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Porky and Daffy are back, and ready to save the world in The Day the Earth Blew Up. I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw the two of them. It’s been a few years, but they were a staple of my childhood.
I’m not going to list the cast because it’s basically not Mel Blanc. Peter Browngardt is the writer and director who has worked on some of the Looney Tunes Cartoons in 2020.
The Story
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are Earth’s only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion.
We meet young Porky and Daffy as kids, growing up on their farm, with a father-like farmer. As they grow up, the farmer dies, but leaves them the farm. Sounds like a great aunt I had who left her money to a donkey sanctuary.
One night, a strange meteor hits the house, so Porky and Daffy have to find work to fix it. They end up at a local chewing gum factory, where they uncover a plot for an alien to make everyone chew gum and take over their minds.
The plot for The Day the Earth Blew Up was actually pretty clever. I mean, it’s not Game of Thrones, but they thought it out well.
Same, But Different
It’s weird watching The Day the Earth Blew Up without thinking about Porky and Daffy from my childhood. It was also weird that there weren’t the other Looney Tunes characters, Bugs, Foghorn Leghorn or even Yosemite Sam. Could they not afford them?
The animation was good, but it was all too over the top. I know how stupid this is going to sound, but hear me out. The Looney Tunes of old were always animated in a ‘real’ way, as they could live in the real world, like Roger Rabbit.
In The Day the Earth Blew Up, the animation is overly exaggerated, so everything looks wrong, like it’s not real. I know it’s not real, but when I was a kid, Porky and Daffy seemed real to me. Then, I was 17 years old.
The style of animation is good; it reminded me of Ren & Stimpy, another staple of my childhood, which probably explains my sense of humour now.
Overall
There isn’t much to talk about with a review of The Day the Earth Blew Up, it’s exactly what you think it’s going to be. A fun little story, wacky characters and the occasional giggle. I say giggle, it wasn’t like I was LOL (laughing out loud), but more BATMN (blowing air through my nose) now and then.
The Day the Earth Blew Up is fun, silly fun. It’s a good one if you have kids; you can park them in front of it, and you’ll know you’ll be safe for 90 minutes. If you do watch it with them, there’s enough in there to keep you smiling.
I’m giving it 2 out of 5 stars; it’s OK, but it’s not like I’m going to watch it again anytime soon. Maybe if it’s on the TV and I can’t use the Force to pick up the remote.
The Day the Earth Blew Up is released on the 3rd of Feb in the UK. I think it’s already on streaming in the US.
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