Duck Dodgers (2003–2005) User Reviews

A crossover between Star Trek and Louney Tunes

[WeAreLive · 7/10 · 15 February 2018]

If you want to have a mix between Louney Tunes and star trek then I would defiantly recomand Duck Dodgers. The best episode of the serise is the Green Loontern episode when Daffy Duck becomes a green lantern and teams with corp to stop Sinestro. Laughably they actully got Kevin Smith to voice Hal Jordan in that episode.

The stories for the show are excellent The animation is good

Voice acting is good (RIP Joe Alasky)

I am not really a massive louney tunes but I actually liked this when I was younger.

Brilliant satire and wonderful romp in cartoonland

[cinemabon · 10/10 · 29 April 2009]

If you are a fan of Warner Brother cartoons, such as Bugs, Elmer, Daffy, Yosemite, Foghorn, and many others, then you will love this series. I couldn't disagree more with the moron who posted the review that slammed this series. My son and I religiously watched each episode as they premiered week to week on Cartoon Network. We couldn't wait to see the next one. We laughed so hard we fell off the couch. The one that mocked "Iron Giant" was one of our favorites (I go... you stay... no following). Not since "Samurai Jack" has a writing team given us so much to laugh about in one series. When it suddenly came to a halt, we stopped watching Cartoon Network. The more recent shows don't even come close to the level of this wonderful series. I feel sorry for the cynical reviewer who sounded so high and mighty about animation. This isn't animation. These are cartoons. They make you laugh. We love Bugs Bunny. We love Elmer Fudd. We especially love Daffy Duck. May you long live to make us laugh because.... you're despicable! (spoken with a lisp)

A rarity....

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 24 April 2010]

I am an enormous fan of animation and of the original Looney Tunes cartoons. In general cartoons of this last decade have been awful or shows that started off good but now mediocre. Duck Dodgers is a rarity, seriously while not the best animated show out there in the world it is light years away from being the worst. I'd rather watch Duck Dodgers than something like Pokemon or Shaggy and Scooby Doo:Get a Clue, the former had a great concept but the later episodes especially are really predictable and the less said about the latter the better.

Back to Duck Dodgers, the animation is lovely to look at, not slip shod or flat, but colourful, well drawn and fluid. The galactic backgrounds often look absolutely amazing especially. The music is also great, the theme tune is very catchy and memorable, and the writing is sharp, not as razor sharp as the original cartoons, but sharp and funny enough. Yes, it was funny, there are many episodes that have many hilarious visual gags and dialogue to delight not only kids but adults as well. The episode ideas don't feel contrived or slushy, a major plus in my book, they are just episodes that spring from a great concept and work above decently with well above average material. Also the voice acting do really well. I do miss Mel Blanc I admit, he immortalised the original cartoons and was just a phenomenal voice actor overall. That said, Joe Alaskey, Tia Carrere, Bob Bergen, Tara Strong and Grey DeLisle all do great jobs with their characters. Speaking of the characters, I always delight in Daffy Duck, he has a witty, outrageous and manic persona that makes him truly unique and he is on top form as an incompetent space captain. Porky as the cadet isn't given as much to do but he does well with what he has, and the Martian Queen is beautiful and somewhat sexy.

Overall, this is if given a chance, a great series. Not as good as the originals, which I admit I wasn't expecting, but it is for me one of the better animated shows of the last decade. 10/10 Bethany Cox

i like it

[ThermalHeat · 23 September 2003]

My favorite part of the show is the theme song at the begining sung by tom jones it just makes the show for me. After that who cares. it does have it moments for me after all i always thought daffy duck was histercal and porky pig as his sidekick is great.

