Funny Parts From Looney Tunes Back in Action
| Looney Tunes: Back in Action | |
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| Directed by | Joe Dante |
| Written by | Larry Doyle |
| Based on | Looney Tunes by Warner Bros. |
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| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
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| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| Running time | 93 minutes[i] |
| Land | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million[1] |
| Box function | $68.5 million[1] |
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live-action/animated comedy film directed past Joe Dante and written by Larry Doyle. The plot follows the Looney Tunes characters Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny (both voiced by Joe Alaskey) as they help aspiring daredevil Damian "D.J." Drake, Jr. (Brendan Fraser) and Warner Bros. executive Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman) find the "blue monkey" diamond in club to prevent the evil Mr. Chairman (Steve Martin) of the Acme Corporation from using it to turn mankind into monkeys that will manufacture his products; the group also attempts to rescue D.J.'s male parent (Timothy Dalton), an actor and spy who has been captured by Mr. Chairman. The animation was directed by Eric Goldberg. It was made post-obit the success of Space Jam (1996), to which it was originally developed as a sequel, titled Spy Jam.
The moving-picture show was theatrically released in the Usa on November 14, 2003, by Warner Bros. Pictures and was a box-office flop, grossing $68.5 million worldwide against an $80 million upkeep. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its sense of fun but criticized the screenplay.
This was the concluding picture to be scored past composer Jerry Goldsmith, who died less than a year afterward the film's release. This was too the terminal flick to be produced by Warner Bros. Characteristic Animation. Along with this, it was as well the last theatrically released characteristic film to prominently feature the Looney Tunes characters until 2021's Infinite Jam: A New Legacy.
Plot
Disillusioned of playing the fall guy to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck demands his ain drawing from Warner Bros., simply is promptly fired by the "Vice-President of Comedy", Kate Houghton. Security guard and struggling stuntman DJ Drake is asked to escort Daffy off the studio lot, but the ensuing chase leads to the Batmobile demolishing the studio water tower, resulting in DJ also being fired. He returns home with Daffy following him, where he receives a bulletin from his father, film star, Damian Drake, who is actually a secret agent. Damian instructs his son to travel to Las Vegas, find his associate, Dusty Tails, and find a mystical diamond called the "blue monkey", he is shortly thereafter captured by the Pinnacle Corporation, led by the eccentric Mr. Chairman. DJ and Daffy head for Vegas. Meanwhile, Bugs' routines neglect without Daffy, so Kate is forced to locate and rehire Daffy or confront being terminated herself. Bugs informs Kate of the situation, so they head to DJ'southward home where they find Damian's spy car, and use it to pursue DJ and Daffy.
In Las Vegas, DJ and Daffy run into Dusty in a casino endemic past Yosemite Sam, who happens to be an associate of the Acme Corporation. Dusty gives them a foreign playing card, which is a clue to finding the diamond. Sam and his henchmen attempt to impale them and take the card, but they manage to elude him and flee in the spy car with Bugs and Kate. The spy automobile, which can as well fly, crashes in the Nevada desert. As they travel through the desert, Wile E. Coyote tries to cease them, merely is foiled. The grouping somewhen stumbles upon Surface area 52, run past a woman called 'mother', who informs them of the situation. She plays a video recording, which reveals that the Blue Monkey has the power to devolve humans into monkeys and evolve them back once again. Acme intends on using the blue monkey on all of flesh to industry their products, and then turn them back to purchase them. Marvin the Martian, who was imprisoned in the facility, escapes and leads a group of fellow alien inmates to obtain the playing bill of fare, but the heroes escape. Seeing that the bill of fare has Mona Lisa'due south confront on it, the grouping conclude they must view the painting in the Louvre, located in Paris.
At the Louvre, they detect that the carte du jour contains a viewing window, and looking through information technology, the window reveals that the Mona Lisa has a map of Africa hidden below. Bugs and Daffy's co-star, Elmer Fudd, appears, revealing himself as an Height henchman, and chases Bugs and Daffy through the gallery to obtain the card whilst Kate is kidnapped by Mr. Chairman's bodyguard, Mr. Smith with help of Beaky Buzzard. DJ rescues Kate while Elmer is disintegrated past Bugs after jumping out of a pointillism artwork. Bugs and Daffy reunite with DJ and Kate, and they leave Paris.
DJ, Kate, Bugs, and Daffy travel to Africa, meeting Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety, who escort them to the ruins of a jungle temple where they find the blue monkey. Nonetheless, Granny and visitor reveal themselves to exist Mr. Chairman, Smith, and the Tasmanian Devil in disguise. Mr. Chairman uses a disintegration gun to transport himself and the heroes to the Height headquarters where he forces DJ to requite him the diamond, when Damian is revealed to exist his prisoner, but goes back on his word to release him.
