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Overview

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Director:
Joe Dante
Writer (WGA):
Larry Doyle (written by)
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Release Date:
14 November 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
Real life has never been so animated more
Plot:
The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
8 nominations more
User Comments:
Rather good, actually - and perfectly in tune with the original cartoons' spirit more (142 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brendan Fraser ... DJ Drake / Himself / Voice of Tasmanian Devil and She-Devil

Jenna Elfman ... Kate

Steve Martin ... Mr. Chairman

Timothy Dalton ... Damien Drake

Heather Locklear ... Dusty Tails

Joan Cusack ... Mother
Bill Goldberg ... Mr. Smith
Don Stanton ... Mr. Warner
Dan Stanton ... Mr. Warner's Brother
Dick Miller ... Security Guard
Roger Corman ... Hollywood Director
Kevin McCarthy ... Dr. Bennell
Jeff Gordon ... Himself

Matthew Lillard ... Himself
Mary Woronov ... Acme VP, Bad Ideas
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Looney Tunes Back in Action: The Movie (USA) (DVD box title)
Looney Tunes: The Movie (USA) (working title)
Spy Jam (USA) (working title)
The Untitled Looney Tunes Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some mild language and innuendo.
Runtime:
90 min | Italy:91 min
Country:
Germany | USA
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Mel Blanc's "sickly car" sound effect used for the Gremlin was originally the sound of Jack Benny's 1912 Maxwell automobile on his radio show. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Jeff Gordon's Monte Carlo's lights are missing in one shot. more
Quotes:
Bugs Bunny: [car almost crashes and then stops all of a sudden] Eh, out of gas.
Kate Houghton: [screen goes black] What? It doesn't work like that!
Bugs Bunny: [screen goes back to car as it crashes] Thanks, toots.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs A Few Good Men (1992) more
Soundtrack:
Hello! Ma Baby more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Rather good, actually - and perfectly in tune with the original cartoons' spirit, 13 December 2003
Author: R. J. (janaodigonada@hotmail.com) from Lisbon

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.

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