I've walked through Warners Animation for a while now, watching artists work on the new Bugs, Daffy and Elmer entry. Hard to believe its unveiling on home flat-screens is now imminent.
In the old "Looney Tunes" cartoons of the 1940s and '50s, Bugs often was seen wandering outside. In this new show, Bugs and Daffy are roommates in what appears to be a suburban house. ...
Unlike past "Looney Tunes" shorts, the new episodes tell a single story -- with a "Merrie Melodies" intermission that plays like a music video ...
A lot of studio heritage is riding on this show. It spent a long time in development, and received its share of critiques from within and without during the twisting passage from script to design to storyboards to color finals.
But if the new Loonies are a hit, nobody will much care about the complications that occurred during gestation. The company will just celebrate the lucrative birth.
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I've seen a number of episodes. It won't work. It is AWFUL.
Oh boy! The same characters! Again!
And again!
Seriously, are there no other ideas in the brains of any top people at Warners except to trot out the same exact shit for literally 70 years and counting? But done worse each time?
It's as bad as if all that Disney ever did since the 30's was make Mickey and Donald cartoons. No "Little Mermaid." No "Lion King." Just....Mickey and Donald. Over and over.
It's as bad as if all that Warner Bros. did was make Bugs and Daffy cartoons since the....oh wait.
Yeah.
The management of WB is so afraid to try to do anything new with the characters. They basically repeat the same old gags over and over again.
Marvin needs a new foil. Daffy needs to not be paired with Bugs Bunny.
Come on there's got to be a way to let these characters grow out of the boundaries that have been set for them.
I just saw a sample called "Besties" at the movie theater today. Plenty of self-referential humor. Looked like it might be ok. But I'm not an insider, so I don't know a lot of the back story to the new productions.
"Seriously, are there no other ideas in the brains of any top people at Warners except to trot out the same exact shit for literally 70 years and counting? "
Not to defend the crap, because it is crap. But it is all about business, and rolling out the library for reboot is what the modern studio system does and how they often pay the bills. Scooby Doo makes them money, why not Bugs. It's what the business of brands does for both exposure and the bottom line.
How often should they put out a Batman reboot? As quickly as people forget the last one - which is pretty quick.
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