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Weep for a future without retro goodness., 28 December 2006
1/10
Author: josephtheowl from United States

There will be a time where kids will have grown up without ever seeing the one and only Bugs Bunny kiss (technically) another man on the lips. There will be a time where it won't be Duck or Rabbit season. There will be a time where the Tazmanian Devil will be dubbed politically incorrect.

But so help me now is not that time.

Nobody really wants an 'EXTREME' version of our beloved Loony characters. Whoever it is in marketing who comes up with "Corn Nuts: Corn gone wrong" and "Extreme Doritos" and evidently this festering turd should know that just because they have a degree in business or advertising or whatever doesn't mean they know jack about kids.

I think that they're doing a disservice to children, depriving them of one of the greatest and most iconic shows of all time. This show disgusts me, and it's not just the dated artwork or terrible dialogue. They misuse good voice talent, like Phil Lamarr, Michael Clarke Duncan, Candi Milo, and so many others. It lacks style, humor, character development, and most importantly, heart.

The show, like it's repackaged characters (Slam Tasmanian, Rev Runner, Ace Bunny) is but a shadow of it's former, timeless and beautiful self.

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Not that bad, actually...., 29 August 2006
8/10
Author: jkwleisemann from United States

Actually, not that terribly bad.

I was one of the people who thought this show would absolutely, completely suck and destroy the characters I loved as a kid (the original Looney Tunes). Having watched the first season, I think they only had two major problems.

1: They insisted on linking it to the Looney Tunes. 2: They let those god-awful "Extreme" versions of the characters see the light of day. Fortunately, they fixed them after the public screamed bloody murder.

You cannot watch this show with the original Looney Tunes firmly in mind and enjoy it for what it is. Or, for that matter, at all.

What they've got now is a reasonably good action cartoon, far better than most of the tripe that Kids WB has been putting on air in the past few years. Is it true to the Looney Tunes, and something that'll appeal to hard-core fans trying to see their old favorites in a new form? Heck no, that's why I listed Mistake #1. But if you watch it (at least after the first two episodes) without the "this is what they say the Looney Tunes should be" baggage involved, it's actually a pretty good show, and deserves a shot.

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Poor Chuck, 11 January 2007
3/10
Author: transbarts from United Kingdom

"Well Chuck Jones is dead, lets soil his characters by adding cheap explosions, an American drawn anime knock off style, and give them superpowers". "but sir?, don't we all ready have several shows in the works that are already like this? much less don't dump all over their original creators dreams". "yes! and those shows make us a bunch of cash, and we need more!". "but won't every man women and child, who grew up with these time less characters, be annoyed?". "hay you're right! set it in the future, make them all descendent's of the original characters, and change all the names slightly...but not too much though, we still need to be able to milk the success of the classics".

Well that's the only reason I can think of why this even exists. If you look past the horrible desecration of our beloved Looney Toons, then it looks like an OK show. But then there is already the teen titan's, which is the same bloody thing. All the characters are dressed like batman, they drive around in some sort of ship fighting super villains, they have superpowers, only difference is they sort of talk like the Looney tunes and have similar names and character traits.

This kind of thing falls into the "it's so ridiculous it's good" kind of category. Think of the Super Mario brother's movie, and Batman and Robin. If you want to laugh for all the wrong reasons, check this out. If you are of the younger generation (what this thing is actually intended for), and can look pass the greedy executives shamelessness, then run with it and enjoy.

If you enjoy this cartoon I don't have a problem with you, it's the people who calculated this thing together that I am mad at. You know how they say piracy is like stealing a car; this show is like grave robbing. They might as well of dug up all the people involved with the original cartoon, shoved them on a display, dressed them up in…err pirate costumes, and charged money. If this show wasn't using characters (ones that didn't resemble the Looney Toons in anyway whatsoever) that have already made the studios millions, then this would be fine. But no! For shame Warner brothers, for shame.

If I saw this thing as a 30 second gag on an episode of the Simpson's or Family Guy, I would love it. As it is I just can't believe this was ever made. I would bet anyone that 80% of the people who work on this show hate it. But whatever it doesn't really matter, in 10 years this show will have been forgotten, while the originals will live on forever…or at least until the world ends.

"Coming 2008, Snoopy and the peanut gang are back, and now they have freaking lasers and can turn invisible! Can Charley Brown defeat the evil alien warlord Zapar? Tune in and see."

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Seen it a few times, but it's good, 20 July 2007
8/10
Author: Jason Evans from United Kingdom

Okay. I can see where people will be getting up in arms about this. But you can't expect every child who watches this to say to themselves 'this is ruining classic characters'. I grew up on the cartoon of Ninja Turtles (or hero turtles as it was called here) and consider them classic characters. with the new movie, I don't feel the need to tell every seven year old 'Hey you know that this is rubbish compared to the comics'.

