Animaniacs, also known as Animaniacs: The Movie, is a live-action/animated hybrid, slapstick comedy-adventure, musical, and crossover film based on the original 1993 animated TV series and the 2020 revival of the same name co-produced by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation (formerly known as Warner Animation Group), Legendary Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is directed by Steven Spielberg and written and produced by original series creator, Tom Rugger. The film stars Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche and Frank Welker reprise their voices of the characters, while Jo Ellen Pellman, Piper Perabo and Jack Black play in their live-action roles. It serves as a standalone sequel to direct-to-video film Wakko's Wish (1999).
The film sets in the alternate world where humans and toons co-exist with one another. It focus on The Warner Brothers and the Warner Sister, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner along with their new human friend Harper (Jo Ellen Pellman, Netflix's The Prom), has to save the future of the animation industry and their home studio, Warner Bros. from the CEO and President of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav (Jack Black). This movie is heavily inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022 film), as well as Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences with praise for its humor, voice acting, meta-commentary, the message, musical numbers, ensemble cast, nostalgia and faithfulness to its source material. The film also was the highest-grossing film ever to be released by Warner Bros. in Warner Bros. Studios' history by grossing $3.176 billion in the box office beating the 2023 ''Barbie'' movie's record of $1.446 billion by a large margin, as well as becoming the highest-grossing film of all time beating the 2009 film ''Avatar"'s record of $2.923 billion.
Plot[]
In a world co-populated by humans and cartoon characters known as “toons”, The Warner siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, cartoon stars of the hit 1990s series “Animaniacs” live in the WB Water Tower on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California where they discovered outside the studio humans, toons and animation fans are upset with Hollywood for being mistreating toons and canceling promising projects as the Warners sees angry protesters of humans and toons outside Warner Bros. Studio. Yakko, Wakko and Dot, goes see their psychiatrist, Dr. Scaratchansniff during their appointment and then see a stress Nora Rita Norita, the CEO of Warner Brothers in her office explaining to the Warner siblings that David Zaslav (Jack Black), the CEO and President of their parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery is responsible for cancelling, interfering and ruining so many of Warner Bros.’ most promising upcoming projects and beloved franchises, shows, and movies, especially in the animation deportation ever since Warner Brothers merged with Discovery Inc. and now because if Zaslav’s actions and bad discussion making, the entire company is in huge debt and at risk of being sold to another major studio. With Nora feels powerless, the Warners meets her intern, Harper Parker (Jo Ellen Pellman); the latter reveals herself to be a big Animaniacs fan, both the original 1993 series and the 2020 revival series, and understanding that they might lose their home, Yakko, Wakko and Dot set out to Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Headquarters in New York City with Harper to save Warner Bros. and the animation industry.
Upon their arrival to New York, Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Harper enters Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Headquarters and meets David Zaslav alongside with The Mary Sues: Chloe Carmichael (Kate McKinnon) from Nickelodeon’s The Fairly OddParents, Fake Velma (Melissa Villaseñor) from the Max series, Velma, and John Malone. Zaslav reveals his evil plan to ruined Warner Brothers and the animation industry by cancelling beloved, upcoming and popular movies and shows, especially animated related projects and green-lighting terrible ones and reality shows that nobody will like to make Warner Brothers bankrupt while Discovery remains on top making him rich. The Warners and Harper escaped Zaslav’s office and plans to tell the FBI about Zaslav’s plan along with video and audio recordings and a flash drive as evidence to give to them while the Warner Siblings’ friend Sweetie Bird (Tessa Netting) from Tiny Toons Looniversity and Scrappy-Doo (Scott Innes) who’s trying to redeem his reputation after how he was portrayed in the live-action 2002 Scooby-Doo movie help try and find Ugly Sonic (Tim Robinson) in Los Angeles and ask him FBI contacts to tell Former FBI Agent, FBI Director, Karen Sympathy (Piper Perabo reprising her role from “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle) about Zaslav’s plan as Zaslav and his henchmen plans to chase after them and capture the Warners and turn them into humans with the Humanizer, an AI powered machine that turns toons in humans.
As Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Harper made their way back to Los Angeles, California, they get lost and enters a dark and gloomy place known “The Forgotten Lands” where cartoon characters go and live when they become forgotten by the world. They meets Father Time from Histeria who runs the place and tells them that he and the forgotten toons have been through a lot over the years and Maggie Pesky informs them that some of their residents, Bessie Higgenbottom from The Mighty B, Ruby Trollman from Trollz, and Vendetta from Making Fiends were kidnapped by some strange humans in business suit two nights ago and was strangle considered that they don’t get that many visitors due to them belong “forgotten”. Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Harper feels sorry for them and informs them about David Zaslav’s plan to destroy WB and the animation industry and they need to find FBI Director, Karen Sympathy. Father Time showed them the way out as they thank the forgotten toons and before they leave, Harper give Father Time and the forgotten toons an heartwarming and inspiring message, “From the bottom of my heart, everyone. I just wanna say, you guys are not truly forgotten if there are still people out there who remembers you all”.
As Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Harper make their way to Warner Bros. Studio, Zaslav and his henchmen caught up to them and chase them on the road. The Warners and Harper tries to hide from them in a ongoing Fan Con, In the ongoing chase, John Malone is restrained and arrested by FBI agents while Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Harper were also taken by FBI agents to their Los Angeles HQ and finds out that the FBI agents are here to help them and meets FBI Director, Karen Sympathy who reveals to be Harper’s aunt.
Karen informs them that the FBI, the LAPD and the DOJ have teamed up and been trying to find out what Zaslav’s been up to since the merge and the FBI were able to find them thanks to the tip given by their agent Ugly Sonic who received it from Sweetie Bird and Scrappy-Doo from earlier and Detective Nicky Flippers who spotted them while he was investigating a missing toon disappearance in The Forgotten Lands Maggie Pesky mentioned earlier. The quartet handed over the evidence of Zaslav’s plan to destroy Warner Bros. and the animation industry to her claiming they have enough to put Zaslav away for good and ask them for their help. The Warners learned that Harper had a rough childhood growing up during her pre-teen and teen years and didn’t had many friends and made fun of her for still liking animation and telling them that Wakko’s Wish was her comfort movie. The Warners cheers her up by singing "There's Only One of You" from one of their episode from the original series and tell her that there’s nothing wrong with being a fan of animation no matter how old she get and she’s not only a great fan, but also a great friend.
Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Harper finally return to Warner Bros. Studios but are captured by David Zaslav and his henchmen, along with Nora Rita Norita, revealing she was part of Zaslav’s plan this whole time and has been covering for him. They tied them to a chair only for The Warners to escape moments later since Fake Velma used regular rope instead of the escape-proof ones. Harper was still tied to her chair, then Pinky and the Brain help untied her while Yakko, Wakko and Dot distracts Zaslav, Fake Velma, Chloe and Nora by being zany to the max. With Harper freed, Pinky and the Brain lead them to a hidden room in the building filled with people behind glass cells. They find out that those people are actually toons who got turned into live-action versions and humanoids of themselves for a terrible reality show Zaslav created called, “The ‘Real’ Toons of Hollywood”. They freed all the kidnapped humanized toons and changed the setting on the Humanizer from “human" to “toon” and changed everyone back to their original toon appearance while accidentally turning David Zaslav into a giant toon monster known as, “Toon Monster Zaslav”. The Warners, Harper and the rescued toons escaped from the building and spilt up and run around the Warner movie lot.
Yakko and Wakko turns on the Bat Signal, the WB Signal and the Toon Signal and every WB Employee, WB characters and toons (inducing the Forgotten Toons who were inspired by Harper’s word from earlier) from other studios showed up and team up to help save Warner Bros and the animation industry. Fake Velma and Chloe goes after Dot and Harper but are saved by the rest of the cast of Animaniacs who dropped an anvil on Chloe by Slappy the Squirrel while Fake Velma was attacked by the real Velma Dinkley and the other versions of her until Slappy put dynamite in Fake Velma’s pants and blasted her into the Friends fountain where she was arrested. Dot, Harper and the rest of the Animaniacs cast joins Yakko, Wakko and the others then Toon Monster Zaslav kidnaps Dot and Harper and climbs the WB Water Tower and trap them on the roof of the tower. Then all the humans and toons begins to attack Toon Monster Zaslav while Yakko and Wakko make their way to the WB Tower and save Dot and Harper. Yakko come up with a plan to defeat Zaslav and save the studio; to reach the Humanizer on the other side of the studio and turn Zaslav back into. Harper makes her way to the Humanizer with the help of the other Animaniacs cast and other humans and toons while Yakko, Wakko and Dot distracts Zaslav by turning their Water Tower into a giant, combat-ready mech (similar in the episode “Super Strong Warner Siblings”) and joins The Iron Giant, King Kong, Godzilla, Reptar, the Transformers, etc. in a epic giant robot/monster fight.
