Cartoon fans you all know me i'm a huge fan of the Looney Tunes and what's not to love there comedy is classic , the animation is nearly always top notch and they had some of the best directors and voice actors working on them. Sadly tho for the past four years the characters have been stuck in a dreadful show which has now thankfully ended and Warner Bros made a smart move by bringing the characters back to their routes and the first new short which is also a trailer for the new show has been released so let's dive head first into Dynamite Dance.
The set up for the short is simple and classic Looney Tunes it's just Elmer chasing Bugs with Bugs constantly outsmarting him. With a set up like this you can't really go wrong and with this short / trailer being a minuets and a half there's not much there in terms of plot but what is there to me just screams classic Looney Tunes and after four years of bad jokes and terrible looking animation this is the kind of thing that we've been begging for.
Rather shockingly there is no dialog spoken in this short / trailer so in this regard it's kind of like the classic short Rabbit of Seville where there's just music playing. In all honesty i'm not quite sure how I feel about this since I would have liked to hear Eric Bauza as Bugs since this is first time playing the character so it would have been nice just to hear what he was going to sound like in this new series but on the other hand not having any dialog for a short cartoon is also kind of a Looney Tunes tradition.
Yes i'm calling this a mini review because the short / trailer is only a minuet and a half long and there's not much you can really get out of that. I will say tho that as of this writing i've seen the short / trailer at least four times and it still cracks me up and the reason why i'm calling this a short / trailer is because at the end of it they say that more are coming soon and Wikipedia has it listed as both the trailer and a short so it's hard to fully judge what it is so it's just easier to call it both.
What I don't think anyone was expecting at least certainly me was for the classic Warner Bros Animation logo to pop up at the start. To me that made it feel like I was watching a classic Looney Tunes short and to top it off they also had the classic theme song playing as well so Warner Bros is really trying to capture the old Looney Tunes feel with this new series of shorts and so far there're succeeding.
Speaking of capturing that old Looney Tunes feel the animation in this short / trailer is alot better then what I thought it was going to be. It honestly looks like the old shorts from the forties and sixties even the promo image that they released a few days ago looked like it was from that time frame and the quality of the animation is so close to the quality one would expect from a theatrically released movie that it's unreal it's easily better then the animation seen in New Looney Tunes and for some reason they gave Bugs what looks like yellow gloves which just doesn't look as good as his white ones.
Now this wouldn't be Looney Tunes if there wasn't some jokes and sadly this is where they kind of loose that old Looney Tunes feel they were going for because this short only has slapstick humour which was kind of the Looney Tunes way but they also had great word play. I have a feeling that the reason they went with slapstick for this short is because of the short run time and that's fair enough since alot of the slapstick is well done but it's just not Looney Tunes in my opinion.
Overall this was a great short / trailer and it does get me excited for the new series whenever they decide to release the new shorts and you can bet that i'll be watching this series when the new shorts start coming out and since this thing is only a minuet and a half long i'm not going to give it rating but I will say that if you want to check it out it's on Youtube just search Warner Bros TV and you'll find it.
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