''Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run'' is a 2015 American

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based on the 2011 TV series ''

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'', produced by

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. It is the first new '' Looney Tunes'' direct-to-video film in nine years since ''

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''. The film was directed by Jeff Siergey, a supervising animator on ''

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'' and lead animator on '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action''. He was also a director on ''The Looney Tunes Show''. It was released on August 4, 2015 by

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, but it was released early on July 7, 2015 on

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and

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Plot

From his headquarters,

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General

Foghorn Leghorn Foghorn Leghorn is a cartoon rooster who appears in ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons and films from Warner Bros. Animation. He was created by Robert McKimson, and starred in 29 cartoons from 1946 to 1964 in the golden age of A ...

, his intern

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, and spy Cecil Turtle oversee an operation on a mountain in the central Mexican jungle. The objective of the operation is to extract a rare flower, as the agents believe it to be the world's most powerful weapon. However, they are beaten to it by

Speedy Gonzales Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fas ...

. In

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Lola Bunny Lola Bunny is a ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon character portrayed as an anthropomorphic female rabbit created by Warner Bros. Pictures. She is generally depicted as Bugs Bunny's girlfriend. She first appeared in the 1996 film ''Space Jam''. Develop ...

is tired of working for Giovanni Jones at the Acme department store perfume counter. She accidentally damages the store, gets fired and takes a long, awkward ride home in

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's taxi. Arriving in her apartment, she screams when she sees a mouse, even though it is her landlord, Speedy. He gives her the flower as a gift, unaware it is being watched by the NSA. General Leghorn sends agent Elmer Fudd to watch the flower, though Lola uses it to create her perfume, which has a side effect of invisibility. She doesn't notice as she accidentally sprays her eye, forcing her to wash it out, rendering her visible. Cecil sends his goons to get it, but Lola backs out the window and falls to Bugs' taxi below. On the way down, the perfume makes the wall invisible exposing, in successive apartments. General Leghorn puts out a reward of $500,000 for Bugs and Lola, and

Yosemite Sam Yosemite Sam ( /joʊˈsɛmɪti/ ''yoh-SEM-ih-tee'') is a cartoon character in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of short films produced by Warner Bros. His name is taken from Yosemite National Park. He is an adversary of Bugs ...

, who was preparing to rob a bank in

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(with just a short-range water pistol), learns of it and apprehends them. However, he refuses to hand them to the NSA or the

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until after he gets the money, and a one-sided gunfight ensues. Lola and Bugs escape and slip down a storm drain. They emerge through a manhole in front of Porky Pig, causing a traffic jam, but Giovanni grabs the perfume. Lola runs after him and gets abducted by Cecil in a van. Bugs jumps in

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's taxi and follows them. At a secret location, Cecil and his goons interrogate Lola and leave her to die, but Bugs and Daffy manage to free her. Driving through the streets (and subway tunnels) of New York and running through Central Park, the rabbits make haste to

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. Daffy envies the ducks in the park and decides to retire. Having been arrested, Sam steals an NSA car and follows Bugs and Lola to the airport, where she spots Giovanni, and they all board the plane as does Cecil. Bugs retrieves the perfume and makes a parachute from clothes in passengers' checked baggage and, after a fight with Sam over the perfume, he and Lola land in the Atlantic Ocean. The

Goofy Gophers The Goofy Gophers are animated cartoon characters in Warner Bros.' ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. The gophers are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth. They both have British accents. Unnamed in the thea ...

pick them up in their yacht, try the perfume, and discover its invisibility property, albeit to Lola's dismay, but Bugs convinces her to see the upside. The Gophers subsequently give Lola a makeover while singing a song. They arrive in Paris, and Bugs and Lola spray themselves, subsequently having fun with their invisibility: stealing lemonade, smashing the

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Pyramid by playing baseball, going skiing in "Ze Alps", painting a picture of the perfume and cramming several cars into the Arc de Triomphe. When it rains, the invisibility wears off and they find themselves caught between Elmer Fudd and Cecil at the

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, Fudd holding the Gophers hostage. Cecil and his goons betray and disarm Fudd and the

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officers he hired with heat ray pistols, and Bugs tries to throw the bottle into the Seine to force the cops to stand down, but Sam catches it. They all dogpile on Sam, but are suddenly teleported to a space station over

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, where

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grabs the bottle, with Cecil revealing he works for Marvin. Cecil's goons unzip their costumes revealing they are Instant Martians, much to Cecil's confusion. Marvin reveals his plan to make all of Earth invisible, as it " obstructs isview of