Harper made it to the Humanizer and set it back to the human setting, as Toon Monster Zaslav comes charging at her, Harper zaps him with the Humanizer turning him back to human and destroys the Humanizer, then found himself surrounded by angry humans and toons who starts beating him up until the LAPD, the DOJ and FBI, led by both Karen Sympathy and Ugly Sonic, arrive to arrest Zaslav (and Chloe and Nora who were arrested off-screen) and the cast of Jellystone! for their crimes. Then an angry Thaddeus Plotz (also Frank Welker; who reveals to now be the CFO of Warner Brother Discovery) arrives and fires David Zaslav as CEO of Warner Brother Discovery and takeover his position while he promotes Harper as the new Co-CEO of Warner Bros Studios with Hello Nurse (also Tress MacNeille) in Burbank, California due to Nora’s arrest and her involvement with Zaslav’s plan as everyone celebrates that WB and the animation industry has been saved.
One week later, everything in WB and the animation industry have got better thanks to Harper and Hello Nurse’s good decisions making, she reverses all of Zaslav’s bad decisions such as splitting up with Discovery Inc., uncancelled and released all the shows and movies like Batgirl, Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Coyote vs Acme, renewed Final Space and Close Enough, changed Max back to HBO Max, gave the Cartoon Network characters back their original Cartoon Network Studios Building, put Pepe Le Pew back on Looney Tunes, green-lit Learning with Pibby, Scrappy-Doo whose reputation has been restored made his return in Scooby-Doo (for special occasion now), canceled all the bad shows like Jellystone and Creature Commandos and throw it along with episodes of Velma in the WB vault never to be re-released, fires James Gunn and Peter Safran from DC Studios and cancel the DCU and restore the DC Extended Universe, they also let some the forgotten toons work at WB and created a strict ban on AI in all movies, TV shows, and video games and convince the other studios to do the same as well. As for Zaslav and his henchmen who has been blacklisted from every studios in the world and facing many lawsuits been sentenced to life in prison (expect for Chloe who has been sentenced to 5 to 8 years in prison due to her young age), and Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper were held as heroes for saving Warner Bros and the animation industry. Harper later joins Yakko, Wakko and Dot as the walk towards the WB Water Tower into the sunset. As Harper ask them what are they, Yakko was about to tell her but gets cut off by the end title card.
During the credits, Harper gets to watch the entire Animaniacs cast recreate the Animaniacs intro from the original show directed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Ruegger.
In the Mid-credits scene, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are being chase by Ralph T. Guard around the WB lot while Harper is having a meeting with Pinky and the Brain and greenlights their idea for a Pinky and the Brain movie. Then Pinky and the Brain returns to ACME Lab and prepare for tomorrow night… Write the script and hold auditions for the movie. And then the same thing we do every night; try to take over the world! Then a jealous Freakazoid breaks the fourth wall and demands for his own movie.
And finally in the Post-credits scene, Yakko, Wakko and Dot comes out of the Water Tower going their Water Tower closing gag tells the remaining audience that no toons were harmed in the making of this movie… expect for Toon Monster Zaslav, Fake Velma, Chloe Carmichael, the 2016 Powerpuff Girls and the cast of Jellystone. The Warners close the film saying Yakko’s catchphrase, “Goodnight everybody!”
Cast[]
Character Voices[]
Main Character Voices[]
- Rob Paulsen as Yakko Warner, the yakking leader of the Animaniacs, and Wakko and Dot's brother.
- Paulsen also respires his roles as Pinky; The Brain's dim-witted best friend, Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff; a psychiatrist at Warner Bros. Studios, Foxy; a fox, Peck, 1987 Raphael, 2012 Donatello and 2T Fru-T; one of the Butt-Ugly Martians.
- Jess Harnell as Wakko Warner, the food-eating member of the Animaniacs, and Yakko and Dot's brother.
- Harnell also respires his role as Do-Wah Diddy.
- Tress MacNeille as Dot Warner, the witted and cutest member of the Animaniacs, and Yakko and Wakko's sister.
- MacNeille also respires her roles as Hello Nurse, Marita Hippo, Gadget Hackwrench, The World's Oldest Woman, Pepper Mills, Toast and Cho-Cho.
- Maurice LaMarche as The Brain, a genius-intelligent mouse planning on world domination, and Pinky's best friend.
- LaMarche also respires his roles as Squit, Wakko's burps, Doggie Daddy and Magilla Gorilla
- Frank Welker as Ralph T. Guard, a chubby guard, who always chases the Warners around the movie lot.
- Welker also respires his roles as Runt, Flavio Hippo, Chicken Boo, Buttons, Thaddeus Plotz, Phar Fignewton, Fred Jones, Scooby-Doo, Jabberjaw, Yakky Doodle, Zilla, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Father Time, Fetch and Monkey
- Stephanie Escajeda as Nora Rita Norita, the CEO of Warner Bros. Studios.
