Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Sorry, this movie sucks

Good movie but grossly overrated

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I really liked this movie when I was a kid and because I'm hungover I wanted to watch something comfortable and I though hey, I haven't seen Looney Tunes: Back in Action in ages. Yeah, of course it's a children's movie and it's very silly, but for me this is kind of that adventure comedy I compare all others to, at least subconsciously, since it's about the first one I saw.Even as a grown-up I still find this movie funny. Yeah of course there are some corny childish jokes in there, but most of the comedy is still funny. The Looney Tunes character bring most into this movie. Sure, Brendan Fraser's character is alright and Timothy Dalton is good and all that, but still none of those characters beat Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny and all those other characters we've learnt to love watching the Looney Tunes shorts. The story itself is pretty simple but it has so many hilarious details and the characters and the fun mix between live action and animation are the things that make this movie fun. It's not the best adventure movie out there, but it's hilarious, and what kid wouldn't love it?

Watching this movie again, I was more than a little disappointed. It's too weird a blend between cartoon and live-action I think. It's hard to tell when the characters are actually in trouble, and it doesn't blend very well. Since most of the cartoons end up being very nonsensical and, after a while, kind of annoying; even Bugs. The actual actors just end up being straight-(wo)men for all of their antics, but their situations are so unrealistic that I find it hard to root for them either. DJ is supposed to be a failed stunt-man/security guard, but, after the 1st act, he seems pretty good at about everything he does. Kate gets fired for doing something that everyone was on board with just to propel the plot. Additionally, the attempts at the 4th wall breaking push the line between witty and lame a bit too much.

Looney Tunes: Back In Action, is an attempt to help Warner Bros make big dough like they did with Space Jam. However Back In Action, isn't as revering as it's processor, and while this movie is alright in certain sections of it, it's also quite frankly, boring in a good chunk of it. Daffy gets jealous of the limelight Bugs is getting, causing havoc in Warner Bros. Studios. There he meets DJ, a police officer, who was recently fired from his job. Soon after, Daffy is without a job. DJ's learns that his father has been kidnapped (supposedly in Las Vegas), Bugs wants Daffy back, and when you toss all that together, you get a calamity of a movie...or so you think.The only part of the movie I honestly really cared for was the chase sequence through Las Vegas involving Yosemite Sam trying to kill Bugs, Daffy, DJ and Jenna Elfman (the token blonde girl of the movie)It was very well made but, that's about as exciting as the action gets in this movie.The rest of the film is basically DJ and Jenna Elfman slowly growing affection towards each other. Lovey, dovey stuff isn't exactly what first comes into my mind when I think about Looney Tunes. There's barely little humor to this movie, which Space Jam at least made me chuckle a few times, here and there with in delight. It's like Bugs and Daffy are shoehorned into the movie, to help Warner Bros, make more money. It's also worth noting that the rest of the Looney Tunes characters (Granny, Tweety, Taz & Sylvester) are reduced to brief cameo appearances, playing no significant role to the plot whatsoever. The main antagonist of the movie, is some scientist that is completely forgettable. I honestly don't even remember his name and what he did in the movie, other than he made himself look like a complete ignoramus throughout the course of the film.Only Looney Tunes fans should check this out and I was a little bit disappointed, that it could do so much more with the Looney Tunes license. 5/10.

Using a similar idea to 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are real actors in this live action animated world. WB VP Kate (Jenna Elfman) has enough of Daffy Duck and fires him. She orders security guard DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser) to eject the Duck but chaos ensues. DJ gets fired also. DJ is a stuntman wannabe whose father Damien Drake (Timothy Dalton) plays an action superspy Bondlike icon. It turns out that Damien is actually a real superspy and has been captured by Chairman of ACME corp (Steve Martin). DJ and Daffy go to Vegas to rescue him. Meanwhile Bugs without Daffy isn't doing so well and Kate is about to be fired herself. She goes in search of Daffy with the help of Bugs. In Vegas, DJ contacts another superspy Dusty Tails (Heather Locklear). Then they discover the secret base Area 52 with Mother (Joan Cusack) where they find out about the secret Blue Monkey Diamond.It's a lot of chaotic sarcastic ridiculous Looney Tunes story. It's fun for about 30 minutes which is the duration of most Saturday morning cartoon runs. Then it gets way too tiresome. The nonsensical story is not worthwhile to follow. It's one sight gags after another. Brendan Fraser works well with the cartoon characters with a touch of heroism. That's his basic move anyways. He even references 'The Mummy'. Steve Martin plays the ridiculous chairman. It's so ridiculous that the character should probably be a cartoon as well. Its constant unrelenting bombastic nature never lets the audience off the ride and gets monotonous.