ThiefHott Too much of everything

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

elicopperman Unlike the Looney Tunes movie Space Jam where it had a mediocre reception but a very good box office performance, this film was met with an ok response from critics but bombed financially and to this day is pretty under the radar. That being said, I actually enjoy Back in Action quite a bunch as I felt it was more faithful to the zaniness and wittiness of the original Looney Tunes. While I don't think this movie is by any means a masterpiece, I think it's very underrated. I think one reason the film was not received all that well is because....well, it doesn't really make much sense plot wise. After leaving Hollywood due to all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck joins former stuntman Damien Drake Jr. (Brendan Fraser) and embarks on an adventure to find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond. Along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros (Jenna Elfman), they try to obtain said diamond before The Acme Corp. does for their own sick purposes. However, I think you have to really be a big fan of Looney Tunes to accept just how ludicrous the plot really is. Some of the classic Looney Tunes characters either appear as small cameos or advance the plot in such odd ways, but again, they helps progress the film and play into the film's silly nature. While the live-action characters played by Brendan Fraser and Jenna Elfman do fall a little short, the gags with the Looney Tunes are jam packed with slapstick, fourth wall breaks, pronoun trouble (heh, heh), and even some self aware moments, like a small banter between Daffy and Bugs on wild takes. Admittedly, not every joke does hit and the film does act a little too self aware at times, but it never distracts from how funny the other jokes are.Adding further into the film, the animation was lead by former Disney animator Eric Goldberg, and it looks fantastic. It really does look like the toons are there with the live actors, and the animation on them is fluid and amusing in its own right. The voice-acting is also top notch, with the stand outs being Joe Alaskey as both Bugs and Daffy and Billy West as Elmer Fudd. They do a great job bringing the characters' voices to life and it's no wonder they still tend to voice them today (minus Alaskey though who sadly passed on).To sum it all up, while the humor is hit or miss, the live leads are somewhat dull and the plot can be too ridiculous at times, Looney Tunes: Back in Action offers enough wit, lovable Looney Tunes chemistry, solid animation, and charming voice acting to make it an enjoyable experience that embraces how silly it really is. Apparently director Joe Dante hated working on the film due to having Warner Bros. be too demanding of changes and restrictions, but I think he succeeded enough to make a fun if not flawed film that at least gives a decent lime light to my favorite Looney Tune character, Daffy Duck. So I recommend this flick if you're in the mood for some weird but harmless Looney Tunes entertainment....oh yeah, and Steve Martin acting like a lovably cooky leader.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . that it's not allowed to have its own home page on this site. FRANK TASHLIN'S STORYBOOKS: TONY AND CLARENCE can be found as a "Special Feature" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4, Disc 2. TONY predicts that the athlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner soon will replace Donald Trump as the U.S. Rich People Party nominee in the 2016 Presidential Election. Some may quibble that Jenner endorsed Trump already, and that Trump clinched the election yesterday when he was awarded the highly coveted American Purple Heart Medal. Though Freberg's narration of Tashlin's 1951 story symbolizes such metal disks as "pennies," Jenner's World Decathlon GOLD Men's Medal trumps Trump's Purple Thingee. Plus, Jenner has closer ties to the U.S. military, having been born the son of a veteran. Since Jenner meets the age and citizenship requirements for the American Presidency, and has a bigger footprint on U.S. "Reality" TV shows than Trump's Birth Certificate Baby Print-sized presence, Jenner is THE logical replacement candidate when Trump self-implodes once and for all. The controversial aspect of TONY AND CLARENCE is that CLARENCE is male--until she comes out as the female "Clarice," who cannot even use the Women's Room in North Carolina!

