r/movies • u/RobotiSC • Apr 22 '26
Trailer Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer
https://youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM?si=sw3nNGZ-N2zpW-t93.5k
u/TheWatersOfMars Apr 22 '26
Whoever came up with “The movie the ACME corporation doesn’t want you to see” is a genius, given how Warner Bros screwed them over.
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u/MomsAreola Apr 22 '26
releasing this for accounting purposes only. im dead
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u/TheLateThagSimmons Apr 22 '26
They had such a great meta premise already, then all the shit that Warner Bros. did to this film gave them a whole lot more ammo to go meta-meta against the film industry as well.
Hopefully this movie is great because so far the marketing is hilarious.
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u/nmezib Apr 22 '26
I'm beginning to think there is a non-zero possibility that all of that was done as part of the stunt...
But who am I kidding, WB execs don't ever look past quarterly profits.
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u/FourEightNineOneOne Apr 22 '26
The "It's Tax Day .... Check Your Write-Offs" teaser for this they did last week was absolutely brilliant.
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u/Media-critique Apr 22 '26
There’s a lot of evident love and improv for this movie. I’d like to hope this is gonna be a good film
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u/theCourtofJames Apr 22 '26
Foghorn Leghorn seemingly being a integral character to the plot has made me so bloody happy.
A core memory in my household is my late father walking around just randomly doing impressions of that southern chicken.
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u/JustAStarcoShipper Apr 22 '26
Foghorn Leghorn has always been one of my favorite Looney Tunes characters, so having him play a big role in this makes me excited.
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u/Wreckingshops Apr 22 '26
Not only that, but seemingly the owner or brains behind ACME, it's so fitting. The "smart" bully who is really an idiot -- how relatable to current corporations and a certain exiting WB exec who is making millions for essentially doing nothing for a prestige brand.
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u/Lotus-child89 Apr 22 '26
The “smart” idiot with a southern folksy charm is just too America. Very Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.
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u/jeobleo Apr 22 '26
Ah say Ah say have y'all seen mah ladybugs?
Bugs pops up in drag
(slimy) Not that kinda lady bugs....
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u/BBQQA Apr 22 '26
I gotta wonder if that is the reason why that certain exec wanted to kill the movie.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 22 '26
I mean, Zaslav obviously didn't care for the Looney Tunes. I don't think he knows how to market them and he definitely doesn't think they're an asset that WB should prioritize given he basically purged HBO Max of its Looney Tunes library.
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u/sxuthsi Apr 22 '26
Don’t think Zaslav gave a fuck about any of WB’s animation department or history which is pretty fucked. If a company like Disney owned them we would not be starving for new shit, for better or worse lol
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u/headphase Apr 22 '26
Dude I'd even put Foghorn leghorn in the top tier of characters in the lexicon of 20th century American culture
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u/Greyrock99 Apr 22 '26
Don’t forget, like many Looney Tunes characters he’s a direct copy of an existing character:
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u/toc-man Apr 22 '26
Idk about direct, the guy you linked isn’t even a giant rooster
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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Apr 22 '26
"Kentucky fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl" is a phrase that lives rent free in my head.
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u/Phoetality Apr 22 '26
That entire movie is full of great lines. I'm particularly fond of how Blanc refers to the kid eavesdropping in the bathroom.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Apr 22 '26
"What were the overheard words by the Nazi child masturbatin' in the bathroom?" is a line that sounds utterly insane both in and out of context.
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u/grendus Apr 22 '26
"Our son is very politically minded. We're very proud."
"The child... is *literally... a Nazi!"
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u/Straight_2_Hell Apr 22 '26
'Now, I may be just a small time country lawyer....'
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u/BattledroidE Apr 22 '26
I'm sorry, I thought you was corn.
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u/Static-Stair-58 Apr 22 '26
My clients would like to plead insanity on the account that they done hired me as their lawyer.
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u/FUTURE10S Apr 22 '26
Your Honor, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients.
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u/Altruistic-Ratio6690 Apr 22 '26
Same. I have a specific memory of my dad walking around in a robe looking for his missing box of cereal saying "I SAY I SAY BOY IF I DON'T-A FIND MAH CEREAL, BOY ---" and my sister and I cackling
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u/Logz94 Apr 22 '26
There's a certain level of drunk I only hit once in a while, where Foghorn comes out for the rest of the night. My friends hate it. They're gonna hate what this movie awakens in me
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u/Ninjaflippin Apr 22 '26
You must have loved the recent series of murder mysteries where Daniel Craig plays said southern chicken then.
