Humans loonier than the toons

The great thing about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck when I was a kid was that they were refreshingly disobedient. I may not have known those words exactly, but I had no trouble understanding the concept. The problem with Looney Tunes: Back in Action, is that it dilutes that brilliant twist on the craziness of the world with a live-action story that is as flat as Wile E. Coyote after yet another encounter with an airborne anvil.\nI had a good time watching this movie -- the first time that is, when it was called Space Jam. The premise is similar, with the gang from Looney Tunes drawn as three dimensional characters working with real people but with considerably less success. \nThe humans, Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton and Steve Martin, are ironically two-dimensional compared to the antics of the cartoons. They all work together for Warner Brothers where a new Bugs Bunny film is in the works. \nDaffy complains about his part, gets fired and runs away with studio security guard Fraser. V.P. Elfman gets fired for firing Daffy, and she and Bugs set out to find the duck, bring him back and have a happy ending. Alas, there's mischief taking place thanks to the Acme Company run by Martin doing what appears to be a very bad Dr. Evil impression. Acme's evil henchmen kidnapped Dalton, who is not only Fraser's dad but also the studio's biggest star and a super secret agent, too. Now the gang has to find Daffy, save Dad and beat the bad guys to a diamond that turns people into monkeys.\nIt's all a bunch of filler until we separate the toons from the trash and get some interesting animated segments in there. Not to mention some imagination too. A frolic through the Louvre in Paris has Bugs, Daffy and a few others leaping into the paintings during a very wacky chase. Unfortunately, this happens toward the end of the film. By the time we get to another good sequence, the outer space battle which features Bugs and Daffy against Marvin the Martian, it's too little, too late.\nMy suggestion for the folks at Warner Brothers is to lose the humans, stick with the toons and entertain a whole new generation of kids while amusing the grown-ups who never saw Bugs and company as something that needed to be outgrown.