Okay. The 'mad scientist rejected by 'The Academy' and now seeking revenge' plot is a little overused and Tim Curry voices about 10 villains per series but if they made it more like the original cartoon shorts, there would only be more people complaining about the amount of slapstick

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Not Bad At All, 5 February 2007
8/10
Author: segunitb1 from United Kingdom

Having grown up with the various incarnations of Looney Tunes and listened to my Dad Prattle on about how many times he has seen this episode or that episode since he was a kid it was really refreshing to see Loonatics Unleashed. Great animation, Justice League type story lines. Brilliant is all I can say. I hope this series runs for more than 1 season.

The other refreshing thing about this show is that the jury is still out as far as my dad is concerned. I finally get a show that I can enjoy without my Dad. The guy should grow up and stop watching cartoons for goodness sake. Well done Warner Bros.

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Season Two Makes Good, 24 October 2006
9/10
Author: wondermoose5 from United States

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

The second season of Loonatics Unleashed is all I've been exposed to and it's great to see the time-honored gags given a high-tech futuristic twist. So far the WB channel on Saturday has shown just three episodes, and they seem quite fun to watch.

Slam eating robot parts, and wrestling with the Hugo/Gossamer creature. Duck's speech pattern, flustered demeanor, and getting his feathers scorched. Ace's Bugs-like aphorisms and yet wields a sword with a hilt resembling a carrot. He sounds very much like the singing voice of Bugs from the music tapes and CDs of The Looney Tunes sing Elvis, or The Beatles, or Country & Western. Rev Runner's rambling pentameter sometimes rhymes like the Road Runner comic books of the 1960s. In the classic Looney Tunes, Wile E. Coyote spoke if his antagonist did, so Tech E. can explain the gadgets as much as he likes. Lexi shows that a girl has skills too.

The neon quality of the characters shows their mutated power potential. I expect to see translucent pose-able action figures on store shelves soon.

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WB falls flat on face, 11 April 2007
2/10
Author: catuus from United States

Loony Tunes have ventured (at least) twice into the future. The first time was with the brilliantly funny "Duck Dodgers". The latter time was with this … um … effort. "Loonatics Unleashed" isn't without merit, and might be considered a good product were it not that it isn't up to Warner Brothers quality. WB cartoons are noted for their cheeky humor, appealing at least as much to adults as to children. These pedestrian superhero episodes, on the other hand, cannot fail to convince adults to pass them up.

The premise of the series is that 6 ordinary individuals (2 bunnies, a Tasmanian devil, a duck, a roadrunner, and a coyote) live on the "city-planet" of Acmetropolis and acquire super powers when a meteor strikes the planet in 2772. What's confusing is that the titles section features these individuals with a count-up to 2772 from the 21st Century. Cute, but frelling stupid.

In each episode, the super sextet – amid mildly amusing but essentially banal banter – fight various super villains. For the most part, these are types that appear in every mediocre superhero adventure series and even some of the better ones. Like many mediocre superhero series, this one takes its villains far too seriously for the context. And of course these guys are the only characters that laugh – the usual evil laugh, of course. Why is it that villains in predictable superhero adventures always – ALWAYS – laugh evilly at every opportunity? Animated material of this sort seems to leave laughter exclusively in the province of villains and (occasionally) their henchpeople and/or henchthings.

In point of fact, the makers of this series missed their best bets right from the get-go. The superpowers of the characters are sometimes based on their previous normal abilities, but sometimes not. The problem here is that we don't see enough WB looniness. Lexi and Ace have fairly ordinary biologically generated energy weapons and have virtually no personality traits one could describe as "Bugs-like". What we have here is basically the silly and drekish "Teen Titans", including its overly "modern" animation "look", but with animals. Feh.

The other misstep by the program's creators is (or are) the villains. As noted before, these are not terribly imaginative and do the evil-laugh bit excessively. Amazingly, the writers totally missed the obvious technique of making villains from stock WB characters as well as the protagonists. Adding to the fun could have been, say, Jupiter Sam – as well as The Fudd, still hunting wabbits – as well as Tech E. Coyote converted into a really neurotic villain – and so on. Ah, the sadness of missed opportunities….

Sadly, this whole production has gone into too much overtime (that is, a 2nd season). Nevertheless, we can rejoice that there's something new out there for the 14-going-on-9 crowd. The rest of us can hope for a 3rd season of Duck Dodgers.

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Hmmm...., 18 September 2005
Author: paulk-20 from United States

