Tiny Toons Adventure: Totally Crazy Vacation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tiny Toons Adventure: Totally Crazy Vacation |
| Original title | Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rich Arons |
| production | Tom Ruegger |
| music | Bruce Broughton |
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (Original: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation) is an American direct-to-video cartoon produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment . The film was released on video in 1992 in the USA and Germany. The film, in which the characters of the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures (Original: Tiny Toon Adventures) appear, shows what the Tiny Toons experience during their summer vacation.
Steven Spielberg was the executive producer of the film and Paul Dini, Nicholas Hollander, Tom Ruegger and Sherri Stoner wrote the script, while Tokyo Movie Shinsha, a Japanese film studio, was responsible for the animation. Totally Crazy Holidays has a running time of approx. 73 minutes and was released on VHS cassette and laser disc. It was the first cartoon to appear as direct-to-video in the United States. The film later aired in four single episodes on the Tiny Toons television series.
The film was one of the top selling video films in the United States and was featured in Billboard Magazine's 40 Top Video Sales for 16 weeks. The film received praise for its gags and spoofs from celebrities. However, the division of the story into several independent storylines and the use of characters based solely on Looney Tunes characters instead of the Looney Tunes characters themselves were criticized. The themes of the film include the corruption of pop culture and the summer vacation.
action
After the end of the semester at Looniversity, the Tiny Toons set off for the summer vacation. Buster and Babs Bunny host a water gun duel that leads to the Acme Acres being flooded. Together with Byron Basset, the two float down a river on a raft and land in the southern United States , where the residents are not friendly to them: Babs is almost cooked by possums, while Buster later falls into the hands of an alligator family, because that Chief Big Daddy Boo wants to marry him off with his three daughters. Both times they can save each other. With the help of the banjo-playing possum, the only one that becomes a friend of Buster's, they can later escape from a ship, where they are to be served as a main course to passengers, including the other possums and the alligators.
Plucky Duck travels with Hamton J. Schwein's family to the amusement park Laugh and Fun Land. The ride turns out to be very long and painful, especially since the expected amusement park turns out to be not as fun as expected, and ends with Plucky being chased by an escaped lunatic with a chainsaw and a hockey mask reminiscent of Jason whom the hitchhiked unsuspecting pigs.
Meanwhile, Fifi Le Fume has her eye on the movie star Johnny Pew and manages to find him in the hotel where he is currently staying. Eventually the two of them go to the movies together, where Johnny disgusts Fifi with his bad behavior. Fifi throws Johnny out of the cinema, who then falls into Elmyra Duff's hands and becomes her pet.
Fowlmouth drags Shirley the Loon into the cinema to see Skunknophobia , a movie he's seen a hundred times. During the film, Fowlmouth talks all the time and then gets kicked out of the theater.
Elmyra Duff has a lot of fun in a nature park and bullies animals with her exaggerated love of animals. The animals can escape by stealing the car from Elmyra's family and leaving the park.
The film ends with the Tiny Toons returning to Looniversity after the holidays.
synchronization
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Buster Bunny | Charlie Adler | Wolfgang number |
| Movie ticket tearers | Charlie Adler | |
| Babs Bunny | Tress MacNeille | Janina Richter |
| Babs' mother | Tress MacNeille | |
| Drive-in waitress | Tress MacNeille | |
| Big boo | Tress MacNeille | Barbara Ratthey |
| Shirley coot | Gail Matthius | Edith Hancke |
| Sissy Boo | Gail Matthius | |
| Fifi Le Fume | Kath Soucie | Liane Rudolph |
| Li'l Sneezer | Kath Soucie | |
| Little boo | Kath Soucie | |
| Bimbette Skunk | Kath Soucie | |
| Hamton J. Pig | Don Messick | Michael Habeck |
| Radio announcer | Don Messick | |
| Plucky Duck | Joe Alaskey | Sven Plate |
| Konrad Toad | Joe Alaskey | |
| Dizzy Devil | Maurice LaMarche | Björn Schalla |
| Gogo Dodo | Frank Welker | Oliver Rohrbeck |
| Strays | Frank Welker | |
| Calamity Coyote | Frank Welker | |
| Little beeper | Frank Welker | |
| Byron Basset | Frank Welker | |
| Uncle Stinky | Frank Welker | |
| Wile E. Coyote | Frank Welker | |
| Road runner | Frank Welker | |
| Fowlmouth | Rob Paulsen | Oliver Rohrbeck |
| Johnny Pew | Rob Paulsen | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Mr. Hitcher | Rob Paulsen | |
| Horatio | Rob Paulsen | |
| Banjo possum | Rob Paulsen | Stefan Fredrich |
| Elmyra Duff | Cree Summer | Dorette Hugo |
| Mary Melody | Cree Summer | |
| Sweetie pie | Candi Milo | |
| Calf pig | Jonathan Winters | Robert Dietl |
| Winnie pig | Edie McClurg | |
| Big Daddy Boo | Sorrell Booke | Tom Deininger |
production
In 1990, Bugs Bunny Magazine reported that Warner Bros. was planning to publish Totally Crazy Vacation . Back then, it referred to the film as "Tiny Toon Adventures home video". The planning for the film began even before the television premiere of Tiny Toon Adventure . Warner Bros. spoke to executive producer Steven Spielberg about a theatrical release of the film, but Spielberg insisted on a direct-to-video release. Spielberg said he wanted to release the film direct to video because "cartoons are ideal for viewing multiple times," which he considered to be an important reason for the appeal of the genre to those who watch cartoons at home. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Jean MacCurdy, who was in charge of production oversight, did not reveal the size of the budget, but said it was much more expensive than the series episodes of Tiny Toon Adventure. According to Television Cartoon Shows: an Illustrated Encyclopedia by Hal Erickson , the budget for an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures was about $ 350,000.
