The Looney Tunes Show
The Looney Tunes Show
TV-PG | 03 May 2011 (USA)
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    VeteranLight

    I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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    MamaGravity

    good back-story, and good acting

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    Borserie

    it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

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    Verity Robins

    Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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    antoshi

    Let me preface this by saying I spent a large amount of my childhood watching television. A fair amount of that was spent on the Cartoon Network, where I watched a LOT of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. I loved and was absorbed by the universe. Bugs Bunny is one of my all-time favorite animated characters.It seems like a lot of people don't realize the amount of times that the Looney Tunes characters were reworked to fit into a completely new world. Obviously they did it with Space Jam, and made cameos in Roger Rabbit. There's been countless commercials where they could be construed as 'out of character.' They were worked into icons of World War II. They were portrayed as actors in their own universe. They've been in animated Broadway plays and operas. There's been things like The Bugs Bunny Show, Duck Dodgers, and even Baby Looney Tunes.So, why is it then that having them placed into an animated sitcom-style show seems so completely crazy? The short answer is: it's not.The Looney Tunes Show actually does do a very good job working the source material of their characters and the slapstick cartoonish comedy into a 'real world' style setting. Again, being in the real world is not a new concept for the Looney Tunes. The writing is actually quite sharp and clever. Bugs and Daffy reprise their roles as the two figureheads of the Looney Tunes as a whole, with their characterizations mostly intact. Bugs plays the cool, calm and collected straight man to Daffy's over-the-top screwball ideas and antics. Daffy is as self-absorbed and greedy as ever, and lives with Bugs — who's made a comfortable living off his invention of the carrot peeler.However, almost every other character in the show's depiction is hit-or-miss. Porky continues to be the unfortunate folly for Daffy's spiteful nature. He's a very proper, well-mannered pillar of society, yet severely lacking in self-confidence. Tina Russo, a new character, is a duck with a real name and Daffy's love interest. Tina was actually one of the well-made characters in the show. She has a no-nonsense, street-wise personality with a strong sense of self and keeps Daffy in line. She's got an enjoyable deadpan sense of humor and comes off as very relatable.Then, we have … Lola. This was the biggest, most jarring change to any of the characters on the show and one that I felt was severely lacking. Lola herself knocks an entire star off of my rating for the show because of how often she appears. Lola's initial depiction in Space Jam was that of an attractive and seductive bunny who just so happens to be very good at playing basketball. While she wasn't the best conceived character in history, she still had some redeeming qualities in her exaggerated feminist nature and contempt for being degraded or disrespected. Lola in TLTS is not that at all.Lola in this show is a bubbly, reckless, hyperactive airhead with a borderline psychotic personality and severe attachment issues when it comes to Bugs. She's unwanted and very abrasive, by both characters in the show and the fandom. I thought of a couple different ways they could've handled Lola's character. They are the following: A) Lola Bunny is a stock market trader or a corporate CEO. She has a strong personality but can be short-tempered and explosive at times, which is more in line with her Space Jam portrayal. She is almost constantly on her cell phone chatting to business partners or investors, and has little time for anything or anyone else — namely Bugs. Bugs frequently tries to get her attention but typically goes unnoticed by the extremely busy Lola. There's quite a few gags I can think of with this sort of character.B) Lola is similar to her TLTS character with a critical change. She is now a bubbly, energetic, *smart* young lady. Typically seen as calm and knowledgeable, she is the other characters' go-to person for advice or to simply act as a shoulder to cry on. She can have a relaxing hobby, like tending to a garden or does altruistic things like caring for injured animals. In this way, Bugs is a lot more smitten with her, but because of how virtuous she seems by comparison to him he's not sure how to go about telling her how he feels.I really feel as though character shifts like these for Lola would've made the series much more enjoyable and perhaps more relatable.As for the animation, I personally saw nothing wrong with the updated designs they made for season one. It helped to cement the Looney Tunes' presence in a whole new time period of 2011, versus how they looked in 1950. I liked it a lot — it gave the show a fresh, new take on the characters to enhance their new status as citizens of real world suburbia. At the same time, they were cute and never really lost the charm of their original designs. I couldn't believe it when they caved into the complaints (mostly from people that didn't even watch or care for the show to begin with) that the characters didn't look 'Looney Tunes' enough and changed back to the originals. It took a lot of value away from the show as a whole and a lot of its original, updated allure was gone.All in all, The Looney Tunes Show is a fun twist on the standard Looney Tunes formula. Sure, not every episode is amazing and sometimes the 22-minute running time can feel a little long. However, it's still a severely under-appreciated show with glowing charm that's entertaining for both kids and adults. It's only a terrible shame what some people did to derail, damage, scorn and ultimately cancel this show. It ended far too soon and will be sorely missed.That's all, folks.