This show is very funny

[GravityLoudHouseLover1 · 10/10 · 30 June 2015]

Hello it me regularshow1 and today I'm going to do a review on a great show that I started watching in 2007 on boomerang its called Duck Dodgers. I liked that this show it has a lot of adult jokes like the episode Talent Show a Go-Go which Dodgers(A.K.A)Daffy steals Tom Jones voice and I didn't even know who he was until I watched this episode in 2009. Also I just found out that Dave Mustaine of the band Heavy Metal band Megadeth guest star in the episode In space no one can hear you rock and I really like that episode as well and I don't even like Heavy Metal Music. Anyway I like really liked this show was very funny. All right guys this Regularshow1 saying have a nice day. See you later. 10/10

Duck Dodgers is the Best looney tunes cartoon shows ever!

[carlotta-51294 · 10/10 · 2 November 2018]

I love this show one of my personal favorite looney tunes shows, it has such great humor,beautiful writing, and most of all action. I wish it still be aired on TV again. I love this show so much.

To Infinity and Beyond (Duck Dodgers-Style)

[roddekker · 5/10 · 4 January 2015]

In one way I found that this animated, Sci-Fi, TV series (set in the 24th and a half Century) pushed the whole Duck Dodgers character, and all of his loud-mouthed shenanigans, just a bit too far for its own good.

Unfortunately, after all was said and done, this series literally milked Duck Dodgers' humorous potential completely dry.

Yes. I'll will admit that there were some very good moments in this often over-the-top parody of superhero movies that recycled just about every SyFy cliché in the book - But, as I soon found out, the show's overall appeal was generally geared to the likes of an audience who were much younger than myself.

This 2003 season of Duck Dodgers contained 13, half-hour episodes (divided into 21 chapters). The Duck Dodgers & Marvin Martian characters were voiced by Joe Alaskey. And Bob Bergen voiced Porky, the eager, young space-cadet.

Cool Show; One episode is based entirely on Star Trek

[monstermania · 18 April 2005]

This is a cool series that takes old characters and uses them to spoof Alien, TNG/VOY, and countless other sci-fi shows. The animation is well done, and the voices are true to the characters.

I think that it is great for older kids and adults because of some of the inside jokes that may confuse. However, if you know a bit about popular culture, you will see lots of cool gags and references to modern TV and film. I especially like the design of ships, as the earth ships are very classically styled and the Martian ships are kind of like Akira class vessels from Star Trek.

The episode "The Fudd" is based on the concept of the Borg from Star Trek in every way. It was cool to see Trek being used in such a funny way.

Very Funny Cartoon!

[SonicStuart · 5 October 2003]

I think this is a very funny cartoon! It is a spoof of an old TV show called Buck Rodgers and then came The spoof Duck Dodgers.

One time in late 1998 when I was out in Los Angeles, CA to see Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers cartoon studios, when I was in the Warner-Brothers studio, I saw a few posters of Duck Dodgers and I was thinking are they going to make a TV show of Duck Dodgers? Then I thought that would be funny if they did because of seeing a lot of space future adventures with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, plus seeing Daffy Duck being blowin' up in action! Then 5 years later they made one. I watch it every Saturday Morning @ 10:30 am on Cartoon Network!

Has it's moments!

[drivingat120km · 7 November 2005]

Duck Dogers isn't the stink people make it out to be. Though it may steal jokes and ideas from other shows it also improves them! It usually has very interesting stories with good voice acting, which actually sound like the original characters! And occasionally has me rolling on my sides laughing at it's stupid jokes. Like the episode "The six wazillion dollar duck" with some nutty doctor who can't go without saying something totally hilarious every line he has! So give it a shot it's not a bad show one of the best new Donald duck shows! Give it a watch, you might find it brings back memories of the old WB cartoons, with a new style comic twist!

Very Enjoyable!!