Marvin is sent to place the blue monkey on an Top satellite which will emit an energy beam around the world to turn everyone, except Mr. Chairman, into monkeys. DJ and Kate rescue Damian from a death trap, whilst Bugs and Daffy chase Marvin into infinite. Bugs is thwarted by Marvin, prompting Daffy to become Duck Dodgers, in guild to destroy the blue monkey. The transforming energy beam only strikes Mr. Chairman, turning him into a monkey. Bugs and Daffy return to Globe, where Daffy discovers the whole take a chance was staged to make a film. Withal, Bugs promises Daffy they volition be equal partners, but only every bit Daffy'southward luck seems to be improving, he is crushed by the Looney Tunes iris, where Porky Pig attempts to close the movie with "That'south all folks!" only for the studio to shut down earlier he tin finish, and he bitterly tells the audience to go home.
Cast
- Brendan Fraser as Damian "D. J." Drake, Jr. / himself
- Fraser besides voiced Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian She-Devil[2]
- Jenna Elfman as Kate Houghton
- Steve Martin as Mr. Chairman
- Heather Locklear as Dusty Tails
- Joan Cusack every bit Mother
- Timothy Dalton every bit Damian Drake
- Beak Goldberg every bit Bob Smith
- Don Stanton every bit Mr. Warner
- Dan Stanton every bit Mr. Warner's brother
- Matthew Lillard every bit himself (cameo)
- Jeff Gordon every bit himself (cameo)
- Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell (cameo)
- Michael Jordan equally himself (cameo via annal footage from Space Jam)
- Marc Lawrence as Summit VP, Stating the Obvious
- Ron Perlman as Peak VP, Never Learning
- Robert Picardo as Acme VP, Rhetorical Questions
Voices
- Joe Alaskey as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Beaky Buzzard, and Mama Bear[2]
- Jeff Bennett as Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, and Nasty Canasta[2]
- Billy West as Elmer Fudd and Peter Lorre[2]
- Eric Goldberg as Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, and Tweety[2]
- Bruce Lanoil equally Pepé Le Pew[2]
- June Foray as Granny[2]
- Bob Bergen as Porky Pig[2]
- Casey Kasem every bit Shaggy Rogers[ii]
- Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo[2]
- Danny Chambers equally Cottontail Smith[ii]
- Stan Freberg as Junior Carry[2]
- Will Ryan as Papa Carry[2]
- Danny Mann equally Robo Dog and Spy Car[two]
- Mel Blanc as Gremlin Motorcar (annal recordings)[2]
- Paul Julian equally Road Runner (annal recordings) (uncredited)
- Nib Roberts as Michigan J. Frog (archive recordings) (uncredited)
- Johnnie Davis every bit Owl Jolson (annal recordings) (uncredited)
Production
Looney Tunes: Back in Action was initially developed as a follow-upwards to Space Jam (1996). As evolution began, the movie's plot was going to involve a new basketball competition with Michael Hashemite kingdom of jordan and the Looney Tunes against a new alien villain named Berserk-O!. Artist Bob Military camp was tasked with designing Berserk-O! and his henchmen. Joe Pytka would accept returned to direct and Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone signed on every bit the animation supervisors. Even so, Jordan did non concur to star in a sequel. According to Camp, a producer lied to the studio, claiming that Hashemite kingdom of jordan had signed on in order to keep development going. Without Jordan involved with the project, Warner Bros. was uninterested, and cancelled plans for Space Jam 2.[three]
The pic and then re-entered development equally Spy Jam and was to star Jackie Chan. Warner Bros. was also planning a flick titled Race Jam, which would have starred racing driver Jeff Gordon. Both projects were ultimately cancelled. Warner Bros. eventually asked Joe Dante to directly Back in Activeness. In the early on 1990s, Dante wanted to produce a biographical one-act with HBO, called Termite Terrace. Information technology centered around managing director filmmaker and cartoonist Chuck Jones' early years at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. On the project, Dante recalled, "It was a hilarious story and it was very good except that Warner Bros. said, 'Look, it's an erstwhile story. Information technology's got period stuff in it. We don't want that. Nosotros desire to rebrand our characters and nosotros want to practice Space Jam.'"[4]
Dante agreed to direct Back in Action every bit tribute to Jones. He and screenwriter Larry Doyle reportedly wanted the film to be the "anti-Space Jam" as Dante disliked how that film represented the Looney Tunes brand and personalities.[ citation needed ] Dante said, "I was making a movie for them with those characters [Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Action] and they did not want to know about those characters. They didn't want to know why Bugs Bunny shouldn't practice hip-hop. It was a pretty grim feel all effectually."[5] Warner Bros. hired Walt Disney Feature Blitheness'south Eric Goldberg, most known for his fast-paced, Warner Bros.-inspired animation of the Genie in Aladdin (1992), to direct the blitheness.
