Looney Tunes All Stars Collection 1 (Animated)

Advantages: It's Looney Tunes on the big screen
Disadvantages: It's okay but it's not great

...what timing is about and manages to play it straight where others fail. There are also a couple of decent cameos from Star Trek’s Robert Picardo and Ron Perlman as two of the ACME Vice Presidents. The real stars are of course the cartoons, who get all of the best set-pieces and lines. Mel Blanc, the original voice of many of the Warner Bros characters has long since passed away, but his replacements are so good that you can’t tell the difference. The standard of animation is as high as ever and the characters still look as fresh as the day they were first animated. Dante has done a brilliant job of shoehorning in as many two-dimensional stars as he can. Watch as Shaggy and Scooby Doo tear a strip off Matthew Lillard for his performance in the live-action Scooby Doo movie. See Wile E Coyote get hit by rocks, spend time at Yosemite Sam... Read review

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Advantages: Little kid's do sit and watch it!!!!!!
Disadvantages: Not one off the best films from Warner.

...The story, which begins on a studio backlot and in all over the map style of the Looney Tunes. Daffy Duck is fired by the Vice President of Comedy, Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman) TV'S"Dharma and Greg") for having demographics limited to fat guys in the basements while Bugs Bunny can make all the Warner Brothers and staff laugh with the belching of his carrot. Daffy is dragged to the door to meet the security guard DJ Drake (Brenan Frasier, "George of the Jungle"), an aspiring stuntman whose dad, unbeknown to Houghton, is Warner's biggest star, Damion Drake (Timothy Dalton). Drake Sr. also turns out to be a real spy and because he has infomation about the "Blue Monkey" he has been made the target of Acme head Mr Chairmen (Steve Martin,"Bringing Down the House").DJ and Daffy set out to save the father Drake, so Houghton's in pursuit... Read review

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Advantages: A few novel ideas
Disadvantages: Limp story, no real plot and direction

...The Looney Tunes with always be a major part of animation history, stuff like Roadrunner constantly amuses despite having the same punchline over and over. Bugs Bunny’s adventures with Elmer Fudd always raise a smile. There’s a good fanbase for the characters and yet Looney Tunes-Back In Action was a tremendous flop on release. An supposed outlay of $80 million saw a dismal return of $20 million at the US box office, needless to say you probably won’t be seeing many big screen adventures of Bugs and Co in the near future. Back In Action is by no means a bad film, it’s just one that’s misguided and doesn’t really know what sort of audience it’s trying to cater for. The plot is pretty dire considering the possibilities that could have been conjured up. Daffy Duck quits Hollywood as becomes fed up of being second fiddle to Bugs Bunny. He... Read review

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