History Film / LooneyTunesBackInAction

* {{Cameo}}: Numerous, occasionally pitting celebrities playing themselves, and brilliantly including [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956 Miles Bennell]]. Many of the classic Looney Tunes characters, including one-shot characters, make appearances. Even a couple of the earliest Looney Tunes stars, Ham and Ex the puppies, make brief cameos.

** In the Behind the Scenes DVD extras, a photograph of a bunch of toons standing together on the Warner Bros. lot is shown. While most of them are other Looney Tunes as well as the aforementioned Scooby and Shaggy, among them are none other than WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry.

* ShownTheirWork: When Elmer confronts the heroes at gunpoint, Bugs asks, "What gives, Doc? We made 35 pictures together!" If you count ''only'' the theatrical shorts (not any made-for TV shorts such as "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers"), 35 is the amount of cartoons Bugs and Elmer appeared in together.

* TalkingWithSigns: Wile E. Coyote. He even uses them to answer the phone when Acme first contact him.
--> "They don't pay me enough."

* TheAllegedCar: The first car that Daffy and DJ get into when they leave DJ's house. It falls apart as soon as they try to start the engine the second time in UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is fired from the Warner Studio and falls in the middle of a search for a mysterious Blue Monkey diamond that the secret agent father of a security guard is also trying to find before the Head of Acme does. Without Daffy, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny just can't do his job, and he heads out across the world with the VP of Comedy to retrieve him. Creator/BrendanFraser and Creator/JennaElfman star as said security guard and VP, Creator/JoeAlaskey voices both Bugs ''and'' Daffy, and Creator/SteveMartin is a live-action villain who is the Head of the {{Acme|Products}} Corporation that apparently invents all the malfunctioning devices known to cartoon-dom. Creator/JoeDante directs. Eric Goldberg, who animated ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'''s Genie, directs the animation.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Kate, with modern day sensibilities, very much doesn't appreciate Bugs' GettingCrapPastTheRadar style of humor.

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Chairman seems somewhat of a humorous fellow, but that does little to hide the hunger for cruelty and sadistic personality, with few redeeming qualities to boot.

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Chairman seems somewhat of a pleasant and humorous enough fellow, but that does little to hide the hunger for cruelty and sadistic personality, with few redeeming qualities to boot.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Mr. Chairman has Taz eat one of the [=VPs=] down to a skeleton for questioning him.[[note]]He survives... somehow.[[/note]] Also, a DeletedScene reveals the reason why the [=VPs=] had to press their buzzers before speaking up.
-->'''VP:''' Is that a rhetorical question?\\
'''Chairman:''' ''[grins evilly]'' Oh goody. You forgot to press your buzzer.\\
''[The VP gets covered in plastic wrap]''

--'''Bugs''': ...doesn't anyone knock anymore?

** During the same scene, [[TheCameo Scooby and Shaggy]] threaten bodily harm to Creator/MatthewLillard over his performance in ''Film/ScoobyDoo''.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Normally laid back [[NiceGuy nice guys]] [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Shaggy and Scooby]] are seen angrily chastising Creator/MatthewLillard for [[Film/ScoobyDoo his performance of the former]], and even threatening violence if he "Goofs on" Shaggy in the sequel.

** The sheer number of cameos from even the most obscure of ''Tunes'' characters demonstrates this--Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog eat lunch together in the background of the cafe, the Three Bears are vacationing in France, and damn near every single canine character turns during the Casino scene, [[CaninesGamblingInACardGame playing poker]].

** The sheer number of cameos from even the most obscure of ''Tunes'' characters demonstrates this--Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog eat lunch together in the background of the cafe, the Three Bears are vacationing in France, and damn near every single canine character turns up in the film's final scene.

* VivaLasVegas: Though D.J. and Daffy never actually get to enjoy the sights, D.J. goes undercover as a dancing extra behind a correspondence, they get their first clue on their search from a dancer played by Heather Locklear, the Head of Acme hires Yosemite Sam to catch them, and it's where they meet up with Bugs and Kate! Bugs even sings the song while driving there... at least until Kate throws his guitar out of the car.

