#The chorus line looney tunes tv#
The idea of satirizing reality TV was pretty solid the execution was extremely disappointing, guilty of the most cardinal of sins: making the Looney Toons grossly, terminally, hideously unfunny. These characters are far from the recognizable icons viewers have come to know and love. These shorts are crass, mean-spirited, and ugly. The classic LT cartoons made dropping an anvil on someone's face funny the Reality Check cartoons break out the "dropped-anvil gag" roughly every 17.4 seconds to make sure you're paying attention. For the life of me, I can't imagine Porky Pig ever grinning sadistically while a bear is mauling Sylvester. Most of the characters seemed way too out of character for my liking, and there was an overall sadistic tone going on during way too many of these. You see, the twenty-one Reality Check cartoons are spoofs of various "reality" programs currently populating (overpopulating, some might say) the television airwaves: Fear Factor, Survivor, Sportscenter, The Iron Chef, Divorce Court, Junkyard Wars, etc. Of the entire lot, I can think of only a handful which were even remotely memorable, and that was more in line with the particular cartoon's conception rather than its execution. The actual entertainment value of these cartoons is extremely mediocre. They feature jerky, ugly "Flash"-style art that is entirely so stiff that it can barely be referred to as animation. The bizarare shorts on this DVD are a collection of "webtoons" produced for the Warner Brother Animation web site. There's nothing like a classic Looney Toon short!Īnd believe you me, on the Looney Toons: Reality Check DVD, there is nothing even remotely like a classic Loony Toon short. There's such a clamor, a sea of pleas and cries from the fans that they have finally relinquished and presented their classic Looney Toon material on DVD. So yes, as I stated at the top of this review, I have to give credit to Warner Brothers for finally making the classic Looney Toon shorts available and affordable to the public. Like me, did anyone get up and start marching in a chorus line while singing that memorable ditty aloud? Anyone? No? Oh. Man! Such a rush of memories! Wow, that brought me back. I mean, I dare you to find a single person between the ages of, say, 28 and 50, who hasn't committed the following to memory:
CBS enraptured wide-eyed young (and old) viewers for ninety minutes for twenty-six classic installments of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, the cream of the crop when it came to experiencing Looney Tooniness on television.
#The chorus line looney tunes movie#
Talk about pan-generational! Our beloved characters have been around decades upon decades, entertaining our grandparents and parents by providing the comedic fodder as short films, proudly played at movie theaters alongside newsreels and other entertainment before the main feature film began. Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers marveled at these shorts when they were repackaged into half-hour, hour, and at one point hour-and-a-half weekday afternoon and Saturday mornings. Sweet Gobs of Gumption! Just rattling off that list felt far more spiritually fulfilling than my last fourteen attempts at organized religion. Coyote, the Road Runner, Sylvester, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Tasmanian Devil, Pepe le Pew, Marvin the Martian. Witness the Cosmic Quintessence of Cartoon Caesars: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. but that won't stop this intrepid review from doing so anyhow. To rattle off the names of these adored characters would be redundant to the point of proclaiming that Liberace, on retrospect, was an odd bird of an extrovert. Man oh man oh Manischewitz, I have to give Warner Brothers a lot of credit.įor years - years, I tell you - DVD enthusiasts have been clamoring for the release of the golden age, universally beloved, and generally well-regarded "classics" of Warner Brothers animated shorts.
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