywood while his father has mysteriously gone missing . So the world's greatest cartoon characters team up with him and and go on a top secret mission quest to track his missing daddy . All of them are relentlessly pursued by the nefarious Mr. Chairman (Steve Martin giving a cosmically unfunny turn). The action boomerangs throughout Las Vegas , Paris , Africa , outer space , as Daffy hunts for the Blue Monkey diamond with superspy father and the planet's future hangs in the balance. Make Learning Exciting & Entertaining!.Step right up and come on in; here's where the fun begins !. Real life has never been so animated !How do they solve a mystery when they don't have a clue?.The biggest animated adventure ever to hit real life !

The ¨Piranha¨ filmmaker Joe Dante is a true mischief-maker ready to subvert corporate Hollywood chores , this time with the Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond. Dante is an expert on frolics as well as jokes and his prospect gets his mitts on Bunny ans Daffy Duck , being Chuck Jones probably his biggest influence . Although , it contains some disappointings and the formula doesn't work at all and it never really gels . It packs some some inspired sequences to restore the flagging spirits such as Area 52 scenes and at the Louvre when the cartoons running into famous pictures from Salvador Dali, Munch , Manet , Toulouse Lautrec , among others. Mixing live action in Gremlins style with animation in the manner of Who framed to Roger Rabbit ? , the film kicks on the Warner Bros lot with two sympathetic protagonists as Brendan Fraser as is a lowly security guard and Jenna Elfman as a powerful studio exec along with the long team of Looney Tunes including the following ones : Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , Granny, Tweety Bird , Beaky Buzzard, Sylvester , Mama Bear Marvin the Martian , Speedy Gonzalez , Pepe Le Pew , Elmer, Porky Pig and special apperance of Shaggy and Scooby-Doo. The story is nothing more than a fleeble excuse to string together gags , silly sketches and several animated cameos , fast-paced set pieces . Dante is surely right to let his visual imagination run riot , but the scattershot Looney Tunes movement doesn't easily stretch to feature length and our starring and co-stars don't generate too much sympathy.

This watchable enough motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Joe Dante and Eric Goldberg, displaying their characteristic surreal wit and sense of amusement. Dante's most hits took place when found himself working alongside Steven Spielberg, John Landis and Australian director George Miller for the anthology movie ¨The Twilight Zone, The Movie¨ (1983) in which Dante directed the third segment .Steven Spielberg then hired him to work as director for ¨Gremlins¨ (1984) which was another box-office success. He directed some episodes for the Sci-Fi series "Amazing Stories" before directing his next Science Fiction feature which was ¨Innerspace¨ (1987) which, whilst critically well reviewed, was another box office failure. After directing five episodes of "Eerie, Indiana", Dante returned to the big-screen with the well-received ¨Matinee¨ (1993), an affectionate period satire set in 1962 against the background of the Cold War. Dante spent the next several years working for television and directed a satire on politics with ¨The Second Civil War¨ (1997). Dante's next two films, ¨Small Soldiers¨ (1998), and ¨Looney Toons: Back in Action¨ (2004) garnered good reviews but were not commercial hits. Rating : 6/10 . Only for Warner Bros Looney Tunes fans.
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