- Kate McKinnon as Chloe Carmichael, a hated character from the 10th season of Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, and one of the villains of the movie.
- Kari Wahlgren briefly provides the voice acting for Chloe's voice (credited as "Chloe's annoying voice"). Wahlgren also reprises her role as Zatanna from DC Super Hero Girls (2019), Nova from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, and Ellie Martin/Elastika from Zevo-3.
- Melissa Villaseñor as Fake Velma, one of the villains of the movie. Villaseñor replaces Mindy Kaling in the Max series, Velma.
- Tom Bodett as The Narrator
- A text-to-speech program (Fred) as the Humanizer
Secondary Character Voices[]
- Tessa Netting as Sweetie Bird, a pink female tomboy canary from the Tiny Toons franchise.
- Scott Innes as Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's nephew
Original Animaniacs Character Voices[]
- John Mariano as Bobby
- Laura Mooney as Katie Ka-Boom
- Julie Brown as Minerva Mink
- Colin Wells as Colin
- Sherri Stoner as Slappy Squirrel
- Nathan Ruegger as Skippy Squirrel
- Bernadette Peters as Rita
Additional Character Voices[]
- Fred Tatasciore as Yosemite Sam (cameo appearance)
- Jodi Benson as Ariel (cameo appearance)
- Linda Larkin as Jasmine (cameo appearance)
- Jennifer Hale as Sally “Thorn” McKnight and Cinderella (cameo appearances)
- Paul Rugg as Freakazoid and Nostradamus (cameo appearances)
- Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley (cameo appearance)
- Mindy Cohn as Mystery Incorporated Velma (cameo appearance)
- Gina Rodriguez as Scoob! Velma (cameo appearance)
- Greg Eagles as Grim (cameo appearance)
- Grey Griffin as Mandy (cameo appearance)
- Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers (cameo appearance)
- Jane Wiedlin as Dusk (cameo appearance)
- Kimberly D. Brooks as Luna (cameo appearance)
- John DiMaggio as The Incredible Gnome in People's Mouths, Rico, Bud, Jake the Dog and Bender (cameo appearances)
- Eleanor Johnson as Cindy (cameo appearance)
- Danny Jacobs as Starbox (cameo appearance)
- Nathan Ruegger as Froggo (cameo appearance)
- Nora Dunn as Lydia Karaoke
- Jeff Glen Bennett as Baloney the Dinosaur (deleted scene), The Man with the Yellow Hat, Johnny Bravo, Lucky Bob and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel (cameo appearances)
- Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Yogi Bear (both original version and Jellystone version), Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss and Eustace Bagge (cameo appearances)
- Meg Donnelly as Tomorrowverse Supergirl (cameo appearance)
- Tom Kenny as Boo-Boo Bear, Eduardo, Zorak, Jake Spidermonkey, Spyro the Dragon, Top Cat, SpongeBob SquarePants and Gary the Snail (cameo appearances)
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star (cameo appearance)
- Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles (cameo appearance)
- Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs (cameo appearance)
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks (cameo appearance)
- Jill Talley as Karen Plankton (cameo appearance)
- Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Larry the Lobster, Realistic Fish Head, Edward and Fred (cameo appearances)
- Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff (cameo appearance)
- Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs (cameo appearance)
- Vincent Martella as Phineas Flynn (cameo appearance)
- David Errigo Jr. as Ferb Fletcher (cameo appearance)
- Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn (cameo appearance)
- Dan Povenmire as Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz and Vinnie Dakota (cameo appearances)
- Alyson Stoner as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro (cameo appearance)
- Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet Tjinder (cameo appearance)
- Bobby Gaylor as Buford van Stomm (cameo appearance)
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram and Balthazar Cavendish (cameo appearances)
- Tyler Alexander Mann as Carl the Intern (cameo appearance)
- Kath Soucie as Cindy Bear (cameo appearance)
- Eric Bauza as Pesto, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Pepé le Pew, Periwinkle "Peri" Fairywinkle-Cosma, Woody Woodpecker and Buster Bunny (cameo appearances)
- Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots (cameo appearance)
- C.H. Greenblatt as Jellystone Boo-Boo Bear and Jellystone Doggie Daddy
- Grace Helbig as Jellystone Cindy Bear
- Marty Grabstein as Courage the Cowardly Dog (cameo appearance)
