A Review of ``The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie''

I believe it's been over twenty years since I've seen a traditionally animated film in theatres that
wasn't made by the Japanese, so I considered this film to be something of a rare treat.  This review
will try to avoid spoiling the film's surprisingly interesting plot; I easily recommend watching it.

I went to this film ignorant, expecting to see Bugs Bunny alongside the other well-known characters,
but this film primarily concerns itself with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, and later introduces a female
analogue of the latter who serves as both his love interest and the final main character.  The story
begins with the worried observations of a scientist, and skillfully ignores them until the twist, at
which point the viewer has likely forgotten about them entirely; I certainly had.  The film contains
a great deal of slapstick humour characteristic of ``Looney Tunes'', of course, and most of the plot
points or messages are simple and predictable.  Regardless, after watching so very many recent films
for which none of the budget seems to have been spent on a single writer, I was still surprised with
the quality of this film's story.  It's memorable in part because it heavily relies on basic parody.

I noticed no computer-generated effects, meaning 3D imagery, in the film during my viewing, although
the film undoubtedly used a great deal of computer assistance; the spaceship shown later in the film
may have been 3D, but I'm not sure.  I paid attention during the film's credits, and it was pleasant
to see another cartoon film mainly animated by Americans, with Canadians and I believe Mexicans too.
Although Japanese cartoons are often pleasant and well animated, they oh so often contain completely
unnecessary softcore sexual matter which makes them unsuitable for people who aren't desensitized to
such things.  The film contains a woman who is a parody and one scene inspired by nonsense on social
media, both halfheartedly sexualized, but clearly used for humour and not in a way much distasteful.

The film was very well animated, any and all animation conservation tricks I noticed used solely for
comedy, and so the film serves as a nice reminder that Americans can still animate movies instead of
pushing all animation work to slave labour in lesser countries; of course, unionized Americans don't
make such decisions.  It reminded me of the quality of work seen in ``Batman: The Animated Series'',
a show made with animation so impressive I sometimes rewound and rewatched scenes simply to view the
animation a second time.  The pink monster attack scene in the film is easily the high point of this
film's animation, lasting several minutes and taking no shortcuts; I was thoroughly impressed by it.

The film's ending is all of predictable, expected, and somewhat dissatisfying in how it happens, but
nevertheless the film makes for a fun viewing, although I'm not certain if I'll ever watch it again.
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