THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP

Name: THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP
Item: THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP
Author: Review

"Friends Stick Together"

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP pits Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Penelope Pig against a green alien from outer space. The alien is intent on turning every human on Earth into a zombie creature that will do his bidding. Meanwhile, an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to destroy everything.

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP marks a wonderful, funny, wacky, heartfelt return to the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1940s and 50s. The movie spoofs science fiction movies like INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. It also invokes the spirits of Warner Bros. voice artist Mel Blanc and Mel’s Looney Tune cohorts. Eric Bauza perfectly recreates Mel Blanc’s impressions of Porky and Daffy in the movie. THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP has a strong moral, redemptive worldview. It supports sacrifice and sticking together through thick and thin. At one point, the astronomer says a brief prayer for the heroes. However, some jokes are hit and miss. The movie also has lots of slapstick comedy and a few scary moments. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for pre-teenage children.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral, redemptive worldview stresses defending home and the world, sacrifice, sticking together, and a symbolic death and resurrection, plus man says a brief prayer to God that starts with “Dear Lord”;

Foul Language:

No obscenities but OMG exclamatory profanity and one or two uses of b-u-t-t;

Violence:

Lots of strong and light cartoon/slapstick violence, used mostly for comical purposes, such as a young Porky Pig and Daffy Duck make a mess in a dining room while eating spaghetti, many pratfalls and characters getting hit, giant bubble gum monster threatens characters, explosions, heroes use flamethrower to destroy pieces of gum infected by alien mind-control substance, Daffy uses a wooden sledgehammer, ;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

Two comical images of animal rear ends made to resemble rear male nudity, plus a mean female inspector has a big bosom;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

One hero deceives his friend because he thinks he’ll make a terrible mistake and a comment is made about how hard it is for a male duck to lay an egg.

More Detail:

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP pits Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Penelope Pig against an alien from outer space who’s intent on turning every human on Earth into a zombie creature that will do his bidding. THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP marks a wonderful, funny, wacky, heartfelt return to the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1940s and 50s, filmed in the spirit of Mel Blanc, Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, but some jokes are hit and miss and the movie has some scary moments and lots of slapstick cartoon violence, so MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for pre-teenage children.

The movie opens with an astronomer spotting an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. He also sees UFO passing the asteroid, destroying the top part of a roof and landing nearby. He goes to investigate and discovers a strange green-glowing object in the middle of a crater.

Cut to years earlier when Daffy Duck and Porky the Pig as orphan babies are adopted by Farmer Jim. Daffy and Porky make a mess, but Farmer Jim loves them just the same. Then, one day, Farmer Jim walks off into the sunset. Take care of the house, he says, but always remember that, if they stick together, things will work out okay.

However, over the years, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig don’t take good care of the house. The main culprit, however, seems to be Daffy, who just can’t control his wild nature.

One morning, a city inspector who hates Daffy, Porky and the eyesore their house, has comes for her annual inspection. Daffy and porky have remembered the inspection just in the nick of time. However, she points out that their roof is missing! Neither Daffy nor Porky had noticed. The lady gives them 10 days to fix the roof, or she will have their house condemned.

Daffy inspects the roof and finds a green goo around the hole in the roof. He wants to investigate the goo, but Porky makes him focus on getting a job to fix the roof and save their house.

Daffy and Porky try job after job, but Daffy keeps goofing up and they get fired every time. They finally get a job at the Goodie Gum Factory, where Petunia Pig is trying to find the perfect gum flavor. Petunia hates the new “strongberry” flavor, accusing it of being uninspired.

Amazingly, Daffy and Porky’s first shift goes perfectly fine. The two friends are totally in sync, with Porky pushing a button and Daffy pulling a lever in perfect time together.

However, during their first break, Porky focuses on trying to ask Petunia out, while Daffy becomes suspicious when he sees the astronomer roaming around and acting strange. The green goo has turned the astronomer into a zombie, doing the bidding of a green alien in a spaceship hovering above the Earth. Daffy follows the astronomer and sees him dumping a bunch of the green goo into a huge vat of the new “strongberry” gum flavor.

Daffy tries to warn everyone, but no one takes him seriously. Until, that is, the new gum flavor starts turning humans into zombies. Daffy, Porky and Petunia come up with a way to turn the people back. Concerned that Daffy will ruin their plan, Porky tries to sideline his friend. However, Daffy gets loose and, sure enough, ruins everything.

The green alien locks up Porky and Daffy and then makes Petunia chew the infected gum. Is it too late to save Petunia and stop the alien from carrying out his plan?

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP is the first feature length Looney Tunes cartoon. It marks a wonderful, funny, wacky, heartfelt return to the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1940s and 50s. The movie spoofs science fiction movies like INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS while invoking the spirits of Warner Bros. voice artist Mel Blanc and Mel’s Looney Tune cohorts like Directors Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Eric Bauza perfectly recreates Mel Blanc’s impressions of Porky and Daffy in the movie.

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP has a strong moral, redemptive worldview. It supports sacrifice and sticking together through thick and thin. At one point, the astronomer says a brief prayer for Porky, Daffy and Petunia as they try to save the day. The prayer starts with “Dear Lord.” The script also has a surprise family-friendly twist.

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP has lots of slapstick comedy. Also, some moments are a little scary. For example, the heroes face a large bubble gum monster in one sequence. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for pre-teenage children.