Raised as siblings, Daffy and Porky (Eric Bauza) are forced to get jobs when their home is damaged by a UFO.
Said UFO puts all their plans in jeopardy when its occupant (Peter MacNicol) sabotages the local chewing gum factory, infecting the gum with a mind-controlling substance that turns everyone who chews the gum into zombies.
Can our heroes save the day?
I have not watched Looney Tunes since I was a kid.
I caught a couple of episodes uploaded to YouTube, and watched Patrick Willem’s video essay on Looney Tunes since the 90s.
That primer put this movie on my radar.
I also felt a certain desire to put my money where my mouth was with regards to the Zaslav regime’s disdain for its library (the other Looney Tunes feature, Coyote v Acme, remains in limbo).
My screening was completely empty so maybe the suits were right to sell it off.
I wanted to like this more.
The key issue is the medium - this is a feature film, not a short subject.
The need to build a narrative structure, with character development, feels antithetical to the anarchy of the characters.
The film is at its strongest when it focuses on set-pieces that play to the characters’ strengths - their bizarre, stylised origin story; a montage covering their attempts at various occupations.
These scenes have clean comic premises that work to their characters’ strengths.
When the movie forces itself into a story, with our heroes as estranged brothers, it starts to feel less fleet-footed.
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