[EuroNYC7 · 23 December 2005]

I was never much into the Looney Tunes bandwagon (more of a Hanna-Barbera fan actually) but when I first caught a glimpse of Duck Dodgers on the Boomerang Channel, that was it! I have been following it loyally ever since. The show is funny, very graphically-detailed and well put together. The relationship between Dodgers and his "eager space cadet" Porky kills me with laughter, as does his hi-jinx confrontations with his rival Marvin the Martian, all amid

the "cold war/ us versus them" face-off between Earth and Mars. I love the ship designs , not to mention plots borrowed from other science-fiction movies and shows (i.e. the episode where the Martian Queen pursues Dodgers into a Nebula thus provoking a game of hide-and-seek a-la-Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan). I honestly cannot get enough of this show; for a cartoon, in my opinion, it is definitely up there with all sci-fi/comedy/actioners! Wonderfully thought out indeed.

Mixed feelings

[draketigerclaw · 15 April 2006]

Well as with so many of the recycled cartoons out there I have mixed feelings about duck dodgers. The show had a lot of potential because its silly sci-fi and you can do anything with it. But then again as usual they tried to throw in a bunch or lame jokes and clichés. There are also a number of vague references to other shows and movies, which go over a lot of people's heads. The animation is a bit above the typical for a modern series and in an unusual twist the CG work does not look totally out of place.

Over all I liked the series (Aside: and the Martian Queen) but it could have been made better in a few ways.

That whirring sound you hear...

[runar-4 · 24 August 2003]

...is Chuck Jones spinning in his grave. "Duck Dodgers" is proof that animation is a dying art. In his book "Chick Amuck", Jones said that animation is primarily a visual art. A cartoon is true animation if you can turn off the sound and still understand the whole thing. If you need the sound to understand what's going on, it's illustrated radio. "Duck Dodgers" is illustrated radio of the worst sort. The character was never intended to be sustained over more than one cartoon, and even Jones' own reprise, 1980's "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century" fell flat. Unfortunately, Cartoon Network has seen fit to remove one of the two Sunday evening showings of the exemplary "Toon Heads" to inflict a rerun of this turkey. I suggest they keep it confined to its first-run slot on late Friday night, the later the better, or, better yet, consign it to the dustbin of failure.

I agree its not the best, but I think it's still good.

[SSJAniFan · 20 October 2003]

Okay, a few people have trashed this series, and a few others like it. I would head more towards the like side, I don't think it's the best show ever, but it's nice. Daffy, as usual, is the typical clueless, egotistical loveable moron who needs his sidekick(Porky)'s help in most cases. These try to add a science fiction-esque twist to the Looney Tunes characters. While I agree that the series is not as good as the original 50's short, I don't think the series is trying to take its place, and I think the creators know this. To try and take the place of Chuck Jones's original masterpiece would probably be impossible, and I believe that when this show was created the writers knew this, which is why it is quite different from the the original, and even its lackluster sequel. Still, it's way better than Powerpuff Girls(gag me).

BOTTOM LINE: Although I won't be frantically searching this show out, it is a nice way to kill half an hour if I happen upon it.

to quack or not to quack

[aaronj2004 · 23 October 2003]

i love duck dodgers a lot

there is a good moment from last week's episode that i find funny when dodgers met the green lantern before he got back his uniform and what is even funnier .. he was not in his uniform he was just in his feathers

now that i've got that joke out of the way,

dodgers should get more crew members for his ship to appear in season 2 [when that time comes] most of my suggestions for crew members would include; - bugs bunny [as a admiral] - pepe le pew [as a lieutenant] - lola bunny [as medical officer] - sylvester the cat [as engineer officer] and other looney toons characters - and the reason i'm making these crew character suggestions for season 2 is because that it's just only daff and porky i mean, daff should have improvements on that ship, to fit a bigger crew

i mean , let's face the facts , does dodgers not like being picked up no does he like having to eat disgusting parasites no does he like to see the cadet scared of various stuff no my point is, if you have more than one member on a ship there's a greater chance that dodgers will listen to not only the cadet but also the other members if it's just him and the cadet, then the cadet is pretty much is on his own



now to end this comment with a duck dodgers version of a quote from shakespeare's hamlet

"to quack or not to quack , that is the question"

There out to be a law!

