The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - 5/27

[BF10]

Originally Posted by o.supreme

Watched Day the earth Blew Up yesterday. It was pretty good. a few "haha" moments, but not as funny as it could have been, still not the worst (I refused to see the New Space Jam...).

I managed to also watch the movie earlier today. As someone who dislikes a lot of the post-Golden Age output, I'm going to say this is probably the best movie to come out of the post-Golden Age era; moreso than any of the compilation movies that cuts down the shorts from the Golden Age. I'm going to say the main highlight has to be the animation itself, which is about as close it gets to the Clampett/Tashlin style. Outside of a few sight gags and references, the humor is quite dry, though. Overall, actually more than ample and this is coming from someone who didn't care much about the 2020 series.

I do wonder if a 4K release of this might be probable. Maybe I'm asking a bit too much, but it's quite rare for me to actually take movies on Blu-ray, let alone on 4K.

[bladerunner6]

My
Lovely wife and I really enjoyed it. It had a more classic look to its animation and it had a steady stream of jokes. The music was also awesome. Highly recommended to any Looney Tunes fans.

Oh, and I like how they borrowed motifs from science fiction movies.

[rexcrk]

Couldn’t say no to the current price, went ahead and put in a preorder. After tax, it’s a little over $18. Fair price, and I don’t see it getting much lower honestly.

[mikezilla2]

i suppose hoping for a 4K release is hoping for too much ?

[WaverBoy]

Took my girl to see it yesterday. We were two of about fifteen people at the showing, but the kids who were there were laughing hysterically the whole time, and it did my heart good to see today’s kids enjoying yesteryear’s beloved cartoon characters. We all had a ball. I detected clear callbacks to the classic Daffy and Porky short Baby Bottleneck, which of course was directed by Bob Clampett. Methinks I’ll be picking this up on Blu. A pox on WB though for dumping the film like that. It should have been a huge hit. Typical corporate brain rot. Zero marketing. Many thanks to Ketchup for stepping in and at least getting it into theatres.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by 314carpenter

Not sure if it was intentional, but Daffy sure did take on the persona of a certain cartoon woodpecker on more than one occasion.

Nah, he wasn’t channeling Woody. That was his early screen persona, when he really was daffy, before his personality changed in later shorts and he became a foil for Bugs and a much less dominant character.

[TheLaughingMann]

Price went back up to MSRP of $27.

Ah well, it'll still be a great get for fans.

Also, looks like the same firm that got this movie out (Ketchup Entertainment) has Coyote vs Acme snagged!

https://deadline.com/2025/03/coyote-...up-1236354552/

[Tylerfan]

Yay!

[Gandalf_515]

What are the chances of this being region free?

[PhantomFighter]

Just saw this last weekend as it came out here in Australia (the Blu-Ray is also available to pre-order here through JB Hi-Fi) and I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

I went in with pretty low expectations given how I haaaatteeddd the HBO Max Looney Tunes Cartoons series. Terrible animation, awful jokes, subpar voice acting. It felt like a super cheap imitation and an insult to the Looney Tunes and I cannot wrap my head around the praise those cartoons got. So when I saw similar praise for The Day the Earth Blew Up, I was skeptical but I still wanted to watch it because Pork and Daffy are my fav team up from the classics, and they had some of the stronger cartoons in the recent reboot.

I came out of the screening having really enjoyed myself! The animation, to my surprise, was mostly hand drawn and beautifully done, and fairly consistent throughout the film. The Clampett inspirations oozed out of the presentation with the choice of shots, angles, facial expressions, it truly felt like a love letter to classic Looney Tunes. Aside maybe 2 of the jokes that were a bit modern and will be weirdly dated soon, I found myself laughing out loud on multiple occasions. There's a good amount of adult humour in this one, of both kinds, with some of them being particularly cleverly written.

If anyone is one the fence, do give it a go. If you love Looney Tunes, there's a lot to love here. I'll definitely be grabbing the Blu-Ray when it releases. Just hoping we get a distributor that goes to the effort to make some bonus features. This movie is dying for a commentary track or at the very least some deleted scenes or sketches? Hell, just a storyboard gallery, something! It would be a crying shame to not get some behind the scenes features.

