S.O.S. Daffy Duck

This is one of a series of movies collecting several Warner Bros. cartoons with a wrap-around story. In this one, the cartoons all involve supernatural or horror elements. Of those collected, the best is "Punch Trunk" (a Chuck Jones classic!) in which a tiny elephant is spotted all over town. Also good is the new short created for the film, "The Duxorcist," in which Daffy Duck tries to exorcise a gorgeous client. The wrap-around sequences, however, are less interesting and don't provide the anarchy and big laughs of the Warner Bros. classics.

During the 80s and early 90s, Warner Bros. produced a number of "clip-show"

movies, consisting of our favorite Looney Tunes facing new challenges, but the majority of the footage was taken from classic cartoons. Some of the others

included "Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island", "The Looney Looney Bugs

Bunny Movie", & "Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales". However, this one tops them all as best, using the clips to their full potential.

The show starts with the cartoon "Daffy Dilly", in which Daffy is selling novelty gags on the side of the road and hears over the radio that ailing millionaire J.P Cubish will pay a fortune to anyone who can make him laugh one more time

before he passes on. We watch the cartoon, which would normally end with

Cubish throwing pies at Daffy, but the movie picks it right up, and shows that Daffy has inherited the bulk of Cubish's fortune (he died laughing). However, the will says Daffy must use the money to help the community and provide the

service... yeah, right. After all, it's not like Cubish can take him with him, right?

Well, as Daffy finds out... he can. Cubish's ghost returns and starts to take the money, and every time Daffy starts acting up, more money disappears. Finally, the message sinks through and Daffy decides to open up a ghost-catching

business, ala Ghostbusters. He hires Porky (using the popular cartoon "The

Prize Pest"), and Bugs, who only agrees when he hears of the travel

opportunities ("You mean I get to go to Palm Springs?"). However, any time

Daffy threatens to fire his staff or gets greedy, more money vanishes from his vault.

The movie uses some of the "creepiest" Looney Tunes cartoons ever created,

including "Transylvania 6-5000", "The Abominable Snow Rabbit", "Scaredy

Cat", "Hyde & Go Tweet", "The Duxorcist", and others. While it's great to see these classic cartoons, the real fun is watching Daffy try to keep his cool... and his money. Though some younger kids may get scared off whenever Cubish

returns (everything goes dark, clap of thunder and lightning, and the music gets a little creepy), I highly recommend this cartoon for the whole family. Be sure to watch the opening cartoon of "Night of the Living Duck" for a real Halloween- themed treat.

Another cartoon compilation?! Yes, and this one's pretty clever. It features Daffy Duck opening a business to battle supernatural forces, a la "Ghostbusters". Probably the funniest part was the cartoon where Bugs Bunny stays in Count Dracula's castle and upsets the count's (after)lifestyle, but it was also really something when the sick millionaire threw all the pies at Daffy, and when Daffy scared Porky. Still, I never quite understood the whole part about the money disappearing.

So, "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" isn't quite the same as the classic cartoons, but it's still worth seeing. Don't be surprised if, after watching this, you go around saying "abracadabra" and "hocus pocus".

If I may add something, the two segments with Sylvester were also neat.

This is yet another old Looney Tunes classic that I have treasured for years and watch when I can. I'd really recommend it to Daffy Duck fans since the movie brings back some old throwback episodes with slight edits. You can clearly tell when the old scenes and the new scenes are meshing with one another due to the animation, but I wasn't too bothered by that.

Daffy is on his way to millionaire J.P. Cubish's house to try and make him laugh one last time. If he does so, Cubish will give him one million dollars. I'm not going to reveal anything else since that is not my style (it's also against the rules here to do so without putting up a warning, I believe), but you'll see for yourself how good the movie is if you watch it.

Another quick cut-and-paste job by Warner Bros. to generate some quick bucks, "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" is just a wide selection of cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Porky Pig and others. The whole thing is glued together by new animation that features Daffy in some odd situations as he tries to fight paranormal entities that are terrorizing others in the real world. The old cartoons can be caught at most anytime on the Cartoon Network or just about any place else now. Watching the productions as shorts are much better than watching a series in a 90-minute string. 2.5 out of 5 stars.