- Thea White as Muriel Bagge (archival recordings; cameo appearance)
- Michael Dorn as I.M. Weasel (cameo appearance)
- Charlie Adler as Ickis, Ed & Bev Bighead, Cow, Chicken, The Red Guy and I.R. Baboon (cameo appearances)
- Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Disney Pinocchio (cameo appearance)
- Cody Cameron as Shrek Pinocchio (cameo appearance)
- Gregory Mann as Netflix Pinocchio (cameo appearance)
- Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy (cameo appearance)
- Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar (cameo appearance)
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda (cameo appearance)
- Mae Whitman as Amity Blight (cameo appearance)
- Thurop Van Orman as Flapjack (cameo appearance)
- Marieve Herington as Tilly Green (cameo appearance)
- Jake Beale as D.W. Read (cameo appearance)
- Daran Norris as Cosmo and Jorgen von Strangle (cameo appearances)
- Susanne Blakeslee as Wanda (cameo appearance)
- Ashleigh Crystal Hairston as Hazel Wells and Babs Bunny (cameo appearances)
- Maddie Taylor as Sparky (cameo appearance)
- Julie Kavner as Timon's Mom (cameo appearance)
- Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit (cameo appearance)
- Dana Snyder as Master Shake, Scratch and Jellystone Snagglepuss
- Cathy Cavadini as 1998 Blossom (cameo appearance)
- Tara Strong as 1998 Bubbles, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Batgirl, 2003 and Go! Raven, Unikitty, Princess Melody, Twilight Sparkle, Timmy Turner and Maguro Maki (cameo appearances)
- Keith Scott as Bullwinkle J. Moose (cameo appearance)
- E.G. Daily as 1998 Buttercup and Tommy Pickles (cameo appearances)
- Scott Menville as 2003 and Go! Robin (cameo appearances)
- Greg Cipes as 2003 and Go! Beast Boy (cameo appearances)
- Khary Payton as 2003 and Go! Cyborg (cameo appearances)
- Hynden Walch as 2003 and Go! Starfire (cameo appearances)
- Amanda Leighton as 2016 Blossom and Polly Plantar (cameo appearances)
- Kristen Li as 2016 Bubbles (cameo appearance)
- Natalie Palamides as 2016 Buttercup (cameo appearance)
- Howie Mandel as Bobby Generic and Gizmo (cameo appearances)
- Amy Poehler as Bessie Higgenbottom (cameo appearance)
- Will Friedle as Ron Stoppable (cameo appearance)
- Nancy Cartwright as Mindy, Bart Simpson, Chuckie Finster, and Rufus (cameo appearances)
- Luke Ruegger as Big Fat Baby
- Cody Ruegger as Loud Kiddington
- Cree Summer as Aka Pella, Numbuh 5 and Susie Carmichael (cameo appearances)
- Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy/Ginormica (cameo appearance)
- Bobby Block as Robot Jones (cameo appearance)
- Asher Bishop as Lincoln Loud (cameo appearance)
- Jessica DiCicco as Maggie Pesky (cameo appearance)
- Athena Karkanis as Creepie Creecher and Aviva Corcovado (cameo appearances)
- Jeannie Elias as Tutenstein (cameo appearance)
- Jim Conroy as Kenny the Shark, Ruff Ruffman, Jellystone Huckleberry Hound and Jellystone Zorak (cameo appearances)
- Phil LaMarr as Samurai Jack and Wilt (cameo appearances)
- Laraine Newman as Miss Information and Charity Bazaar (cameo appearances)
- Amy Winfrey as Charlotte (cameo appearance)
- Aglaia Mortcheva as Vendetta (cameo appearance)
- Audrey Wasilewski as Ortensia the Cat (cameo appearance)
- Matt Stone as Kenny McCormick (cameo appearance)
- Lauren Tom as Numbuh 3 (cameo appearance)
- Dee Bradley Baker as Numbuh 4, Perry the Platypus, Diogee, Spot the Amoeba and Perch Perkins (cameo appearances)
- Ron Pardo as Digit (cameo appearance)
- Curtis Armstrong as Dan Mandel (cameo appearance)
- John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (cameo appearance)
- Reo Jones as Sarah Phillips (cameo appearance)
- J.G. Quintel as Mordecai (cameo appearance)
- William Salyers as Rigby Riggerson (cameo appearance)
- Sam Marin as Benson Dunwoody (cameo appearance)
- Mark Hamill as Skips (cameo appearance)
- Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo (cameo appearance)
- Matt Hullum as Sarge, Doc and O'Malley (cameo appearances)
- Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime (cameo appearance)
- Gus Sorola as Simmons (cameo appearance)
- Geoff Ramsey as Dexter Grif (cameo appearance)
- Burnie Burns as Lopez the Heavy, Leonard L. Church and Epsilon (cameo appearances)
- Dan Godwin as Franklin Delano Donut (cameo appearance)
- Jason Saldaña as Lavernius Tucker (cameo appearance)
- Michael Malconian as Michael J. Caboose (cameo appearance)
- Yomary Cruz as Sheila (Tank form; cameo appearance)
- Kathleen Zuelch as Tex (cameo appearance)
- Becca Frasier as Kaikaina "Sister" Grif (cameo appearance)
- Shannon McCormick as Agent Washington (cameo appearance)
