tkjohns131 Watching this movie again, I was more than a little disappointed. It's too weird a blend between cartoon and live-action I think. It's hard to tell when the characters are actually in trouble, and it doesn't blend very well. Since most of the cartoons end up being very nonsensical and, after a while, kind of annoying; even Bugs. The actual actors just end up being straight-(wo)men for all of their antics, but their situations are so unrealistic that I find it hard to root for them either. DJ is supposed to be a failed stunt-man/security guard, but, after the 1st act, he seems pretty good at about everything he does. Kate gets fired for doing something that everyone was on board with just to propel the plot. Additionally, the attempts at the 4th wall breaking push the line between witty and lame a bit too much.

SnoopyStyle Using a similar idea to 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are real actors in this live action animated world. WB VP Kate (Jenna Elfman) has enough of Daffy Duck and fires him. She orders security guard DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser) to eject the Duck but chaos ensues. DJ gets fired also. DJ is a stuntman wannabe whose father Damien Drake (Timothy Dalton) plays an action superspy Bondlike icon. It turns out that Damien is actually a real superspy and has been captured by Chairman of ACME corp (Steve Martin). DJ and Daffy go to Vegas to rescue him. Meanwhile Bugs without Daffy isn't doing so well and Kate is about to be fired herself. She goes in search of Daffy with the help of Bugs. In Vegas, DJ contacts another superspy Dusty Tails (Heather Locklear). Then they discover the secret base Area 52 with Mother (Joan Cusack) where they find out about the secret Blue Monkey Diamond.It's a lot of chaotic sarcastic ridiculous Looney Tunes story. It's fun for about 30 minutes which is the duration of most Saturday morning cartoon runs. Then it gets way too tiresome. The nonsensical story is not worthwhile to follow. It's one sight gags after another. Brendan Fraser works well with the cartoon characters with a touch of heroism. That's his basic move anyways. He even references 'The Mummy'. Steve Martin plays the ridiculous chairman. It's so ridiculous that the character should probably be a cartoon as well. Its constant unrelenting bombastic nature never lets the audience off the ride and gets monotonous.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Daffy won't be part of the movie(yes, of course this is meta - one of the countless things in this that are entirely in the spirit of these creations; several failings one can attribute to this are directly linked to the insistence on them getting the treatment of feature-length - well, 81 minutes sans credits, 88 with, anyway) on account of being the one who gets the brunt of the abuse in the plentiful slapstick.He gets the equally clumsy DJ(Fraser, a security guard who dreams of becoming a famous stunt-man... on his own merit) fired, only for the two to discover that the latter's father didn't just star as a spy, he *is* one. They embark to find the Blue Monkey, a large diamond, to prove their worth. Kate(Elfman, at her least obnoxious... I honestly wonder why she was even the one cast... anyway, as a strong, if frightfully(and intentionally) by-the-book, female executive at Warner Bro's) is sent to retrieve the duck, and Bugs comes with. Acme's evil Chairman(Martin, mugging and moving as if his suit is full of ants) wants to stop them, and use the stone for his own benefit.Along the way, we'll visit Vegas, see a number of name cameos and the other 2D creatures(and yes, their 3D forms do take getting used to) will pop up here or there, on either side of the conflict. Gremlins director Joe Dante helmed this, determined to get right what Space Jam got wrong. The personalities are intact, the genre is action-adventure(rather than sports-sci-fi... why was that even...?), and the frenetic pace not only keeps it moving, keeping a steady onslaught(you'll have to pay close attention to get them all) of jokes, classic references and gags(verbal, breaking the fourth wall, cleverness, commenting on clichés as well as, occasionally, political correctness(sadly, such inspired bits are fairly few - the Louvre sequence is brilliant, however)), it fits with the original form of these beings(and frankly, this leaps from one set-piece to another, each of those playing out like one of those shorts, returning them to their element).It goes against expectations(or beats you to pointing out when it succumbs to them), and makes the wise call of making these drawn characters, not to mention their cartoon logic, an accepted part of the live-action world, not unlike the vastly superior Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Some of the on-screen comedic talent aren't given a lot to work with. The acting is dependable(I would like to, from the bottom of my heart, thank whoever was responsible for keeping Goldberg from speaking; his physical presence is why he's given roles, we know this, so best to rely entirely on that... in fact, he approaches his henchman role mostly as the one track mind, T1000 kind of thing, and is genuinely convincing).The DVD comes with 10 and a half minutes of decent deleted scenes(many with the drawings only partially completed), the 8 and a half minute documentary Behind the Tunes which isn't bad, the 7 and a half minute featurette Crash! Bang! Boom! - The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown and 7 minute new short subject Whizzard of Ow(both of which I will review on their individual pages here on the site), a theatrical trailer for this and one for The Looney Tunes collection. There is a lot of cartoon violence and a little moderate language in this. I recommend this to big fans of the classic WB animations. 6/10

casarino ...you hire Joe Dante, who already made one in "Gremlins 2."LT:BiA is probably about as good as a Looney Tunes movie can be these days. Yes, the magical timing of the Looney Tunes heyday is gone forever, but Dante provides tons of comic chaos, which is a decent substitute. Even when the jokes backfire (as they often do), you end up chuckling at the sheer audacity and ridiculousness of it all.The film is cast well, although whether you find Martin's hysterical overacting funny is a matter of personal taste. Fraser is much more successful; he knows that when you're up against Bugs and Daffy, your best bet is to play it relatively straight. And after a slow start, the movie gathers a nice, breathless momentum and finally captures that WB anarchy that we grew up loving.There are perhaps too many winking in-jokes, or maybe Dante lingers on them a bit too long. It all comes down to timing, which, of course, was WB's stock-in-trade. Dante can't quite capture it, which leads to more smiles than laughs. But when he nails it (as when Daffy proclaims the name of his alter-ego late in the film), it's great, silly fun. Plus, for those of us who love Dante's drive-in sensibilities, he cast his old buds Mary Woronov, Dick Miller, and, for good measure, Ron Perlman. And for the most part he doesn't skimp on the cartoony violence that makes WB cartoons wonderfully subversive. So thumbs-up to "LT:BiA," which ends up being better than it probably needed to be.Still, if you really wanna see a live-action Loony Tunes movie, you should check out "Gremlins 2," the hilarious sequel/send-up of his own "Gremlins." That one's consistently funnier and even more anarchic, even though it might be a little scary for the kids.