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Daffy won't be part of the movie(yes, of course this is meta - one of the countless things in this that are entirely in the spirit of these creations; several failings one can attribute to this are directly linked to the insistence on them getting the treatment of feature-length - well, 81 minutes sans credits, 88 with, anyway) on account of being the one who gets the brunt of the abuse in the plentiful slapstick.He gets the equally clumsy DJ(Fraser, a security guard who dreams of becoming a famous stunt-man... on his own merit) fired, only for the two to discover that the latter's father didn't just star as a spy, he *is* one. They embark to find the Blue Monkey, a large diamond, to prove their worth. Kate(Elfman, at her least obnoxious... I honestly wonder why she was even the one cast... anyway, as a strong, if frightfully(and intentionally) by-the-book, female executive at Warner Bro's) is sent to retrieve the duck, and Bugs comes with. Acme's evil Chairman(Martin, mugging and moving as if his suit is full of ants) wants to stop them, and use the stone for his own benefit.Along the way, we'll visit Vegas, see a number of name cameos and the other 2D creatures(and yes, their 3D forms do take getting used to) will pop up here or there, on either side of the conflict. Gremlins director Joe Dante helmed this, determined to get right what Space Jam got wrong. The personalities are intact, the genre is action-adventure(rather than sports-sci-fi... why was that even...?), and the frenetic pace not only keeps it moving, keeping a steady onslaught(you'll have to pay close attention to get them all) of jokes, classic references and gags(verbal, breaking the fourth wall, cleverness, commenting on clichés as well as, occasionally, political correctness(sadly, such inspired bits are fairly few - the Louvre sequence is brilliant, however)), it fits with the original form of these beings(and frankly, this leaps from one set-piece to another, each of those playing out like one of those shorts, returning them to their element).It goes against expectations(or beats you to pointing out when it succumbs to them), and makes the wise call of making these drawn characters, not to mention their cartoon logic, an accepted part of the live-action world, not unlike the vastly superior Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Some of the on-screen comedic talent aren't given a lot to work with. The acting is dependable(I would like to, from the bottom of my heart, thank whoever was responsible for keeping Goldberg from speaking; his physical presence is why he's given roles, we know this, so best to rely entirely on that... in fact, he approaches his henchman role mostly as the one track mind, T1000 kind of thing, and is genuinely convincing).The DVD comes with 10 and a half minutes of decent deleted scenes(many with the drawings only partially completed), the 8 and a half minute documentary Behind the Tunes which isn't bad, the 7 and a half minute featurette Crash! Bang! Boom! - The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown and 7 minute new short subject Whizzard of Ow(both of which I will review on their individual pages here on the site), a theatrical trailer for this and one for The Looney Tunes collection. There is a lot of cartoon violence and a little moderate language in this. I recommend this to big fans of the classic WB animations. 6/10

bazmitch23 This is the film that crushed Warner Bros Animation. After the failure of Osmosis Jones, the studio needed just one hit to get themselves back on track. So they decided to do a Looney Tunes movie. Also, because of people's disappointment with Space Jam, they decided to make a better Looney Tunes movie. Unfortunately, it didn't work. This was released in '03, not many people were interested in Looney Tunes anymore. Besides, it had to go up against Finding Nemo. However, this film has found it's audience on DVD. What do I think of it? Meh.Some things are good, like the old school gags, the FX, the animation, Brendan Fraser was good and I like the cartoony look.Now here are things I hate about it: -The pacing is TOO FAST! The opening is really hard to take in when the film is moving at 250 mph. SLOW DOWN! It's like Moulin Rogue were everything moves by so fast, you can't follow what's going on.-Jenna Elfman is TERRIBLE! She doesn't even try to give a good performance. I think she knew this film was going to flop and didn't care.Too many jokes are happening at once! It's hard to concentrate on one joke when there's something in the background you're meant to be looking at too. It's like the equivalent of having two friends talk to you at the same time and you don't know which one to talk to.Steve Martin is dreadful. I know he's overacting for the sake of being funny. But there's overacting in a good way and there's overacting in a bad way. Sadly this is the latter. I'm surprised him and Jenna didn't get any Razzie Nominations. -The scene where Ron Perlman gets eaten by Taz and there's just his skeleton left was just too much. Sure, it's done in a non gory way, but....... it's just creepy.-The Rabbit Season- Duck Season gag has been done a million times. ENOUGH!Overall, this film is okay. Worth watching if you're a Looney Tunes fan. But maybe if the pacing was slowed down a bit, it would've been better.