Looney Tunes - Back in Action (Widescreen Edition)

Looney Tunes - Back in Action (Widescreen Edition)
by Joe Dante

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• Live Action Adventure Comedy. Set in a live-action world in which Warner Bros.' beloved assortment of irreverent animated entertainers interact with human characters for maximum comic effect, the story unfolds on the Studio backlot and careens all over the map in time-honored Looney Tunes style. Our celluloid heroes embark on a hilarious adventure that takes them from Hollywood to Las Vegas, Paris

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DVD Review: Not an essential movie but a lot of fun!
Summary: 4 Stars

If you liked "Space Jam" from several years back, then you are likely to enjoy "Looney Tunes: Back In Action" and I would say that they really do return to action on this good, fun but somewhat disjointed flick. In a lot of ways, this film brings back memories of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" from my childhood and this is a really good thing for me. If you're looking for anything thought-provoking or requiring intellectual challenge, then you will want to pop in something else for now but for everyone else who wants a good time and can withstand thin acting in parts then by all means go and give this movie a watch. There is plenty of entertainment to offer and will make you laugh.

It all begins where Daffy Duck is jettisoned from his workplace because of competition from his cartoon rival, the witty and funny Bugs Bunny, but Daffy Duck runs into a recently fired stuntman named Bobby Delmont. Delmont is eager to find and rescue his father who was recently kidnapped by renegade ACME criminals and several of the antagonistic Looney Tunes characters like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and two really big cartoon criminals help in trying to retrieve a powerful artifact called the Blue Diamond and use it's power through an orbiting satellite and transform all of the Earth's human population into monkey's in order for them to buy his products and turn them back into humans in order to make a gigantic fortune out of it.

Not all of the Looney Tunes characters show up in the movie but enough of them do to make the movie acceptable. My favorite of the Looney Tunes are Bugs Bunny and Tasmania. I really love how the former rivals Daffy and Bugs clash in the early part of this movie but then eventually work together to prevent the Diamond from being used for ACME Corporation's malevolent schemes. Tasmania's twisted and demented character is just incredibly hilarious even if he is only in a few scenes through this film.

The acting by the cast playing the non-cartoon characters is a bit hammy in my opinion. Brendan Frasier does alright as the insecure Bobby Delmont whose trying to find his father and save him from ACME Corporation. While not necessarily bad or awful by any means, Jenna Elfman looked rather uncomfortable on this role and her character Kate came off as being dry and totally uninteresting at best nad it almost looked like she was just ready to leave the set altogether. To me, the Looney Tunes characters were who really carried this film. The acting is good during several clumsy disaster scenes and there is even a cameo appearance from Batman during a botched filmmaking scene but there's more there than I want to give out.

While not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, "Looney Tunes: Back In Action" succeeds in being a highly entertaining and fun flick even if the acting by Fraser and Elfman comes off being skiddish and even clumsy at times. Give this movie a try. While I'm not saying that this movie is really a must-have, it offers enough to warrant keeping it and younger audiences should see it just for the sake of keeping Looney Tunes alive for all the years to come and older audiences to continue to enjoy their childhood favorites. Even if this movie is forgotten in the future, The Looney Tunes and all of our beloved classic cartoons that we have enjoyed over the last 75 years since 1928's Mickey Mouse are immortal and will never die off from our memories.

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