The faux-European village of Acme Falls has come under the thumb of a corporate-raider king (don’t ask me to explain), who is taxing his new subjects to death. The television show explodes with rapid-fire non sequiturs, dizzyingly complicated pop-culture references, inspired parodies of classical and Broadway-style music, and general mayhem. I can’t imagine, though, that Spielberg did much beyond sign off on a memo (without reading it) for Animaniacs: Wakko’s Wish, the first full-length, direct-to-video animated movie starring the Animaniacs. The show’s main characters, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner - the Warner Brothers and the Warner Sister, as they remind us - live in the water tower on the Warner lot in Hollywood and like to drop names, like Spielberg’s, inappropriately.
Modern successors to the Looney Toons, Animaniacs features a series of short cartoons starring a variety of hilariously improbable characters, like The Brain, a genius mouse who wants to take over the world, and his idiot sidekick, Pinky and the Goodfeathers, wiseguy pigeons whose voices suggest DeNiro and Pesci (and named, natch, Bobby and Pesto). “Steven Spielberg Presents” is how the Animaniacs cartoon show always begins, and much is made of that impressive provenance.
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