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Unisciti ai Looney Tunes nella ricerca del padre scomparso di un uomo e del mitico diamante Blue Monkey.Unisciti ai Looney Tunes nella ricerca del padre scomparso di un uomo e del mitico diamante Blue Monkey.Unisciti ai Looney Tunes nella ricerca del padre scomparso di un uomo e del mitico diamante Blue Monkey.
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Forget "Roger Rabbit", but forget also "Space Jam". It is so sad when three great actors like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Steve Martin blatantly "do it for the > money" (or the carrots, or whatever they pay Daffy with). All three of them do a really poor standard performance... The human villain thinks it's enough to act stupid to look like a cartoon, the two toons seem to justify wooden acting with pretending to be human. A recent Hollywood fashion is an attitude like "Hey, let's get something that worked in the past, cut some stupid expenses like a decent screenwriter, and let's be back in the big bucks again! Just put in some expensive-looking effects and the morons won't notice!" - Matrix 2.1 and 2.2 as a case in point. And the effects are marginally under standard, too. Bottom line, I definitely didn't like it; make it 5/10, and just thanks to the only true professional there: Vile E. Coyote, great as usual (and quoting himself, they pay him WAY too little).
An almost total mess, and no-one wanted to like it more than me.
The live action sequeces are flat emotionally, photographically, dramatically and every other way: Dante seems have done the impossible by making Brandon Frase, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin and Joan Cusack plus various culty walkongs (Roger Corman, Mary Woronov) unfunny, unbelievable, and uninteresting.
The model, curiously, is not so much Who Killed Roger Rabbit as Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies -- but without the heart or the inspired originality and ingenuity. Instead, it's mindsplitting, unrelentingly meta, carpetbombing the audience with more movie quotes than Tarantino has in "Kill Bill." You say, "Sure, I remember that cartoon well, and it was a helluvalot better than this."
What the film needs -- particularly since it's gotta be pointed at least partially at kids -- is some kid characters, interesting ones. Instead, it just has lame Hollywood jokes, lame Las Vegas jokes, lame Paris jokes, and lame movie auteur jokes that had my seven year old son wondering when it was going to be funny. Sure, it was sometimes: if you go to the well that often, you'll find water somewhere.
The one exception to the general sloppy anarchy is a wonderful sequence with Bugs and Daffy chasing through the Louvre, into painting after painting after painting (most of them not at the Louvre, but so what). I'd love to have it on a loop, with the rest of the film surgically removed.
The live action sequeces are flat emotionally, photographically, dramatically and every other way: Dante seems have done the impossible by making Brandon Frase, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin and Joan Cusack plus various culty walkongs (Roger Corman, Mary Woronov) unfunny, unbelievable, and uninteresting.
The model, curiously, is not so much Who Killed Roger Rabbit as Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies -- but without the heart or the inspired originality and ingenuity. Instead, it's mindsplitting, unrelentingly meta, carpetbombing the audience with more movie quotes than Tarantino has in "Kill Bill." You say, "Sure, I remember that cartoon well, and it was a helluvalot better than this."
What the film needs -- particularly since it's gotta be pointed at least partially at kids -- is some kid characters, interesting ones. Instead, it just has lame Hollywood jokes, lame Las Vegas jokes, lame Paris jokes, and lame movie auteur jokes that had my seven year old son wondering when it was going to be funny. Sure, it was sometimes: if you go to the well that often, you'll find water somewhere.
The one exception to the general sloppy anarchy is a wonderful sequence with Bugs and Daffy chasing through the Louvre, into painting after painting after painting (most of them not at the Louvre, but so what). I'd love to have it on a loop, with the rest of the film surgically removed.
More than making up for the lame excuse for a film that was the
widely panned "Space Jam", this live-action/animation combination featuring Warner's cartoon characters perfectly
recaptures the classic Looney Tunes' wonderfully nonsensical,
freewheeling spirit. There isn't much in a way of an acceptable or
even decent plot, actually, but don't let that deter you since that's
precisely the reason why any attempt to fit the Looney Tunes gang
into a full-length film would flounder. Instead, director Joe Dante
and writer Larry Doyle erect a perilously teetering scaffold upon
which an insanely huge number of amazingly good sight gags and
verbal puns is set, while at the same time paying some sort of
warped tribute to classic sci-fi B-films of the fifties. The `plot' has
Daffy Duck fired from Warners by executive Jenna Elfman as
outdated, then proceeding to get security guard Brendan Fraser
fired along with him, and both embarking on a nutty drive to Las
Vegas to find the whereabouts of Fraser's dad, film star/spy
Timothy Dalton, eventually uncovering a dastardly conspiracy from
ACME chairman Steve Martin to use the Blue Monkey diamond to
enslave mankind. Of course it doesn't make sense, and that's fine
-- it's not meant to. You may point out that the live action/animation
combination doesn't always work, that the live actors never reach
the manic intensity of the cartoon characters (except for Joan
Cusack's wonderfully, ahem, daffy cameo), but really, that's beside
the point when the gratuitously violent and deliriously politically
incorrect free-for-all of the original cartoons is so perfectly
duplicated here.
