Date: 17 November 2003 Summary: TH-TH-TH-THAT'S NOT ALL FOLKS!!
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (2003) **1/2 Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman,
Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack, Goldberg
(Cameos: Jeff Gordon, Michael Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Roger Corman, Robert
Picardo, Ron Perelman, Mary Woronov, Leo Rossi, Marc Lawrence) (Voices: Joe
Alaskey) Frenetic and fun (for the most part) Warner Bros. Animated feature
with Daffy Duck being unceremoniously fired by the studio when he demands
equal pay with his co-star Bugs Bunny leads to the unearthing of a
diabolical plot by the head of Acme products (Martin, suggesting a cross
between his Rupericht alter ego in `Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and Elton John)
involving a supernatural diamond that will turn the human populace into
monkeys (!) Fraser is the good-hearted studio security guard/stuntman
wannabe whose fathers Dalton (aping his Bond-age) is a famous actor know for
espionage flicks who in actuality is a real-life spy trying to thwart Acme's
nefarious plottings. Elfman is the one-step behind VP who must return Daffy
back to the WB and winds up helping Fraser in the long run all the while
encountering the companies myriad collection of characters. Filmmaker Joe
Dante clearly has a field day resurrecting some classic bits involving Elmer
Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote (to name
a few) while also displaying his love of B sci-fi flicks with genre aliens
from the ‘50s and character actors of yore in the background here and there.
The film runs at a breakneck pace but doesn't sustain the allure of the
finely blended sort a la `Who Framed Roger Rabbit' yet does keep the famed
cartoon spirit alive and that should count for something.
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