This is nothing I haven't seen before. Teen Titans, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Justice League. It does have a slight twist, however. These superheroes are based on characters from a series of cinema shorts from the 1930's through the 1960's that featured a rotating cast of wacky characters performing acts of violence on each other. Few Superheroes have such lineage. The result is, well, mixed. I get a sense of forced characterization, that the show is constantly reminding me that, yes indeed, these are descendants of the Looney Toons. The characters are: Ace/Bugs, Danger Duck/Daffy, Lexi/Lola (a character added to the canon in Space Jam), Slam/Tasmanian Devil, Tech/Wile E. Coyote, and Rev Runner/Road Runner. I think that it would have been more interesting to allow the characters to hint at their heritage rather than try to act like their ancestors. Ace sounds way too much like Bugs, and the accent is merely distracting. I would prefer a voice closer to that of Robin in the 1992 Batman series. Something youthful, but mature. Not a surfer dude Bugs Bunny. Similarly, Duck sounds far too much like Daffy. The odd thing is that Tech sounds nothing like Wile E. It's a bit confusing that they would have Ace and Duck sound so much like Bugs and Daffy, but have a completely different voice for Tech. And it's unfortunate that they would make Rev talk so fast. I understand that the character's fast, but the Flash from Justice League doesn't talk fast. Rev's motor mouth makes it difficult to give Rev very many lines, which is unfortunate because he is voiced by the very talented Rob Paulsen. Also, some of their superpowers seem arbitrary. I understand the Tornado power of Slam, as the Tasmanian Devil always looked like a small tornado. I understand the genius intelligence and regenerative powers of Tech, as Wile E. was a super genius who could fall off a cliff and be OK. Rev Runner's speed is obvious. But I don't really understand Duck's teleportation, Lexi's "brain blasts", or Ace's laser eyes. They seem like they're "cool powers" added because the writers couldn't think of anything else. The Incredibles did an excellent job of matching personality to power. Dash's speed, Violet's invisibility, Bob's invulnerability, Helen's flexibility, etc. I suppose time will tell if the show will give us more dimension to the characters. Teen Titans excels at that.

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Very good,, 5 October 2008
10/10
Author: video kid from New Zealand

Loonatics unleashed is actually very good in my opinion, a very interesting twist on the loony toons with very good humour and is an excellent in the action department.

However as Mark Twain said: "Humans will find something to complain about. One man was given a sack of coal and not being able to find anything wrong with it, he then complained it had too many petrified toads."

Several Loony Tunes fans are "More than a tad miffed" about the extreme version and many, not having anything better to do, make scalding complaints that really are quite hurtful. So to avoid such I have made a list of pros and Cons

pros

- Every bit as funny as the actual 'Loony Tunes' visual and verbal - Lots of good action scenes - characters stay quite true to their ancestors in several regards whilst being quite original - the acting is exceptional for a TV show (as compared to programs such as sonic x whose acting talents leave something to be desired (though that is my opinion)) - the dialogue isn't to shabby although Ace's lines are a touch corny. - An interesting twist on the loony tunes characters

cons

- the 'extreme' version may miff some Lt fans a bit - the opening sequence leaves something to be desired (season one's intro is a lot better though)

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Not as bad as everyone says, but not as grand as other people say either., 6 May 2008
7/10
Author: Darwinskid from United States

We all miss it don't we boys and girls? Having to wake up and watch Tiny Toon Adventures, Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Taz-Mania, some of the best Looney Tunes spin-offs, but if not those then the classic originals. But now in this new decade of television Warner Bros. can't just rely of the three above to be the sole LT's spin-offs, no, they need to make new ones. So far we have had three new spin-offs-Baby Looney Tunes, Duck Dodgers, and this show. I never gravitated to watch Baby Looney Tunes and I don't see why I would since it's a show for toddlers, Duck Dodgers I did see and it was gold. I did see this show and...It's not bad. Not great though.

The story is about a group of superheroes all of who'm are descendants of the original Looney Tunes, they got their powers by some meteorite that crashed some time ago. They are under the wing of a mysterious woman named Zadavia, who is basically Zordon from Power Rangers.

The show doesn't quite live up to the fantastic slapstick days of the originals even though it tries pretty hard, too hard I might add. The stories for the episodes of Loonatics Unleashed have both a set of flaws and are fast paced. There are episodes that I think would've been better if the plot was felt more slow than fast. But it's an action themed show and it sticks to it so the best way to evaluated would be the action I guess. It handles the action quite well, better than it's comedy that's for sure. However sometimes the action is too kinetic, like a Tony Scott film( See Domino for why I say this). The character's lack too, and two seasons weren't even enough to establish them more. Not much mystery sparks though.

When it comes to voice acting I would give it about an A but not an A+. Charlies Schlatter, while I like him, doesn't do that good of a job as Ace Bunny, he kind of makes the character seem unlikable even though the character isn't intended to be unlikable at the least, a better VA would've been a good idea *Cough*Samuel Vincent*Cough*( But that wouldn't have worked since he's a Canadian actor and all, so no go for my suggestion)! Sorr got a cold. This is probably why Ace Bunny isn't exactly my favorite. Thank goodness Jason Marsdon does a great Daffy Duck imitation. Coming off of Cartoon Network's Miguzi block and some Disney Channel stuff Jessica Di Cicco isn't half bad as Lexi Bunny. Kevin Michael Richardson does well as Tech E. Coyote and Slam Tasmanian. Rob Paulson is always at his charm. Even though I don't like Zadavia I will say that Candi Milo does a good job.

The animation is also good but I'm not entirely used to anime inspired Looney Tunes.

Overall, I'm not impressed but am not displeased either. Maybe if there actually is a season 3 things will improve. Like for example, the villains, they mostly stink if they're not descendants of the original LT's.

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