Everyone loves Looney Tunes. The cartoons are 3 minutes long, contain ultra-violence, ace music and mild transvestism from animals stood on their hind-legs. What’s not to love? There is one sure-fire way of ruining a good cartoon though – that’s to make them 2 hours long and turn them 3D.
Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, Alvin and the Chipmunks and more have all been spoiled by meddling CGI pricks, determined to suck all the character out of classic characters by making them slightly realistic, forgetting that 2D is often best.
And so, can we expect the same from Bugs Bunny who is going to be revived by Warner Bros for a new live-action/CG movie?
According to Deadline, the studio has enlisted Elf screenwriter David Berenbaum to bring the famed animated rabbit back to cinemas.
The character last appeared on the big screen in Brendan Fraser’s 2003 flick Looney Tunes: Back In Action. Before that was the woeful Space Jam which featured NBA star Michael Jordan and Bill Murray.
Warner Bros has recently produced three Looney Tunes short films to play in front of their features Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore, Legend Of The Guardians and Yogi Bear, just to remind everyone how much better the old cartoons are in comparison to the new piddling dross that blights our lives.
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Jodie says
Actually the Looney Tunes cartoons went for approximately 7 minutes each. And Space Jam was definitely better than Back in Action. Even though both films were dreadful.