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| Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Activeness | |
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| Directed by | Joe Dante |
| Written past | Larry Doyle |
| Based on | Looney Tunes by Warner Bros. |
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| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
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| Music past | Jerry Goldsmith |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| Running time | 93 minutes[one] |
| Country | United States |
| Linguistic communication | English language |
| Budget | $80 million[ane] |
| Box office | $68.5 million[1] |
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American alive-action/animated comedy film directed by Joe Dante and written by Larry Doyle. The plot follows the Looney Tunes characters Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny (both voiced past Joe Alaskey) every bit they help aspiring daredevil Damian "D.J." Drake, Jr. (Brendan Fraser) and Warner Bros. executive Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman) observe the "blueish monkey" diamond in order to foreclose the evil Mr. Chairman (Steve Martin) of the Acme Corporation from using information technology to plow mankind into monkeys that will manufacture his products; the group as well attempts to rescue D.J.'south father (Timothy Dalton), an actor and spy who has been captured by Mr. Chairman. The animation was directed by Eric Goldberg. It was fabricated following the success of Space Jam (1996), to which it was originally developed as a sequel, titled Spy Jam.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on November 14, 2003, by Warner Bros. Pictures and was a box-part flop, grossing $68.v 1000000 worldwide against an $80 million budget. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its sense of fun but criticized the screenplay.
This was the final movie to be scored by composer Jerry Goldsmith, who died less than a year after the picture show's release. This was too the terminal film to be produced past Warner Bros. Feature Animation. Along with this, information technology was also the last theatrically released feature film to prominently feature the Looney Tunes characters until 2021's Space Jam: A New Legacy.
Plot
Disillusioned of playing the fall guy to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck demands his own cartoon from Warner Bros., but is promptly fired past the "Vice-President of Comedy", Kate Houghton. Security guard and struggling stuntman DJ Drake is asked to escort Daffy off the studio lot, simply the ensuing chase leads to the Batmobile demolishing the studio water belfry, resulting in DJ besides being fired. He returns home with Daffy following him, where he receives a message from his father, film star, Damian Drake, who is actually a secret agent. Damian instructs his son to travel to Las Vegas, find his associate, Dusty Tails, and find a mystical diamond chosen the "bluish monkey", he is shortly thereafter captured by the Acme Corporation, led by the eccentric Mr. Chairman. DJ and Daffy head for Vegas. Meanwhile, Bugs' routines fail without Daffy, so Kate is forced to locate and rehire Daffy or face being terminated herself. Bugs informs Kate of the situation, so they caput to DJ'southward domicile where they notice Damian's spy car, and apply it to pursue DJ and Daffy.
In Las Vegas, DJ and Daffy run across Dusty in a casino owned by Yosemite Sam, who happens to exist an acquaintance of the Tiptop Corporation. Dusty gives them a strange playing carte du jour, which is a clue to finding the diamond. Sam and his henchmen try to kill them and accept the menu, but they manage to elude him and flee in the spy car with Bugs and Kate. The spy car, which tin can besides fly, crashes in the Nevada desert. As they travel through the desert, Wile Eastward. Coyote tries to stop them, merely is foiled. The group somewhen stumbles upon Surface area 52, run by a woman called 'mother', who informs them of the situation. She plays a video recording, which reveals that the Blue Monkey has the power to devolve humans into monkeys and evolve them back again. Acme intends on using the blue monkey on all of flesh to manufacture their products, and and then turn them back to buy them. Marvin the Martian, who was imprisoned in the facility, escapes and leads a group of fellow alien inmates to obtain the playing card, but the heroes escape. Seeing that the card has Mona Lisa's face on it, the group conclude they must view the painting in the Louvre, located in Paris.
At the Louvre, they detect that the card contains a viewing window, and looking through it, the window reveals that the Mona Lisa has a map of Africa hidden beneath. Bugs and Daffy's co-star, Elmer Fudd, appears, revealing himself equally an Peak henchman, and chases Bugs and Daffy through the gallery to obtain the card whilst Kate is kidnapped past Mr. Chairman'due south bodyguard, Mr. Smith with assistance of Beaky Buzzard. DJ rescues Kate while Elmer is disintegrated by Bugs later jumping out of a pointillism artwork. Bugs and Daffy reunite with DJ and Kate, and they leave Paris.
DJ, Kate, Bugs, and Daffy travel to Africa, meeting Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety, who escort them to the ruins of a jungle temple where they find the bluish monkey. Yet, Granny and visitor reveal themselves to be Mr. Chairman, Smith, and the Tasmanian Devil in disguise. Mr. Chairman uses a disintegration gun to transport himself and the heroes to the Height headquarters where he forces DJ to requite him the diamond, when Damian is revealed to be his prisoner, but goes dorsum on his word to release him.
