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Coyote vs. Acme
Box Office
Underperformed · 1.2x
Budget$72M
Worldwide Gross$88M
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Coyote vs. Acme

Coyote vs. Acme

movie·PG·Aug 28, 2026·
Box OfficeUnderperformed · 1.2x
$72M
Budget
$88M
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Coyote vs. Acme

movie
PG
August 28, 2026
Wokeometer Rating
2Based
2/10
Audience Woke Score
6/10
Mixed
5 Ratings
Scale: 0 = not woke, 10 = maximally woke

TL;DR Verdict

Coyote vs. Acme stays faithful to its 1990 source and classic Looney Tunes roots, delivering straightforward courtroom satire and cartoon chaos without injecting political or social messaging. The result is safe, neutral entertainment that earns a low 2/10 woke score.

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Detailed Analysis

Coyote vs. Acme delivers a straightforward corporate satire drawn directly from Ian Frazier’s 1990 New Yorker piece and classic Looney Tunes shorts, with Wile E.

Coyote hiring billboard lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) to sue Acme over decades of defective products that repeatedly injure him during Road Runner chases. The narrative centers on courtroom underdog antics, product malfunctions, and cartoon logic clashing with legal procedure, featuring cameos from Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn Leghorn, and others—none altered in race, gender, or identity from source material. Human roles such as Paige Avery (Lana Condor), Kevin’s niece and intern who pushes the case forward, and opposing counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena) are entirely new original characters with in-story justification tied to the legal firm and family dynamics.

Key Factors

  • No race- or gender-swapping of any established Looney Tunes characters; all animal roles remain faithful to canon.
  • Corporate satire and faulty-products premise derive verbatim from the 1990 source article and 1949–1960s cartoons, without identity-politics framing or lecture moments.
  • Diverse casting (e.g., Lana Condor as niece Paige, Tone Bell, Luis Guzmán) appears in supporting human roles that serve organic plot functions rather than foregrounded statements; director Dave Green emphasized honoring Looney Tunes ethos over contemporary trends.

Methodology: Each score synthesizes audience discourse, critic and aggregator reception, and press coverage — weighed against the work itself, not any single source.

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Is Coyote vs. Acme Woke?

We've run a full content analysis on Coyote vs. Acme and scored it 2/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.

Audience Fit
2/5
Mixed fit

Audience Fit is the inverse of the community's average woke rating of 6/10: the less woke our audience finds a title, the more stars it earns. Based on 5 audience ratings.

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of woke content is in Coyote vs. Acme?

Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Coyote vs. Acme's overall score.

Is Coyote vs. Acme family-friendly?

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Top Cast

Will Forte
2.6Based

Will Forte

Kevin Avery

Lana Condor
2.5Based

Lana Condor

Paige Avery

John Cena
2.8Based

John Cena

Buddy Crane

Tone Bell
2Based

Tone Bell

Sal Maltese

Eric Bauza
2.4Based

Eric Bauza

Foghorn Leghorn / Daffy Duck / Porky Pig / Elmer Fudd / Bugs Bunny / Tweety / Road Runner (voice)

P.J. Byrne
2.9Based

P.J. Byrne

Bill Pellicano

Martha Kelly
4.6Mixed

Martha Kelly

Dottie Jones

Luis Guzmán
1Based

Luis Guzmán

Judge Troppogrosso

Kenneth Choi
3.9Based

Kenneth Choi

Oscar Jeon

Nancy Linehan Charles
1Based

Nancy Linehan Charles

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Audience Reviews3

J053ph6Woke0/10
Sep 24, 2026

It's a good movie other than the thirty-minute sex scene between the Coyote and the Roardunner. That was pretty weird tbh

thegoldenlimeWoke10/10
Sep 24, 2026

Writing this to point things out respectfully 1.) Toons act as an allegory to racism. Wile E. gets ignored by most characters, his name constantly mispronounced, gets profiled numerous times and is also barely addressed by the humans other than Paige and Kevin, and Elmer Fudd and Foghorn Leghorn act as 'the good Toons', tokenisation. Stereotypes of toons are also mentioned and played on, as well as solidarity of said toons between Wile E and Roadrunner. 2.) Wile E. sues a mega corporation too big to fail that has a history of exploiting and abusing toons (which can be marked as a minority case). The mega corporation villains also gets arrested by the end. Inherently anti capitalist 3.) Songs like DJ Shadow's Nobody Speak and The Clash's I Fought the Law are also prevalent songs within the film, inherently punk songs 4.) Whatever Wile E. and Roadrunner have going on is a very complex relationship that can be - and has been - viewed in the lenses of romantic interest by some

QBC_PotateOpen CriticWoke10/10
Sep 4, 2026

The coyote and the bird are gay.