![]() ![]() ![]() Chairman (Steve Martin), who (naturally) has a plan for world domination that DJ, Kate, Daffy and Bugs must foil. It would be Dante's way, like having Porky Pig and Speedy Gonazles sit in the Warner cafeteria complaining to each other that political correctness was driving them out of work. If they were going to be 'updated', it wouldn't be by some cheesy trick like having Bugs Bunny do hip-hop. ![]() Unlike his corporate masters, Dante understood what the Looney Tunes characters were all about. The script was penned by Larry Doyle, a veteran of and, and all the studio meddling in the world couldn't entirely purge its rebellious spirit. The taint left on Back in Action by this corporate mismanagement is undeserved, however, because, despite the many obstacles placed in his path, Dante managed to get far more of the original Looney Tunes spirit into the film than anyone might have expected. The studio-induced failure prompted Warner to shut down its Feature Animation department, which is why Warner now produces animation solely for TV. The result, retitled Looney Tunes: Back in Action, satisfied neither Warner nor Dante and was booted from its planned summer release in 2003 into the fall, where it opened with little promotion to disastrous box office. Then the studio did what studios usually do when they're unsure of their choice-they undermined the director at every turn. When Space Jam 2 fell apart, Warner asked Dante to helm a second live-action Looney Tune film initially titled 'Spy Jam'. The result, overseen by music video director Joe Pytka, was the 1996 release, which was only modestly successful, primarily with kids who didn't know the old classics. ![]() They wanted to 'rebrand' the Looney Tunes characters for the 21st Century. But as Dante discovered when he tried to persuade Warner to make a film about the early career of legendary animator Chuck Jones, the studio wasn't interested in 'old stuff'. Looney Tunes: Back in Action Blu-ray Review Keeps the Toons Fire the Studio Reviewed by, DecemIf ever a director was born to make a Looney Tunes movie, it was Joe Dante, whose and were infused with the same enthusiastically anarchic spirit that had made Warner's classic cartoon franchise a favorite among young and old. ![]()
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