utgard14 An attempt at bringing Looney Tunes into the 21st Century (why would we want to do that?), brought to us by the master of nostalgia Joe Dante. Lots of cameos and in-jokes as you would expect from Dante. Also just about every character from a popular WB property is represented, from Scooby Doo to Batman to Robby the Robot, as well as all of the Looney Tunes characters, of course. The live action stuff is hit and miss, with Jenna Elfman and Brendan Fraser likable enough but others like Steve Martin coming across as annoying in their attempts to be funny. The Looney Tunes are all 'off' to me, a huge fan of the original cartoons. These characters just seem hollow copies at best and, at worst, they're bizarrely out-of-character. I especially don't like Daffy in this. It's like someone never saw any of his cartoons, just read a brief description about him and wrote from there. Anyway, I can see a lot of other people really loved this. I don't, obviously. It's fine, I mean, but it just feels like it's trying too hard. I rarely laughed at it. It's more (occasionally) amusing than consistently funny. It looks good, though.

Theraxorterminate Call me nutty if you want but this was actually one my favorite movies when I was younger. It wasn't just fun but it's concept is just remarkably delightful to see our favorite cartoon characters come to life, just like the concept from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" I really miss this kind of view, it's much more entertaining than those horrible live action version of cartoons we've had these years and they ultimately fail to deliver the spark from their originality and the entertainment were pretty much crap. Now I know that LTBIA isn't exactly like those but it's just that I don't want this kind of concept to be forgotten and when I saw this movie once again after many years I was laughing out lout for the first time with the kind of wacky humor and entertainment from the characters of Looney Tunes always used to do.The presentation of the characters from LT is presented with respect without anything changed or destroying their personality. Although Daffy Duck is the most active character in this movie, in this movie Daffy want's to show us that he's more than just the secondary unlucky character. The other characters like Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Taz and others are also well presented. The acting might not be extraordinary but at least there wasn't any actor/character who made me cringe (or maybe Steve Martin's character can become excessive but at least not annoying) and that's a plus.OK it's true it doesn't have the most original story and why do I see reviewers not liking the parodies it delivered? I laughed so hard and it has one of the kind of parody concept I prefer. And the classical jokes? Come on I still find the original gags from the Looney Tunes they used to do many years ago amusing but there's more than the classical jokes. And also don't take this movie too seriously, but what I can see and appreciate is that this movie is showing one thing: Honesty. And I can tell you there is a lot of hidden humor that made me giggle a lot and as well as many wacky fun. I don't wan't to give you too much about this movie now or else I ruin your experience, but trust me it really is fun.If you had the trouble finding the nice kind of entertainment that does not try to be "hip" like those bad live action version of cartoons I mentioned? Then I'd recommend you seeing this. It's not only for children, adults can enjoy it as well.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Daffy won't be part of the movie(yes, of course this is meta - one of the countless things in this that are entirely in the spirit of these creations; several failings one can attribute to this are directly linked to the insistence on them getting the treatment of feature-length - well, 81 minutes sans credits, 88 with, anyway) on account of being the one who gets the brunt of the abuse in the plentiful slapstick.He gets the equally clumsy DJ(Fraser, a security guard who dreams of becoming a famous stunt-man... on his own merit) fired, only for the two to discover that the latter's father didn't just star as a spy, he *is* one. They embark to find the Blue Monkey, a large diamond, to prove their worth. Kate(Elfman, at her least obnoxious... I honestly wonder why she was even the one cast... anyway, as a strong, if frightfully(and intentionally) by-the-book, female executive at Warner Bro's) is sent to retrieve the duck, and Bugs comes with. Acme's evil Chairman(Martin, mugging and moving as if his suit is full of ants) wants to stop them, and use the stone for his own benefit.Along the way, we'll visit Vegas, see a number of name cameos and the other 2D creatures(and yes, their 3D forms do take getting used to) will pop up here or there, on either side of the conflict. Gremlins director Joe Dante helmed this, determined to get right what Space Jam got wrong. The personalities are intact, the genre is action-adventure(rather than sports-sci-fi... why was that even...?), and the frenetic pace not only keeps it moving, keeping a steady onslaught(you'll have to pay close attention to get them all) of jokes, classic references and gags(verbal, breaking the fourth wall, cleverness, commenting on clichés as well as, occasionally, political correctness(sadly, such inspired bits are fairly few - the Louvre sequence is brilliant, however)), it fits with the original form