I'm going to admit that after the backlash of The Looney Tunes Show (2011), I saw a teaser for the show on the classic cartoon channel Boomerang and was excited. All it showed was Bugs Bunny's Rabbit hole, and I could hear were the voice of Bugs and the voice of who I could presume was a knight (considering the latter spoke about a Dragon and even sounded like a knight one would usually hear in cartoons). It wasn't much, but I felt confident that Warner Bros. learned from their mistake and redid everything. On a side note, while I enjoyed/adored the spin-off shows Taz-Mania and Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (and maybe a little bit of Duck Dodgers to a degree, but otherwise neutral over), it was kind of a bummer to not have Bugs Bunny even make a small cameo, since he's my favorite.
But then came the second trailer. The trailer that introduced their version of Bugs (or so I presumed). I thought that the LTS designs of the characters were bad (and they still are), but on here--it looks like the creators took a butcher knife to the few already-established Looney Tunes characters a second time after being hacked apart from the LTS! WHO ASKED FOR THESE CHARACTERS TO GET SO VISUALLY ALTERED LIKE THAT!?
Granted, while Boomerang played a small teaser of that (still abominable) version of the Looney Tunes, I do admit getting a slight chuckle, or at least a smirk, from a couple jokes. Here are the two I heard:
'Bugs Bunny': (dressed as a getaway man) "Is that it?" 'Yosemite Sam': (yells) "THIS IS THE LIBRARY! (panics, then whispers) Go. Go."
'BB': (hands Sam a costume) 'YS': (from off-screen) "How do I look?" 'BB': (stares back blankly) "...Like a sitting Duck." 'YS': (camera shows him dressed up in a wanted criminal poster costume)
Admittedly, those aren't too bad (me trying to be a fair reviewer), but the jokes fall flat due to the animation and designs. I've mentioned in my LTS review that I acknowledge that old-fashioned animation is both expensive and time-consuming, but it does not mean we don't have the technology to replicate the original designs of the characters from Space Jam or from their pre-2009 shorts they made. Now, I'm not saying the Looney Tunes should go the wayside like A Troll In Central Park, where the animation was decent but had a terrible plot (or no plot, in the case of the latter), but where I'm getting at is that aside from good story-telling and good humor, you need to have good animation to accompany it. In a way, cartoons are like culinary dishes: In order to enjoy something, we need to find it visually consumable--technically speaking, we eat with our eyes before anything else.
That version of the Looney Tunes, much like its 2011 predecessor, does not hit the mark on visual, only leaving giant eyesores.
But then came the second trailer. The trailer that introduced their version of Bugs (or so I presumed). I thought that the LTS designs of the characters were bad (and they still are), but on here--it looks like the creators took a butcher knife to the few already-established Looney Tunes characters a second time after being hacked apart from the LTS! WHO ASKED FOR THESE CHARACTERS TO GET SO VISUALLY ALTERED LIKE THAT!?
Granted, while Boomerang played a small teaser of that (still abominable) version of the Looney Tunes, I do admit getting a slight chuckle, or at least a smirk, from a couple jokes. Here are the two I heard:
'Bugs Bunny': (dressed as a getaway man) "Is that it?" 'Yosemite Sam': (yells) "THIS IS THE LIBRARY! (panics, then whispers) Go. Go."
'BB': (hands Sam a costume) 'YS': (from off-screen) "How do I look?" 'BB': (stares back blankly) "...Like a sitting Duck." 'YS': (camera shows him dressed up in a wanted criminal poster costume)
Admittedly, those aren't too bad (me trying to be a fair reviewer), but the jokes fall flat due to the animation and designs. I've mentioned in my LTS review that I acknowledge that old-fashioned animation is both expensive and time-consuming, but it does not mean we don't have the technology to replicate the original designs of the characters from Space Jam or from their pre-2009 shorts they made. Now, I'm not saying the Looney Tunes should go the wayside like A Troll In Central Park, where the animation was decent but had a terrible plot (or no plot, in the case of the latter), but where I'm getting at is that aside from good story-telling and good humor, you need to have good animation to accompany it. In a way, cartoons are like culinary dishes: In order to enjoy something, we need to find it visually consumable--technically speaking, we eat with our eyes before anything else.
That version of the Looney Tunes, much like its 2011 predecessor, does not hit the mark on visual, only leaving giant eyesores.