After a brief spray of notes, a white scrim fell, revealing the band members, each wearing a skintight bicycling outfit covered with luminescent white lines in a grid formation, as if they were being tracked on a green screen for later animation.

NEWYORKER: Sound Machine

Moreover, while Paramount has decided to make a go of it with their own animated content (such as the Oscar-winning Rango from two years ago), Warner Bros. could have frankly used a powerhouse animation slate as they have mostly failed to capitalize on big-screen variations of their various DC Comics television franchises or The Looney Tunes.

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