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New Looney Toons cartoons.
Jun. 13th, 2011 10:45 pmOn the cable channel, Cartoon Network, they have started airing new episodes of new Looney Toons cartoons. Had the time to sit down and watch a couple of them over the weekend. Executive summary: Close, but not quite got it. Hope they get it and fix it before it gets chopped.
Bugs and Daffy are, as expected, the main characters. But they are structuring it as a sitcom. Bugs and Daffy are housemates. Yosemite Sam is their neighbor. And the other characters are around in a generic american suburban setting. They did bring in Lola Bunny from the Space Jam movie. But instead of the confident and competitive gal she was in the movie, they changed her into a ditzy valley girl right out of a 90s sitcom. Fail. In the opening montage there is a female duck shown, presumably to mess with Daffy's head in some future episode.
They also updated the other characters, giving them more or less current setting, but this also means that these additions to the WB animation canon will not age as well as the classic WB cartoons. I didn't see Elmer there, and a doubt there will be anything so unPC as hunting shown in this new series. And way fewer explosions. There was a short of coyote and roadrunner, done as a pastiche of hong kong chop-saki ninja movie fight scenes. That worked, once I got used to the very different visual style. I do want to see more coyote and road runner if they continue to be that good.
I'll continue to watch it, more out of curiosity than interest for now, and hope that it improves.
Also, CN is broadcasting the classic WB cartoons. A curious mixture of restored cartoons, faded and censored for television cartoons, and poorly dubbed spanish language versions.
Bugs and Daffy are, as expected, the main characters. But they are structuring it as a sitcom. Bugs and Daffy are housemates. Yosemite Sam is their neighbor. And the other characters are around in a generic american suburban setting. They did bring in Lola Bunny from the Space Jam movie. But instead of the confident and competitive gal she was in the movie, they changed her into a ditzy valley girl right out of a 90s sitcom. Fail. In the opening montage there is a female duck shown, presumably to mess with Daffy's head in some future episode.
They also updated the other characters, giving them more or less current setting, but this also means that these additions to the WB animation canon will not age as well as the classic WB cartoons. I didn't see Elmer there, and a doubt there will be anything so unPC as hunting shown in this new series. And way fewer explosions. There was a short of coyote and roadrunner, done as a pastiche of hong kong chop-saki ninja movie fight scenes. That worked, once I got used to the very different visual style. I do want to see more coyote and road runner if they continue to be that good.
I'll continue to watch it, more out of curiosity than interest for now, and hope that it improves.
Also, CN is broadcasting the classic WB cartoons. A curious mixture of restored cartoons, faded and censored for television cartoons, and poorly dubbed spanish language versions.