of these beings(and frankly, this leaps from one set-piece to another, each of those playing out like one of those shorts, returning them to their element).It goes against expectations(or beats you to pointing out when it succumbs to them), and makes the wise call of making these drawn characters, not to mention their cartoon logic, an accepted part of the live-action world, not unlike the vastly superior Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Some of the on-screen comedic talent aren't given a lot to work with. The acting is dependable(I would like to, from the bottom of my heart, thank whoever was responsible for keeping Goldberg from speaking; his physical presence is why he's given roles, we know this, so best to rely entirely on that... in fact, he approaches his henchman role mostly as the one track mind, T1000 kind of thing, and is genuinely convincing).The DVD comes with 10 and a half minutes of decent deleted scenes(many with the drawings only partially completed), the 8 and a half minute documentary Behind the Tunes which isn't bad, the 7 and a half minute featurette Crash! Bang! Boom! - The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown and 7 minute new short subject Whizzard of Ow(both of which I will review on their individual pages here on the site), a theatrical trailer for this and one for The Looney Tunes collection. There is a lot of cartoon violence and a little moderate language in this. I recommend this to big fans of the classic WB animations. 6/10

Steve Pulaski Looney Tunes: Back in Action may or may not be what you'd expect from a modern day film focusing on some of the most iconic animated characters in the history of animation. The film is a hybrid of animation and live action, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Here, it provides us with moments of interest, but also, moments that are void of humor and purpose.Still, the look is relatively welcomed, although I can't say I'm wholly fond of these characters being brought into the digital age. It would've been more fitting to see this gang in a live action film in their traditional hand drawn style of animation. But time is fleeting and the patience for craftsmanship like that is thin. I might as well have wished for a Looney Tunes movie done in claymation.The story is simply a cacophony on film. We begin by seeing Daffy Duck, who is sick of always playing secondhand man to Bugs Bunny (both voiced by Joe Alaskey). After demanding his own film to Warner Bros. studios, he is hastily fired by VP of Comedy Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman). Security guard of Warner Bros. lot, DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser), is also fired after causing trouble trying to escort Daffy off the property.Something of a spy plot brews, when DJ discovers his famous father was a secret agent. This inspires both him and Daffy to drive down to Las Vegas, where more of their camaraderie will surely take place, as they get in trouble with a corporation called "Acme," ran by a barely recognizable Steve Martin, and begin to stumble upon a slew of inventions created for inevitable mishaps. There's also a nice trip to Area 52, and that's not a typo.Just like the infamous Warner Bros. cartoons, Looney Tunes: Back in Action follows the anarchic blueprint of the shorts, making them as zany and as logic-defying as possible. Is it faithful to the original shorts? Yes. It is always fun to watch? Not quite. To prepare myself for this event, I watched a couple of the classic shorts, including Rabbit Seasoning and What's Opera, Doc?, both directed by the late and great Chuck Jones. There's something captivating and compelling about the shorts that the film sort of lacks. I believe it's the transportation into the real world that jumbles the film up. It's made a tad more mainstream than it should be, and sort of obscures the obvious non-reality the shorts occupied.What too makes the shorts so sweet and charming is the waves of nostalgia that bleed off of them and the fact that they're so clearly cartoons. Trying to incorporate them in the real world doesn't work as well. In the Looney Tunes original feature film, Space Jam, it worked a bit better, maybe because the action on the court was very reminiscent of the one-setting shorts the characters starred in. Here, they are given such a wide range and such little discipline that, after a while, the event is exhausting and monotonous.Brendan Fraser works well in his lead, as he clearly has respect for the franchise and the legacy of the "Tunes" (and loves to take punches at himself). Jenna Elfman and Steve Martin work well in the supporting cast, and the voices of all the characters, as well as their appearances, do not fail to provide everyone's face with a smile.I chuckled a few times and sort of smiled when the film became stylistic (particularly during the scene where Elmer Fudd, Daffy, and Bugs are jumping in and out of famous portraits in Paris). But those smiles and chuckles quickly turned to moot feelings when the film became too concerned with snappy witticisms and indescribably chaotic sensibilities. Little, little kids might enjoy it, but it's hard to say where lifelong fans will stand. Two and a half stars seems like a fair compromise from someone who enjoyed the characters enough to give their ninety-one minute anarchic piece a try.Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, and Joan Cusack. Voiced by: Joe Alaskey. Directed by: Joe Dante.