

I can’t imagine, though, that Spielberg did much beyond sign off on a memo (without reading it) for Animaniacs: Wakko’s Wish, the first full-length, direct-to-video animated movie starring the Animaniacs.

The show’s main characters, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner - the Warner Brothers and the Warner Sister, as they remind us - live in the water tower on the Warner lot in Hollywood and like to drop names, like Spielberg’s, inappropriately. Modern successors to the Looney Toons, Animaniacs features a series of short cartoons starring a variety of hilariously improbable characters, like The Brain, a genius mouse who wants to take over the world, and his idiot sidekick, Pinky and the Goodfeathers, wiseguy pigeons whose voices suggest DeNiro and Pesci (and named, natch, Bobby and Pesto).

In the little village of Acme Falls, the once-cheerful villagers are being taxed to the max by the greedy Baron von Plotz. As the outrageously zany Yakko, Wakko and their sister Dot star in an all-new, fenture-length animated adventure full of song-filled, joke-stuffed Animaniacs mayhem.