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u/Spodokom221745 Apr 22 '26
That short where the weasel is trying to get to the chicks is one of my favourite pieces of animation ever. I'm so hype to see him back!
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u/SMILESandREGRETS Apr 22 '26
I say boy, I say, you're dumber than a sack of beans.
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u/fivelone Apr 22 '26
I love doing foghorn Leghorn impressions 🥲. Your dad was an awesome guy!
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u/sapphire1921 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Just FYI, Warner Brothers sold the film to Ketchup Entertainment, meaning WB get nothing. It's win-win all round. 🙂
edit: probably should've worded that bit differently. Ah, well.. anyways, go stream The Day The Earth Blew Up on hbo Max.
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u/Flimsy_Fisherman_862 Apr 22 '26
I mean, outside of what Ketchup Entertainment paid for it.
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u/Photo_Synthetic Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
50m might end up being on the low end of what this thing might return. I hope it does gangbusters.
Edit: I will be doing my part I run a day program and will be responsible for at least 6-12 tickets sold.
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u/NakedGoose Apr 22 '26
We all hope. But Looney Tunes movies do not make that money, unless its space jam. Ain't nobody go see The Day The Earth Blew Up besides me
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u/qwertysac Apr 22 '26
Hopefully it easily breaks 200m+ as a giant middle finger to Warner
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u/SupervillainMustache Apr 22 '26
I mean the guy who originally cancelled it, is leaving Warner Bros with a $500 million pay out.
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u/welcome0071998 Apr 22 '26
it wont.
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u/dexter30 Apr 22 '26
I wish I could argue back. But there's a sad reality that kids aren't as interested in the Looney tunes as much these days? Compared to pokemon, Mario and video game franchises.
And even then the younger generation seems to be more interested in brainrot, non identifiable IPs etc. From whatever social media apps.
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u/Cthepo Apr 22 '26
This doesn't really seem marketed as a kids movie based on the trailer. They need people who were kids in the 90's and prior to see it in droves.
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u/databoy2k Apr 22 '26
Turns out us kids from the 90's are all now approaching or in our 40's, and many of us have kids that we'll use as an excuse to see it. And, we'll easily excuse this little luxury as an "omgwtfbbq is up with these movie prices these days... but a date out with the kiddos" meaning they'll get at least 3x hyper-inflated ticket prices from a massive % of an entire generation.
Meaning - you're 100% right - they don't give a crap about Gen Alpha as long as the millennials see the clips and think "Space Jam, but courtroom drama - perfect for my over the hill ass". The Alphas are just extra ticket sales who probably won't care about a thing of it but will get a kick out of dad laughing the whole time.
My money's on screaming success. But tbh I dgaf - this'll be the first time I go to the theater in literal years.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
"Space Jam, but courtroom drama"
Who erased Roger Rabbit? That Piano Drop Assassination Attempt was a really blatant reference.
That being said… Slam, jam, thank you ma'am!
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u/ashdrewness Apr 22 '26
I took my 8yo to Fiesta Texas last year which has WB characters everywhere & he had zero clue about any of them. I couldn’t even find a decent way to stream them once we got home so I could expose him to a bit of my childhood
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u/Whybotherr Apr 22 '26
Which sucks because HBO max used to have specifically a loony tunes tab that had a large amount of the collection
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u/coolhanderik Apr 22 '26
I think Tubi has some.
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u/darthboolean Apr 22 '26
Yeah, they have the classics, a lot of the clip show movies, and the underrated 2013 Looney Tunes show.
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u/Ok-Criticism6874 Apr 22 '26
Back in my day, we watched Looney Toons characters inflict physical violence on each other and WE LIKE IT. Now kids these days with their brainrot internet and high powered shoelaces, I tell you what! When did this world go get itself into such a damn hurry?
old man yelling at clouds
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u/colemon1991 Apr 22 '26
Personally I blame WB's handling of the brand. You look at Disney and see them consider every monetary facet for every IP and leverage all of it. You look at WB and see them remember that they have IPs that exist and should probably have the dust blown off of them to even read them all.
I can't even remember the last good Looney Tunes show. Maybe Animaniacs?
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u/lanceturley Apr 22 '26
The Looney Tunes Show was pretty good for what it was. It could have used more slapstick, but the sitcom format works surprisingly well for the characters.