The film had a total of seven directors with Rich Aarons, Ken Boyer, Kent Butterworth, Barry Caldwell, Alfred Gimeno, Arthur Leonardi and Byron Vaughns. Totally Crazy Vacation was written by writers Paul Dini, Nicholas Hollander, Tom Ruegger, and Sherri Stoner, who also wrote for the television series. Ruegger also served as a producer for the film and Steven Spielberg was the executive producer. The animation of the film was done by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, a Japanese film studio. The film had a total of seven directors with Rich Aarons, Ken Boyer, Kent Butterworth, Barry Caldwell, Alfred Gimeno, Arthur Leonardi and Byron Vaughns.
subjects
A hallmark of Totally Crazy Holidays was the corruption of movies, pop culture, and celebrities. According to Videos for Kids , the film makes fun of "California culture and youth" by parodying celebrities like Roseanne Barr , Johnny Carson , Arsenio Hall , David Letterman , Jay Leno , Oprah Winfrey and Sylvester Stallone . The film also makes fun of other cartoon characters such as Superman and Ariel, the mermaid . Babs and Busters River Cruise is a parody of the film Everyone's First to Die .
Jean MacCurdy explained that Totally Crazy Vacation makes fun of the summer vacation in general by poking fun at "the summer boredom and those terrible car trips." In the film, Plucky Duck's drive with the Hampton family proves to be very exhausting. Plucky finds the individual family members repulsive and is almost killed by an escaped mass murderer. The fictional amusement park, "Laughter and Fun Land", is a corruption of Walt Disney World .
publication
Totally Crazy Vacation was released on video and laserdisc in the US on March 11th. Jean MacCurdy said the film was released at that time due to the Easter business. With retail demand for the film, Warner Bros. shipped nearly a million copies, "a record for direct-to-video films," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Totally Crazy Vacation was the first full-length cartoon to be released direct to video in the United States. At the time, the concept of an animated film released directly to video was so unfamiliar to consumers that some of them mistakenly thought that Totally Crazy Vacation was a collection of Tiny Toon Adventure episodes.
In the United States, the film was broadcast on Fox Kids on September 5, 1993 as four single episodes of Tiny Toon Adventure , episodes 97 to 100. After Warner Bros. began in the US on July 29th 2008, the series Tiny Toon Adventures publish on DVD, Warner Home Video was the Home Theater Forum report that there is "no plans" for publishing the series Tiny Toon Adventures on DVD give. In 2012 the film was released on DVD as an NSTC version, at least in the USA.
Reviews
The reviews were mostly positive. The VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever gave three out of four bones, highlighting the parodies in particular, and wrote: "The parents are just as entertained [as the children] by the high level of humor and fast-paced action".
Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film two and a half stars out of four and called it "episodic," but praised the cast, songs and humor.
TV Guide called the film a "blast" and cited the many gags in the film. The magazine advised "watching the film on the screen just for pleasure".
The book Videos for Kids: The Essential, Indispensable Parent's Guide to Children's Movies on Video praised the "ironic humor" and parodies of celebrities, but warned parents also that the film may not be for "children who are too young to Satire to understand ”is appropriate, since the characters in the film“ are naughty and argumentative and probably do not represent good role models ”.
Videos for Kids nonetheless found that the film “should be a fun film experience for the whole family”.
Dennis Hunt of the Los Angeles Times said that the format of a direct-to-video film was "unusual" but that parts of the film were "hilarious", especially in the scenes where he made fun of Walt Disney World power.