Marvin is sent to identify the bluish monkey on an Height satellite which will emit an energy beam around the globe to plough anybody, except Mr. Chairman, into monkeys. DJ and Kate rescue Damian from a death trap, whilst Bugs and Daffy chase Marvin into space. Bugs is thwarted by Marvin, prompting Daffy to get Duck Dodgers, in social club to destroy the blue monkey. The transforming energy beam but strikes Mr. Chairman, turning him into a monkey. Bugs and Daffy return to Earth, where Daffy discovers the whole adventure was staged to make a film. All the same, Bugs promises Daffy they will be equal partners, but just as Daffy's luck seems to be improving, he is crushed by the Looney Tunes iris, where Porky Pig attempts to close the film with "That'due south all folks!" just for the studio to shut down earlier he tin finish, and he bitterly tells the audience to get home.
Bandage
- Brendan Fraser as Damian "D. J." Drake, Jr. / himself
- Fraser also voiced Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian She-Devil[2]
- Jenna Elfman as Kate Houghton
- Steve Martin equally Mr. Chairman
- Heather Locklear every bit Dusty Tails
- Joan Cusack as Mother
- Timothy Dalton as Damian Drake
- Bill Goldberg as Bob Smith
- Don Stanton every bit Mr. Warner
- Dan Stanton every bit Mr. Warner'due south brother
- Matthew Lillard every bit himself (cameo)
- Jeff Gordon as himself (cameo)
- Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell (cameo)
- Michael Jordan as himself (cameo via archive footage from Space Jam)
- Marc Lawrence as Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
- Ron Perlman as Acme VP, Never Learning
- Robert Picardo equally Tiptop VP, Rhetorical Questions
Voices
- Joe Alaskey as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Beaky Buzzard, and Mama Conduct[2]
- Jeff Bennett as Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, and Nasty Canasta[2]
- Billy Westward as Elmer Fudd and Peter Lorre[ii]
- Eric Goldberg as Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, and Tweety[2]
- Bruce Lanoil as Pepé Le Pew[ii]
- June Foray as Granny[2]
- Bob Bergen as Porky Pig[2]
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers[2]
- Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo[2]
- Danny Chambers equally Cottontail Smith[2]
- Stan Freberg as Inferior Bear[2]
- Will Ryan as Papa Behave[two]
- Danny Mann as Robo Dog and Spy Car[2]
- Mel Blanc equally Gremlin Car (archive recordings)[two]
- Paul Julian as Route Runner (annal recordings) (uncredited)
- Neb Roberts as Michigan J. Frog (annal recordings) (uncredited)
- Johnnie Davis as Owl Jolson (archive recordings) (uncredited)
Product
Looney Tunes: Back in Action was initially developed as a follow-up to Space Jam (1996). As evolution began, the film'due south plot was going to involve a new basketball competition with Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes against a new alien villain named Berserk-O!. Artist Bob Camp was tasked with designing Berserk-O! and his henchmen. Joe Pytka would have returned to straight and Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone signed on every bit the blitheness supervisors. Nonetheless, Jordan did not agree to star in a sequel. According to Camp, a producer lied to the studio, claiming that Jordan had signed on in gild to proceed development going. Without Jordan involved with the project, Warner Bros. was uninterested, and cancelled plans for Space Jam ii.[3]
The picture then re-entered development every bit Spy Jam and was to star Jackie Chan. Warner Bros. was also planning a picture titled Race Jam, which would have starred racing driver Jeff Gordon. Both projects were ultimately cancelled. Warner Bros. somewhen asked Joe Dante to direct Back in Action. In the early 1990s, Dante wanted to produce a biographical comedy with HBO, chosen Termite Terrace. Information technology centered effectually director filmmaker and cartoonist Chuck Jones' early on years at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. On the project, Dante recalled, "Information technology was a hilarious story and it was very good except that Warner Bros. said, 'Look, information technology'south an old story. It'due south got period stuff in it. We don't desire that. We want to rebrand our characters and we want to do Space Jam.'"[4]
Dante agreed to direct Dorsum in Action as tribute to Jones. He and screenwriter Larry Doyle reportedly wanted the film to be the "anti-Infinite Jam" every bit Dante disliked how that movie represented the Looney Tunes brand and personalities.[ citation needed ] Dante said, "I was making a movie for them with those characters [Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Activeness] and they did non want to know nigh those characters. They didn't desire to know why Bugs Bunny shouldn't do hip-hop. It was a pretty grim experience all effectually."[5] Warner Bros. hired Walt Disney Feature Blitheness'southward Eric Goldberg, about known for his fast-paced, Warner Bros.-inspired animation of the Genie in Aladdin (1992), to straight the animation.