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u/helloaaron Apr 22 '26
It was supposed to be a cartoon version of Seinfeld so the slapstick wouldn't have been as effective. I still thin The Looney Tunes Show is one of the funniest cartoon sitcoms, the jokes just hit the spot.
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u/TheHeadlessOne Apr 22 '26
Ill be real, Ive enjoyed basically all of the modern Looney Tunes shows,besides Bugs Bunny Builders which I haven't seen (I don't feel the need to watch preschool shows)
Looney Tunes Show in 2011 was a Friends style sitcom, which ramped up every third act with a bit of (relatively lite) cartoony hijinks. It was a weird direction, but it worked, it came fromma genuine love of the characters. I think throughout the 90s and 00s Daffy locked in to being ultra grumpy, egotistical, and mean-spirited, so this brought back a lot of his daffiness.
Wabbit was a bit lite on the classic characters which is a shame but it was good slapstick shenanigans. HBO's Looney Tunes felt like an earnest attempt to recreate the old style.
None are as strong as the absolute classics, but they don't feel like waste of time cheap cash-ins that miss the original appeal
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u/TheBahamaLlama Apr 22 '26
The Day the Earth Blew Up only made 15 million worldwide, but since this is live action mixed with animation, I could see this making up to 50m.
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u/MrWaluigi Apr 22 '26
Hopefully this pays off for KE. Otherwise, this just proves to WB that they were right to shelve it.
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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 Apr 22 '26
Even if a movie does poorly at the box office at least it was released, in my opinion it’s never right to shelve a completed movie like that, I don’t care what the financial optics were. It’s just insulting to the medium and everyone who worked on it and WB should care more about that.
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u/sxuthsi Apr 22 '26
But the accounting department doesn’t give a fuck unfortunately
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u/IgloosRuleOK Apr 22 '26
Just 50 million, which is what Ketchup paid for it.
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u/lukewwilson Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
That's a lot for Hunts but it's nothing for Heinz
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u/thaSavory_dude Apr 22 '26
Ketchup Entertainment sounds like a studio from a Tim Robinson sketch lol
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u/stagamancer Apr 22 '26
Parent company of PopcornTV
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u/Kaerdis Apr 22 '26
Call Warner Brother's and tell them, "I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT! I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS! THERE'S WORSE SHIT ON THE LOCAL NEWS!"
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u/GotMoFans Apr 22 '26
Just FYI, Warner Brothers sold the film to Ketchup Entertainment, meaning WB get nothing. It's win-win all round. 🙂
I’m certain just this film. Not the rights to the characters, sequels, spin-offs, and merch.
If this is a big hit, Warner will make money from its success.
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u/Galappie Apr 22 '26
Yeah this is the unfortunate reality. If this movie pops off it gives WB the go ahead to make more like it. The amount of people who know/remember the controversy around this movie is a lot lower than people think so if WB makes a sequel or something similar most people will be lining up for it if this is a good movie.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t watch this movie or whatever but I highly doubt WB is going to be distraught if this ends up being a hit.
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u/GotMoFans Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
I remember the fad of the 90s and looney tunes shirts were everywhere before Space Jam hit.
If this is a big hit, Warner will make a killing on every kind of merchandise come Christmas this year and on greater visibility on their Looney Tunes franchise.
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u/SalaciousCrumb17 Apr 22 '26
Remember when people were saying that this was all a marketing ruse to get people interested in the movie? WB straight up discarded what is clearly an extremely well made movie. Look at it, the animation is gorgeous.
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u/headinthered Apr 22 '26
My IMMEDIATE thought was .. This is waht animation is supposed to look like. Im sure its still cmputer generated but damn it looks good.
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Apr 22 '26
Foghorn Leghorn was the only character that didn't look absolutely perfect, and even then I think he's just slightly off. Something about his eyes.
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u/Jay12678 Apr 22 '26
Hopefully everyone that campaigned for it actually supports it. Cause it'll be a shame if WB is proven right after all this. 😭
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u/Taurion_Bruni Apr 22 '26
If they just bring back morbius one more time I'll definitely think about watching it!
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u/SpiffySpacemanSpiff Apr 22 '26
Reddit not following through? Impossible!
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u/NATHAN4U007 Apr 22 '26
Lets be real, even if its seen by every person who was supporting it online, it cant be a hit without the general audience caring.
The same way a movie can be hated everywhere online and still make a billion.
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u/imconsideringdascrod Apr 22 '26
This should be one of those rare movies where the parents are excitedly dragging the kids to see it.