* WishUponAShootingStar: PlayedWith: hen Yosemite Sam sends himself flying by accidentally lighting some TNT, Bugs cracks a joke by calling him a "shooting Sam" while telling everybody in the [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying car]] to make a wish.

** Tweety, who (not counting the scenes where he is really Taz in disguise) appears in just one scene. (It should be noted that, according to the {{Deleted Scene}}s featurette, Tweety originally was intended to actually take part in the film's original climax, in which DJ zaps him with a Blue Monkey, which turns him into a Pterodactyl, and he then eats the Chairman.)

** Shaggy and Franchise/ScoobyDoo have a short cameo threatening bodily harm to Creator/MatthewLillard in the studio cafeteria after seeing his performance of the former in the live action film. They are rendered in the same art style as the ''Scooby-Doo'' cartoons.
** The Louvre chase scene has Elmer chasing Bugs and Daffy through each and every painting in the hallway, taking on each of their styles.

** And of course, there is the intro; we start with a scene animated in a 'flat' simpler style that's clearly trying to replicate the original shorts, and cut to the movie proper, which of course is mostly Live Action as well as having much more intricately shaded animation.

* BagOfKidnapping: Kate Haughton (Jenna Elfman) is kidnapped by Bob Smith (Goldberg) while in France.
* BasementDweller: According to Warner Bros. executives, Daffy's entire fanbase is made up of these. [[UnpopularPopularCharacter Never mind that he was the one who]] [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers got his own series later,]] [[HilariousInHindsight not Bugs.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Daffy succeeds in stopping the Blue Monkey from controlling the earth by throwing his bill into the firing beam and holding his mouth shut preventing it from firing and swallows it reversing the machine and resulting in it exploding and saves Bugs from falling.

* BoomInTheHand: During the car chase in Vegas, one of Sam's goons lights a stick of dynamite to throw at the heroes. When they make a turn, the goon refuses to throw the stick out as to not hurt any innocent people despite Sam's demands. This results in the dynamite he is holding blowing up on them.

* ButtMonkey / ChewToy: Daffy's status as this is what causes him to get fired.

* CartoonPhysics: As to be expected from all the animated characters, but several notable instances are when Daffy uses his OffscreenTeleportation to continually reappear in DJ’s car no matter how many times he throws him out, and when the spy car stops feet above hitting the ground because it ran out of gas (though this is immediately averted once Kate points out that [[RealityEnsues physics don’t work that way.]])
* {{Cameo}}: Numerous, occasionally pitting celebrities playing themselves, and brilliantly including [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956 Miles Bennell]]. Many of the classic Looney Tunes characters, including oneshot characters, make appearances. Even a couple of the earliest Looney Tunes stars, Ham and Ex the puppies, make brief cameos.

* CharacterCheck: Though the film largely revolves around Daffy's contemporary dynamic with Bugs, there are several moments that nod to his earlier CloudCuckooLander prankster personality, such as trolling DJ and Marvin when they pursue him. Abiding by the creative team, it was an intentional direction to make Daffy a CompositeCharacter of his earlier and later personas.

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Happens to Drake when he tries to use his rocket pants, but [[RealityEnsues they simply rip off instead of lifting him in the air]].
* TheComicallySerious: Kate, she doesn't seem to enjoy working with cartoons. While the gang wanders across the desert, Kate express desire to quit comedy and work in movies about "the human condition with social relevance."
* CoDragons: A lot of the Toons show up as Mr. Chairman's henchmen, such as Yosmite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, Tasmanian Devil, and Marvin the Martian.

%%* DefrostingIceQueen: Kate Houghton warms up over the course of the film, though especially to DJ.

* DidntThinkThisThrough[=/=]EpicFail: The attempt at a DuckSeasonRabbitSeason cartoon after firing Daffy. See below.