- Jen Brown as Agent Carolina (cameo appearance)
- Lindsay Jones as Ruby Rose (cameo appearance)
- Laurie Newman as Bluey Heeler (cameo appearance)
- John Mulaney as Chip and Spider-Ham (cameo appearances)
- Andy Samberg as Dale (cameo appearance)
- Tim Robinson as Ugly Sonic (cameo appearance)
- Alisa Reyes as LaCienega Boulevardez (cameo appearance)
- George Lowe as Space Ghost (original and Jellystone versions; cameo appearances; archival recordings)
- David Coburn as Captain Planet (cameo appearance)
- Andy Merrill as Brak (cameo appearance)
- Tracey Moore as Sailor Moon (cameo appearance)
- Cristina Vee as Ladybug (cameo appearance)
- Bryce Papenbrook as Cat Noir (cameo appearance)
- Alex Borstein as Police Chief Misty Luggins (cameo appearance)
- Jim Cummings as Darkwing Duck and Tasmanian Devil (cameo appearances)
- Ariana DeBose as Asha (cameo appearance)
- Ben B. Singer as Wiz (cameo appearance)
- Chad James as Boomstick (cameo appearance)
- Chris Edgerly as Celebrity DeathMatch Mills Lanes and Augie Doggie (cameo appearances)
- Georgie Kidder as Jellystone Augie Doggie (cameo appearance)
- Niccole Thurman as Jellystone Jabberjaw (cameo appearance)
- Paul F. Tompkins as Jellystone Magilla Gorilla (cameo appearance)
- Thomas Lennon as Jellystone Top Cat (cameo appearance)
- Bernardo de Paula as Jellystone El Kabong (cameo appearance)
- Paul Julian as The Roadrunner (archival recordings)
- Mel Blanc as "QUIET!!!", "GET ME OUTTA HERE!!!" and "HEY, SISTER! CAN'T YOU READ?!" yells (archival recordings)
In the spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022), the film features numerous cameo appearances of other animated characters from within the Warner Bros. catalogue and other third party properties that appear without dialogue:
- Among the Warner Bros. characters include Daphne Blake from the Scooby-Doo franchise, Frankie Foster and Mr. Herriman from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Professor Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls franchise, Panini and Endive from Chowder, and The Kanker Sisters from Ed, Edd n Eddy.
- Non-Warner Bros. characters include Robyn Goodfellowe and Mebh Óg MacTíre from Wolfwalkers, the Humane Seven from Equestria Girls, Uncle Max from The Lion King 1 ½, Kitty Katswell from T.U.F.F. Puppy, Nicky Flippers from the Hoodwinked! duology, and Alvin Seville from the Alvin and the Chipmunks live-action/animated film series.
Live-Action Characters[]
Main Live-Action Characters[]
- Jo Ellen Pellman as Harper, a 25-year-old human intern, who befriends the Animaniacs, and the deuteragonist of the movie.
- Piper Perabo as Karen Sympathy, an FBI director and Harper's aunt, who appears as the tritagonist of the movie. Perabo's reprising her role from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
- Jack Black as David Zaslav, the CEO and President of Warner Bros. Discovery and the main antagonist of the movie.
- Black also reprises his cameo appearances as the voices of Po from the Kung Fu Panda franchise, Bowser from The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Slappy the Dummy from the Goosebumps live-action/animated duology.
Additional Live-Action Characters[]
- Linda Cardellini as Officer Dink
- Hayley Kiyoko as Officer Lee
- Channing Dungey as herself (cameo appearance)
- John C. Malone as himself
- Lily James as herself (cameo appearance)
- Naomi Scott as herself (cameo appearance)
- Halle Bailey as herself (cameo appearance)
- Steven Spielberg as himself
- Tom Rugger as himself
- Charli and Dixie D’Ameilo as themselves
- Henry Cavill as himself (cameo appearance)
- Ryan Reynolds as himself (cameo appearance)
- Margot Robbie as herself (cameo appearance)
- Billie Eilish and Melanie Martinez as FanCon guests (cameo appearances)
- Gary Sinise as Bluey Heeler (Humanoid form)
- Kurt Carley as Zilla (motion-captured cameo appearance)
- T.J. Storm as MonsterVerse Godzilla (motion-captured cameo appearance)
- Eric Petey as MonsterVerse King Kong (motion-captured cameo appearance)
- Shelbeanie as Adagio Dazzle Cosplayer (extra)
- Sarahndipity Cosplay as Aria Blaze Cosplayer (extra)
- Littlemissbloo as Sonata Dusk Cosplayer (extra)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda as himself (cameo appearance)
Songs[]
Animaniacs (2024 film)/Soundtrack
- Animaniacs Theme Song - Yakko, Wakko and Dot (Opening Number)
- David Zaslav - The Angry Humans and Toons Protesters and Ensemble (The angry humans and toons protesting against David Zaslav outside Warner Bros. Studios singing a song about him.)
