The film follows Tweety inheriting an island paradise after their queen goes missing. Sylvester meanwhile discovers a plot to eliminate the new king.
It released on June 14, 2022. It is the longest Looney Tunes direct-to-video film, running at 80 minutes.
The first trailer can be viewed here
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King Tweety provides examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: Sylvester. Though he starts out chasing Tweety like always, he spends the majority of the movie trying to protect him from harm. True, in the beginning he's primarily motivated by self-interest (if something happens to Tweety, Sylvester loses the luxurious palace life and probably gets the blame for what happened to the bird too), but he has a Heel Realization and a change of heart around the third act, after which his heroism becomes genuine.
- Adaptational Nice Guy:
- Tweety towards Sylvester. Despite antagonizing him from the beginning of the film, he later forms a genuine brotherly bond with him as he stops the dog citizens from beating him up and gives him a paper crown so he wouldn't feel left out of the royal family.
- Granny as well, aside from scolding Sylvester for chasing Tweety, she never physically hits him the way she usually would in earlier incarnations. She genuinely believes Sylvester would never actually eat Tweety and tries to bring him along to Canary Island.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Tweety and Sylvester are presented as brothers in this movie — obviously they aren't related by blood, but in this movie, Granny treats them more like her kids than her pets, and they're repeatedly referred to as brothers. Their antagonistic relationship has even gained a bit of a Sibling Rivalry feel to it (early in the movie, Sylvester even reflects on how much better things were when he was an "only child" — i.e., before Tweety came along).
- In Tweety's High Flying Adventure, Aoogah was Tweety's Love Interest. Here, she's his cousin.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When Sylvester battles Izza to save Tweety, she keeps getting distracted by the sticks he throws.
- Big Bad: Diego von Schniffenstein, the Evil Chancellor who is also revealed to be an immortal Evil Sorcerer and has committed countless regicides on the monarchs for a chance to take the throne and rule over Canary Island for the dogs.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Diego (Short) forms one with his two henchwomen, Green Bean (Big) and Izza (Thin).
- Bland-Name Product: Floorbo is this to Roomba, a vacuum-like robot.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: A defeated Diego says "Sufferin' Succotash!" after Floorbo sucks him up.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: While sneaking onboard the cargo hold of the plane, Sylvester gets attacked by snakes, bees, and snake bees.
- The Bus Came Back: Aoogah from Tweety's High Flying Adventure makes a reappearance as queen of the Canary Island.
- Cassandra Truth: Sylvester repeatedly tries to warn Tweety and Granny that Diego is trying to kill Tweety, but (as is traditional for him) is ignored.
- Cool Old Lady: Granny. Near the end of the film, when she finds out about Diego's evil plot, she uses her motor scooter to bust Sylvester out of jail so he can rescue Tweety, then takes him to Diego's pirate ship, all while the police are on her tail.
- Easter Egg: Two of the characters' names are "Melaney Blank" and "John Foray", referencing Looney Tunes voice actors Mel Blanc and June Foray. Additionally, Dan Backslide and Dora Standpipe appear in one scene.
- Frame-Up: When kidnapping Tweety, Diego fakes evidence that Sylvester ate him — the police of the Canary Island accept this explanation without hesitation because he's a cat (and to be fair, it's not like he hasn't tried to eat a few birds during the movie), but Granny believes him when he says he's innocent, partly because she found Diego's evil To Do list...Granny: Also, I know you'd never try to eat Tweety.
Sylvester: Oh... of course! (nervously) No... never. - Likes Older Women: Diego with his Villainous Crush on Granny. He plans to marry her after taking the throne from Tweety.
- Mouthy Bird: Tweety's beak, as well as Aoogah and his ancestors, are drawn more like lips.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: The first of the Canary Island monarchs, General Chirp, is a bird consistently referred to with gender neutral pronouns. When introducing King Tweety, Harold the herald also addresses "Ladybirds, Gentledogs, Non-Birdinaries and all other lovelies".
- One-Winged Angel: Diego does this with his magical feather boa collected from all the monarchs he killed. Sylvester, Tweety, and Aoogah counter this when the monarchs' spirits present their feathers for the Final Battle.
- Overly Long Gag: "This (x) is for me?"Diego: (losing his patience) STOP ASKING ABOUT THE BIRDBATH!
- Pepper Sneeze: This is one of the attacks that Tweety uses on a transformed Diego.
- Possession Presumes Guilt: When the police see Sylvester looking down at Tweety's feathers after Diego bird-naps Tweety, they assume Sylvester ate Tweety and take him to the police station for interrogation.
- Rule of Three: Tweety asks Diego if the birdbath is for him three times, much to Diego's ire.
- Shown Their Work: While obviously wacky, the movie is remarkably well researched when it comes to the Canary Islands:
- The Lanzarote volcanic vine pits are a plot point in one of the attempts to off Tweety.
- It is pointed out that the Canary Islands come from Latin Canariae Insulae, "Dog Islands", which is why dogs compose most of the population alongside birds.
- Similarly it is shown that dogs were invaders to the islands whereas birds were indigenous; this is indeed true as dogs were brought over by human beings and decimated the local avian megafauna.note Aaoogah's comments on this might also be a slight of the Spanish genocide of the local Guanche peoples.
- The Lanzarote volcanic vine pits
- Take That!: The "Treats For Cats" jingle is one to the infamous "1877-Kars4Kids" jingle, as the characters are shown to be annoyed by it. At one point, the police use said jingle to interrogate Sylvester when they accuse him of lying to them about not eating Tweety.
- Thin-Line Animation: Sort of. The character designs have been heavily simplified, but retain some angularity to them (e.g. Tweety's beak).
- You Don't Look Like You: This movie uses a radically different art-style from the rest of the Looney Tunes franchise, with Tweety being hit the hardest.
