Daffy in Wackyland (2023)

Here's something you probably wouldn't seen any day: A brand-new stand-alone Looney Tunes short.

This is nevertheless the very first Warner Bros. short of the Looney Tunes banner that are done on stop-motion. Daffy in Wackyland seems to be part of a continuation of the utmost cult-classic Porky in Wackyland (1938) and its spiritual remake (but with newer animations), Dough For the Do-Do (1949).

The new short is nothing of outstanding for a stop-motion experiment. Max Winston provided the difficult task to directed Daffy Duck and the Do-Do Bird on a crazy chase from all styles, something that was never attempted before and then on the franchise. Even the Cat-Dog joke of the earlier film was included, but this time, it's another animal ate another one back. It was showed originally the past year at the Annecy Animation Festival, but the irony of all that is it was part of that pedestrian HBO Max's Television series featuring brand-new cartoons shorts with the gang: Looney Tunes Cartoons!

I have tough words to says with this newer Television series of shorts, as if the crews were more concerned about getting more gross gags as possible than actually delivering a story. The new cartoons looks more pure Clampett/Spum¢o rip-offs than anything seen from Freleng, Jones, Tashlin, Avery, Clampett or even, McKimson. How this one is getting a joy to watch, I don't know. If only Daffy says something to the camera by a pun instead to eating his baby-alike in the end of this picture.

And it's not enough that a newer Flash/2D animated movie featuring the duck and Porky Pig will be released on the upcoming year: The Day the Earth Blew Up. I don't know what's worse: The new Daffy/Porky movie or that wacky stop-motion cartoon?

But if you are a modern-day Looney Tunes hater, there's any options that are available: MeTV, Boomerang, Discovery Family, Warner Archive and now, the upcoming MeTV Toons that all of them shown the true, larger-than-life, iconic and better original Looney Tunes filmography. After around twenty years to be part of a very nostalgic, obscure brand, the Looney Tunes franchise really succeed to be a public awareness again, muchly by the Bugs Bunny's 80th birthday year that was almost anihilated by the 2020s pandemic lockdown. But unfortunately, it's NOT available in Canada where I currently am.

There was another feature starring one of the most marketed 90s Looney Tunes characters that were seen last year name Taz: Quest For Burger. The new movie set on Australia with the Tasmanian Devil, a family of wombats and about cooking. I've seen this movie once it's getting new. Very nice to watch though one have to ask why the artstyle reminds me the trash that make Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs to life!

(Sincere thanks to Michael J. Ruhland and his fantastic blog for made known the existence of the newer Wackyland short.)