The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.
- Awards
- 10 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaBrendan Fraser did such a good job doing an impersonation of Taz that he was allowed to do the voice instead of Taz's current voice actor Jim Cummings.
- GoofsWhen traveling into the African bush, the main characters ride on an Asian elephant.
- Quotes
Bugs Bunny: Gee, it was really nice of Wal-Mart to give us all this free Wal-Mart stuff just for saying "Wal-Mart" so many times.
- Crazy creditsPorky says, "Eh, uh, th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th..." then the lights go down on him and he says instead, "Go home, folks."
- Alternate versionsWhen Broadcast on ITV and ITV2, several scenes involving violence are removed, including Sam shooting the banana skin in the casino scene, and Bugs placing the popcorn inside the marked alien during the Area 52 fight scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Ice-T/Jenna Elfman/The Strokes (2003)
- SoundtracksWhat's Up, Doc?
Written by Carl W. Stalling
Featured review
Rather good, actually - and perfectly in tune with the original cartoons' spirit
More than making up for the lame excuse for a film that was the
widely panned "Space Jam", this live-action/animation combination featuring Warner's cartoon characters perfectly
recaptures the classic Looney Tunes' wonderfully nonsensical,
freewheeling spirit. There isn't much in a way of an acceptable or
even decent plot, actually, but don't let that deter you since that's
precisely the reason why any attempt to fit the Looney Tunes gang
into a full-length film would flounder. Instead, director Joe Dante
and writer Larry Doyle erect a perilously teetering scaffold upon
which an insanely huge number of amazingly good sight gags and
verbal puns is set, while at the same time paying some sort of
warped tribute to classic sci-fi B-films of the fifties. The `plot' has
Daffy Duck fired from Warners by executive Jenna Elfman as
outdated, then proceeding to get security guard Brendan Fraser
fired along with him, and both embarking on a nutty drive to Las
Vegas to find the whereabouts of Fraser's dad, film star/spy
Timothy Dalton, eventually uncovering a dastardly conspiracy from
ACME chairman Steve Martin to use the Blue Monkey diamond to
enslave mankind. Of course it doesn't make sense, and that's fine
-- it's not meant to. You may point out that the live action/animation
combination doesn't always work, that the live actors never reach
the manic intensity of the cartoon characters (except for Joan
Cusack's wonderfully, ahem, daffy cameo), but really, that's beside
the point when the gratuitously violent and deliriously politically
incorrect free-for-all of the original cartoons is so perfectly
duplicated here.
widely panned "Space Jam", this live-action/animation combination featuring Warner's cartoon characters perfectly
recaptures the classic Looney Tunes' wonderfully nonsensical,
freewheeling spirit. There isn't much in a way of an acceptable or
even decent plot, actually, but don't let that deter you since that's
precisely the reason why any attempt to fit the Looney Tunes gang
into a full-length film would flounder. Instead, director Joe Dante
and writer Larry Doyle erect a perilously teetering scaffold upon
which an insanely huge number of amazingly good sight gags and
verbal puns is set, while at the same time paying some sort of
warped tribute to classic sci-fi B-films of the fifties. The `plot' has
Daffy Duck fired from Warners by executive Jenna Elfman as
outdated, then proceeding to get security guard Brendan Fraser
fired along with him, and both embarking on a nutty drive to Las
Vegas to find the whereabouts of Fraser's dad, film star/spy
Timothy Dalton, eventually uncovering a dastardly conspiracy from
ACME chairman Steve Martin to use the Blue Monkey diamond to
enslave mankind. Of course it doesn't make sense, and that's fine
-- it's not meant to. You may point out that the live action/animation
combination doesn't always work, that the live actors never reach
the manic intensity of the cartoon characters (except for Joan
Cusack's wonderfully, ahem, daffy cameo), but really, that's beside
the point when the gratuitously violent and deliriously politically
incorrect free-for-all of the original cartoons is so perfectly
duplicated here.
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- R. J.
- Dec 12, 2003
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- Looney Tunes Back in Action: The Movie
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Box office
- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,991,364
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,317,371
- Nov 16, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $68,514,844
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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