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‘The Day the Earth Blew Up’ Review: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Save the World in Side-Splitting Looney Tunes Movie
A casualty of Warner Bros.' new cost-slashing strategy, feature-length 'The Day the Earth Blew Up' offering is seeking distribution around the world.
Browngardt earns big laughs early on sharing vignettes from Porky and Daffy’s childhood days, as well as presenting a montage of disastrous attempts to find employment, framed as a classic Looney Tunes cartoon. While it’s a hoot to be reunited with these two old friends — with their signature spuh-spuh-speech impedimenthhhh — there’s something about the way they talk and act that reveals how stylistic innovations from Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have shaped the Looney Tune-iverse, especially “SpongeBob SquarePants.” (That’s no coincidence, seeing as how five of the screenwriters have worked on that franchise.) Vocal MVP Eric Bauza (who performs both Porky and Daffy) brings a manic energy to the pair, while the green-skinned alien Invader (Peter MacNicol) comes across as a taller version of “SpongeBob” schemer Plankton — until the film’s big third-act twist, at least.
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