- Hero is My Middle Name - Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper (Originally sung by Ethan Slater, Danny Skinner & Lilli Cooper from SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical. Yakko, Wakko and Dot sings their own version of the song about them going to save Warner Bros. and the animation industry from David Zaslav; Harper joins in later as they leave Burbank, California for New York, New York)
- Welcome To New York (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift (Harper, Dot, Yakko and Wakko singing along part of the song on the radio while driving in New York) [Song not in the soundtrack]
- The Academy Song - Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper (Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper singing and poking fun about how the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are rigged and The Oscars suck and being the worst awards show ever.)
- Spinnin' Around - Jump5 (Playing on the radio as The Warners and Harper drives away from the Warner Bros. Discovery HQ and head back to Burbank; played again in the credits.)
- The Forgotten Toon Song - The Histeria! Cast and the Forgotten Toons (The cast of Histeria! and the other forgotten toons sings a sad song about how their lives have been sad and depressing after years of being forgotten.)
- Running From Our Fans - Yakko, Wakko and Dot (From the episode, "A Hard Day's Warners". Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper are running from Animaniacs fan in a ongoing FanCon.)
- Harper's Song - Harper Parker (Harper sings a sad song about her rough childhood)
- There's Only One of You - Yakko, Wakko and Dot (From the episode, "Hooray for North Hollywood (Part 1)". The Warners sings this song to cheer Harper up.)
- Never Give Up Hope (Reprise) - Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper (From the movie, "Wakko's Wish". Yakko, Wakko, Dot and Harper reminding each other to not give up hope and head back to WB Studios.)
- Hatred and Revenge - David Zaslav, Chloe Carmichael, and Fake Velma (David Zaslav sings about why he hates animation so much and Chloe sings how she become evil and wants revenge on Hollywood for firing her and blaming her for getting The original Fairly OddParents series canceled and. While Fake Velma just explains her motives because she refused to sing.)
- Signal in the Sky (Let's Go) - The Apples in Stereo (Yakko and Wakko turns on the turns on the Bat Signal, the WB Signal and the Toon Signal and every WB Employee, WB characters and toons inducing the Forgotten Toons from other studios showed up to help.)
- Super Strong Warner Siblings (From the episode with the same name. Yakko, Wakko and Dot turn their Water Tower into a giant fighting mech to fight Toon Monster Zaslav.)
- Be Ya Self - Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Harper and The Animaniacs Cast and Ensemble (Originally sung by Tarsha Vega. Everyone singing in celebration of Zaslav's defeat and Warner Bros. and the animation industry is saved.)
- Animaniacs Theme Song (Reprise) - Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Harper, and The Animaniacs Cast and Ensemble (Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and the original cast of Animaniacs cast recreate the original show's intro during the credits. At the "We all hate David Zaslav" part shown David Zaslav, Fake Velma, Chloe Carmichael, John Malone, the cast of Jellystone, and Nora in jail for their crimes. Harper joins in during the "We're zany to the max, There's baloney in our slacks!" part.)
- Pinky and the Brain Theme - Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, Dorian Harewood and Jim Cummings (The Pinky and the Brain ending chorus plays as Pinky and the Brain returns to ACME Labs after Harper greenlights a Pinky and the Brain movie.)
- Freakazoid Theme (The ending chorus of the theme song plays after Freakazoid's cameo ending the mid-credit scene.)
- Hang On - Smash Mouth (credit song #2)
- You and I - Anarbor (credit song #3)
- Yakko's World (Updated Version) - Yakko Warner (final credit song)
Trivia[]
Release[]
The movie was released in theaters on August 21, 2024, and it was a box-office success. The film is the highest-grossing film ever to be released by Warner Bros. in Warner Bros. Studios' history by grossing $3.176 billion in the box office beating the 2023 ''Barbie'' movie's record of $1.446 billion by a large margin.
