Review of Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

As a fan of the 1990's Animation TV Show, I use to watch it every day on Saturday morning. Tiny Toons was first supposed to be made into a theatrical movie, but was later animated into a TV series. The producers such as Steven Spielberg once again, try to get a new Tiny Toons movie out to theaters, but it end, being made for a direct to video film. When I heard this, I had to get it. I just can't help myself. How I Spent My Vacation was the first direct-to-video, feature-length animated film ever released in the United States. The VHS release of How I Spent My Vacation was one of the highest selling videos in the United States so in my opinion, they did the right move here. In my opinion, it's pretty funny, and even many years later. I still find it, hilarious. The movie starts out with pretty much all the regular characters, and follows them during their summer vacation trips, but I don't remember Montana Max (Danny Cooksey) having much of a story in the film. I guess the writers forgot about him, or the voice actor was away doing other projects. While, most of the supporting character had short interesting stories such as Elmyra Duff (Cree Summer) trying to find a new kitty cat at a Wild Nature Safari Park and Fifi Le Fume (Kath Soucie) trying to get close to film actor Johnny Pew (Rob Paulsen). There are two stories that stand out. One is Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny's (Charlie Adler and Tress MacNeille) (BTW- the bunnies have no relation to each other) river Mark Twain mixed with 1972's Deliverance journey with a lot of Southerners stereotypes trying to eat them. Do warning to parents, some younger viewers might find these characters, a bit scary. Some Southerners might be a little bit offended by this. While the bunnies' story is interesting, it wasn't that funny. While, the other is Plucky (Joe Alaskey) and Hampton Pig (Don Messick) take a cross-country trip to Happy World Land, a Disneyland like theme park is just down right hilarious. Every joke on those sequence of the film work. I laugh at every joke, they pull such as the reading in the car gag, making a wish when passing a tunnel, and the serial killer hitchhiker. The monorail scene was the icing on the top of the cake of a great cross-country story. I think everybody can related to the weird cross-country trip to hell with outrageous family members who wish annoying songs and have weird car games. This two made out the majority of the film. The reason why the film is funny for both adults and children is the way it parody of film, popular culture and celebrities. The film had pretty good animation for a direct to video film. Warner Bros. had this movie made with Tokyo Movie Shinsa to animate this movie, since Warner Bros studio was busy with the show. It's also interesting to note that Tokyo Movie Shinsa was the same studio that animated 1988's Akira. The voice acting is pretty amazing, but still wondering what happen to Danny Cooksey during the time of this filming. The songs are pretty catchy. I do like "waiting for the clock" song. Another treat is the banjo version of the Tiny Toons Adventures theme song. I do admit that the background music could be a little more memorable. The movie later aired as a four-part episode on TV. It sad to know that a good DVD version of this is hard to find. Most of the DVDs have a horrible transfer process of this program to a digital format. Overall: it's a crazy fun never seem to stop in this 80-minute original film. Viewers will gain a whole new perspective on Summer Vacations. The TV Series sadly ended in 1995, so parting is such sweet sorrow, but we always have this movie look back on, if you can find it.