Some things were a parody of looney tunes, like a bomb going off and just bring ash-faced and hair smoking. Then the boss having literal smoke coming out of his ears.
It just doesn't work for what it wants to be...a boy inside of an action hero's movie. They completely oversold the idea that they're in "a movie" and because of that, it's a fail.
I disagree. I liked it. And it makes fun of the sterotypes of some action films with the over the top yelling boss, the bad guys dying in over the top ways, and the one liners. But I am biased as I have enjoyed it since it came out in 1993 when I was 7 years old. Plus it is incredibly quotable.
"I'll be back! Hah! You didn't know I was going to say that, did you?"
"And all I had to do is just drive around the neighbor hood? And point my finger at the house, and say the bad guys are in there!"
"Yes it was called the girl of my dreams. It starred you. As a matter of fact we had this very romantic scene together.
"Danny told me not to trust you. He said you killed Moe Zart."
"Moe Who?"
"Zart."
"You know I kill a lot of people. I can't remember half of em.
"One eighty you stupid spaghetti slurping Cretin! One eighty! If I did a 360 I'd have gone completely around and end up back where I started!"
I could keep typing quotes from it all the rest of the evening but I think I've made my point.
You chose one thing out of a 2hr 11min movie....while ignoring the dozens and dozens and dozens of parodies of action movies it does do. solid argument bro
shareI could choose more. Like being kicked/punched and going flying. It was really overdone.
shareisnt that kinda an action trope too though?
share"It was really overdone."
That's because it was a parody:
par·o·dy
noun
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Well whatever it was, it failed for me. I didn't need cartoon cops.
shareI didn't like the cartoon character being in it either, but it didn't ruin the movie for me. It didn't make sense because there are no action movies that I know of that mix cartoon characters with live-action, so it can't even be considered an exaggeration of anything from the action genre. They could have incorporated a cartoon character mingling with live-action in a way that made sense in the context of the movie if they'd done it differently, i.e., they could have had a character from a cartoon movie wander into real-world New York because of the magic ticket in the same way that the grim reaper character did.
shareThis movie is genius and ahead of it's time. It's hilarious and still a decent action movie too.
shareI partially agree. The cartoon character and some of the most over-the-top elements were not necessary. The rest is actually quite a good parody of action movies, I think.
shareDat Vas de joke.
Seriously, do not seriously take it seriously. It is not a serious movie that one should take seriously.
One could make the movie seriously, but seriously, that's not the point of a movie that doesn't take itself seriously.
Seriously.
It has parody moments, but it isn't a true parody like Loaded Weapon.
shareYou are right, it comes off as trying too hard, like someone hitting their head with some rubber hammer and screaming "look how funny I am, laugh at me, damnit!!1".
It's not organic, it's so fake and manufactured. No action movies show ridiculous silliness on the level this movie does (as you said, live-action cartoon rather than action movie), and yet it isn't even funny at all. When you're too self-referential, you lose the genuity (?). It's hard to believe someone that's screaming to you 'I am so fake, haha' constantly.