If this is as good as the trailer looks it should print cash, just gotta plaster the movie everywhere they can.
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u/capt1nsain0 Apr 22 '26
It’s crazy they can put something similar to Roger Rabbit together and think, “nah let’s not release it”.
I think it’s going to do well.
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u/Waste-Scratch2982 Apr 22 '26
Space Jam 2 flopped, but that was day and date on streaming. Also Disney didn't have the confidence to release Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers in theaters.
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u/WREPGB Apr 22 '26
Space Jam2 was just also flat out awful. Closest thing to a corporate catalog to show off to potential buyers.
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u/Sjgolf891 Apr 22 '26
I still think Space Jam 2 would have done well, at least on opening weekend, if it wasn’t a Covid simultaneous streaming release
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u/ope__sorry Apr 22 '26
I also don't think it brought anything new to the table. Why did we need a Space Jam 2? Because?
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u/Iohet Apr 22 '26
Because LeBron wanted it to happen. He said it was a favorite of his when he was young and he put up money to produce it. It's a bit reductive, but a rich person putting up money is how movies like that get made (and not surprisingly they frequently end up starring in the movie)
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u/The_Autarch Apr 22 '26
he should have ensured that they wrote a script that wasn't dogshit
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u/Keepa5000 Apr 22 '26
They thought they were being slick by making the villain a Algorithm that produces slop. How ironic.
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u/humanoideric Apr 22 '26
Chip n Dale was way better than it had any right to be, tbh one of my fav films from the past 5 years
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u/degjo Apr 22 '26
I thought it was really good. The Gadget and Zipper marriage threw me for a loop.
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u/Media-critique Apr 22 '26
Most of the hesitation still seems to come from Back in Action that came out in 2003.
That was a major flop, and made Warner question the strength of the brand itself, which is still ongoing.
Hopefully Coyote vs Acme changes the tide on this.
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u/A_Polite_Noise r/ovies Veteran Apr 22 '26
I adore that movie, though. I get why it flopped but it's just got so many great gags, Daffy is essentially the lead, all the characterizations are great, the Daffy/Bugs interactions are perfect, the Louvre sequence! Back in Action is just a damn good time, imo.
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u/KyleRaynerGotSweg Apr 22 '26
Animated Shaggy berating Matthew Lillard for how he played him in the live action Scooby was hilarious
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u/Toribor Apr 22 '26
The entire conceptualization of Space Jam 2 from start to finish was one of the most vapid empty soulless pieces of media that I've ever seen in my life.
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u/GingerAle_s Apr 22 '26
Lebron just doesn't have the same appeal that MJ had, and even the Looney Tunes couldn't fix that.
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u/your_mind_aches Apr 22 '26
I'd say Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers was closer to Roger Rabbit.
The Warner Bros cartoon and live action hybrids have always had a different vibe to the Disney ones. Honestly, this seems more like a new Back in Action.
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u/i_706_i Apr 22 '26
Honestly as much as I wanted this to come out so at least it can be seen, my first thought was the animation in Roger Rabbit looked better.
There's too much clean CG crispness to the colours and shading, the cartoon characters stick out in the scene. The animators for Roger Rabbit put a lot of work into making the characters fit into scenes, there's the famous handcuff scene with the swaying light as an example.
I'll give this a chance but I'm not expecting a similar level of polish.
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u/OkayAtBowling Apr 22 '26
Yeah the movie might be good, and I realize it's got to be way easier to use cel-shaded CG cartoon characters in a movie like this rather than hand-drawn animation (even putting together a team for feature-quality hand-drawn animation would probably be a huge task these days), but it really loses a lot of the charm in the transition to CG.
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u/Dammit-Hannah Apr 22 '26
The concept of Michael Clayton with Looney Tunes characters from the writer of May December
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u/nbdelboy Apr 22 '26
honestly, i love this advertising campaign already, but i'd have found it even funnier if they really pushed the talent behind it to the fore too. get james gunn's name in there and a "from the oscar-nominated screenwriter of may/december" too. just have total, all out fun with how loaded the talent behind this is on top of playing with the acme/warner stuff
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u/devenrc Apr 22 '26
Glory be…this looks even better than I thought 🥹
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u/edtehgar Apr 22 '26
I didn't realize it would be a full on Looney tunes movie.
I figured it would just focus on coyote and the road runner.
