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Looney Tunes: Back in Action

  • 20032003
  • PGPG
  • 1h 31m
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5.8/10
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Steve Martin, Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Joe Alaskey, and Bugs Bunny in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
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AnimationAdventureComedy
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.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
38K
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POPULARITY
4,773
433
    • Joe Dante
    • Eric Goldberg(animation director)
    • Larry Doyle
  • Stars
    • Brendan Fraser
    • Jenna Elfman
    • Steve Martin
    • Joe Dante
    • Eric Goldberg(animation director)
    • Larry Doyle
  • Stars
    • Brendan Fraser
    • Jenna Elfman
    • Steve Martin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 195User reviews
    • 98Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
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    Steve Martin in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Steve Martin in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, and Joe Alaskey in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Steve Martin and Ron Perlman in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Joe Alaskey in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, June Foray, and Joe Alaskey in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Jeff Bennett and Jeff Gordon in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Heather Locklear in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Joan Cusack in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, and Joe Alaskey in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Joe Alaskey, and Billy West in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
    Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, and Joe Alaskey in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

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    Brendan Fraser
    Brendan Fraser
    • DJ Drake…
    Jenna Elfman
    Jenna Elfman
    • Kate
    Steve Martin
    Steve Martin
    • Mr. Chairman
    Heather Locklear
    Heather Locklear
    • Dusty Tails
    Timothy Dalton
    Timothy Dalton
    • Damien Drake
    Joan Cusack
    Joan Cusack
    • Mother
    Bill Goldberg
    Bill Goldberg
    • Mr. Smith
    Don Stanton
    Don Stanton
    • Mr. Warner
    Dan Stanton
    Dan Stanton
    • Mr. Warner's Brother
    Dick Miller
    Dick Miller
    • Security Guard
    Roger Corman
    Roger Corman
    • Hollywood Director
    Kevin McCarthy
    Kevin McCarthy
    • Dr. Bennell
    Jeff Gordon
    Jeff Gordon
    • Jeff Gordon
    Matthew Lillard
    Matthew Lillard
    • Matthew Lillard
    Mary Woronov
    Mary Woronov
    • Acme VP, Bad Ideas
    Marc Lawrence
    Marc Lawrence
    • Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
    Bill McKinney
    Bill McKinney
    • Acme VP, Nitpicking
    George Murdock
    George Murdock
    • Acme VP, Unfairly Promoted
      • Joe Dante
      • Eric Goldberg(animation director)
      • Larry Doyle
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Brendan Fraser did such a good job doing an impersonation of Taz that he was allowed to do the voice instead of Taz' current voice actor Jim Cummings.
    • Goofs
      When 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 credits
      Porky 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 versions
      When 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Ice-T/Jenna Elfman/The Strokes (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      What's Up, Doc?
      Written by Carl W. Stalling

    User reviews195

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    Fairly dreadful film
    I bow to no one in my love and admiration for those classic Warner Brothers cartoons of the 1940's and 1950's. Like so many of my generation, I was virtually raised on these works from infancy on up. Yet, for those of us who are die-hard aficionados, 'Looney Tunes: Back in Action' is a decidedly depressing experience, proving, once again, that when it comes to revisiting one's childhood, a person truly can't go home again.

    This is not, of course, a re-visitation in its purest form, since 'Back in Action,' like 1996's 'Space Jam,' is actually a modernized hybrid combining live action with animation. And that, perhaps, is the single greatest problem with this film. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, the Road Runner and the rest of the gang clearly feel more at home in their own two-dimensional world in which the laws of nature have no jurisdiction. Yank them out of that context and stick them into the 'real world' with a bunch of overacting humans and their unique charm begins to drain away and dissipate. Unfortunately, both the cartoon characters and the humans with whom they are interacting are stuck with a dreary, largely unfunny script that substitutes pandemonium and movement for cleverness and wit (qualities the original cartoons had in abundance). The spy tale writer Larry Doyle has come up with is stultifying in its stupidity and reminds us of just why the Warner Brother originals, which were masterpieces of minimalist storytelling, ran for ten or fifteen minutes and no longer. Expanding the story to almost ten times that length stretches the already flimsy material far past the breaking point.

    There are a few moments of inspired fun, such as when Bugs and Daffy, followed by an irate Elmer Fudd, jump in and out of art masterpieces in the Louvre, wreaking havoc as they go, or when our intrepid band of heroes encounters a secret Area 51-type government project in the desert inhabited by a coterie of creatures from 1950's 'B' movie classics. In fact, the movie has quite a bit of fun with 'in' movie references that adults are far more likely to get than the children who clearly make up the bulk of this movie's audience. But those moments of inspiration are few and far between, and most of the time we are stuck in a fairly dismal comedy overall. The blending of live action and animation, under the guidance of director Joe Dante, is pretty much state-of-the-art, though these particular cartoon characters have more charm when they are two, rather than three, dimensional in form.

    Brendan Fraser, as a stunt man who goes in search of his kidnapped father with Bugs and Daffy along for the ride, makes an appealing hero, although the usually likable Jenna Elfman succeeds mainly in being annoying. Timothy Dalton has a nothing part as Fraser's dad, a legendary movie actor who turns out to be a spy off screen as well as on. Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack, Roger Corman, and Kevin McCarthy also make brief appearances, but the single worst job of acting is turned in by an overwrought and over-wound Steve Martin, who as the diabolical head of the Acme Corporation, delivers a ham handed performance of monumental badness.

    Lovers of The WB cartoons had best stick with the originals.
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    • Release date
      • November 14, 2003 (United States)
      • Germany
      • United States
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    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Baltimore Spring Creek Productions
      • Spring Creek Productions
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
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