Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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Review by Demetrius Payne
for Reel Movie Critic
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Brendan Fraiser
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DJ Drake
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Jenna Elfman
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Kate Houghton
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Directed by Joe Dante. An action, animation, adventure comedy. Rated PG (for some mild language and innuendo). Warner Brother Pictures. Running time: 90 minutes.
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A cute little movie for the kiddies
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It's been awhile since we've seen all our favorite WB cartoon characters on the big screen together, but Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck join forces to solve a silly (but in a good way) little mystery, involving a missing super spy and a mythical blue diamond.
Brendan Fraiser plays DJ Drake, a Warner Brothers studio security guard, who secretly longs to be a Hollywood stunt man. His father is Damien Drake (Timothy Dalton), a famous movie actor, known for playing a super spy in all his films, while unknown to the rest of the world, including his own son, he really is a super spy. Jenna Elfman is Kate Houghton, Vice President of Comedy at Warner Brothers, who has a bottom line where her heart is supposed to be. In the same day Houghton fires Donald Duck and DJ, but of course you know fate brings them all together, along with an ultimatum from her bosses to bring back the Duck because Bugs said to or she'd be fired. Then they have to try and save the world.
What makes their task of saving the world most entertaining is the villain they are trying to stop. Steve Martin, as Mr. Chairman, is the ruthless head of the Acme Corporation; the same Acme Corporation that produces the feeble contraptions used by Wile E. Coyote, which never, ever capture the roadrunner. Mr. Chairman has a scheme in mind to capture the ancient Blue Monkey Diamond, in hopes of turning the world's entire population into monkeys, so they will work free of charge in factories to make ACME products. He will then turn the monkeys back into people so they can buy the products. I don't know if Mr. C consulted "Austin Power's" Dr. Evil for advice on putting this plot together; it has more "debacle" written on it then diabolical. But this movie did a good job keeping the action at a kid's pace and even delving deep into Warner Brother's extensive film archives to provide a subversive chuckle for the adults in attendance here and there. This movie is neither great nor groundbreaking, but it is entertaining and very family friendly.
