Looney Tunes: Back in Action | |
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Directed By | Joe Dante |
Screenplay By | Larry Doyle |
Cast | Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin |
Story | Larry Doyle, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra |
Produced By | Paula Weinstein, Bernie Goldman |
Cinematography By | Dean Cundey |
Film Editing By | Rick Finney, Marshall Harvey |
Music By | Jerry Goldsmith |
Studio | Baltimore Spring Creek Productions, Goldmann Pictures, Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Warner Bros. Feature Animation |
Distributed By | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Franchise | Looney Tunes Franchise |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Release Date | November 14, 2003 |
Runtime | 93 Minutes |
Rating | PG |
Budget | $80,000,000 |
Gross | $20,950,820 |
Plot[]
After playing second-fiddle to Bugs Bunny for years, Daffy Duck finally loses his temper and demands his own cartoon from Warner Brothers Studios. And is promptly fired.
Daffy is forcibly ejected from the lot by stuntman DJ Drake but they inadvertently cause such major destruction in the process that Drake finds himself canned as well.
The hapless pair are commiserating together when they learn that Drake's famous father, action film star Damian Drake, is actually a secret agent. As he is captured by the Acme Corporation, Damian tells his son to travel to Las Vegas, find his associate Dusty Tails, and gain the mystical "blue monkey" diamond. Both Drake and Daffy decide to embark on this quest.
Meanwhile, Bugs' comedy routines fall apart without Daffy, so Vice-President Kate Houghton is sent to rehire Daffy or face being fired herself. Bugs decides to accompany her as well to help convince Daffy to return to be his sidekick once more,
In Las Vegas, DJ and Daffy meet Dusty in a casino owned by Yosemite Sam. Dusty gives them a strange playing card, but when Sam is revealed to be an Acme Operative and attempts to kill them, they flee and coincidentally run into Bugs and Kate.
The quartet crashes in the Nevada desert and stumbles upon Area 52 run by Damian's mother who informs them of the situation; revealing that that the Acme Chairman intends on using the "blue monkey" to transform all of mankind into monkeys to manufacture their products, before turning them back into human beings to purchase them. Marvin the Martian imprisoned in the facility and another Acme Operative, escapes and leads a group of fellow alien inmates to obtain the playing card but the heroes escape. Seeing that the card has Mona Lisa's face on it, the group conclude they must view the painting in the Louvre, located in Paris.
At the Louvre, they discover that the card contains a viewing window, and looking through it, the window reveals that the Mona Lisa has a map of Africa hidden beneath.
Acme Operative Elmer Fudd appears and chases Bugs and Daffy through the gallery for the card while Kate is kidnapped by Mr. Chairman's bodyguard, Mr. Smith in order to obtain a copy of the map. DJ successfully rescues Kate and Elmer is disintegrated by Bugs.
DJ, Kate, Bugs, and Daffy travel to Africa where they meet Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety, who escort them to the ruins of a jungle temple where they find the "blue monkey". Granny and company reveal themselves to be Mr. Chairman, Smith, and the Tasmanian Devil in disguise. Mr. Chairman uses a disintegration gun to transport himself and the heroes to the Acme headquarters where he forces DJ to give him the diamond.
Marvin is sent to place the "blue monkey" on an Acme satellite which will emit an energy beam around the world to turn everyone, except Mr. Chairman, into monkeys. DJ and Kate rescue his father Damian from a death trap while Bugs and Daffy pursue Marvin. But when Bugs is incapacitated, it prompts Daffy to become Duck Dodgers, in order to destroy the "blue monkey". The transforming energy beam only strikes Mr. Chairman turning him into a monkey.
Bugs and Daffy return to Earth, where Daffy is infuriated to learn that the whole adventure was staged to make a film. However Bugs promises Daffy they will be now be equal partners but Daffy is promptly flattened by the Looney Tunes iris with Porky Pig attempts to close the film with "That's all folks!" only for the studio to shut down before he can finish. Annoyed, Porky simply tells the audience to go home.
Cast[]
- Brendan Fraser as D.J. Drake/Himself
- Jenna Elfman as Kate Houghton
- Steve Martin as Mr. Chairman
- Heather Locklear as Dusty Tails
- Joan Cusack as Mother
- Timothy Dalton as Damian Drake
- Bill Goldberg as Mr. Smith
- Don Stanton as Mr. Warner
- Dan Stanton as Mr. Warner's brother
- Matthew Lillard as Himself
- Jeff Gordon as Himself
- Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell
- Michael Jordan as Himself
- Marc Lawrence as Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
- Ron Perlman as Acme VP, Never Learning
- Robert Picardo as Acme VP, Rhetorical Questions
- Joe Alaskey as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Beaky Buzzard, Mama Bear
- Jeff Bennett as Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Nasty Canasta
- Bob Bergen as Porky Pig
- Brendan Fraser as Tasmanian Devil, Tasmanian She-Devil
- June Foray as Granny
- Eric Goldberg as Marvin the Martian, Michigan J. Frog, Speedy Gonzales, Tweety
- Bruce Lanoil as Pepe Le Pew
- Billy West as Elmer Fudd, Peter Lorre
- Danny Chambers as Cottontail Smith
- Will Ryan as Papa Bear
- Stan Freberg as Junior Bear
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
- Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo
- Mel Blanc as Gremlin Car
- Mary Woronov as Acme VP
- Robby the Robot as Robot in Area 52