Edit: Forgot to mention this, but Eric Bauza did a tremendous job voicing Daffy and Porky. I always felt he had a Mel Blanc quality to him, like you can tell he has the range, but the direction in Looney Tunes Cartoons made it so that all the characters he voiced kinda sounded the same and nothing much like the classics. Here, he absolutely nailed it as Daffy, and his Porky voice is pretty dang good too. His performance as Daffy almost sounded like Jeff Bergman's at times, like it was scary how good he did. And I cannot applaud strong voice acting like that enough.

[TheLaughingMann]

Blu dropped again to $16.96!

[weberrygt]

Absolutely loved this movie! Will have to pick this up for sure.

[Areyakiddin]

Apparently, a new Looney Tunes movie is in the work:
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/fli...imated-movies/

It's pretty obvious, IMHO, that this will be a far more standard paint-by-numbers family movie (which will be a much safer bet at the box office) than the two that WB has sold to Ketchup. I'm expecting something like Sony's Garfield movie with Tom Cruise voicing a CGI Bugs Bunny made for an Illumination sized budget.

[milojthatch]

This film has made over $10 million, and it keeps going! I don't expect it to make it's money back, but I think it might be the most successful Ketchup film so far. It's pure word of mouth keeping this one alive, seriously makes me wonder what even a little advertising would have done for it?

My hope is the home entertainment releases push it into "profitable" territory. It deserves better than its receiving.

Originally Posted by Areyakiddin

Apparently, a new Looney Tunes movie is in the work:
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/fli...imated-movies/

It's pretty obvious, IMHO, that this will be a far more standard paint-by-numbers family movie (which will be a much safer bet at the box office) than the two that WB has sold to Ketchup. I'm expecting something like Sony's Garfield movie with Tom Cruise voicing a CGI Bugs Bunny made for an Illumination sized budget.

When I took my son to see "Day the Earth Blew Up," it had a trailer for a new Smurfs film. The paint-by-numbers style you just described was exactly what I was thinking about while I was watching that trailer. Yikes!

Never saw Space Jam 2, have no interest in it. Not a fan of LeBron or CG Looney Tunes. That said, thanks to that film, we have LEGO Looney Tunes mini figures. If a new film can get us a second wave, I don't have to see it to be for it!

[robtadrian]

I don't know how much more advertising could have been done. Eric Bauza was on the Jennifer Hudson Show. which apparently was the only media outlet that chose to give any space....

[dcfan88]

I saw it opening weekend and got a poster from my local Regal.
Already preordered the blu-ray I get Ketchup are the ones releasing this but I do wish this blu-ray had special features on it.
From what I'm seeing, it's looking like a bare bones blu-ray. Still getting it though.

As for the movie, I enjoyed it but it did feel like stuff was added to pad the runtime (I think I saw this was originally meant to be a special on Max instead of a theatrical release so it possibly having a shorter runtime wouldn't surprise me)

[Bubbles-11]

Originally Posted by PhantomFighter

Just saw this last weekend as it came out here in Australia (the Blu-Ray is also available to pre-order here through JB Hi-Fi)

Oh here's the cover art in question.. could be interesting to track to see if any of the international releases end up being better than Ketchup's quality wise just in case

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by robtadrian

I don't know how much more advertising could have been done. Eric Bauza was on the Jennifer Hudson Show. which apparently was the only media oultet that chose to give any space....

A hell of a lot more. WB could have not dumped it and actually marketed it. Idiots.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

A hell of a lot more. WB could have not dumped it and actually marketed it. Idiots.

If Warner kept it, it would have been a Max exclusive, same as Coyote vs Acme. It would have done a lot worse being stuck behind a subscription. The head of Warner Bros, not Zaslav, would not even give those two theatrical short-runs because of how Space Jam 2 did.

Thankfully Ketchup was able to get The Earth Blew Up then it did well enough for Ketchup to get enough money & show Warner they could handle Coyote vs Acme.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

If Warner kept it, it would have been a Max exclusive, same as Coyote vs Acme. It would have done a lot worse being stuck behind a subscription. The head of Warner Bros, not Zaslav, would not even give those two theatrical short-runs because of how Space Jam 2 did.

Thankfully Ketchup was able to get The Earth Blew Up then it did well enough for Ketchup to get enough money & show Warner they could handle Coyote vs Acme.

That would have been the same as dumping it. What I obviously meant was that WB should have properly and enthusiastically marketed it as a theatrical feature film, and not dumped it.