King Tweety

King Tweety
Genre:	Comedy Adventure Family
Directed by:	Careen Ingle
Produced by:	Kandace Reuter Careen Ingle
Written by:	Erik Adolphson (story and teleplay) Careen Ingle (teleplay)
Starring:	Eric Bauza Flula Borg Carlease Burke Jon Daly Regi Davis Dana DeLorenzo Riki Lindhome Candi Milo Maya Lynne Robinson Niccole Thurman Mark Whitten
Music by:	Nick Keller
Edited by:	Cris Mertens Kyle Stafford
Distributed by:	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release date:	14 June 2022
Running time:	80 minutes

King Tweety is a Looney Tunes direct-to-video film released on 14 June 2022. It aired on Cartoon Network on 19 November 2022 and was added a day later on HBO Max.

At 80 minutes, it is the longest Looney Tunes direct-to-video film.

Plot

Tweety unexpectedly becomes next in line for the crown when the queen of an island paradise disappears. His entourage includes motorbike daredevil Granny and sly Sylvester, whose allegiance is tested when he uncovers a sinister plot to eliminate Tweety for good.

Availability

(2022) DVD

(2023) DVD
Best of WB 100th: Looney Tunes 10-Film Collection

Streaming

Amazon Prime Video (2022 -)

HBO Max (2022 - 2023)

Max (2023 -)

Characters

• Tweety
• Sylvester
• Granny
• Diego von Schniffenstein
• Aoogah
• Floorbo
• Thaddeus Fishley Esq.
• Beep Beep
• Melaney Blank
• John Foray
• Harold
• Izza
• Green Bean
• The Weenie Limo
• General Chirp
• King Peep
• Larry Bird
• Queen Honk
• The Chiff Chaff
• Rodrigo
• Candice the Crane
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Charlie "Bird" Parker
• Nasty Canasta (cameo)
• Dan Backslide (cameo)
• Dora Standpipe (cameo)

Voice Cast

• Eric Bauza - Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Larry Bird, The Handsome Steward
• Flula Borg - Harold, Thaddeus Fishley Esq., Enthusiastic Crowdgoer
• Carlease Burke - Queen Honk, Candice the Crane
• Jon Daly - Diego von Schniffenstein
• Regi Davis - Rodrigo, Charlie "Bird" Parker, an Owl
• Dana DeLorenzo - Izza
• Careen Ingle - Floorbo
• Riki Lindhome - Beep Beep
• Candi Milo - Granny, Green Bean, Lady Bird Johnson
• Maya Lynne Robinson - Officer Gnutz
• Niccole Thurman - Aoogah, Melaney Blank
• Mark Whitten - Officer Siedes, John Foray

Videos

King Tweety - Trailer - Warner Bros. Entertainment

Trailer

Looney Tunes MOVIE- King Tweety - FIRST LOOK & ANNOUNCED - CARTOON NEWS

Sneak peek

King Tweety - Who Started the Fight? - @WB Kids

First clip

King Tweety - Sylvester Would NEVER Hurt a Bird! - @WB Kids

Second clip

KT IveGotToCallIn 1080

Third clip

References to Other Media

• Snakes on a Plane (2006) - While hiding in the cargo hold of the solid gold airplane, Sylvester has to fight off a group of agressive snakes.
• xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) - Upon seeing Granny for the first time, Diego is smitten and asks, "When did this become Beautiful World?". This is a direct reference to a 2016 press interview in Brazil in which actor Vin Diesel became noticeably enamored with a female interviewer.
• Volkswagen - After being attacked by the workers outside the castle, a dazed Sylvester exclaims "Fahrvergnügen!", a reference to the German car manufacturer's popular ad campaign from 1990.
• "Freeze Frame" - During Tweety's readying-for-the-party montage, music strikingly similar to the J. Geils Band's 1981 song "Freeze Frame" plays. This song was famously used in the montages of many films from the 1990s.
• Barbarella (1968) - After Sylvester's interrogation at the police station, Officers Gnutz and Siedes lock him in the 'De Laurentiis Budgie Prison', a jail cell with a handful of blue and green parakeets hopping around inside. This is a reference to Dino De Laurentiis, the producer of Barbarella, as well as the scene in Barbarella in which the character Barbarella is imprisoned in a jail cell and sentenced to be pecked by birds, but then the only birds present in the jail cell are parakeets, which are far too tiny and docile to be considered a threat to an adult human.
• "Jessie's Girl" - Izza discusses Rick Springfield's 1981 song while she and Green Bean are on lookout duty.
• Back to the Future (1985) - During the police chase, Granny says, "Streets? Where we're going, we don't happen to require streets!" before riding her scooter across the ocean.

Notes

• This is the first Looney Tunes film to be directed by a woman.
• According to Careen Ingle, it was created as Warner Bros. requested a tie-in movie for their "80 Years of Tweety" campaign.
• The film portrays Tweety and Sylvester as having more of a sibling-like relationship, with Granny as their mom/grandma/caretaker.
• This is the first Looney Tunes production to have explicit LGBT representation:
  • The Canary Islands' first ruler, General Chirp, is referred to using they/them pronouns.
  • At the start of Tweety's King Day coronation ball, Harold addresses the crowd as "Bird-ladies, gentledogs, nonbirdnaries, and all other lovlies in attendance". This greeting is inclusive of genderless and non-binary individuals.
  • Diego's guard Izza interprets the Rick Springfield song "Jessie's Girl" as being about a man who is in love with his male friend Jesse. She admonishes the singer for cowardly refusing to admit his true feelings.
  • This is a departure from the franchise's history of queer coding and stereotyping, such as the 1932 short "Freddy the Freshman" and The Goofy Gophers.
  • This carried over into future Looney Tunes productions such as Tiny Toons Looniversity which features gay and lesbian characters.
• This film says that Tweety Bird is of African descent.
• While Tweety and Aoogah are merely friends in Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, in this film they are blood-related cousins.
• The character Green Bean is nonverbal and uses sign language to communicate.
• The characters Melaney Blank and John Foray are a play on the names of the late voice actors Mel Blanc and June Foray.
• Aoogah shakes hands with former German chancellor Angela Merkel during the 'QUEEN WATCH' news segment.
• The names of Officer Gnutz and Officer Siedes are plays on the words "nuts" and "seeds".
• The Lanzarote grape fields the characters visit for the juice tasting are a real location in the Canary Islands. While the grapes are used to make grape juice in the film, in real life they are used to make wine.
• Nasty Canasta, Dan Backslide, and Dora Standpipe appear in Tweety's slideshow about New York.
• The Chiff Chaff is a real bird native to the Canary Islands. In contrast to the film, however, real life Chiff Chaffs are relatively tiny, about the size of a sparrow.
• A cement bobcat statue sits on the front porch of Granny's New York brownstone home. This is a reference to the trademark bobcat statues ubiquitous throughout the town of Los Gatos, California, where director and producer Careen Ingle is from.