Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters

Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters is a 1988 animated film. It is a compilation of various classic mh:besttvshows:Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts with new bridging material.

Summary
Following the passing of J.B. Cubish, Daffy decides to open a business with Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The way the shorts themselves are compiled is brilliant.
 * 2) Splendid animation, thanks to a talent of new animators. The new footage also matches the art style of the shorts the editors are compiling.
 * 3) * Also, this is the first compilation movie to kickstart the Renaissance Age of Animation, alongside Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
 * 4) Top-notch voice acting from Mel Blanc, even though his voice dropped over the years for the new material. However, the stuff from the original shorts are still the same as they were a long time ago.
 * 5) J.P. Cubish, a minor character from "Daffy Dilly", has his role expanded as a more complex character and is given more personality than in his debut appearance. He is also a well-done posthumous main villain who forces to Daffy to take care of his money wisely by starting a business after his death.
 * 6) Likable characters.
 * 7) The short at the beginning (Night of the Living Duck) is just as good as the original shorts.
 * 8) A great choice for shorts, such as the events of Daffy Dilly instigating the plot.
 * 9) This was a nice compilation film to conclude Mel Blanc's time voicing all the characters of the Looney Tunes, ending a time with the franchise that began in 1937 on a higher note (his absolute last Looney Tunes project was the 1989 TV special Bugs Bunny’s Wild World of Sports).
 * 10) This movie is considered a funny parody of Ghostbusters.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Daffy and Porky’s voices aren’t sped up enough. This is especially noticeable in “Claws for Alarm”, in which Porky’s first few lines were redubbed to fit in the story, but the rest weren’t, resulting in Porky’s 1988 voice suddenly switching to his 1953 voice. According to co-director Greg Ford, their voices weren’t pitched up because Blanc was very sick and worn out when recording, and they wanted to maintain some of the nuance he still had.
 * 2) The animation, while decent, looks like it's more for a television film than a theatrical film at times. Talk about a made-for-TV-budget movie.
 * 3) *Speaking of which, like the rest of the other Looney Tunes compilation movies and TV specials produced between the late-1970s through the 1980s, the overall animation quality of the film appears to be inconsistent, with the newly-animated bridging sequences having much lower quality animation than the Looney Tunes theatrical shorts included in the film.