Carrotblanca (1995)
*** (out of 4)
As an actual movie I don't think this Looney Tunes short works that well but as a send-up as CASABLANCA it's right on the mark with an all-star cast playing those famous roles. You've got Bugs in the role played by Bogart, Tweety in the role of Lorre, Yosemite playing Rains, Daffy playing Sam, Kity doing Bergman and Sylvester playing Henreid. The casting is perfect but the story itself is rather weak but I guess this should be expected since the movie is really just trying to play homage to CASABLANCA. Of course, with just a seven-minute running time you can't get every scene in so we're left with the introductions, the first meeting between Bugs and Kity and of course the famous ending, which gets a new twist. The highlight is certainly the first meeting because it's rather funny seeing how close they got it to the original movie. The main reason this film works so well because the casting is just downright perfect and they manage to give all the Looney Tunes characters certain things that perfectly match up with the human counterparts and especially Tweety and Lorre.
*** (out of 4)
As an actual movie I don't think this Looney Tunes short works that well but as a send-up as CASABLANCA it's right on the mark with an all-star cast playing those famous roles. You've got Bugs in the role played by Bogart, Tweety in the role of Lorre, Yosemite playing Rains, Daffy playing Sam, Kity doing Bergman and Sylvester playing Henreid. The casting is perfect but the story itself is rather weak but I guess this should be expected since the movie is really just trying to play homage to CASABLANCA. Of course, with just a seven-minute running time you can't get every scene in so we're left with the introductions, the first meeting between Bugs and Kity and of course the famous ending, which gets a new twist. The highlight is certainly the first meeting because it's rather funny seeing how close they got it to the original movie. The main reason this film works so well because the casting is just downright perfect and they manage to give all the Looney Tunes characters certain things that perfectly match up with the human counterparts and especially Tweety and Lorre.