Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up Cinema Review

4 star madcap aliens vs farm animals.

Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up is a 2026 American animated film, bringing the crazy adventures of our youth to a new generation. At the helm of this full length feature film is director Peter Browngardt, who took over the leadership of the franchise with Looney Tunes Cartoons.

It is crashing into UK cinemas from 13th February 2026 courtesy of Vertigo Releasing.

“Astronomers log. An asteroid seems to have appeared in our solar system. I’m concerned about it’s trajectory.”

As the film opens, a scientist (Fred Tatasciore – Eureka Seven – Hi-Evolution 1, Hulk Vs. Wolverine) spots an asteroid heading for Earth. Before he can raise the alarm, he spots another object hurtling towards the plant. It crashes through the roof of a house in the town of Grandview, and comes to rest in a field. As he runs to see what it is, a sinister green light envelopes him.

Meanwhile, we meet the owners of the house, Porky Pig (Eric Bauza – Kiff (TV Series)) and Daffy Duck (Eric Bauza). We see them grow up together, rescued as youngsters and raised by the kindly Farmer Jim (Fred Tatasciore), who leaves them the home and urges them to take care of it. Of course they haven’t and the big hole in the roof is the final straw.

The try to find jobs to pay for repairs, but are unsuccessful until a chance encounter leads them to meet Petunia Pig (Candi Milo – My Life as a Teenage Robot (TV Series)), a flavour scientist at the nearby chewing gum factory. She gets them jobs there, but they soon realise that something sinister is afoot and the fate of the world may well be in their less than capable hands.

“You know, you’ve gotta take risks if you wanna make something really good. I’m on the quest to make the world’s most perfect flavour. I’m close, really close.”

Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up is a very entertaining watch and it’s an interesting addition to the Looney Tunes universe, after a long wait. Giving well established characters a back story and a little bit more personality to relate to really helps with the feature length format. The fact that they are also more self aware makes their incompetence less annoying.

While not laugh out loud funny, there is plenty of amusement to be had here, with colourful action and slapstick that will delight youngsters, as well as some more subtle humour for adults to enjoy. There are nods to numerous famous sci-fi films, most notably Invasion of the Body Snatchers, War of the Worlds and Armageddon.

The animation style is refreshing in this day of 3D features, looking 2D and hand drawn throughout in the same manner of the original cartoons. It also retains the same feel, not too politically correct and I was quite surprised at some of the jokes. All in all, a great afternoon out at the cinema for the family this half term.

“That gum just blinked. And now it’s looking at me!”