Cinema Crazed

DVD:

2000

Rated: G

Genre: Kids/Family Animated Comedy Adventure

Directed By: Karl Toerge, Charles Visser, James T. Walker

Running Time: 1:12

Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.

Review Date: 9/27/07

Special Features:
Trailers

TWEETY'S HIGH-FLYING ADVENTURE

For kids, “Tweety’s High Flying Adventure” will be a barrel full of laughs. It’s an attempt at an epic adventure featuring Tweety, Granny, and Sylvester taking to the high seas. In an attempt to keep their local park open, they race around the world in eighty days—wait, what? How does that make sense? Uh… well anyway, “Tweety’s High-Flying Adventure” is more so for the children who will want to see their favorite yellow rapscallion sailing and flying around the world in a race. And wouldn’t you know it? He also comes across some Looney Tunes characters in the process. There’s Daffy Duck as an angry mountain climber, Bugs as an Extreme sport athlete, and well, it just goes on from there. This is not the same Looney Tunes you and I remember, that’s for sure.

As always, they’re fixed to modern trends, and don’t do much except pad down the story, and help remind us that this is a facsimile of the Looney Tunes characters we grew up with. Why does this park need saving? What is Granny doing in London? And why does Colonel Rimfire appear as the villain? If there was ever an inexplicable character shoe horned into the movie, it’s Rimfire who plays a tycoon dressed in a hunter’s outfit who wants the park… demolished, I think.

Tweety has to avoid eighty cats, and race around the world in eighty days all with cameos from the characters from Looney Tunes, including Lola, a character I could not despise more. Damn PC neo-feminism. Very much unlike the original shorts, this movie is based around a crude formula of repetition. Tweety flies around, he flies into a country, comes across some dastardly villain and Looney Tune character, and he comes closer and closer to his mission. All the while he gains a female cohort, a female version of him (ugh) named Aooga, with Sylvester on his tail who soon becomes an ally. Much like the other animated Looney Tune movies, the voice work is just flat and lifeless, with the writing as lazy as it can get. I doubt even kids will endure this for very long in spite of its short length, and as for parents? Best read a paper while pretending to watch.

Yes, it’s geared to children, but that doesn’t make up for its lazy writing, bland and forced voice work, and completely boring and utterly nonsensical plot. This is one entry into the Looney Tunes canon you can skip.

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