Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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Directed byJoe Dante
Written byLarry Doyle
Based onLooney Tunes
by Warner Bros.
Produced by
  • Paula Weinstein
  • Bernie Goldman
Starring
CinematographyDean Cundey
Edited by
  • Marshall Harvey
  • Rick W. Finney
Music byJerry Goldsmith
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures[2]
Release dates
  • November 9, 2003 (2003-11-09) (premiere)
  • November 14, 2003 (2003-11-14) (United States)
Running time
91 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$80 million[3]
Box office$68.5 million[4]

Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 live-action/animated spy comedy movie directed by Joe Dante.

Plot

At the Warner Bros. Movie Studios, Daffy Duck reads a script for a Looney Tunes cartoon and was unhappy that he gets blasted by Elmer Fudd multiple times in the script. Stuntman DJ Drake chased him as Daffy Duck takes a Batmobile and crashes it to the Warner Bros. water tower. Daffy and DJ get fired from the studios.

Cast

Live-action cast

Voice cast


Production

The movie was originally going to be called Spy Jam but it was changed to Looney Tunes: Back in Action to prevent associations with Space Jam.

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 58% based on 135 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the classic Looney Tunes cartoons."[6] At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score a 64 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)". Filmaffinity. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  6. ↑ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Looney Tunes: Back in Action Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Find CinemaScore" (Type "Looney Tunes" in the search box). CinemaScore. Retrieved March 25, 2021.


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