Decade after decade the Looney Tunes have remained firm favourites and The Day the Earth Blew Up is a big screen feature film led by Daffy Duck & Porky Pig whose upbringing as baby versions we glimpse as they grow up on a farmhouse with their surrogate farther Farmer Jim keeping them in check. But with the pair now grown up and Farmer Jim decamped to that great farmhouse in the sky the pair now live in their childhood home bequeathed to them by Jim.
What the pair have failed to notice is a mammoth bite size chunk taken out of the roof by an asteroid and glowing goo that begins to turn the human race into zombies after it finds its way into the formula for a popular bubble gum.
It’s the conspiracy crazed daffy who sees it as part of an alien invasion and persuades Porky to save the world alongside his new found love interest and borderline nerd Petunia Pig. It’s the trio versus the world except the conspiracy turns out to be not quite all as it seems with a plot twist in the third act.
As might be expected with Looney Tunes it’s a whirlwind 90 minutes that keeps to the frantic formula of the shorts and there’s barely a dull moment. But then this has had an astonishing ten writers behind the script five of whom have written for Spongebob Squarepants films which is no bad thing. There’s not a dull minute in this with a stream of decent gags, fourth wall breaks and a montage of jobs the pair undertaken and get fired from and that doesn’t let the pace flag. Fans may miss the presence of Bugs Bunny or any of the other Looney Tunes luminaries but The Day the Earth Blew Up is a lot of fun even if it has title that Donald Trump is bound to claim as having prevented.
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Here’s the trailer….