[ldavis-2 · 1 November 2005]

I finally saw "Duck Dodgers" last night. As Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc (bless them) are no longer with us, I was prepared for a letdown, and I wasn't disappointed!

In the original, Daffy was a bombastic nitwit, which was part of his charm; here, he's a loathsome prick! In the episode I saw, he demands help as he has Eager Young Space Cadet cleaning his house. Mr. Hi assigns him a robot. He likes the robot until he dispatches the bad guys better than Dodgers ever did, earning Mr. Hi's raves. Dodgers is now hell-bent on getting rid of him. When the robot sacrifices himself for him, Dodgers actually seems devastated -- until Mr. Hi says he can rebuild him. Dodgers throws a fit, stomping on the heap of metal that saved his life!

I was so disgusted by what the no-talent clowns behind this "cartoon" did to Daffy and Porky, I'll never watch this "Duck Dodgers" again!

Mediocre is as good as this gets

[Knuckle · 7 April 2006]

The Duck Dodgers TV series bastardizes the source material, plain and simple. Littered with self-referential gags and lame one-liners, this show is pretty much a poster child for what is wrong with animation today. There is no wit or thought put into any of the scripts and I doubt very highly if anybody bothers to storyboard these things. Rather than using animation as an art form, the morons in charge of this masterpiece of trash rely on animation to keep their production costs down.

Long gone are the geniuses like Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Michael Maltese. Maybe Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, and company grew up watching Looney Tunes, but adoration does not translate into talent and I'm not giving out any A's for effort.

This is a solid 2 out of 10 - Even a 1 out of ten is too good for this, since that would imply a certain amount of excellence in the field of horribleness.

Pale imitation of its inspiration

[dog_fc · 26 January 2006]

In another example of a disturbing trend, the past has been cannibalized and bastardized from its original, clever incarnation into a pre-chewed, re-hashed, insulting parody designed to accommodate the lowest common denominator.

I can only imagine that two factors led to this show being produced - 1) A desire for some quick bucks, and 2) the creator's lack of originality. Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese were geniuses. The cretins who write and animate this are pale imitators - "ants in the afterbirth" as it were.

The humor lacks the spark that made the original Looney Tunes a joy to watch. Instead of being entertaining, this show is simply a sobering reminder that the best and brightest of our age are NOT working in television animation.

The future isn't as good as it was in 1953

[Brian Kendig · 25 August 2003]

Take Futurama's Captain Zapp Brannigan and Lieutenant Kif and put them up against Emperor Zurg from the animated Buzz Lightyear series, and you've got "Duck Dodgers." What were they thinking?! Daffy is too over-the-top smarmy, Porky's voice doesn't sound right (even though Bob Bergen is doing it -- maybe the editing is bad?), and Marvin has changed from a bumbling absentminded alien into a bellowing fleet

commander who's as malevolent as he is ineffective. You know the type; they're a dime a dozen these days.

Throw in an army of disposable robots to do Marvin's work for him, way more sexual innuendo than the original Warner Bros. cartoons ever had, lots of pointless dialogue EXPLAINING what's going on instead of SHOWING it, and weird character animation (some of it looks like it's straight out of 'Ren & Stimpy,' with the wild faces the characters make sometimes), and you come out with a series that's a pale shadow of the original. "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries" did a fine job of putting familiar characters into fun new situations while keeping their personalities and their looks intact; why can't "Duck Dodgers?"

Disappointing

[Mortrigar · 2 November 2003]

The original Duck Dodgers cartoons, while not half-hour shows, were far superior to this pile of dog vomit. Duck Dodgers and his sidekick Porky Pig are back again, and this time they are devastatingly unfunny. The writers try far too hard to make Dodgers the mad-cap character he was when the original cartoon aired.

The best part about this show? It ends after a half hour.