'''Elmer''': Wait a minute... * looks at script* \\
'''Bugs''': See, I told you this wasn't gonna work without- * Elmer shoots him*
** One would think this evidently leads to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, since it ends Bugs' historic survival instinct (besides cross-dressing which he was discouraged from doing anymore due to how modern audiences perceive the act). He really [[LargeHam milks his injuries for all their worth]] in front of the big executives too. Like all classic cartoons, he gets better by the next shot.

--->'''Sam:''' '''THROW IT OU-''' *explosion* '''OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!'''

* EyePop: Daffy’s eyes literally pop out of his head and roll on his bill after watching Dusty Tails strip out of her white outfit revealing a sexier one underneath.
* FaceHeelTurn: Elmer revealing his employment with Acme is almost certainly an excuse for him describe himself as "secwetwy eviw".

* FacePalm: Daffy: "You know, I'm beginning to think that ''this'' one is the spy car!" * Bugs facepalms*

* FakeoutOpening: The film starts like with a homage to the ''DuckSeasonRabbitSeason'' trilogy, only to reveal that it's Daffy reading his script, spouting his frustration of the formula of "Daffy gets blasted."
** The deleted scenes had a ''very'' different opening for the film, which features Daffy as a superhero fighting an evil Elmer Fudd and his organ operated robot-thingy (an opening not so different from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'')--only to reveal that it's Daffy trying to pitch a film idea, with the Warner Bros. complaining that he killed Elmer in the first five minutes. Elmer himself doesn't want to be a bad guy and [[MeanCharacterNiceActor runs off crying at the premise]].

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: During the space battle, Daffy wonders what Duck Dodgers would do if he were here before remembering that ''he himself'' is Duck Dodgers.
* FromZeroToHero: ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' sees both WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck attempt to thwart the CardCarryingVillain from using an ArtifactOfDoom to turn Earth's population into monkeys. Throughout most of this adventure, Daffy has been TheLoad and TheChewToy. However, once Marvin The Martian takes Bugs Bunny out of the fight, it's Daffy in his WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers guise who monkey-wrenches the satellite. Back on Earth, Bugs Bunny even mentions that Daffy was the hero, though Daffy presumes this is a case of PronounTrouble and disputes it.

* GayParee: In France, the Lourve and Eiffel Tower are depicted as only being 2 seconds away from each other. [[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+Louvre/Eiffel+Tower/@48.8623524,2.3154171,13z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x47e671d877937b0f:0xb975fcfa192f84d4!1m2!1m1!1s0x47e66e2964e34e2d:0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0!3e0?hl=en They're not]]. The scene also displays the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff "French love Jerry Lewis"]] stereotype by displaying French posters for his movies there.

-->'''Bugs:''' Daffy never misses a cue.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: When the flying car runs out of gas, it stays in the air until Kate points out that laws of physics says they should be falling.
* HitMeDammit: Not "hit me" in the sense of punching, but Yosemite Sam and D.J are playing blackjack at a casino. Yosemete Sam keeps asking the dealer, WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn to "hit me" (play a card) and gets a sock in the face because it's not his turn.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Kate firing Daffy has ended up being the reason she got fired by Warner Bros for.
** Also, the Chairman intends on using the Blue Monkey Diamond to turn everyone in the world into monkeys, but he ended up being turned into a monkey instead when his plan backfired.

%%* IceQueen: Kate Houghton, whom Daffy even calls "icy she-wolf." Leading to...

** Another one would be in where Daffy tells DJ he liked him better as a monkey, and he says "thanks" from it.

--> '''Yosemite Sam''': Dadburn slapstick cliches!" (''opens fire on the banana peel'')

--> ''(car stops a foot from the ground)''
--> '''Bugs''': "Huh, outta gas!"
--> '''Kate''': ''([[FakeOutFadeOut As scene begins to fade out]])'' "What?! It doesn't work like that!"
---> ''(fadeout disappears and [[ReminderOfImpossibility car smashes into the ground]])''
--> '''Bugs''': "[[SarcasmMode ...thanks, toots.]]"