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". To do so, he extracts the invisibility part of the potion from the perfume part, but ends up with two identical bottles; one of them has invisibility and the other does not. Bugs and Lola play switcheroo and end up with both of them, handing Marvin a Joker card. They are chased to the Transporter Depot, but everyone crams into one pod overloading the system and causing them all to switch heads, bodies, and other parts. They continue to play body part swap for a while and even Screwball Daffy from '' Duck Amuck'' walks across the scene, and they are eventually restored. Marvin catches them, grabs the bottle, betrays/fires Cecil and sprays the Earth with perfume, not knowing that Bugs has switched it so Earth doesn't turn invisible. To Marvin's fury, Bugs turns the group and himself invisible, allowing them to escape the Martians, and they board the Martian Maggot. Before they leave, Bugs tosses Marvin the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, which Marvin was originally going to use to blow up Earth. Ironically, the Modulator blows up Mars instead, killing the Instant Martians and leaving Marvin hanging from a root, remarking "I hate Earthlings." The Maggot returns the rest safely to Earth, landing in the Seine. When they accidentally leave the bottle in the spaceship, sinking with it, Fudd comes to believe the world is not ready for invisibility, and starts a one-sided chase to arrest Cecil for his complicity in Marvin's plan. Lola forgives Giovanni for stealing the perfume, and happily continues her relationship with Bugs. Unexpectedly, Speedy shows up to collect his "morning croissant" and briefly calls Lola out on her failures to pay rent while being able to visit Paris, before departing for Switzerland. One year later, perfume mogul Pepé Le Pew introduces his newest scent "Lola" and back in New York, Bugs reveals that he still has the invisibility potion, while Daffy has retired to Central Park. In a pre-credit scene, during a parody of the original "That's All Folks!" ending, Porky Pig says "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" Daffy walks across with a corndog and sarcastically remarks "Interesting" whereupon Porky angrily hits Daffy on the head with a frying pan.

Voice cast

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, a brown

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who is on the run due to inadvertently creating

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. The character was previously voiced by

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in ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

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as: **

, a grey bunny taxi driver who is protecting Lola from the NSA and criminals. **

, a black duck taxi driver who helps Bugs and Lola escape. **

, the

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general of the NSA. ** Pepé Le Pew, a French skunk perfume mogul who buys Lola's scent. Bergman reprises all four of his roles from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

Maurice LaMarche Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor, comedian, and impressionist. He has voiced the Brain in '' Animaniacs'' as well as its spin-off '' Pinky and the Brain'', Big Bob in ''Hey Arnold!'' (1996–2004), and a variety of ...

, a

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who is after Bugs and Lola, but only for the money. LaMarche reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

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as Elmer Fudd, an associate of General Leghorn's sent to capture Bugs and Lola. West reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. * Damon Jones as

, a

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who plans to make Earth invisible so he can look at

. Jones reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

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as Cecil Turtle, a

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who is after Bugs and Lola and revealed as a

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working for Marvin. Rash reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. * Michael Serrato as Giovanni Jones, Lola's former boss. Serrato reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

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, a mouse and Lola's landlord. Armisen reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. * Rob Paulsen as Mac Gopher, a

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who shares a boat with Tosh. Paulsen reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

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as: ** Tosh Gopher, a gopher who shares a boat with Mac. Harnell reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. **

, a puma who is an intern for General Leghorn until he's fired for coming up with "Operation Flower Grab". The character was previously voiced by John Kassir in ''The Looney Tunes Show''. *

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as Porky Pig, a

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who is delayed by Bugs and Lola. Bergen reprises his role from ''The Looney Tunes Show''. * Ariane Price as French Woman ** Price also voices Perfume Girl

Release

The film was released on DVD with the bonus cartoons "Best Friends" (the first episode of ''

'') and the 3D animated theatrical shorts ''

Coyote Falls ''Coyote Falls'' is a 2010 3D computer-animated ''Looney Tunes'' short film featuring the characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Tom Sheppard, it is the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner ...

'', ''

Fur of Flying ''Fur of Flying'' is a 2010 3D computer-animated '' Looney Tunes'' short film featuring the characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Tom Sheppard, the film was first shown in theaters before W ...

'', '' Rabid Rider'', and '' I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat''. The film later premiered on Cartoon Network on March 25, 2016.

References

External links

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