Film Review: Looney Tunes. Back in action.

Release date: November 9th 2003 (premiere release). November 14th 2003 (US release).

Story: Being sick and tired of being treated like the second banana to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood and moves in with a ex stuntman turned security guard DJ Drake (who Daffy also got fired). Only to find out that DJ's father (an famous actor who starred in parody James Bond movies) is in fact a real secret agent who is looking for a mystical blue diamond called The Blue Monkey Diamond before an evil agency gets their hands on it. Seeing this as an opportunity to finally stop being the punching bag, Daffy teams up with DJ and they set off to find the diamond before the evil agency (who as it turns out is the ACME corporation) do. This then takes them on a world trotting adventure along with Bugs Bunny and Kate Houghton (Vice president of Comedy) who have also found out about the diamond.

My thoughts: I'm pretty much a fan of the Looney Tunes cartoons. They made up most of my childhood and I still enjoy them even today. This was the third live action/animation hybrid to feature the Looney Tunes characters (one of them being Space Jam). The live action characters are ok. Steve Martin does a good performance as the childishly over the top chairman of the ACME corporation (who is the manufacturer of all of the weapons in the original Loony Tune cartoons) and Brendan Fraser is ok as DJ Drake. I have to say that there is a lot of things that I like about this movie. From the fact that there is a universe where cartoon characters live alongside humans to the multiple cameos in the film (one of them being Scooby Doo and Shaggy complaining about the recently released live action Scooby Doo movie). One of the places that the characters visit is Area 52 (a parody of Area 51) where we get to see aliens from classic B movies from the 50's and 60's (including Robby the robot, the Robot monster, the mutants from This planet Earth, and even the Daleks from the two Doctor Who movie adaptations). There may be some jokes in this that you may not like but if you are a Looney Tunes fan the I would recommend this.

My score: Four stars