--> '''DJ''': *''as Elmer Fudd is chasing Bugs and Daffy''* Do you think we should we go help them?

* LEGOBodyParts: The main characters and Mr. Chairman accidentally switch body parts [[TeleporterAccident as a result of a teleporter.]]

* MoonLandingHoax: When Bugs and Daffy are in Area 52, they browse through a videotape shelf. One of the videotapes read "MOON LANDING DRESS REHEARSAL.

* MythologyGag: [[Film/SpaceJam Michael Jordan]] makes a cameo.

** Daffy {{lampshade|Hanging}}d immediately afterwords:
-->"Thith doesthn't make a ''lick'' a' sensth."

** The original proposed climatic battle for the film (scrapped but exists as a dvd extra) has Bugs de-evolving back into his prototype design from "WesternAnimation/PorkysHareHunt".

* NoodleIncident: Bugs: "Daffy learns never to stick his head in a jet engine!"

* OhCrap: Elmer saying "Aw, crud" when he turned into a pointillism styled artwork as he is wiped away.
* PaperThinDisguise: D.J dresses up as one of the WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam background dancers to board the casino stage and talk to Dusty Tails. However, the clothes barely fit him and he is very tall while the dancers are dwarf-sized. Neither WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck nor Dusty Tails were fooled.

* PickACard: A scene has Bugs distract Elmer from getting the "window" Queen-o-Diamonds by shuffling it in a deck and giving him the wrong ones while [=DJ=] and Kate escape.
* PinkySwear: Mother made DJ's father swore on this to not tell anyone about his mission, presumably not in ''ANY'' circumstances (including getting caught by the bad guys). DJ's father tells his son because he's the only one he can trust to reveal his mission. Later, when Mother found out that his father told him, she's was visibly upset.

* TheQuietOne: The henchman played by Goldberg only speaks ''once'', in the above mentioned deleted scene. Daffy even lampshades this in the scene, saying "See, I told you that guy could talk".
* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny argues with the humorless Kate Houghton about rehiring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, and bolsters his argument with four Oscar statuettes and a chunk of granite with his Walk of Fame star on it. For the record, four Warner Brothers cartoons have won an Oscar, but only one went to a Bugs Bunny cartoon: "Knighty Knight Bugs." Bugs Bunny also has an actual star on the Walk of Fame.

-->'''Tweety:''' I've discovered by woots!\\

''(the birds whistle [[CatchPhrase "I tawt I taw a putty tat!"]] and start attacking Sylvester)''\\
'''Tweety:''' ''(dressed in a tribal outfit)'' [[Film/CryFreedom Cwy fweedom!]]

* RobotDog: [[spoiler: An evil one tried to stop DJ from rescuing his dad.]]

* RunawayTrain: The ACME Train of Death, driven by Wile E. Coyote, as part of the ACME Chairman's [[ChainedToARailway plan to kill DJ's father]], but it is eventually derailed and wrecked after hitting some dynamite on the track. Right before the locomotive explodes, Wile E. holds up the sign "THEY DON'T PAY ME ENOUGH FOR THIS."
* RunsOnIgnorance: The flying car only works without gas before Bugs Bunny realizes it has none, so it shouldn't work.

* [[ScoobyDoobyDoors Scooby-Dooby Paintings]]: Elmer chased Bugs and Daffy through them at one stage.

** Given the directors' desire to make an "anti-''Space Jam''" it seems probably that Kate's plan to team Bugs up with a "hot female co-star" in order to "reposition his brand identity" was intended as a swipe at that film's [[AffirmativeActionGirl Lola Bunny]].

* TalkingWithSigns: Wile E. Coyote

** He even uses them to answer a phone.

* TemptingFate: The [=ACME=] [=VP=] tells Wile E. Coyote to watch out for various expensive and valuable things, each time Wile E. runs in to them.

