LT BIA was directed by Joe Dante - who rocks, and had cameos from Roger Corman and Dick Miller, who rock. But sadly, it wasn't enough, because they claimed kids didn't know the looney tunes at that time
hard to believe. And I agree with you on both points. What's LU?
Several points. I really enjoyed LT BIA... but when I found out what was supposed to be IN the movie I was pretty disappointed.
Originally, the movie was to open with Daffy soliciting an action movie starring himself as a dark cloaked crime fighter, a vicious jab at WB's failure to get another Batman movie franchise up an running before Christopher Nolan. The live action execs in the room become dumbfounded and ask "Why did you just kill Elmer Fudd?" There was also to be a cameo by Yakko, Wakko and Dot... remember the water tower falling over? Not to mention (this was filmed, yet never finished) a cameo by Daleks from Dr. Who. And a completely different ending.
Focusing the movie on the 2 human co-stars kinda drug things down a bit too. But I really think it was a very good movie that just was made wrong at points.
But even then... Not knowing who the Looneys are? That's the most pathetic excuse ever. Back then, CN was rerunning Looney Tunes, there was all this merchandise. Sure, it wasn't the odd 90's rebirth that gave us scores of T-shirts and 2 TV series... but kids knew who they were. The problem WAS that it was released opposite a Christmas movie with Will Ferrel acting like a giant child (which had NONE of the charm of Anchorman or any of his SNL work) and that hideous monstrosity they call the Cat in the Hat movie.
And that leads me to LU- Loonatics Unleashed. A jaded attempt to get them back in the public eye. Basically they took everything that was fun about Looney Tunes and got rid of it, giving the characters only thin hints of their personality and basically took every cliche from generic action cartoons and bludgeoned the audience with them. Essentially not even making a GOOD action cartoon. However, they DID try to turn things around the next season, deciding to make the villains futuristic versions of the Looney Tunes villains (instead of just pulling out the Big Book of Cliched action villains). There were 2 episodes which, shock and horror, were actually WATCHABLE! One featuring Sylvester and Tweety... another (a brilliant turn of character- too bad it was wasted on this show) where sweet and lovable fall guy Porky actually turned out to be the villain.
had they managed to be that clever at the beginning, they would have had something. Instead, we have a show that was a mistake to begin with, with a couple episodes that would have worked better if they had a stronger concept.
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I loved the 1993 series, but sadly it doesn't get airplay, or respect, or even attention. But I feel it was really something special and great.