What's Up, Doc?
To be quite frank, this could have been would awful movie. But the Looney Tunes gang stuck to their roots, creating a funny movie that might as well have been a cartoon by itself. It's hopelessly witty and full of shameless plugs that other movies try to sneak in. If the entire thing had been animated, I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.This isn't a bad movie, and it's not a very good movie either. It is over, very funny. With Looney Tunes, that's all that matters.
The plot is fairly cliche, but then again, I really don't care. I'm watching to see the cameos. It turns out the execs at WB wanted Porky Pig to lose his stutter so he would appeal more to the crowd. Now that he's lost it, they say he isn't funny anymore, Porky bitterly complains. Now THAT'S comedy. Anyway, Daffy is fed up with Bugs getting all the attention, and sets off on an adventure with disgraced security guard DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser) to find his dad and a mythical diamond. Kate, the exec who fires Daffy, must find him or it's her job, so she teams up with Bugs and away they go.
Now that I've gotten the plot out of the way, I can concentrate on the sheer comic genius of this movie. The movie is filled with massive amounts of in-jokes, each funnier and funnier. DJ's missing father may very well be a spy, and is played by Timothy Dalton. Dalton once played 007. LT: BIA takes place in OUR world, not Hollywood's. At one point, the stuntman DJ complains that he did most of the work in The Mummy, and that Brendan Fraser was hardly in it. The movie is filled with plugs for just about everything on the planet, as they enter a random Wal*Mart just so they can say the name. At one point, Bugs exclaims that he has "found Nemo." It even pokes fun at the media, with a great joke that I loved. I won't spoil it for you, but it involves Yosemite Sam, a moving car and a stick of dynamite. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
You'll need your imagination for this one, if you're an adult anyway. Any adult that grew up with Looney Tunes will love this movie, but if you're an adult who has grown up a bit to fast, then this movie may not be for you. Everything about the movie is wacky, and it doesn't take itself seriously one bit. But then again, when has Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Bird, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote and Marvin the Martian claimed to be serious?