Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet Review

Hello there Looney Tunes fans i figured since you yanks will be celebrating thanksgiving soon that i would review a cartoon special that has a thanksgiving theme and well here's my review of the first of two Looney Tunes thanksgiving specials Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet.

This special doesn't really have a plot since it's a basically a clip show with new footage of Bugs as a Doctor who gives advice to various other characters and that bit of advice would then lead into a cartoon. I have to admit that was a pretty funny set up having Bugs acting as a Doctor and giving out all the advice but sometimes you could tell when it was old footage and that took me out of it a little bit.

This special only stars the late Mel Blanc and the late June Foray so i can't really knock the acting since both of them are legends but i will say that at times Bugs does sound a bit different and since this special was made in the late 70's and near Mel's death it's understandable.

Now for this review i won't comment on the animation from the original cartoons since they always had great animation instead i'll just focus on the newly animated scenes. Honestly the animation in those scenes i thought were really well done it's not as good as the original shorts but given this was made for TV and on a TV budget the animation looks really good and honestly most scenes blend with the old footage really well.

This special gives alot of love to a character that i never even knew existed Millicent who as you can see from the above picture is a little bit over weight and she's obsessed with Bugs while she doesn't really get any jokes in the special she seems like a funny character and foil for Bugs and it makes me wonder if other Looney Tunes media use her.

Now i'm proud to say that alot of the jokes in this special are really freaking funny it's not just characters hitting each other over the head there's a lot of great word play and you get to see Bugs out smarting alot of people including Taz which is always fun to see.

Overall it's hard for me to say if you should watch this if your a Looney Tunes fans or not just because alot of the cartoons that they show have been in the movies and the newer stuff doesn't really add anything so for me the special gets a 7 maybe a 7.5 out of 10 you see even deciding on a rating is hard.

Murder On the Blackpool Express Review

Well then fellow british peoples i thought i'd review a classic work of art one that has been around for years on end and then i thought i'd review this made for TV movie instead so here is my review of Murder On The Blackpool Express.

The plot of this spoof is a Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly conspiracy when there passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one. If that sounds familiar then that's because this is a spoof of the book Murder On The Orient Express and the story of this film i think follows the same plot of that book but instead puts a comedic spin on it which i loved.

The film stars Car Share's Sian Gibson , Johnny Vegas , Kimberley Nixon , Nigel Havers , Una Stubbs , Sheila Reid , Griff Rhys Jones and Nina Wadia. If your a Brit then you'll know just from the names alone that these are a who's who of British comedy and i can tell you right now without a shadow of a doubt everyone in this film is funny every actor in this film at one point had me laughing.

Now i've mentioned how funny the actors are in the film and that's because the film has a lot of really funny character driven jokes and one of them is actually really dark and is also a spoiler from the word go the jokes come thick and fast and for me all of them landed but with that being said i would understand if people didn't find the jokes funny.

As the plot and the title would suggest this is also a murder mystery and for me that's where the film fails just because they ignore the mystery aspect of the film and focus more on the jokes and because of that the film makers don't drop little bits of knowledge as to who the murderer could possibly be and so when they do make that reveal it comes out of know where.

I will admit that even tho i knew this film was set in and was filmed in Blackpool i honestly thought for a few seconds in the third act that they filmed in Southport and i've been to both places plenty of times and i know what the sea front for both places looks like and yet i still thought they went to Southport this is nothing against the movie but it's something i had to say because it lets you know that people who review films and TV shows are still just people.

Overall if you are in Britain and you have a telly box then i suggest going onto to catch up right now and watch this film it's that good if your not in Britain then sorry for me tho this film gets a solid 8 out 10.