On the motion-picture show, Dante stated, "It's a gagfest. Not having a specially strong story, it just goes from gag to gag and location to location. It's not a specially compelling narrative, merely, of class, that's not where the amuse of the moving-picture show is supposed to prevarication." On the subject of filming, Dante stated that each scene with animated characters would be shot 3 times; first a rehearsal with a fake stuffed stand-in, and so with cypher in the frame, and lastly, with a "mirror ball" in the shot to betoken to the computers where the light sources were. After, the animators would showtime their work and put the characters in the frame. According to Dante, a "trouble" occurred when the studio executives grew tired of the film'due south jokes and wanted them to be changed. Equally a issue, the studio brought in twenty-five gag writers to endeavor to write jokes that were short enough to fit into an animated character's mouth. Despite this, the moving picture has only 1 credited writer.[six]
Despite being directed by best-selling fans of the original cartoons, Dante stated that he had no artistic liberty on the projection, and called it "the longest year and a half of my life." Dante felt that he and Goldberg managed to preserve the original personalities of the characters. However, the opening, middle, and end of the picture are different from what Dante envisioned.[seven]
Music
This was the final film scored by composer Jerry Goldsmith. Due to Goldsmith'south declining health, the last reel of the moving picture was really scored by John Debney, though Goldsmith was the just credited composer in marketing materials and the Varèse Sarabande soundtrack anthology just contains Goldsmith'south music (although the kickoff and last cues are adaptations of compositions heard in Warner Bros. cartoons). Debney receives an "Additional Music by" credit in the closing titles of the film and "Special Thanks" in the soundtrack anthology credits.[viii] Goldsmith died in July 2004, eight months after the film'due south release.
Reception
Box office
Looney Tunes: Back in Action was released on November 14, 2003, originally planned to open earlier that summer. The picture show grossed $68.5 one thousand thousand worldwide confronting a upkeep of $eighty million.[ix] [ten]
Warner Bros. was hoping to start a revitalized franchise of Looney Tunes media and products with the success of Dorsum in Action.[ citation needed ] New blithe shorts and a Duck Dodgers TV series were commissioned to necktie-in with Back in Action. However, due to the film's financial failure, the Looney Tunes franchise remained primarily on boob tube for almost 2 decades. Warner Bros. would not produce another theatrical Looney Tunes film until Space Jam: A New Legacy, which was released in 2021.
Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 56% based on 138 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the archetype Looney Tunes cartoons."[11] At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score a 64 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews"[12] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the film an boilerplate grade of "B+" on an A+ to F calibration.[13]
Chicago Sun-Times critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the motion-picture show "Ii Thumbs Up"; Roeper called it a "cheerful and self-referential romp blending animation with live activity in a non-stop quest for silly laughs," while Ebert called information technology "goofy fun."[xiv]
The moving-picture show was too nominated for Saturn Award for Best Animated Motion picture, Annie Honor for Best Animated Feature and Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature.
Home media
Warner Home Video released Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Action on VHS and DVD on March 2, 2004. The picture show was re-released on DVD in split up widescreen and full screen editions on September 7, 2010. It was also released on Blu-ray with bonus features on December two, 2014.[ citation needed ] A double DVD and Blu-ray release, paired with Space Jam, was released on June 7, 2016.[fifteen]
Video game
The film has a platform game of the same name developed by Warthog Games and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation two, GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Xbox and Microsoft Windows versions were planned, only were cancelled due to the financial failure of the film.
References
- ^ a b c "Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)". Box Function Mojo . Retrieved January 25, 2008.
- ^ a b c d east f m h i j k l one thousand n o "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". Behind The Voice Actors . Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated "Space Jam 2"". Animated Views. Nov 30, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ "Joe Dante on Looney Tunes". Something Old, Nothing New. June 15, 2007. Retrieved June eighteen, 2014.
- ^ "SuicideGirls".
- ^ Sachs, Ben (Baronial eight, 2012). "The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (office one)". Chicago Reader . Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ "The Den of Geek interview: Joe Dante". Den of Geek. February 21, 2008. Retrieved June xviii, 2014.
- ^ Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Action soundtrack review at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved March eighteen, 2011.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
- ^ Beck, Jerry (2005). The Blithe Picture show Guide.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved Jan 29, 2008.
- ^ "Detect CinemaScore" (Blazon "Looney Tunes" in the search box). CinemaScore. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ "Looney Tunes: Back in Activity :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Rogerebert.suntimes.com. November 14, 2003. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ^ "Space Jam/Looney Tunes: Back in Action" product information
Amazon.com
Retrieved December 17, 2016
External links
- Official website
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes:_Back_in_Action
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