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Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

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56

Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 58

The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

63

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 12

The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

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42

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 55,354

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Movie Info

In a land where cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood people work side by side, one little black duck lands in a big pot of trouble in this comedy, which brings the beloved Looney Tunes characters into the real world. Daffy Duck (voice of Joe Alaskey) has grown tired of his status as Warner Bros.' leading avian second fiddle and demands that if he can't be given equal billing with his rival Bugs Bunny (also voiced by Alaskey), he wants to be released from his contract. Kate Houghton (Jenna

PG, 1 hr. 30 min.

Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

Larry Doyle

Mar 2, 2004

$20.9M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Looney Tunes: Back in Action

All Critics (143) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (60) | DVD (34)

Robert Zemeckis isn't a Hal Walker, but Joe Dante's right up there with Tashlin, Avery, and Jones.

November 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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The film's appeal is universal, much as the appeal of the Looney Tunes characters is universal.

November 17, 2003 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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A nutty, zany, wacky, unruly, spastically hilarious hodgepodge that hits at least twice as often as it misses.

November 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
David Edelstein
Slate
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... a cheerful and self-referential romp blending animation with live action in a non-stop quest for silly laughs.

November 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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It's not a disgrace, but it is a missed opportunity.

November 15, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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Has its funny moments, but all too often it's a corny, lackluster film in which humans pretend (not always convincingly) to interact with cartoons.

November 14, 2003 Comment
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Live action/animated tale will amuse cartoon fans.

December 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media

Like a pop culture-gorged Hope-and-Crosby buddy flick hopped up on mescaline.

February 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

Click to read the article.

January 2, 2005 Full Review Source: StaciWilson.com | Comment
Staci Layne Wilson
StaciWilson.com

Perfect fare for a 5-year-old on an Apple Jacks sugar high, but scarcely tolerable for anyone moving toward the Raisin Bran end of the aging spectrum.

September 20, 2004 Comment
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Merece elogios por seu humor auto-referencial e, principalmente, por resgatar a insanidade das animações originais (ao contrário do fraco Space Jam).

April 24, 2004 Comment
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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A very entertaining tribute to classic Looney Tunes cartoons and a very diffeent take on them too of which they are all just animated actors. The effects are well done and although the toons steal the show it's still a really fun ride and will bring a smile to everyone's faces big and small.

November 6, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

The bad plot and the excited, but terrible screenplay, don't made this movie a good thing to the filmography of Looney Tunes. With the nonsense gags based in old cartoons, Larry Doyle and Joe Dante does another damm motion picture that gonna make the audience think twice, before watch the next Looney Tunes's film. And

May 20, 2011
Lucas Martins
Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

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    1. Mr. Chairman: [talking to DJ Drake] Now!,..This my friend, is the ACME train of death, which is not good news for your father!
    2. Damien Drake: [on TV screen] Don't worry about me son, I've gotten out of worse scrapes than this one!
    3. Mr. Chairman: You see, if the train of death doesn't kill him, then those crates of TNT will, not to mention the two ton anvil hanging over his head, and oh!,..Look, there's the pendulum of doom! What's the pendulum of doom doing there?! I did not order the pendulum of doom!? It's overkill! Get rid of it! [Wile E. Coyote quickly draws up the pendulum from above Damien Drake]
    – Submitted by Nick S (32 days ago)
    1. Daffy Duck: Please brother, (grabs Warner Brother) other brother. (grabs other Warner Brother)
    – Submitted by Jacob D (7 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Looney Tunes - Back In Action (UK)
  • Les Looney Tunes passent à l'action (FR)
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