The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Ketchup Entertainment | Release Date: March 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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14
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The PlaylistBrian FarvourFeb 10, 2026
This film stands comfortably alongside its ancestors, a perfect detour in a time when it’s most needed and a wonderful experience overall. Read full review
91
Original-CinJohn KirkMar 11, 2025
It’s a modern story that pays homage to the vintage stylings of this pair of characters, a blast from the past that should last for a new generation of cartoon aficionados. Read full review
90
IGNRafael MotamayorJul 2, 2024
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is a looney good time, and a grand return to the big screen for the classic characters. Read full review
81
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiDec 16, 2024
It’s not consistently hilarious but it is consistently imaginative, sometimes even breathtaking. Read full review
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeMar 12, 2025
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie shows just how much life there still is in these characters and this world, and that they’re malleable enough to continue providing entertainment to every generation. The Day the Earth Blew Up is the welcome back that the Looney Tunes have long deserved. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 25, 2025
The entire project — including a handful of fun fourth-wall-shattering asides — is crafted with love and a genuine respect for the franchise. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeJan 25, 2025
Essentially, for all its sci-fi/disaster/zombie movie trimmings, at its heart the film is a mismatched buddy movie that celebrates the bond from birth between Porky and Daffy. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 14, 2025
While far from being a classic, “The Day the Earth Blew Up” is a charming and often invigorating reimagining of key Looney Tunes characters (Daffy Duck and Porky Pig), with a look and sound that links it to past versions without feeling indebted to them. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonMar 12, 2025
This Looney Tunes mega-fan went in fearing the worst, and came out happy that I took that left turn at Albuquerque. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJake ColeMar 4, 2025
The film’s open affection for the Looney Tunes franchise has a restorative quality. Read full review
70
The Irish TimesTara BradyFeb 11, 2026
The zingers could be zippier. But what makes the film feel radical is its welcome and unwavering confidence in 2D animation as a comedic anvil. Sight gags pile up, frames stretch and snap, and the fourth wall is wobbly. In a genre increasingly marred by CG realism, Looney Tunes revels in its cartoonish artifice. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 13, 2025
The jokes might not be the funniest, the bits might not be the wittiest, but it’s all done with such verve and velocity that we might not notice. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 13, 2025
The Day the Earth Blew Up isn’t arguing for the past at the expense of the future, it’s simply trying to put a modern spin on a classic formula in a way that makes you wonder why we ever left it behind. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerMar 10, 2025
The Day The Earth Blew Up could honestly stand a bit more of that madness. Read full review
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinFeb 12, 2026
It never provokes full-on out loud laughs, but there are wry chuckles to be had and the ferocity of the execution is pretty fun. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennyMar 13, 2025
The movie’s energy doesn’t pay off in dividends of real pleasure. Anarchy has never been so mere as it is ultimately rendered here. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussMar 12, 2025
Sometimes hilarious and pleasingly intense, “Day the Earth Blew Up” can also be kind of meh. But even when not as clever as its legacy demands, there’s enough of the old aesthetic and eclecticism to make us hope that this ain’t all, folks. Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentFeb 11, 2026
Gorgeous to look at — but this is simply not looney enough to stand alongside the Looney Tunes greats of old. Needs more anvils. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithMar 14, 2025
I’m not sure I’ve ever before come across an original feature with a screenplay credited to 11 writers (not to mention four “story consultants”), and yet nobody in this mirth brigade brought any operational comedy ammunition. Read full review
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