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Looney Tunes: Back in Action 2003
Go home, folks.
Today, Warners got rid of their best cartoon on HBOMax. You know, these kinds of shortsighted and baffling business decisions were the kinds of things Joe Dante was mocking in Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Warners already has 15-20-year old DVDs with all the disc rot in the world and cannot run a theatrical animation studio for more than a decade at any given incarnation. Sadly, it's par for the course with or without David Zaslav.
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Rabbit Habit 1975
Porky? Awen't you confusing me with someone else?
Hmm... put me in 1975 with an even more pronounced love of cartoons... you know, it would probably be a lot like this. Rabbit Habit is one of the best post-1969 Looney Tunes interpretations. It is a more valid one than the Space Jam films because unlike those, Rabbit Habit understands its characters beyond their physical appearance. Give me gobsmacked Elmer Fudd over Porky Pig saying he wet himself any day! There's a reason Tex Avery loved it.
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Turning Red 2022
My panda, my choice!
-*facepalm*
Where to begin with this film? We have unsubtle references to the UN, menstruation, drug use, pedophilia (in dialogue), ancestor worship, strippers, feminist slogans, occult rituals, and the main character shaking her ass on the title card. Who was this for and why? I was half-expecting 9/11 references. Would have been fun to see a 9/11 truther character here. Also fairly anachronistic. Wasn't Twilight written in 2005? Wasn't "my body, my choice" first said in…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
For the first 100 minutes, it's a really entertaining mix of tones until it gets all nihilistic and then it loses me. That being said, the Ratatouille parody was hilarious. The movie theater has become the new church if this movie's worldview is any indication. This time, the offering is mandatory. Might be the most I laughed during a movie I didn't like.
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