Coyote vs. Acme

"The movie ACME doesn't want you to see."

2026 1h 43m EN

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7.5

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7.6

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★7.5TMDB · 701🍅96%Rotten Tomatoes●77Metacritic★7.6IMDB · 18,537

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Synopsis

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After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

“The movie ACME doesn't want you to see.”

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Cast

Will Forte
Kevin Avery
Lana Condor
Paige Avery
John Cena
Buddy Crane
Tone Bell
Sal Maltese
Martha Kelly
Dottie Jones
Luis Guzmán
Judge Troppogrosso
P.J. Byrne
Bill Pellicanos
John Early
Henry Heslop

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Dave Green
Writers: Samy Burch, James Gunn, Jeremy Slater
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $72M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Dave Green, shot by Brandon Trost. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Steven Price. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Carsten Kurpanek shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Will Forte and Lana Condor and John Cena carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The movie ACME doesn't want you to see.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1756855 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Dave Green directs. Brandon Trost behind the camera. Steven Price scores. Carsten Kurpanek cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $72M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
3Directed by Dave Green, shot by Brandon Trost. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Steven Price. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Carsten Kurpanek shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Will Forte and Lana Condor and John Cena carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The movie ACME doesn't want you to see.".
8IMDB entry: tt1756855 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 13 themes, including "judge", "lawsuit", "lawyer", "courtroom".
10Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Brandon Trost
Original score: Steven Price
Editing: Carsten Kurpanek
Production design: Steve Arnold
Costume design: Daniela Moore
Makeup / hair: Svetlana Britt
VFX supervisor: George Murphy
Sound: Joseph Stracey
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $72,000,000
Box office: $88,043,208
Return: 122% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 77/100
IMDB rating: 7.6/10 · 18,537 votes
MPAA: PG

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Chris Sawin2026-08-19
★ 6/10
It may not look the way classic animation fans want it to look. Still, Coyote vs. ACME is worthwhile for its ingenuity in both its homage to old cartoons and its clever storytelling, and seeing where your favorite Looney Tunes character fits into this wacky universe. https://bit.ly/WileEAcme
CinemaSerf2026-08-24
★ 6/10
Come to think of it, I'm surprised that in the super-litigious US of A it took almost a century for anyone to cotton that "ACME" products were rubbish! Well now "Wile E. Coyote" has had his fill of things blowing up in his face and decided to employ lawyer "Avery" (Will Forte) to take on the mighty "Foghorn Leghorn" and his legal eagle "Buddy" (John Cena) in a courtroom battle. The coyote can't speak; they can't catch the "Road Runner" to act as a witness to his calamities and the thrust of their defence seems to fall on the deaf ears of an "Elmer Fudd" who doesn't seem to quite know which side his bread ought to be buttered on - or maybe he does? Can they win? I actually rather enjoyed the "Leghorn" character most of all as he rather counter-intuitively suggested that their gadgets and gizmos were being tested on the cartoon characters - rather than real people - because, well you can't actually kill "Bugs" or "Daffy" or any of the annoying pigs. Fair point, I thought! Not the point that "Avery" wants to concede though as their shenanigans proceed amidst any excuse to revisit old episodes from the frequently disastrous encounters between cat and bird on that now famous stretch of road/bridge/tunnel - or wherever it could go wrong. I suppose the issue for me here was that I was just never really a fan of the "Looney Tunes" characters growing up: the speaking ones usually just irritated me and these coyote ones repitiously trotted out similar scenarios to "Tom & Jerry" only without any sort of amiable personification. That said, this still serves quite effectively as a little time capsule of the history of Hollywood animation and with Cena and the strutting southern gentleman rooster on clucking form, this is a neatly wrapped piece of comedy nostalgia.
Chandler Danier2026-09-01
★ 6/10
I read an article inspired by this movie. It said top 10 anti-capitalist films like this movie. It included They Live. This movie is about a comically evil corporation headed by my favourite John Cena. John Cena is cool. Will Forte is cool. Jubilee from X-Men Apocalypse is cool. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is cool. This movie is pretty neat. It's not anti-capitalist. It should not be inspiring a list that includes They Live. It could inspire a list that is movies that do the Who Framed Roger Rabbit effects well. #1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit #2. Space Jam #3. Cool World #4. Coyote vs. Acme It's fine. A liiiittle too long and well a way too USA punishes corporations that treat the public poorly.