"The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie "
David Zaslav is a fucking idiot for letting this go to Ketchup Entertainment. Looney Tunes, one of the biggest and longest running IPs in WB history, is being treated like a contagious disease.
Who knew Porky Pig and Daffy Duck could carry an entire movie? I sure didn't.
The entire audience was dying of laughter for the entire 90 minute runtime. This thing is lean and keeps it moving with the crazy homages to The Thing and Armageddon to boot.
Beautifully animated too.
Drops at the end of February. Take your kids too.
I'm now convinced Coyote Vs. Acme is a masterpiece.
Not as good as the classic shorts, but that's an unfair standard, impossible bar to clear. It's totally pleasant, packed with several laugh-out-loud absurd bits, and functions as a lovely celebration of hand-drawn animation. I had a good time. Definitely recommend anyone interested to go see it while you can in theaters.
4. "They shelve Coyote vs Acme and give us this? " In response to Reply # 0
Not that there’s a correlation, at least that I’m aware of. Just that CvA had a genuinely great premise and everything about it sounded incredible, and the fact we’ll never see it has kind of jaded me toward things like this.
We got another Space Jam, but couldn’t get one if those intreresting premises in a decade if not more?
FOH, WB!
Also, I the trailer for this but I just can’t deal with the Daffy Duck voice
That shit is badly outdated for me now and just feels hackneyed.
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Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 87014 posts
Thu Mar-20-25 02:19 PM
5. "The same company that bought the rights to this is buying CvA." In response to Reply # 4
Or at least that's the newest reporting-- that Ketchup Entertainment is going to shell out ~50 million to get the rights to Coyote vs. Acme in the same way they shelled out for this.
They clearly believe that, even if the box office isn't high, there's value to having these movies in your library long term. And I'm inclined to agree with them.
6. "Cute and enjoyable, but slight" In response to Reply # 0
The main appeal is "Oh shit! They're having Looney Tunes do The Thing/Invasion of the Body Snatchers/Walking Dead/Armageddon!" I always feel like it's a mistake to try to fit Looney Tunes characters into arcs that require growth and lessons being learned and whatever. Like, I don't care if Daffy and Porky Pig learn the real meaning of Christmas.
Still, this worked for what it was and was a fun enough time at the theater.
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