Rectangular_businessman Since I was a little kid, I loved the Looney Tunes characters.Until this very day, I always find those classic animated shorts to be incredibly funny, clever and imaginative. The Looney Tunes shorts are timeless classics, that could be compared with the work of comedy geniuses as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and The Marx Brothers.in the late 1970s-1980s, Warner Bros. made a series of five compilation films, which blended classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts (post-1948/pre-1964) with newly made animation. One of the most common criticizing facts of these movies is that the cartoons are often edited (i.e. scenes being deleted, replacement dialogue, and so) to fit the premise of the film.However, I think that "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" it's the best of all those compilation films. It did a much better work connecting those classic animated shorts with the new story than "Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island". It also included two new Daffy's animated shorts: "Night of the Living Duck" and "The Duxorcist".When I saw this film for the first time as a little kid, I enjoyed it a lot. Then, some years later, I watched again, as an adult, and I still enjoyed it. It is a good, funny film that works very well.

jzappa Occasionally, you'll dig up a movie that exists in your life without anyone else to whom you've talked about it, and without ever having read a word about it from a critic. I was a child when I would watch this silly little cartoon patchwork in my basement full of VHS's, before there was an IMDb for me to go to surfing around for trivia. Now, it is a rare avenue of escape for me. Every other movie I can recall watching in my adult life, despite whatever genre, cast, production history or director, has some sort of cultural connection to the outside world. Except for this.Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is not a great movie, nor is it much of a good one, but that doesn't matter to me. In some indescribable way, it has a placebo effect because all I've ever known of it has been as a videotape in a yellow-sleeve with Warner Bros. heading that my parents must've grabbed for me at Half-Price Books a lifetime ago. I would watch it repeatedly as a young kid with no developed need for coherent plot progression, beginnings, middles, ends, any capacity to judge performances, frame compositions, narrative consistency or whether a comedy sketch could hold up as a concept at all were it not comprised of anthropomorphic animals with goofy stereotypical voices.What are we laughing at when Daffy arrives at the manse of J.P. Cubish only to have every endeavor to enter thwarted by Cubish's jowly British bloodhound butler? The fact that the butler inexplicably uses whatever means necessary to ban Daffy from the premises? That is after all the core of the matter. Is it just the incidental slapstick schemes Daffy impetuously uses to outwit the butler? Well, not exactly. It's not so much what is happening as that it is happening at all. In the world of Looney Tunes, character motives don't exist. Neither does an actual story, despite the fact they are probably he most accessible and popular short films in movie history. It is simply that these are outlandish drawings, portraying wildly embellished actions endowed with the arbitrary freedom not to have consequences, disdaining any and all laws of physics, until the characters realize their dilemmas.This is why Daffy Duck's Quackbusters can work. It is no more than a compilation of classic Looney Tunes shorts bridged by original sequences which clearly look and sound different than the found cartoons, which don't even always look and sound like each other. However, as well as the original opening credits sequence, the original storyline is very funny. After a completely unrelated musical dream sequence starring the eponymous duck and various likenesses of horror film icons, a desperately entrepreneurial Daffy makes an ailing millionaire die laughing, inadvertently after all his conscious attempts to make him laugh have failed, and inherits a fortune. But the millionaire Cubish's spirit scrutinizes all of Daffy's cavalier decisions now that he's rich, and as punishment each time makes some of the money disappear. So Daffy decides to placate Cubish's ghost so that he can keep the money long enough to start a business not unlike the Ghostbusters, ostensibly so that he can eventually eliminate Cubish and not have to worry about any more evaporating money.So here we have a clear case of character motivation making a story hilarious. And yet, these very minimally constructed scenes are meant mainly to trigger the already done segments of stand-alone classic Bugs, Porky, Sylvester and Tweety, etc., most of which are funny, though the misnomers are still watchable for those nostalgic, atmospheric reasons, and yet they aren't at all funny because they complement Daffy's premise. They simply have some correlation with paranormal activity. Whatever happens in those segments happens and then back to the bridging sequences we go and around again. This is all to say, Quackbusters, as a story like that which movies tend to fundamentally aim to be, is catastrophically uneven and incoherent, but as a dated, tangible artifact, it is wondrously entertaining.

emasterslake This is one of my favorite Looney Tune Movies.Involves Daffy Duck inheriting a Million bucks and starts his own Super Natural Investigator Company. The "Daffy Duck QuackBusters", associated with Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.This movie contains footage from some old Looney Tune Shorts and they just blend them together to make it a large movie.Has Mel Blanc doing some of the voices in the movie as well.It's really cool to see. Recommended for all the Fiz Freleng and Chuck Jones fans.If the DVD release is ever made get it!

Op_Prime Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is a hysterical and hilarious movie featuring the classic Warner Bros. characters: Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety and of course Daffy Duck. Much of the movie includes clips from the old shorts to create a story about Daffy Duck against super natural forces. The new animated parts for this show are not as funny as the old clips however. All an all, I'd call this movie a classic.