Carrotblanca (1995)

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I really don't care for many of the Looney Tunes cartoons made after the classic era and even less for those made from the '90s on. This is one of the more well-regarded and I can't for the life of me see why. It's a parody of Casablanca that tries to shoehorn in every character they can, even if they're only in it briefly. So it was seemingly targeted at an older audience that not only had seen a lot of Looney Tunes but had seen Casablanca, as well. Obviously you don't have to be older to know Casablanca but, let's be real, there aren't a lot of kids who have seen it or would even want to. That was as true in 1995 as it is today. The animation is showy but hollow. The voice work is the usual weak Blanc mimicry the later Looney Tunes have. The biggest problem with it is that it's just not funny. I didn't laugh once when I first saw it twenty years ago and, seeing it again today, I'm still not laughing. I love Looney Tunes and I love Casablanca. I appreciate that the effort behind this was sincere but I'm not really going to bump its rating up because of that. I just don't like it and I don't really understand why the heck they made it.

Carrotblanca (1995) *** (out of 4) As an actual movie I don't think this Looney Tunes short works that well but as a send-up as CASABLANCA it's right on the mark with an all-star cast playing those famous roles. You've got Bugs in the role played by Bogart, Tweety in the role of Lorre, Yosemite playing Rains, Daffy playing Sam, Kity doing Bergman and Sylvester playing Henreid. The casting is perfect but the story itself is rather weak but I guess this should be expected since the movie is really just trying to play homage to CASABLANCA. Of course, with just a seven-minute running time you can't get every scene in so we're left with the introductions, the first meeting between Bugs and Kity and of course the famous ending, which gets a new twist. The highlight is certainly the first meeting because it's rather funny seeing how close they got it to the original movie. The main reason this film works so well because the casting is just downright perfect and they manage to give all the Looney Tunes characters certain things that perfectly match up with the human counterparts and especially Tweety and Lorre.

"Carrotblanca" is a wonderfully funny parody of the classic 1942 romance drama "Casablanca", starring all of our favorite Looney Tunes characters (i.e., Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew, etc.). The original film starred such Hollywood luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, and Sydney Greenstreet, so the Looney Tunes characters take on some of their respective roles. Some people might refer to this cartoon parody as "from riches to rags", poking fun at a true black-and-white live-action classic with a lowbrow cartoon, but I don't look at it that way.Here are my favorite moments from "Carrotblanca" (don't read on if you haven't yet seen it). Bugs Bunny shows off his usual brilliance as he puts his own snap to some of Richard "Rick" Blaine's (Bogart's) classic lines ("Of all the juice joints in all the towns in all the countries in all the worlds, she picks this one"; "I stick my cottontail out for no one"; "Here's looking for you, kid"); his "hill of beans" speech at the end, which gives us the impression that Bugs is finally setting aside humor for seriousness, is merely interrupted by Sylvester (taking on Paul Henreid's role). Daffy Duck (portraying Dooley Wilson's pianist/singer character Sam) is amusing not only in his own literal interpretation of "Knock on Wood" but also in his one-note rendition of Kitty's favorite song. Tweety (playing Peter Lorre's character Ugarte) is absolutely hilarious as he puts on Lorre's face and adopts his accent. Bugs is especially funny when he disguises himself several times while interrogating Yosemite Sam (playing Conrad Veidt's role Maj. Strasser).In addition to the more famous Looney Tunes characters in "Carrotblanca", look closely and you'll see many minor second-stringers in the background. I'm also impressed with the black-and-white lighting & shading during the final airport scene, giving the cartoon a 1940s aura. Some of the voice acting (especially for Yosemite Sam) may not be as authentic as the deceased Mel Blanc's, but I can overlook that. And I would recommend that you watch the original "Casablanca" before you watch the cartoon, lest you completely miss out on a lot of the humor.

In Casablanca, Bugs Bunny runs an American bar and only looks out for himself. When he is given secret papers that will help defeat the rule of General Pandemonium. However when Bugs falls for Kitty, the wife of the leader of resistance, things change for him and he finds himself having to put himself on the line.I have nothing against the updated Loony Tunes cartoons, but I do have something against cartoons that are unfunny, poorly developed and simply weak. Here the idea of a spoof on the film Casablanca sounds like it could be OK but it is a terrible, horrid mess. The plot copies the plot of Casablanca in a very condensed form but does nothing of merit with it. With so many little details to add in, the plot never stops long enough to be funny.This is made worse by the sheer volume of characters crammed in with nothing to do. Only Tweety's impression of Peter Lorre is funny - but even that had been done better by a Loony Tunes character that used to be Lorre. None of the rest of the characters really work - their voice work is poor at best, horrid at worst. They rush past the screen with so little time that they never make an impression - it's like the film is expecting the recognition of characters to be enough to replace laughs or fun.With barely a single laugh to it, a plot that is an uninspired mess and characters who don't sound like themselves or act like themselves this cartoon is about a bad a film from Loony Tunes as I have seen. It's not the fact that it is a modern cartoon that bothers me - it's the fact that it is a sh*t cartoon. Avoid this like the plague.