Heck No Pooh's Adventures

Pooh's Adventures of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, part 1

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is more than just a crossover to make us feel giddy seeing characters from seperate licenses join together. It’s one of the greatest technical/artistic achievements in cinema history. Trust me, I saw it at a special screening with The Thief and the Cobbler that coincidentally took place on my 21st birthday (I even had photos taken with Richard Williams himself).

Unfortunately, several people these days see it as just something that makes them excited just because it’s Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny together, so now seems like the perfect opportunity to recap one of the films that tried to cash in on the success of Roger Rabbit, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, the film that is at least better than Space Jam. But this is the Pooh’s Adventures version, so that automatically makes it worse.

The closest Back in Action could get to being a crossover were a smart take-that at the Scooby-Doo movies offered by Warner Bros. as a marketing gig and the Daleks among other classic sci-fi aliens. But thanks to the magic of Windows Movie Maker, we are treated to Winnie the Pooh, Pokemon (of freaking course), Mickey Mouse, the Madagascar penguins, numerous Disney sidekicks and the villains from Power Rangers. Hm, can’t be worse than the work of Yakko, can it? Well, let’s dig into this anyway. It feels great to be Pooh’s Adventures of Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

Goodness gracious, out of everyone in the audience Dick Williams could’ve shook hands with…

• 0:00 Well, so far I can already tell why YouTube wouldn’t allow this…
• 0:30 John Lasseter, you dun goofed again.
• 0:46 I bet you £50 they’ll use the Warner Animation Group logo in two years’ time.
• 1:18 The year is 2014 and they still can’t find a replacement.
• 4:51 You’re thinking of the wrong cartoon, lady.
• 6:07 And what better way to introduce our guests than a simple reaction shot to the antics of Brendan Fraser?
• 6:18 Hey, it’s at least better to have them already know each other than strand them in what they think is a desert.
• 6:25 So far, this makes more sense than other Pooh’s Adventures. After all, these are humans co-existing with cartoon characters. Question is, how are they all going to fit into the spy car?
• 6:55 ASH: Especially since Harvey Weinstein nabbed us away from them.
• 7:03 Rather than anything significant to the plot, we get a whole discussion about intercompany friendship. Your gang’s big enough, guys.
• 7:50 I love Daffy too, but now’s not the time for sympathy.
• 8:47 Because in Pooh’s Adventures, everything is a lot easier.
• 9:20 You know, they really could have seen him as he escaped. After all, there’s so many characters standing behind Brendan Fraser that you’d think someone would know where he went.
• 10:08 Like I said, there’s a lot of characters behind him. Most of them would already know they’re going to fall off the moment Fraser does so.
• 10:15 Insert a whole bunch of characters giving Fraser real pain by falling onto him.
• 10:33 No, this is 2003, you idiot. Besides, the Looney Tunes would be CG if it really was this year.
• 11:52 The gesture Daffy’s doing is enough to tell them “behind you”. These Pooh’s Adventures creators understand looniness even less than Warner Bros. today.
• 12:24 Please, the special guests we have right now are enough.
• 12:53 Of course you are. Now stop stating the obvious and start breaking the fourth wall.
• 13:44 You think Matthew Lillard’s bad, you should meet YakkoWarnerMovies. Then again, you could be speaking to every employee at Rhythm & Hues right about now.
• 13:55 For starters, you can go back to Disneyland.
• 14:01 No cooperation would make this better. And she’s right at the last part - nobody learns anything.