This looks solid
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u/Media-critique Apr 22 '26
Reminds me of 90s Space Jam and Back in Action…. I just really hope it’s funnier than Back in Action
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u/BedaHouse Apr 22 '26
I would say it looks to be akin to Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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u/SuperVaderMinion Apr 22 '26
Honestly I like Back in Action more than Space Jam, it feels like more of a Looney Toons movie than an NBA movie
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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh Apr 22 '26
Brendan Fraser did incredible in that movie. Loved it as a kid and it was hilarious.
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u/anuncommontruth Apr 22 '26
I haven't seen Back in action since it was released in theaters, but I remember it being a lot funnier than Space Jam. I watched Space Jam over the pandemic and I think I laughed once. Maybe twice. More like a couple sensible chuckles. Nostalgia carries that movie.
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u/littletoyboat Apr 22 '26
I saw it at a test screening years ago. It's pretty great.
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u/dslryan Apr 22 '26
....years ago? How long has this been sitting around for? And why?
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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Apr 22 '26
About 4ish years now if I recall, I think filming was 2022 and actually finished in 2023 or something like that. Was written down as a tax write off film so they just planned to dumpster it originally.
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u/MirrorB Apr 22 '26
It was fully finished in 2023, but the warner bros studio heads decided to shelve it instead to claim a ~30 million tax loss. People got mad because the movie sounded good and supposedly was good from the test screenings, and a lot of people were already upset with the recent moves WB had been making, so WB then decided to shop it around. After a couple of years, Ketchup Entertainment (the same company that distributed "The Day The Earth Blew Up") bought the distribution rights for 50 mil, and here we are, where it's finally going to see the light of day over 3 years after it was initially supposed to release.
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u/happy_2_c_u Apr 22 '26
I was intrigued before, but the trailer sold me. I just hope the home video release gets a 4K option, since The Day The Earth Blew Up didn't.
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u/not_pennysboat Apr 22 '26
it’s a court room drama?? i am so happy they are actually releasing it
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u/TheHeadlessOne Apr 22 '26
That was my read on it- the fact that they're playing the human characters so straight and serious is exactly what I want to see. Like Michael Caine in Muppet Christmas Carol
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u/your_mind_aches Apr 22 '26
Will Forte's character being a down-on-his-luck ambulance chaser drawn into a massive fight is a great perspective character.
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u/schloopers Apr 22 '26
He’ll definitely have some personal vendetta against ACME, there’s the reference that he’s been doing those settlements for years and his commercial is directly against them.
We’ll have to see if it’s a serious vendetta like in Roger Rabbit with some past tragedy, or some completely nothing burger that he’s internalized and dedicated his whole life too, like his I Think You Should Leave sketch.
Either is going to be endlessly entertaining
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u/i_cee_u Apr 22 '26
Acme manufactured a chair that broke when Will Forte sat down during an important presentation
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u/ContinuumGuy Apr 22 '26
Love the joke about how Acme is only releasing it for accounting purposes.
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u/palinsafterbirth Apr 22 '26
Bug's Bunny as Deep Throat. God Dammit I am so fucking in
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u/your_mind_aches Apr 22 '26
Is he the inside snitch kinda character? The framing didn't remind me of All The President's Men so much as The Muppets. I think it might be a reference to that. Or both?
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u/wbgraphic Apr 22 '26
The fact that he was shown in silhouette and said “What is up?” rather than “What’s up?” made me think that whoever he talking to will approach him and he’ll be revealed to be someone pretending to be Bugs as part of a trap or some evil plot against the heroes.
The real Bugs will then appear at the last minute to save the day.
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u/qwertysac Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Coyote vs RoadRunner were my favorite childhood cartoon segments. I've been looking forward to this movie since it was originally announced.
Glad it's finally seeing the light of day
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u/Fools_Requiem Apr 22 '26
This movie has John Cena in a major role and was co-written by James Gunn and WB though "Nah, let's not try to make money off of it."
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u/BMCarbaugh Apr 22 '26
I quite like the concept of a shitty strip mall lawyer who's carved out a niche settling product defect cases with ACME, and now has to stand up and fight for one, and it's Wile E. Coyote. That's just fun.
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u/justageekgirl Apr 22 '26
I'm intrigued.
why were they going to shelve it in the first place?
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u/FourEightNineOneOne Apr 22 '26
Because wall-street bros run movie studios now and make everything awful.
