Wakko's Wish

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Wakko's Wish
Bugs Bunny in the Warner Bros. logo, as seen on the film's opening sequence.
Directed by	Liz Holzman Rusty Mills
Produced by	Liz Holzman Rusty Mills Tom Ruegger
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Family Entertainment Warner Home Video
Release date(s)	1999
Running time	80 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Wakko's Wish is a 1999 direct-to-video animated film based on the Warner Bros. animated television series Animaniacs. The film provides a "climax" to the series and returns the show to its original format of balancing period settings with comedic satire, a route that was downplayed when the series went to its second season in favour of pure slapstick. The show's darker tone was also restored.

The film relocates all the Animaniacs characters to a quasi-medieval fairy tale world, in which they race to find a shooting star that will grant them a wish. This film was released on VHS only (there was no DVD release) in December 21, 1999 by Warner Home Video, and is typically aired on television during the same year's holiday season, despite not typically being a Christmas movie.

[edit] Voice cast

Rob Paulsen - Yakko Warner, Pinky, Dr. Otto Scratchansniff
Jess Harnell - Wakko Warner
Tress MacNeille - Dot Warner, Marita Hippo, Hello Nurse, Mindy's Mother
Maurice LaMarche - Brain, Squit
Sherri Stoner - Slappy Squirrel
Nathan Ruegger - Skippy Squirrel
Nancy Cartwright - Mindy
Frank Welker - Buttons, Ralph, Baron von Plotz, Runt, Flavio Hippo
Chick Vennera - Pesto
John Mariano - Bobby
Bernadette Peters - Rita
Paxton Whitehead - King Salazar
Ben Stein - Desire Fulfillment Facilitator (aka, "Pip")
Jeff Bennett - Baloney, Captain of the Guard
Paul Rugg - Mr. Director
Julie Brown - Minerva Mink
Tom Bodett - The Narrator

[edit] Inside references

In the film, Warnerstock is invaded by the country of Ticktockia; this references the real world merger between Warner Bros. and Time Inc.. An animated map scene depicting the invasion sets the two countries roughly where Luxembourg would be in the real world.