--> '''ACME Chairman''': ''You see, if the [[ChainedToARailway Train of Death]] doesn't kill him, tthen those [[CartoonBomb crates of TNT]] will. Not to mention the [[AnvilOnHead 2-ton anvil hanging over his head]], and-- Oh, look. There's the [[PendulumOfDeath Pendulum]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]! What's the Pendulum of Doom doing there?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! [[SubvertedTrope It's overkill! Get rid of it!]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler: After being the ButtMonkey for the entire film, Daffy weaponizes the fact that his beak gets constantly blown off and uses it to stop the satellite from firing thus making him the hero.]]
* ToTheBatnoun: Daffy with the Batmobile

* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Spoofed when the gang realizes they need to get from the desert to Paris. When Daffy asks how they are going to do that, Bugs simply says "Easy. Like this" and then pulls the side of the screen like a page changing the current setting to Paris.

-->'''Kate''': "You can't fire me! My films have made $950 million."
--> '''CEO''': "That's not a billion."
* VivaLasVegas: Though D.J. and Daffy never actually get to enjoy the sights, D.J. goes undercover as a dancing extra behind a correspondence, they get their first clue on their search from a dancer played by Heather Locklear, the Head of Acme hires Yosamite Sam to catch them, and it's where they meet up with Bugs and Kate!
** Bugs even sings the song while driving there.

* WolfWhistle: Daffy does the wolf whistle twice during the film once after Dusty Tails finishes changing and walks out in a sexy skin tight leather catsuit, and the second time is when he is blasted through the door as a bunch of showgirls are changing but quickly comes back and whistles at them.

-->'''Daffy:''' "Don't start that again!"
%% * YankTheDogsChain: Poor Daffy.

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: When Mr Chairman and the protagonists are teleported back to [=ACME=] Headquarters, Mr Chairman shows D.J on the live screen his father being tied to train tracks and tells him to hand over the Blue Monkey or else. D.J grudgingly obliges, but when he asks about his father the Chairman's simple response is "He's waiting for a train".

* LegionOfDoom: Many ''Looney Tunes'' characters such as WesternAnimation/MarvinTheMartian, WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam, WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd and WesternAnimation/WileECoyote are cast as villains working for the BigBad.

* DesignatedLoveInterest: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a deleted alternate ending, where DJ introduces Kate to his father and admits they haven't kissed yet, they don't really get along, and they have virtually nothing in common; to which she smilingly replies that this could be The One.

* IceQueen: Kate Houghton, whom Daffy even calls "icy she-wolf." Leading to...
** DefrostingIceQueen: She warms up over the course of the film, though especially to [[DesignatedLoveInterest DJ]].

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Daffy enters DJ's home, he sees all of Damian's movie posters and thinks that DJ is the son of a famous spy. DJ explains to Daffy that Damian must be a spy who maintains the persona of a famous actor playing a spy as a cover. He's completely right, naturally.

Financially, it performed far worse than ''Space Jam''. It's estimated that Warner Bros. lost between $60 million and $80 million on the film, making it one of the biggest box office flops ''ever'' -- [[FranchiseKiller theaters retracted the film out of embarrassment, and the series of brand new theatrical cartoon shorts were all canceled]] including ones that ''were already finished''. Some also claim that the failure of this movie is the reason why Creator/CartoonNetwork stopped airing the original Looney Tunes shorts regularly. This film made the company realize there doesn't seem to be any clear future for the Looney Tunes, except for the occasional television special, [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers a faithful new TV series]] and [[WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed some controversial]] [[http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/warner-bros-next-movie-star-bugs-bunny/#more-61224 updates]] (at least until Cartoon Network aired ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', but even that didn't last). Despite this, fans have been known to state that this movie is much better than ''Space Jam'', bringing the characters back to their roots, and has gained a cult following on DVD. In fact, many claim one of the main reasons the film failed at the theaters was due in part to the lousy marketing of Warner Bros, and, considering their treatment of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' the previous year and ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' three years before that, the claim is not without justification.