Good ol’ Bugs Bunny is back!
IN Looney Tunes: Back in Action, animation movies meet real life Hollywood, in a film that has been described as a ‘frantically paced, densely populated farce.’
Film: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman
Director: Joe Dante
Screenplay: Larry Doyle
Running time: 90 mins.
Rating: PG for mild language and innuendo
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from Friday
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
IN Looney Tunes: Back in Action, animation movies meet real life Hollywood, in a film that has been described as a ‘frantically paced, densely populated farce.’
It is supposed to be a show down between the cartoon characters, Bugs Bunny and Duffy Duck, but it really is ‘cartoon meets humans.’
Who wins? No rewards for guessing, because the humans just do not stand a chance.
For one, cartoon characters can move at the speed of light, have more sharply defined personalities, and are ageless and indestructible. No matter how many times they get smashed as flat as a chapati, they still get up again, as noisy as ever.
In the film, Daffy and Bugs are two feuding contract players for Warner Brothers Pictures. When Daffy demands for the same pay as Bugs, he is booted out of the studio by its jargon-spouting vice-president of comedy, Kate Houghton (Ms. Elfman).
D. J. (Mr. Fraser), a security guard who dreams of being a stuntman, is summoned to escort him off the premises.
Daffy forces himself into D. J.’s life, and they go on a search for D. J.’s father, Damian (Timothy Dalton), an international superstar who, in addition to playing a James Bond-like spy, happens to be a real-life intelligence agent.
Damian is searching for the much-coveted Blue Monkey Diamond, a legendary bauble with the power to turn people into monkeys. The chairman also covets the diamond, which would enable him to rule the planet by turning everyone else into monkeys.
The pace of the movie is relentless and dizzying, and borrows heavily from some of the major film characters Hollywood has produced –– from Star Wars to James Bond’s, Mission: Impossible, and the Mummy, among others.
In the end, most of the 70-plus cartoon characters that Warner Brothers has created over the years all put in a an appearance. Who would go to watch a Bugs Bunny movie? Everyone that has heard about him, but, possibly many Ugandans have not.
In the New Vision newsroom, of 12 journalists asked, only six had ever heard of him.
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman
Director: Joe Dante
Screenplay: Larry Doyle
Running time: 90 mins.
Rating: PG for mild language and innuendo
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from Friday
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
IN Looney Tunes: Back in Action, animation movies meet real life Hollywood, in a film that has been described as a ‘frantically paced, densely populated farce.’
It is supposed to be a show down between the cartoon characters, Bugs Bunny and Duffy Duck, but it really is ‘cartoon meets humans.’
Who wins? No rewards for guessing, because the humans just do not stand a chance.
For one, cartoon characters can move at the speed of light, have more sharply defined personalities, and are ageless and indestructible. No matter how many times they get smashed as flat as a chapati, they still get up again, as noisy as ever.
In the film, Daffy and Bugs are two feuding contract players for Warner Brothers Pictures. When Daffy demands for the same pay as Bugs, he is booted out of the studio by its jargon-spouting vice-president of comedy, Kate Houghton (Ms. Elfman).
D. J. (Mr. Fraser), a security guard who dreams of being a stuntman, is summoned to escort him off the premises.
Daffy forces himself into D. J.’s life, and they go on a search for D. J.’s father, Damian (Timothy Dalton), an international superstar who, in addition to playing a James Bond-like spy, happens to be a real-life intelligence agent.
Damian is searching for the much-coveted Blue Monkey Diamond, a legendary bauble with the power to turn people into monkeys. The chairman also covets the diamond, which would enable him to rule the planet by turning everyone else into monkeys.
The pace of the movie is relentless and dizzying, and borrows heavily from some of the major film characters Hollywood has produced –– from Star Wars to James Bond’s, Mission: Impossible, and the Mummy, among others.
In the end, most of the 70-plus cartoon characters that Warner Brothers has created over the years all put in a an appearance. Who would go to watch a Bugs Bunny movie? Everyone that has heard about him, but, possibly many Ugandans have not.
In the New Vision newsroom, of 12 journalists asked, only six had ever heard of him.