Since its release, Total Crazy Holidays has been rated as one of the "Top 20 (US-Produced) Direct-to-Video Animated Films" by the "Animated Movie Guide".
Not all reviews were positive. Entertainment Weekly's Steve Daly gave the film an overall "C +" and said that while the film is "better than most on TV," it was a "kids-friendly makeover" of the Looney Tunes cartoons on which the Tiny Toons are based . He described the characters as immature and the content as "fast-paced, but without being funny". Video Watchdog magazine was particularly critical in 1992, describing the film as "a double-edged sword," "which replaces a coherent plot for a loose framework that allows four stories to be told with different characters." The magazine also asked the extent to which it makes sense to use characters that were strongly reminiscent of the classic Looney Tunes characters, rather than the classic characters themselves.
The release of Totally Crazy Vacation was one of the top-selling video films in the United States. On the Billboard charts, the film hit # 12 in April 1992 sales. In May 1992, Totally Crazy Vacation climbed to # 9 in sales in the United States. On July 18, 1992, Totally Crazy Vacation was featured in Billboard Magazine's 40 Top Video Sales for 16 weeks . On June 27, 1992, the film was # 5 on Billboard's "Top Kid Video". On February 6, 1993, Totally Crazy Holidays had been on the Top Kid Video hit list for 41 weeks. The Toronto Star did not disclose how much the film would sell for, but wrote that the film had sold so well that Warner Bros. decided to release episodes of Tiny Toon Adventure on video.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lazar, Jerry (1990), “Meet the Tiny Toons,” Bugs Bunny Magazine
- ↑ Scott Hettrick: Puppies and bunnies and toons on the loose 'Dalmations,' 'Fievel Goes West,' 'Tiny Toon Adventures' are coming . In: Kansas City Star , Jan. 17, 1992, p. G23. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ↑ It's About Doggone Time! . In: The Miami Herald , April 10, 1992, p. 41G. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal (2005), “Tiny Toon Adventures,” Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003, 1 (2 ed.), McFarland & Company, p. 853
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- ^ Bowker's Complete Video Directory: 1997, New Providence: RR Bowker, January, 1997, p. 1218
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- ↑ Mink, Eric (March 18, 1992), “A Looney Vacation With 'Tiny Toons',” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- ^ TV Guide 40, 1992
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- ^ Hunt, Dennis (April, 1992). "This 'Tiny Toon' Venture Isn't From TV". Los Angeles Times
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- ↑ Connors, Martin; Jim Craddock (2000), "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation", VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2000, Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, p. 923, ISBN 978-1-57859-042-1 , Archived copy ( Memento des Originals from March 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 7, 2010.
- ^ Hunt, Dennis (April, 1992). "This 'Tiny Toon' Venture Isn't From TV". Los Angeles Times
- ↑ lenburg, Jeff (2008), "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation," The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, 1 (3 ed.), Checkmark Books, 399
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- ↑ Connors, Martin; Jim Craddock (2000), "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation", VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2000, Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, p. 923, ISBN 978-1-57859-042-1 , Archived copy ( Memento des Originals from March 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 7, 2010.
- ↑ Maltin, Leonard; Cathleen Anderson, Pete Hammond (2000), Leonard Maltin's 2001 Movie & Video Guide, Signet, p. 1442
- ^ TV Guide 40, 1992
- ↑ Doug, Atkinson; Fiona Zippan (1995), Videos for Kids: The Essential, Indispensable Parent's Guide to Children's Movies on Video, Rocklin: Prima Lifestyles, p. 157
- ^ Hunt, Dennis (April, 1992). "This 'Tiny Toon' Venture Isn't From TV". Los Angeles Times
- ^ Beck, Jerry (2005), The Animated Movie Guide, Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press, p. 327
- ↑ Steve Daly (March 20, 1992), "Video Review: Tiny Toon Adventures (1992)," Entertainment Weekly, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,309899,00.html retrieved on April 26, 2010.
- ↑ Video Watchdog (9): 18, 1992
- ^ Associated Press (Apr. 14-15, 1992), "Video Rentals, Sales," Desert News: Sept.
- ^ Associated Press (May 7, 1992), "Top Video Rentals, Sales," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: C7
- ^ Top Video Sales, Billboard 104 (29): 51, July 18, 1992
- ^ "Top Kid Video," Billboard 104 (29): 48, June 27, 1992
- ^ Top Kid Video, Billboard 105 (6): 48, February 6, 1993
- ↑ Wilner, Norman (July 18, 1992), "Turn On Toon In," Toronto Star: SW8
Web links
- Tiny Toons Adventures: Total crazy holiday in the Internet Movie Database (English)