Daffy Duck and Porky as a model of survival and crazy resilience

Marathons are not made for sprinters. Or to put it another way: the feature-length format is not the ideal distance for animation sprinters, who are used to cramming all their inventiveness and humor into a short 5- or 6-minute TV film. Perhaps that is why the film titles of Warner Bros.' legendary animated franchise often mixed live action and animation, such as Space Jam. But The Day the Earth Exploded - A Looney Tunes Movie No: It is the first fully animated theatrical film about these mythical characters and, precisely for that reason, it suffers the most from its pacing.

This hour-and-a-half science fiction joke retro –not very different, for example, from Sea attacks!, by Tim Burton – has a hard time getting going and taking off. It’s not until halfway through Porky and Daffy Duck’s alien-bashing adventures that the gags start to work, perhaps more by accumulation than by being good outings. However, it’s then that the machinery reveals that what director Peter Browngardt (creator of the series) has done Tito Yayo, that is, an expert in modern codes of more torn animation) and the screenwriter Kevin Costello (who already wrote the film Tom & Jerry in 2021) is, more than an update of the Looney Tunes legacy, an act of love: the sincere vindication of characters who, approaching a century of life, refuse to stop being funny.