widely panned "Space Jam", this live-action/animation combination featuring Warner's cartoon characters perfectly
recaptures the classic Looney Tunes' wonderfully nonsensical,
freewheeling spirit. There isn't much in a way of an acceptable or
even decent plot, actually, but don't let that deter you since that's
precisely the reason why any attempt to fit the Looney Tunes gang
into a full-length film would flounder. Instead, director Joe Dante
and writer Larry Doyle erect a perilously teetering scaffold upon
which an insanely huge number of amazingly good sight gags and
verbal puns is set, while at the same time paying some sort of
warped tribute to classic sci-fi B-films of the fifties. The `plot' has
Daffy Duck fired from Warners by executive Jenna Elfman as
outdated, then proceeding to get security guard Brendan Fraser
fired along with him, and both embarking on a nutty drive to Las
Vegas to find the whereabouts of Fraser's dad, film star/spy
Timothy Dalton, eventually uncovering a dastardly conspiracy from
ACME chairman Steve Martin to use the Blue Monkey diamond to
enslave mankind. Of course it doesn't make sense, and that's fine
-- it's not meant to. You may point out that the live action/animation
combination doesn't always work, that the live actors never reach
the manic intensity of the cartoon characters (except for Joan
Cusack's wonderfully, ahem, daffy cameo), but really, that's beside
the point when the gratuitously violent and deliriously politically
incorrect free-for-all of the original cartoons is so perfectly
duplicated here.
I'm a huge Looney Tunes fan, if not a major cartoon fanatic alone, so when I found out this movie was being made, I jumped for the chance to see it. First off, I was thrilled to see that the creators stuck to the "Roger Rabbit" technique, in which the cartoons were all hand-drawn and computers are only used to add color and depth (to give the 3D appearance of the characters). Second, I thought that the cartoons themselves were great. Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Elmer... they all stuck to the same characteristics that I grew to love watching Bugs Bunny cartoons on Saturday morning. The only real draw-back of this movie was, without a doubt, the live-action actors. Brendan Fraser is good, but he can't live up to his past movies (especially "The Mummy" saga). The same goes to Jenna Elfman, who's talent is severly wasted as she comes across as the most serious character in the whole movie. Timothy Dalton, as usual, is flawless (and if you look closely, you can actually see how closely Fraser and Dalton look alike). Steve Martin, meanwhile, makes one of the worst performances of his career, and acts WAY too over the top, even for an eccentric villain.
The movie is good, but only is you are a truly devoted cartoon-lover (if you are, then you'll get a huge kick out of the opening sequence alone). Overall, come for Bugs, leave for Martin.
The movie is good, but only is you are a truly devoted cartoon-lover (if you are, then you'll get a huge kick out of the opening sequence alone). Overall, come for Bugs, leave for Martin.
I really like Jenna Elfman (Kate) as a comedienne. She generally does pretty well. She started off great in Looney Tunes searching for Daffy Duck to get him back to the studio, because her job depended on it. But then the plot morphs into Brendan Fraser (Drake) looking for his father and Elfman becomes simply a spectator in the second half of the movie. She becomes a prop on the set, rather than a character having something to do with the action.
After her trip to Las Vegas in the film, Kate serves pretty much as a prop rather than as a character. She does throw a monkey wrench and puts a piece into a puzzle. But after the trip to Las Vegas, Ms. Elfman is mostly just a prop on the set. When the camera goes to her, she is simply standing there watching at Brendan Fraser (Drake) do his part. Fraser does pretty well. He does act through out, but in the second half of the film Elfman is simply a prop.
I went to see this film as a fan of Ms. Elfman's. I heard Ms. Elfman on TV state that she wanted to do more films with Fraser. That will probably be a good thing. I know she can act as I have seen her in other films doing a great job. I think Elfman & Fraser will make a good pair, but Elfman has got to do more acting and less spectating. The definition of "act" is "do", not "spectate" or "watch".
I give the first half a 7 and the second half a 3 for an average of 5. After the first half I was just hoping it would end.
After her trip to Las Vegas in the film, Kate serves pretty much as a prop rather than as a character. She does throw a monkey wrench and puts a piece into a puzzle. But after the trip to Las Vegas, Ms. Elfman is mostly just a prop on the set. When the camera goes to her, she is simply standing there watching at Brendan Fraser (Drake) do his part. Fraser does pretty well. He does act through out, but in the second half of the film Elfman is simply a prop.
I went to see this film as a fan of Ms. Elfman's. I heard Ms. Elfman on TV state that she wanted to do more films with Fraser. That will probably be a good thing. I know she can act as I have seen her in other films doing a great job. I think Elfman & Fraser will make a good pair, but Elfman has got to do more acting and less spectating. The definition of "act" is "do", not "spectate" or "watch".
I give the first half a 7 and the second half a 3 for an average of 5. After the first half I was just hoping it would end.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizIn the spoof of the Psyco (1960) shower scene, Bugs pours a grey can of black Hershey's chocolate syrup down the shower drain while the tune of "The Murder" is heard (with a little bit of the Merry-Go-Round Broke Down), a reference to the fact that Sir Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco's chocolate syrup in the original scene to better simulate blood in black and white. Bosko was the first ever Looney Tunes character.
- BlooperWhen traveling into the African bush, the main characters ride on an Asian elephant.
- Citazioni
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.
- Curiosità sui creditiPorky 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."
- Versioni alternativeWhen 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.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Ice-T/Jenna Elfman/The Strokes (2003)
- Colonne sonoreWhat's Up, Doc?
Written by Carl W. Stalling
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- Celebre anche come
- Looney Tunes: De nuevo en acción
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 80.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 20.991.364 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 9.317.371 USD
- 16 nov 2003
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 68.514.844 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 33 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.78 : 1
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