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Lola Bunny, Leading Lady
10 years ago
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LOONEY TUNES: RABBITS RUN (2015)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0....._new_dp_review
Think of this as a romantic comedy with Lola Bunny sharing top billing with Bugs, and you won't be disappointed. Rachel ("Mike Tyson Mysteries") Ramras, the third actor to provide Lola's voice, plays her as a spazzy-cute obsessive who shakes up everyone and everything around her, including the unflappable Bugs. Ramras, who co-wrote the screenplay and co-directed the voice cast, turns Lola into a screwball but stunning leading lady, in contrast to Kristen Wiig's scary-crazy Lola in THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW. I enjoy both approaches to the character, but Ramras's Lola is definitely the more marketable version.
If anything, RABBITS RUN is the first big step in promoting Lola from the supporting cast to the first female character in the front lines of the Looney Tunes boys' club (unless you count the gender-ambiguous Tweety). As a trickster figure who can hold her own with Bugs Bunny, she's got possibilities -- let's see what Warners does with her next. The present movie is more than watchable, but if you were expecting another slice of THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW, forget it. The Macguffin is an invisibility formula accidentally created by Lola, for which she and Bugs are chased by absolutely everyone, pausing only for a couple of musical numbers. The one sung by Mac and Tosh is, of course, completely over the top, and they get to do more cross-dressing than Bugs (Bugs, by the way, wears heels in his scenes as a female flight attendant, and his calves are spectacular).
The disc's bonus cartoons are a random assortment: the Looney Tunes Show's pilot episode, three digital Road Runner cartoons from 2010, and a digital Sylvester & Tweety from 2011.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0....._new_dp_review
Think of this as a romantic comedy with Lola Bunny sharing top billing with Bugs, and you won't be disappointed. Rachel ("Mike Tyson Mysteries") Ramras, the third actor to provide Lola's voice, plays her as a spazzy-cute obsessive who shakes up everyone and everything around her, including the unflappable Bugs. Ramras, who co-wrote the screenplay and co-directed the voice cast, turns Lola into a screwball but stunning leading lady, in contrast to Kristen Wiig's scary-crazy Lola in THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW. I enjoy both approaches to the character, but Ramras's Lola is definitely the more marketable version.
If anything, RABBITS RUN is the first big step in promoting Lola from the supporting cast to the first female character in the front lines of the Looney Tunes boys' club (unless you count the gender-ambiguous Tweety). As a trickster figure who can hold her own with Bugs Bunny, she's got possibilities -- let's see what Warners does with her next. The present movie is more than watchable, but if you were expecting another slice of THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW, forget it. The Macguffin is an invisibility formula accidentally created by Lola, for which she and Bugs are chased by absolutely everyone, pausing only for a couple of musical numbers. The one sung by Mac and Tosh is, of course, completely over the top, and they get to do more cross-dressing than Bugs (Bugs, by the way, wears heels in his scenes as a female flight attendant, and his calves are spectacular).
The disc's bonus cartoons are a random assortment: the Looney Tunes Show's pilot episode, three digital Road Runner cartoons from 2010, and a digital Sylvester & Tweety from 2011.
I've heard mixed messages about his movie so I need to see it.
(I haven't heard this Lola so it'll be a tough sell; it's almost impossible to top Kristen Wiig.)