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- 2003
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 33 m
- 2003
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are up to their feudin' ways again as the entire Looney Tunes menagerie star in a feature film set entirely in a live action world and interact with "live" 3-D costars throughout the picture. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Joe Dante, Eric Goldberg
Written By: Larry Doyle
- 2003
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 33 m
- 2003
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 33 m
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
64
6.9
Where to Watch
Summary Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are up to their feudin' ways again as the entire Looney Tunes menagerie star in a feature film set entirely in a live action world and interact with "live" 3-D costars throughout the picture. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Joe Dante, Eric Goldberg
Written By: Larry Doyle
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
44% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
44% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It's flat-out comedy all the way, head-spinningly clever (you'll be talking about a sequence set in the Louvre for weeks) and always engaging. For my money, it's the comedy of the year.
Spirited, quintessential, and often hilarious.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 75 User Ratings
6.9
55% Positive
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
35% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
11% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 75 User Ratings
6.9
55% Positive
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
35% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
11% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
This is my favorite movie. It's not the best movie of all time, but it's my best movie. Every single joke gets a laugh out of me every single time and all the characters are great. Brendan Fraser is amazing, as always.
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An extremely entertaining and funny live action that you will fall in love with when you see it!
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Not as inspired as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" but in the same spirit. It's goofy fun. Or maybe we should make that daffy fun.
The meta jokes come thick and fast - some clunk, but there's no time to mourn - and the references are far from limited to the Warner Bros. world (at one point, Bugs exclaims, "Whaddya know - I found Nemo!").
Has its funny moments, but all too often it's a corny, lackluster film in which humans pretend (not always convincingly) to interact with cartoons.
The film is preoccupied with whiz-bang adventure rather than storytelling. There's also too much cartoon violence for young kids.
There are flashes of wit -- Speedy Gonzales muttering about political correctness and an arty chase through the Louvre. But there is also random flatulence, a.k.a. the stink of desperation.
This movie is pretty hilarious, if you enjoy cheesy comedies, or just love the Looney Tunes characters, this is a movie you should look into, you wont regret it.
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While 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988) combined the endless parade of favorite cartoon characters to cross paths with the live action actors, it would be easy to understand that it may have influenced 'Space Jam' (1996), a movie that combined the favorite Looney Tunes characters with a basketball star like Michael Jordan. Here, we now have 'Looney Tunes: Back in Action' another animated/live-action Looney Tunes crossover that I enjoyed about as equally as 'Space Jam' (1996). However, the one thing I can say is that this movie does get one thing right, and that is the spirit of the Looney Tunes. The characters act the way they would and should when they're in a story like this one. The movie opens with a classic Looney Tunes sketch that involves Elmer Fudd hunting for rabbits, with Daffy Duck arguing with Bugs Bunny over what season it is. "Rabbit Season!", "Duck Season!" they shout to each other constantly. But, things stop when Daffy gets tired of the repetitive shooting of himself, he feels that these jokes are made redundant and that the producers of these shows should try some new material, maybe where Daffy doesn't become the target of humiliation anymore. However, the vice president of comedy, Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman) decides to remove Daffy from the show after making these requests. We are then introduced to a training stunt-man/cop named D.J. Drake (Brendan Fraser), who is struggling to make it big in the show-business, despite his father, Damian Drake (Timothy Dalton) being a star. The world seems to be in threat when D.J. later receives a call from his father who tells him to go to Vegas to ask about some mysterious object called "The Blue Monkey Diamond" which, apparently has the power to transform human beings into monkeys, and it grabs the attention of the movie's main villain, the ACME chairman (a charismatic Steve Martin) who wants to use the diamond as a way to hypnotize the population to buy his products. The plot sounds ridiculous, but at the same time, it keeps within the spirit of the Looney Tunes characters. The movie goes a little over the top towards the end, as it starts out like any other family adventure movie, but like I said, it gets a little overboard as the characters become something more than how they were first shown. There are some very funny moments added here, and the cast do a good job to stay within the animated spirit. Director Joe Dante also does a capable job of handling so many of these beloved characters, but maybe, if they were to do a movie like this again, make a coherent, and calm plot rather than trying to go too over the top.
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It's lovely as Space Jam and it'll make you laugh if 'Looney Tunes' are your main thing. It's as close to the positives as you wanted it to be at. It's not a bad movie at all.
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Sadly, "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" is one terribly written movie with incoherent characters and disgusting CGI. The critics were way off the scale for this one...
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Production Company
Warner Bros.,
Baltimore Spring Creek Productions,
Spring Creek Productions,
Goldmann Pictures,
Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG.,
Warner Bros. Animation,
Warner Bros. Feature Animation
Release Date Nov 14, 2003
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG
Tagline Make Learning Exciting & Entertaining!
Awards
Annie Awards
• 4 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