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    sarah9161

    I love this show more than the original. I think the humour is great. Daffy is hilarious. In fact all the characters have great personalities which make them memorable and funny. I also enjoy the graphics of this show better than other versions I've seen. The story-lines are interesting and always make me laugh. It's full of lighthearted fun, silly jokes and wittiness. I wish I could buy the DVDs / box set for this!

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    Irishchatter

    I've never heard of Looney Tunes having a rebooted series back in 2011, until I was researching Lola Bunny and found out she appeared on the show with the voice of SNL beauty, Kirsten Wiig.When I started watching the first episode of herself and Bugs on a date. She wasn't the sexy Lola I knew in the movie "Space Jam". She turns out to be too quirky, a headache, stupid and over the top, I felt it just didn't suit the character. Even her design looked awful, she does not have her usual beautiful green eyes nor her sassy behavior. I honestly miss that Lola, it's such a shame that they made a mess of her. They shouldn't have touched her design, it made her look pathetic tbh........I really hated how they changed Porky Pig, his design looked terrible also. He looks like a half goat,half pig. He looked as if they put steroids in his legs, they looked rather too long for his small body. His old design was wayyyyyy better than his design on this. Did they not know that messing up his body would make a difference? Ah yeah, it made a bad difference actually! I even hated how Bugs Bunny isn't his usual self on this. He really turned out to be such a jerk. He's not that sarcastic or witty rabbit as we knew him from his old version of himself was. Instead, he keeps moaning and complaining over absolute nothing. He's like that person you would rather not hang out with, but worse! He really isn't that lovable on this, instead they destroyed him.The only person that they barely touched on, was Daffy. He has the same personality and dumbness as we know him. Unfortunately he had to be in this. His girlfriend Tina is not too bad but, I would rather if they didn't involve him a girlfriend because the Daffy we know, doesn't basically have the time for dating!I hated the way that they destroyed all Looney Tunes characters, especially Roadrunner and Coyote. 3-D is a big no no. It's crap and it just doesn't suit an old cartoon like this really. I'm actually glad they finished doing this because it wasn't suppose to be successful. Although I can't understand why IMDb gave it a rating of 7.5 or nominated for a Emmy, I think it definitely doesn't deserve anything to be fair. It would be better if they just never had done this series in a rebooted way and leave the old Looney Tunes alone. Especially characters that appeared on Space Jam.......

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    dkelfacaulker

    Right, where to start. After reading some recent reviews on this show I had to quickly create an IMDb account so I could stick up for it. One guy even said this show is horrible to look at and the animation sucks! He must be watching on a 9" b/w TV. Watch this on an hd TV and your eyes will be glued. I always think how amazing shows animation like this and Adventure Time are compared to back in the days. I do get the comparison to Family Guy but that's purely because adults can laugh out loud to this; I do and I'm 21. One guy even stressed for like 2 paragraphs about how unintelligent some characters are. IT'S A KIDS SHOW ON A KIDS CHANNEL. If you want to learn something then watch the Discovery channel, fool. Yes Lola, for example is mad and annoyingly stupid but she's not that bad where you should rant about for 2 paragraphs!! I don't get the point to point comparison to the classic Looney Tunes. Just accept that it's a new show with new stories and concepts. The characters are still lovable (well, maybe not Daffy). What the hell is wrong with them living in houses?! Is this show meant to POINT TO POINT copy the classics? No! I think them living in houses makes them more relatable to us. Isn't that why most of the time we watch a programme. Seriously, some of the reviews I read were seriously corrupt and foolish. Now, time for MY actual review. Not a review of others STUPID reviews. This show is very funny. The only downside is that currently it only comes on once a day on Boomerang while other shows like Regular Show on CN come on way more. I really like this show. The story isn't all that fast paced but you've got to remember that it's a KIDS SHOW. No matter how busy you are, you've got to make time for this show. Ever heard of Sky+?

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