Production[]
Development[]
Reception[]
The film received generally positive reception from critics and audiences alike. Audiences says that, "This is extremely faithful to the show.", "One of Spielberg's best films yet!",
Controversies[]
Zaslav's Attempt to Cancel the Movie for Tax Write-Off Backlash[]
During the film’s production, the real life Warner Bros. Discovery CEO and President, David Zaslav tried to cancel this movie before its release for an another tax write-off. This sparked major backlash among both fans of Animaniacs and the cast and crew and many others involved with this film, especially Steven Spielberg who’s the director and the executive producer of the movie and was the original series and led to believe that the real reason Zaslav wanted this this film is because that he didn’t like how he was portrayed in the film believed that this movie will expose him as an evil businessman who hates animation and creative storytelling and will cancel anything that isn’t a reality show and bankrupt Warner Bros. Studios and only cares about Discovery. Fans and celebrities online expressing their anger at WBD and Zaslav’s decision online with #ReleaseAnimaniacsMovie and #FireDavidZaslav calling for Zaslav to be fired and Steven Spielberg and Tom Rugger (the creator of the original series) announced that they’re filling a major lawsuit against WBD and Zaslav if he goes through with his tax write-off and doesn’t release the movie. Later that day, WBD and Zaslav reversed their decision and released the movie like promise, this time under the distribution of Warner Bros. Pictures (unlike past films like Coyote vs ACME and The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie) like the studios agreed on when the film was greenlit and Zaslav was warned by Spielberg and Rugger that if he tried to cancel the movie before its release date again, they will go forward on the lawsuit against him.
Rachel Zegler’s comments[]
Rachel Zegler who portrayed as Snow White in the controversial Snow White remake, has also express many of her dismay for this movie where she claims she auditioned for the role Harper Parker, but Spielberg immediately banned her from the movie due to her past negative comments about the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs movie, she doesn’t respect the source material, how she was hard to work with and the last Spielberg movie she was in West Side Story bombed in the box office. She also did not please with the jokes about her, the live action Snow White movie and especially the jokes making fun of DEI and woke culture, actors, activists, topics and agendas in Hollywood, on social media she express that she doesn’t like Pellman’s performance as Harper and she Harper was written in the movie as someone who’s against DEI which is something Zegler praise, her comments sparks major backlash online and many of people and fans came in Pellman’s defense and praise her performance as her Harper. Jenna Ortega (who has a cameo in the movie) has expressed her dislike of DEI and woke topics being the main focus in films and television in Hollywood, has also comes to Jo Ellen Pellman’s defense and praised both the movie and Pellman’s performance as her Harper and how the character was perfectly written and condemned Zegler’s comments on social media saying, “People in Hollywood like Rachel Zegler will never learn and understand that the audience don’t want to see a movie or tv show with these DEI nonsense like creating these so-called “girl bosses” and end up becoming Mary-Sues, gender-swapping and race-swapping already existing and iconic characters that many people have loved for decades and disrespect the source material to these adaptations and blaming the fans for their failures. The audience are sick and tired of these DEI and woke agendas in stories where it doesn’t belong just to push their message nobody asked for and just want movies and tv shows with original well written creative storytelling and new characters to enjoy. And this movie proves that, not only that this movie is true and faithful to the source material of the original 90s cartoon, but Jo Ellen Pellman was a perfect example of a new and a well written character in a adaption to a beloved franchise and did a amazing job playing Harper and saying what literally saying what everyone has been saying about Hollywood lately”. After Ortega's post, WBD has announced that Rachel Zegler has been blacklisted from all divisions of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Transcript[]
Animaniacs (2024 film)/Transcript
Trailer Transcripts[]
Animaniacs (2024 film)/Trailer Transcript
Credits[]
Animaniacs (2024 film)/Credits
Spin-Offs[]
Untitled Pinky and the Brain film[]
The mid-credits scene hints for a Pinky and the Brain spin-off movie. Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche were interested in the idea and would love to respire their respective roles for the film. It's currently unknown if the movie will follow the same continuity with the Animaniacs movie or not.
Untitled Freakazoid film[]
The mid-credits scene also hinted for a Freakazoid movie. Paul Rugg who voices the character was interested in the idea and would love to reprise his role for the movie.
Home Media[]
A DVD, Bluray and digital release of the movie is planned of November 21, 2024 with bonus features, three new shorts, deleted scenes, film commentary from Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille and Jo Ellen Pellman, and more.
- Languages: English, Français, Español, English Audio Description
- Subtitles: English SDH*, Français, Español
Video Games[]
Console Games[]
Animaniacs (2024 video game)[]
LEGO Animaniacs[]
Mobile Games[]
Animaniacs: Warners Run[]
Similar to Temple Run, play as Yakko, Wakko and Dot as you run around areas from the motion picture.