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A New Looney Tunes Movie Has Escaped Containment
Aliens are invading, and our only hopes are Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Basically, we’re all screwed.
Especially in the wake of Coyote vs. Acme ’s much-publicized extermination by the dark forces that run Warner Bros. nowadays, it already feels like a small miracle that The Day the Earth Blew Up(which was initially meant to premiere on Max but was handed off to a smaller distributor, Ketchup Entertainment) is even getting released. Their hand-drawn antics play out against a backdrop of familiar (and welcome) Looney Tunes imagery: beautiful blue skies, verdant green lawns, mid-century architecture … with those sudden, jagged changes in shape and color and texture that this style of animation does so well. When they do find steady jobs — at the local bubblegum factory, of course — color and detail drain from the screen and we’re treated to a Constructivist musical sequence featuring sepia silhouettes of Daffy and Porky dancing among the giant, churning gears of monstrous machines.
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