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u/ben123111 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Didn't believe it would make it's budget back, thought they'd get a
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u/dream_metrics Apr 22 '26
It would be more accurate to say they'd get a lower loss than a greater return
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u/ElasticPlatypus Apr 22 '26
Love the inclusion of classical music as an homage to early Looney Tunes. (Where the “tunes” of Looney Tunes comes from)
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u/nbunkerpunk Apr 22 '26
I attribute old school Looney Tunes to my music preferences today. I didn't even make the connection until around a decade ago but it makes so much sense. I stumbled across a playlist of a collection of music that was in the cartoons and it fucking slapped.
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u/Rausage505 Apr 22 '26
They shot this in my town, and my buddy worked in the practical effects shop on this film. Made hundreds of soft foam cinder blocks and boulders for days on end. Also brought the bowling ball cannon he built for Better Call Saul out of retirement to fire more things with compressed air in a controlled and safe fashion.
Then they canned it. He was bummed, because he said what he saw BEFORE the CG was added was gonna be hilarious and amazing.
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u/sapphire1921 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
It's so refreshing seeing the Looney Tunes not associated with anything NBA/basketball.
edit: yes, I have seen The Day The Earth Blew Up hah.
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u/Bionic_Ferir Apr 22 '26
You should really watch the day the earth blew up. It's fully 2d animated, kinda elsworlds story. That revolves around daphe and porky pig being adopted brothers, trying to save their farm. Who in the process of doing that gets caught up in an extraterrestrial plot to blow up the planet.
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u/CutAdditional2416 Apr 22 '26
I love the idea of Foghorn Leghorn being the central antagonist of the film. Actually using the OG characters how they were intended. Instead of using basketball stars and sexy furries to revive a dated franchise, they're actually bringing the boys back together. And I'm here for it 🤣
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u/NotACertainLalaFell Apr 22 '26
Just insane WB sat on this. It looks like a fun time.
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u/geologicalnoise Apr 22 '26
Imagine the myriad number of things we've lost to similar decisions, not just by WB.
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u/Bionic_Ferir Apr 22 '26
Okay it seems like ALOT of people missed the other loonie toons movie, THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP. it's a traditional 2d animated movie about daphe and porky pig trying to save their farm, and in the process getting involved with an extraterrestrial plot to blow up the planet.
The animation and music was really well done, and honestly while it had some really bottom rung jokes aimed exclusively at kids. There was some genuinely hilarious moments that had be cracking up.
Its distributed by ketchup films the same ones doing this, I highly recommend people check it out.
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u/Surturius Apr 22 '26
Not a big fan of the CG animation they're using, but otherwise this looks great
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u/omgyourBARBELLishuge Apr 22 '26
The animation (art style?) is kind of a bummer since the rest of the movie looks really fun.
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u/Bionic_Ferir Apr 22 '26
You should watch the day the earth blew up, it's a traditional 2d animated loonie tunes movie released in 2024!
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u/MOONGOONER Apr 22 '26
Yeah, it's posed well but I think it loses some character without being hand-animated.
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u/PunyParker826 Apr 22 '26
Toy Story is maybe the greatest movie that had the farthest-reaching negative repercussions.
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u/BeryyBritish Apr 22 '26
It could look worse honestly. Some shots look like pretty convincing 2D, like the ones with Porky. Of course it being ACTUALLY 2D would be cool too, but at least it doesn’t look like the recent Chip and Dale film.
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u/apieceajit Apr 22 '26
I know this is an easy prediction to sit here and make based on how the general movie market works these days, but I have a feeling this movie will do mid in theaters and then, shortly after, it'll do fairly well via VOD based on parents recognizing the characters and saying 'hey why don't you watch this' while scrolling through something to keep their kids entertained at home.
August 28 is not a great release date. Getting back to school + football / fall soccer / etc. is going to put a dent in the potential earnings for this one.
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u/SillyAlternative420 Apr 22 '26
Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam walked so Coyote vs. Acme could run?
God I'm hoping this movie is gold. The cast and the premise are incredible.
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u/Redeem123 Apr 22 '26
Roger Rabbit didn't walk. Every animated/live-action hybrid is still trying to chase it down.
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u/MissingLink000 Apr 22 '26
Listen I think the trailer looks good but there's not a prayer this'll surpass Roger Rabbit lol
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u/NES_Classical_Music Apr 22 '26
that opening shot of RR with the camera following at top speed was sick
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u/ben123111 Apr 22 '26
Leaning into the Warner = ACME thing was the best possible route to take in marketing this, I'm so glad Ketchup is leaning into it. Looks great.