Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Yes.

He also directed The Burbs and Looney Tunes Back in Action.

And way back in the 1960s, I learned about this story.

things existence like an hour ago when i was putting these notes together he directed something called the movie orgy which is actually sounds a little similar to our life of an actor concept okay where it's like he clipped together a bunch of stuff from like 50s and 60s like cartoons and movies and stuff to tell like a coherent story like three and a half hour or like four hour story of like little clips from like dozens of different movies and shows from the fifties and sixties.

You know, seeing Roger buddying up to Bob Hoskins, you know, Mario, or Smee from Hook.

You know, in fact, just to kind of illustrate how much I like this style, I think it was like 15 years later, they had a film, Looney Tunes Back in Action.

Similar style.

Not as good as Roger Rabbit, but it's an underrated film.

I got a call for a Mr.

Do I'm Melvin Do and then he's like no no Scooby Doo and then so much later in the in the movie when Scrappy is like I'm gonna kill you Scooby Doo and he's like don't you mean Melvin Do and he's standing right there I just think that is so funny every single time because it's such a minor joke earlier on in the film that comes back in such a good payoff of oh yeah this other guy called Melvin Do I just find it so funny.

I'm sorry.

I'm sure if this was made today, there would have been like a short story of this Melvindu.

You know what's one thing that it's not in this movie, but I actually love it that it came from this movie?

What?

Do you know the film Looney Tunes Back in Action? I know it, yeah.

There is a scene in that where they're in the cafeteria, where characters are just in the cafeteria.

We're covering just the live action hybrid Looney Tunes movies.

So we're doing the two Space Jams, Looney Tunes back in action, and obviously newly released on Video On Demand, Coyote vs. Acme.

Weirdly, a lot of them.

There are a lot, but we're not doing the theatrically released compilation films like a thousand and one Bugs Bunny adventure stories or quack busters or.

but it's like old people right it's only old people who don't like it who feel like they

don't like ewoks

yeah it's that kind of type of person wow johnny that is so spot on Even Joe Dante, director of Looney Tunes Back in Action and director of Gremlins and Gremlins 2, who is a massive Looney Tunes fan, is personal friends with Chuck Jones.

Had Chuck Jones star in Gremlins and do animation for Gremlins 2, hated this movie.

Yeah, let's do it.

Not to be confused with Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

No, no Fraser in this one.

Yeah, I guess there's that.

Yeah

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Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

Not Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

You know, I asked Brad, "Look, man, let's give Space Jam 2 a chance," and he said no.

So what we settled for was, uh, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, directed by [laughs] Joe Dante, versus, uh, Dave Green's, uh, Coyote vs. Acme.

Yeah, it basically the movie that killed Looney Tunes for a while in terms of movies, and then the movie that is bringing back interest in Looney Tunes coming back to movies.

I, I, I think it's a good mix for these two.

Uh, we'll get into it with Back in Action, uh, 'cause a lot of people probably don't remember everything that was going on with that one.

But for Coyote vs. Acme, that movie was a tax write-off and was never gonna see the light of day until it came down to a lot of, like, critical fan response in seeing this movie make it out there, and then, uh, Ketchup Media coming around, or Ketchup Entertainment coming around and buying the rights to release this movie.

So yeah, uh, it, this is, this is gonna be an interesting episode, 'cause it's been a long time since I've seen Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

And now the second time I've seen Coyote vs. Acme pretty much within the same month, more or less.

He's also been featured as a prop in the movie Gremlins in 1984 and on The Big Bang Theory.

Some other notable appearances include Looney Tunes Back in Action 2003, which I really need to see at some point.

I don't know how he fits into that.

And he's been in various commercials that feature other pop culture robots.

Oh, yeah.

Looney Tunes, Looney Tunes: Back in Action was Joe Dante.

You know, there's, there's so much.

And he's got a bunch of shit that he never even, like, got through, that, or that, that he never even got to do.

But again, I can't say this is better than Space Jam, the first one.

Um, or Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

But it's a lot of fun and I really do hope that this will be someone else, some new generation's version of Back in Action or Space Jam.

Um, or just their first kinda like how they fall in love with Looney Tunes, how I fall in love with Looney Tunes thanks to, you know, Cartoon Network and Boomerang and Space Jam, of course.