Tweety's High-Flying Adventure is a 2000 American animated musical slapstick comedy film produced by Tom Minton and James T. Walker, written by Tom Minton, Tim Cahill and Julie McNally, and directed by James T. Walker, Karl Toerge, Charles Visser, and Kyung Won Lim, starring Tweety (Joe Alaskey).[1]
The film also features other Looney Tunes characters such as Sylvester (as the main antagonist), Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck (all three are also voiced by Alaskey), Yosemite Sam (Jim Cummings), Foghorn Leghorn (Jeff Bennett), and Taz (Cummings). Lola Bunny (Kath Soucie) also makes multiple cameo appearances as a news reporter. The animation was made overseas by the South Korean animation company Koko Enterprises. The movie is an updated spoof of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
On 2 October, when Colonel Rimfire, at the Looney Club in London, announces about his beliefs that cats are the most intelligent, musical animals (after his many plans were foiled by Cool Cat), Granny, hoping to raise money for a nearby children's park that closes in 80 days, makes a wager that her Tweety can fly around the world in 80 days, collecting the pawprints of 80 cats in the process. Sylvester, still hoping to make Tweety his personal snack, is incensed at the thought of some other cat getting the little bird first and vows to follow Tweety around the world and catch the canary himself; unbeknownst to either one, a thief is also present.
Tweety sets a course to Paris, but is blown by a strong wind to the Swiss Alps, where he gets trapped, as does Daffy Duck, but Bugs Bunny saves them both. He goes back to Paris, this time successfully and outsmarts Penelope Pussycat, where he causes Pepé Le Pew to mistake Sylvester for a female skunk. Tweety continues on to Venice, but grows overweight after eating too much bird seed. On a longboat, he faces a lot of cats, but he overpowers them and goes back to his normal size. While attempting to sleep in Egypt, he is chased into a tomb by Sylvester and several cats, but he escapes. Sylvester disguises himself as a dancing woman in a basket and takes it off as he catches Tweety, but when he sees hieroglyphics, Sylvester thinks he just sees images. A mummy cat army beats Sylvester as Tweety resumes to his escape. In the African jungle, he outsmarts Pete Puma and a lion with help from the Minah Bird.
In Tibet, he befriends another canary known as Aoogah (the name coming from her ability to imitate a horn), after rescuing her from a sacrifice using Hugo the Abominable Snowman. They are taken by more winds into Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Japan and eventually make it onto a boat to the United States. However, Sylvester catches up with them, but Hubie and Bertie cause him to slide into the water. Tweety and Aoogah are able to save him, but end up on a beach in Australia. Sylvester meets Taz and they team up and chase the two canaries, resorting to a motorcycle, but end up in the ocean with Taz holding the sign from Wile E. Coyote.
Tweety and Aoogah ride a windsurfer to San Francisco. Sylvester hijacks a tram to chase them, but ends up on Alcatraz, to the fury of Yosemite Sam, who appears as the tram's driver. The two canaries make it safely on a train to Las Vegas, where they escape more cats. Afterwards, they go through more cities across the United States, finishing in New York City. There, they trick Sylvester into getting onto a Concorde alone. The two canaries are caught up in an Atlantic hurricane and briefly washed up on an island, but outsmart more cats and escape back through the hurricane.
In a pub in the English countryside, they discover the thief and manage to outsmart him. Sylvester attempts to frame Tweety by passing his license to fly for a stolen passport. He almost succeeds, but the real passport is in his hand, thus getting himself arrested instead to frame Tweety and himself. Tweety and Aoogah believe they are a day late, until they discover that it's the 21st of December because they crossed the international date line. They are able to get back to London, only to find that they managed to get just 79 pawprints. Tweety then realizes he forgot Sylvester so he flies into the prison truck taking him away and is able to get his pawprint, thereby saving the park. Tweety gets happily knighted by the Queen for helping find the missing royal passport and Sylvester goes to prison.
Characters[]
Aside from Tweety, who has the lead role, other Looney Tunes make brief cameos and play some major roles:
Sylvester - The main antagonist, who's still waiting for a chance to eat Tweety.
Granny - Tweety's owner.
Colonel Rimfire - The secondary antagonist, who threatens to close down the Looney Club in London for "unpaid municipal debt" and doubts Tweety's abilities
Aoogah - Tweety's traveling companion, whom he rescues from a cult of cats seeking to sacrifice her.
Shropshire Slasher - The tertiary antagonist.
Daffy Duck (Mountain Climber)
Bugs Bunny (Snowboarder)
Penelope Pussycat
Pepé Le Pew (France counsel)
Foghorn Leghorn (Floyd's of London)
Miss Prissy (Floyd's of London)
Henery Hawk (Floyd's of London)
Egghead Jr.
Charlie Dog (Venice Restaurant Waiter) (his appearance is a reference to his previous short A Hound for Trouble)
The Raven and the Lion from Inki and the Lion
Pete Puma (cameo when Tweety is chased)
Gossamer (Tibet counsel)
Hugo the Abominable Snowman (Tibet monster who captures the cat cult)
Speedy Gonzales (Mexico counsel)
Rocky and Mugsy (Brazil counsels)
Hector the Bulldog (Argentina counsel)
Hubie and Bertie (cruise ship cheese thieves)
Hippety Hopper (Australia counsel)
Tasmanian Devil
Wile E. Coyote (cameo just before Taz falls off a cliff in Australia)
Yosemite Sam (San Francisco trolley conductor)
Marvin the Martian (New York terrorist)
Pussyfoot (Las Vegas casino cat)
Lola Bunny (Looney News Network anchorwoman)
Cool Cat (disguised for most of the film)
Unnamed Camel (Egyptian counsel)
Voice cast[]
Joe Alaskey as Tweety, Sylvester the Cat, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, Colonel Rimfire, Henery Hawk and Pepé Le Pew
Jeff Bennett as Foghorn Leghorn and Bertie
Jim Cummings as Rocky, Taz, Yosemite Sam, Cool Cat and Hubie
June Foray as Granny
Stan Freberg as Pete Puma
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh as Aoogah
Tress MacNeille as Airplane Worker, Prissy and Queen Elizabeth II
Rob Paulsen as Sphinx
Frank Welker as Hector the Bulldog, Hugo the Abominable Snowman and Mugsy
Kath Soucie as Lola Bunny
Music[]
Three original songs were composed for the film alongside various national anthems and folk songs. The cast of the film doubles as the chorus.
All lyrics are written by Randy Rogel; all music is composed by J. Eric Schmidt.
All lyrics written by Randy Rogel, all music composed by J. Eric Schmidt.
