It opened yesterday. Has anyone seen it?
I have.
It’s no Roger Rabbit but, at least, it’s not just a merchandizing cash grab like Space Jam. It’s mostly a showcase for revisiting some of the absurdist gags (and Acme products) conjured by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. There are plenty of Looney Toon cameos including some delightfully obscure ones. The human characters are okay, but Will Forte and John Cena play well inside their usual comfort zones. I could have waited until it hit streaming but an air conditioned theater and some popcorn were particularly appealing last night
I saw it on Thursday, in an almost empty theater. I liked it. It’s sad that Warner Bros dropped it. It really could have helped develop their cartoon characters.
Saw it yesterday and it was… okay. Probably perfect at the 90 minute run time. Thought it might hit some nostalgic notes like Roger Rabbit did but not so much.
I am going a bit “Looney” however searching for a song that was used in it. When they first show the Prickly Pear Motel that Will Forte calls home there is an obscure song playing with a female vocalist that almost sounds like an old Patsy Cline track.
All an internet search keeps going back to is the Steven Price soundtrack and any list of licensed tracks has just a handful of songs from more modern artists.
Looking at the full credits here I see one song that sticks out - Gopher Mambo by Yma Sumac, a Latin american singer most popular in the 1940s-50s. She doesn’t remind me of Patsy Cline, but give it a listen, particularly the seond half of the song, and see if that’s what you heard.
On the subject of music, I just figured out what was missing for me in this movie. No Carl Stalling! Nothing even in the style of Carl Stalling. And certainly no walking, falling, hitting, or winking cues. This is why it doesn’t “feel” very Looney Tunes to me.
Looking at that list I think I was mistaken remembering it as female. I believe it was Born to Wander by Jack Wood.
I thought it was fuckin’ great! Saw it with my 26 year old film school graduate daughter. We both loved it! Nailed just about everything. I will concede as pointed out above that Foghorn cadence was off. Not sure why, that should have been easy?!?
Cameo’s were great. Yes, tweety bird repartee was spot on. I was hoping that Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog would make an appearance, but alas.
No spoilers but there was a sappy moment or three and plot twists that were cute. Coyote showcased his greatest trap evah!
Two thumbs up! Certainly put it on the streaming backlog if you don’t see it in the theater.
Any small reference easter eggs that stand out for you?
Two off the top of my head were the delay in getting to DC because they took the left turn at Albuqureque.
And the news report of the mouse in Mexico that broke the land speed record
I noticed this one but not the other one you mentioned. I’d like to see it again when it’s available on a streaming service but I don’t know which will carry it. Perhaps HBO Max, which would be good as I subscribe to that.
I initially assumed it would eventually come to HBO Max since Warner Brothers owns HBO, but I was just reading in the news articles posted in this thread previously that WB sold the rights to the movie to an independent distributor called Ketchup Entertainment. I’m guessing the fact that WB doesn’t own the distribution rights might impact which streaming service it ends up on.
The reason I thought it might become available on HBO Max is that several years ago, another Warner Bros movie, The Day the Earth Blew Up, was scheduled to be released on HBO Max but it too was pulled from distribution and also sold to Ketchup Entertainment. Despite that, it was still released on HBO Max last year.
Yeah, I definitely don’t understand all the complexities of movie distribution rights. For all I know Ketchup Entertainment just got the theatrical distribution rights and Warner Brothers retains the streaming rights.
Also the precedent for liability lawsuits brought by predators in the case of Sylvester vs Gonzales
My mother and I watched it yesterday. It was fun! Funny, funny movie, and it had some touching parts in it too.
I have saved the essay from the New Yorker for the last 20 years. SO funny. Saw the movie last week and it was almost as funny. Well done!
Incidentally, on rare occasions, a coyote is successful in capturing a roadrunner. See this gift link to a New York Times article for an example.