On the film, Dante stated, "It'south a gagfest. Not having a particularly stiff story, it just goes from gag to gag and location to location. It'south not a particularly compelling narrative, but, of course, that's non where the charm of the movie is supposed to lie." On the subject of filming, Dante stated that each scene with animated characters would be shot three times; commencement a rehearsal with a fake stuffed stand up-in, then with nothing in the frame, and lastly, with a "mirror ball" in the shot to indicate to the computers where the light sources were. Afterwards, the animators would start their piece of work and put the characters in the frame. According to Dante, a "problem" occurred when the studio executives grew tired of the movie's jokes and wanted them to be changed. Equally a result, the studio brought in xx-five gag writers to try to write jokes that were short enough to fit into an animated grapheme'southward mouth. Despite this, the moving-picture show has only one credited writer.[6]
Despite beingness directed by best-selling fans of the original cartoons, Dante stated that he had no creative freedom on the project, and called information technology "the longest year and a one-half of my life." Dante felt that he and Goldberg managed to preserve the original personalities of the characters. However, the opening, middle, and stop of the film are unlike from what Dante envisioned.[7]
Music
This was the concluding movie scored by composer Jerry Goldsmith. Due to Goldsmith's declining wellness, the last reel of the pic was actually scored by John Debney, though Goldsmith was the only credited composer in marketing materials and the Varèse Sarabande soundtrack album only contains Goldsmith's music (although the outset and last cues are adaptations of compositions heard in Warner Bros. cartoons). Debney receives an "Boosted Music past" credit in the closing titles of the film and "Special Thank you" in the soundtrack album credits.[8] Goldsmith died in July 2004, eight months after the film's release.
Reception
Box office
Looney Tunes: Back in Activeness was released on November xiv, 2003, originally planned to open earlier that summer. The film grossed $68.v million worldwide against a budget of $eighty 1000000.[nine] [10]
Warner Bros. was hoping to start a revitalized franchise of Looney Tunes media and products with the success of Back in Action.[ citation needed ] New animated shorts and a Duck Dodgers Television set series were deputed to tie-in with Dorsum in Activeness. However, due to the film's financial failure, the Looney Tunes franchise remained primarily on television for nearly two decades. Warner Bros. would non produce another theatrical Looney Tunes motion-picture show until Space Jam: A New Legacy, which was released in 2021.
Disquisitional response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approving rating of 56% based on 138 reviews, with an average rating of six/x. The website'south critics consensus reads: "The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the classic Looney Tunes cartoons."[xi] At Metacritic, the motion-picture show has a weighted boilerplate score a 64 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "by and large favorable reviews"[12] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[thirteen]
Chicago Sun-Times critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the motion picture "Ii Thumbs Upward"; Roeper chosen it a "cheerful and cocky-referential romp blending animation with alive action in a not-stop quest for light-headed laughs," while Ebert called it "goofy fun."[14]
The moving picture was also nominated for Saturn Award for Best Animated Picture, Annie Award for Best Animated Characteristic and Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature.
Home media
Warner Dwelling Video released Looney Tunes: Back in Action on VHS and DVD on March 2, 2004. The picture show was re-released on DVD in separate widescreen and full screen editions on September 7, 2010. It was also released on Blu-ray with bonus features on December 2, 2014.[ commendation needed ] A double DVD and Blu-ray release, paired with Space Jam, was released on June 7, 2016.[15]
Video game
The film has a platform game of the same name developed past Warthog Games and published past Electronic Arts for the PlayStation two, GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Xbox and Microsoft Windows versions were planned, but were cancelled due to the financial failure of the film.
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l thou n o "Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Activity". Behind The Vocalisation Actors . Retrieved May eighteen, 2020.
- ^ "Creative person Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated "Infinite Jam 2"". Animated Views. November 30, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ "Joe Dante on Looney Tunes". Something Former, Nothing New. June 15, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
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- ^ Sachs, Ben (August 8, 2012). "The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part one)". Chicago Reader . Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ "The Den of Geek interview: Joe Dante". Den of Geek. February 21, 2008. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Looney Tunes: Back in Activity soundtrack review at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)". Box Role Mojo. Internet Pic Database. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
- ^ Beck, Jerry (2005). The Animated Pic Guide.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- ^ "Discover CinemaScore" (Type "Looney Tunes" in the search box). CinemaScore. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Action :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Rogerebert.suntimes.com. Nov fourteen, 2003. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ^ "Space Jam/Looney Tunes: Back in Activeness" product information
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External links
- Official website
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes:_Back_in_Action
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