Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

Daffy Duck opens a "ghostbusting" service and employs Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. This is just an excuse to link together some old Warner Bros. cartoons dealing with monsters, ghosts and such. The new material is dreadful--full of bad jokes and so-so animation. Even worse is almost all the cartoons they picked are pretty bad. The worst is with Daffy as "The Duxorcist". The best is Porky and Sylvester spending the night in a haunted hotel. Since these were made at different eras the animation varies from OK to excellent. Kids might enjoy this but the best way to see these cartoons are one at a time--not all mashed together with poor connection material. I give this a 3.

Yes its the BEST looney tunes movie. The other honorable mention being Bugs and Roadrunner Movie.. it was spoiled on a lot of use because terrible precursors like fantasy island etc made us wrench a few years prior. However this one is actually kind of good. Not to mention basically a finale for Mel Blanc. Worth checking out! The other reviewers cant honestly tell all the old skits from the wraparound story.. duxorcist was a year prior and reworked as the bulk of the wraparound story but was not canon to quackbusters..

Bugs Bunny had three films where he was the lead, and here is one of the two films where Daffy Duck led. Daffy is trying to make money on the streets without success, when he hears that a millionaire will give $1,000,000 for a good laugh. He takes this task, and kills J.B. Cubish laughing. J.B. Cubish leaves his fortune to Daffy, but his ghost tells him he should use it for good. So Daffy sets up a paranormal investigation team with Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig with Sylvester the Cat. They encounter a Jekyl/Hyde turned Tweety Pie, a haunted house, red monsters, vampires, a possessed female duck, the abominable snowman and a miniature elephant. Eventually Daffy discovers that he has gone bust, and his office is destroyed, and he goes back on the street, with J.B. still ruining his life. Daffy Duck was number 30, Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies number 20, and Bugs Bunny number 10 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Good!

During the 80s and early 90s, Warner Bros. produced a number of "clip-show" movies, consisting of our favorite Looney Tunes facing new challenges, but the majority of the footage was taken from classic cartoons. Some of the others included "Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island", "The Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie", & "Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales". However, this one tops them all as best, using the clips to their full potential. The show starts with the cartoon "Daffy Dilly", in which Daffy is selling novelty gags on the side of the road and hears over the radio that ailing millionaire J.P Cubish will pay a fortune to anyone who can make him laugh one more time before he passes on. We watch the cartoon, which would normally end with Cubish throwing pies at Daffy, but the movie picks it right up, and shows that Daffy has inherited the bulk of Cubish's fortune (he died laughing). However, the will says Daffy must use the money to help the community and provide the service... yeah, right. After all, it's not like Cubish can take him with him, right? Well, as Daffy finds out... he can. Cubish's ghost returns and starts to take the money, and every time Daffy starts acting up, more money disappears. Finally, the message sinks through and Daffy decides to open up a ghost-catching business, ala Ghostbusters. He hires Porky (using the popular cartoon "The Prize Pest"), and Bugs, who only agrees when he hears of the travel opportunities ("You mean I get to go to Palm Springs?"). However, any time Daffy threatens to fire his staff or gets greedy, more money vanishes from his vault. The movie uses some of the "creepiest" Looney Tunes cartoons ever created, including "Transylvania 6-5000", "The Abominable Snow Rabbit", "Scaredy Cat", "Hyde & Go Tweet", "The Duxorcist", and others. While it's great to see these classic cartoons, the real fun is watching Daffy try to keep his cool... and his money. Though some younger kids may get scared off whenever Cubish returns (everything goes dark, clap of thunder and lightning, and the music gets a little creepy), I highly recommend this cartoon for the whole family. Be sure to watch the opening cartoon of "Night of the Living Duck" for a real Halloween- themed treat.

This is yet another old Looney Tunes classic that I have treasured for years and watch when I can. I'd really recommend it to Daffy Duck fans since the movie brings back some old throwback episodes with slight edits. You can clearly tell when the old scenes and the new scenes are meshing with one another due to the animation, but I wasn't too bothered by that. Daffy is on his way to millionaire J.P. Cubish's house to try and make him laugh one last time. If he does so, Cubish will give him one million dollars. I'm not going to reveal anything else since that is not my style (it's also against the rules here to do so without putting up a warning, I believe), but you'll see for yourself how good the movie is if you watch it.

Daffy Duck - Ghost-buster extraordinare. At least according to "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters", a gem of a film that brings back the Daffy that we all know and love (the slickster that isn't all that slick) to fight against ghosts, ghouls and gremlins that infest our everyday life. Along with Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat and Bugs Bunny (he just can't stay out of movies, can he?), he helps (or at least tries to) eliminate the excess fright quotient in his neighborhood. There are so many great Warner Brothers cartoons strung together here that watching them will be as much a treat now than when most of you (okay, and I) were younger. The linking material may be weak, but it's still good to hear Mel Blanc in full voice as all the characters we know and love, and to see Daffy, Bugs and the gang up to their old tricks. If you love cartoons you gotta catch this one. And if you love Daffy, you probably own it. Good for you. Ten stars and a Chicken Inspector badge for "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters", the film that'll really make you quack up.

In this final installment of the compilation series, we go out with a bang. Once again, Daffy takes center stage in this clever and funny takeoff on "Ghost Busters" with Daffy, Bugs, Porky and Sylvester taking on everybody from killer mice to evil vampires. This movie is, quite simply, funny. It is a great spoof of the 1984 comedy classic (not so much a spoof of the story as it is the idea) and most of the cartoons included are some of the funniest among the Looney Tunes canon. Particular highlights include "Daffy's Dilly" and "Prize Pest." Greg Ford and Terry Lennon wisely use vintage sound effects and music cues from the original cartoon and also provide a surprisingly catchy and somber instrumental version of "Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives" with the full song being sung superbly by Mel Torme. Unfairly dismissed as just another cheap clip show "Quackbusters" is clever, entertaining, funny, and also poignant when one considers this was Mel Blanc's final Looney Tunes movie performance. Another highlight is a great cameo appearance by the forgotten Tune Egghead which provides a nice touch for film buffs. What it boils down to is that this film is fine family entertainment and is a quality spoof (take note Friedburg and Seltzer). If nothing else, it is at least better than "Ghostbusters II."