Hello Looney Tunes fans alot of people know about the early looney tunes movies and a lot of people know about the live action movies and maybe someone will know about the straight to DVD christmas movie but the one movie that not that many people know about is the one that's loosely based on The Looney Tunes Show and so here is my review of that very movie Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run.
So then what is the plot of this looney movie i don't here you saying well Lola Bunny invents a perfume with the adverse effect of turning people invisible sending her and cab driver Bugs Bunny on the run from the FBI while another shady group seeks the formula. I have to admit for a looney tunes movie there's quite alot going on in this movie as alot of people want what Lola has invented but for me that only adds to the overall insanity and looneyness of it all the downside is that since so much is going on at times the film gets bogged down.
From what i can gather most of the cast of The Looney Tunes Show all came back for the movie with the exception of Kristin Wigg as Lola who here is played by Rachel Ramras who does a good job in the movie but i have a feeling she was told to do a Kristin Wigg impression since the character has that same sense of humor that only Wigg could pull off she's not the only new actor in this movie tho as Jess Harnell and Rob Paulsen voice The Goofy Gophers and i have to admit it was great hearing those two actors in the same movie together and there's pretty solid in this movie as well.
Now i said at the very start of this review that it was very loosely based on The Looney Tunes Show and what i meant by that was they took the look of the show , some of the voice actors and the character designs and some of the characters personality's and dropped everything else. I have to ask what was the point in making this movie based on what was at the time a popular show if your just going to drop all of the shows storylines to me that makes no sense you could have had this movie act as a series finale.
The animation is pretty solid for a direct to DVD looney tunes movie you can tell that those involved put in alot of effort and it really does show and it helps that the director of the movie also served as animation director on both Space Jam and Back In Action as well a director on The Looney Tunes Show. There's a lot of great fluid movement from the characters and most of the characters get a lot of great and funny facial expressions which i will get more into by the way as i said the movie carried over the designs from The Looney Tunes Show so if you didn't like how they looked in the show then you won't like how they look here personally tho i think the characters look pretty good.
Now i have to agree with a certain critic of the nostalgia and say that Lola is best character not only in the show but also in this movie when i said that alot of the characters get some funny facial expressions she is one of them and my god where they great to see everytime she pulls a funny face it got a laugh out of me.
I have to mention some of the jokes in this movie not all of them are laugh out loud funny but the ones that hit hit hard like for example Yosemite Sam has a great running joke where he always tells people that he's about to rob a bank another one is the fact that Lola does a spot on impression of Sam and i won't spoil another joke but if you liked the first cartoon to feature Marvin The Martian then there's a great little nod to that cartoon in there as well.
This film is full of Looney Tunes which for me is both good and bad good because it's a Looney Tunes movie but bad because it means a lot of them get either very minor roles , a few lines or just a cameo for me the best character apart from Bugs and Daffy is Porky Pig and he only gets one line in the whole movie but he got the goldetreatment compared to Daffy who for some reason is dumbed down in this movie to the point where it's not even funny.
Overall i would say this is a pretty good Looney Tunes movie but it's not as good as it could have been if your a fan of The Looney Tunes Show then this is for you but if you weren't a fan of the show then this won't make you one but for me this movie is a 5.5 out of 10