Looney Tunes: Back in Action

This is no Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Unlike in that near-seamless mix, the live actors interact awkwardly with the animation in this follow-up to Space Jam, Warner Bros previous stab at putting its cartoon stable on the big screen. The dumb story sees studio security guard DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser) joining forces with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny to foil the world domination plans of Mr Chairman (Steve Martin). Gremlins director Joe Dante packs every frame with his trademark referential humour (including a few B-movie homages so oblique that only the most knowledgeable of genre scholars will appreciate them). However, for all its reliance on introducing skewed cartoon logic into the real world and spoofing recent movie hits, the most inspired moments of this uneven adventure come during a classic Looney Tunes chase through the Louvre, when Daffy and Bugs leap into paintings and are transformed into the style of artists such as Salvador Dalí and Edvard Munch.