- Network: HBO Max
- Series Premiere Date: May 27, 2020
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We wish that the multi-level humor of the original series was here, rather than just a series of bug eye gags and heavy items falling on the characters.
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Inspiration is drawn from older Warners cartoons (the 1940s, broadly speaking) with the old cartoons studied so closely, and so closely followed, that, references to “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and modern sports shoes notwithstanding, what results is more of a pastiche than a reboot. ... Ultimately the new shorts will stand on their own merit. What I have seen so far is not bad.
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HBO Max’s new 11-minute episodes don’t feel overly sanitized—there’s still plenty of cartoon violence, and the absence of racist caricatures like Speedy Gonzales is inarguably for the best. But besides being fresher, more inspired and more in sync with the culture that produced it, the old Looney Tunes has an endearing handmade feel that contemporary animators are just too slick to replicate.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 2 out of 10
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Jun 7, 2020
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Jun 12, 2020No thx, I'l rather watch original version again w/o no guns idiocy present in it.