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Release Date: 1993-09-22
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| A great compilationThis feature animation consists of five or ten regular cartoons starring Bugs, Daffy, or the RoadRunner. They're glued together into some semblance of a unit with a new outer story: Bugs, after a wildly successful career, is in retirement. He is interviewed ...
The cartoons are all good ones, but their original titles are not given. One of my favorites, I think it's called "What's Opera, Doc?" pits Elmer Fudd against Bugs in Wagnerian drama - it's a howl. Bugs, Daffy Duck, Elmer and Porky Pig appear in a few combinations, with cameos by Marvin the Martian (a personal favorite). The whole set ends up with Roadrunner taunting Wile E. Coyote into new realms of improbable physics.
One charming feature was that Mel Blanc voiced the interlude pieces relatively late in his life. I could hear a little age creeping into his voice. It was very appropriate to the retired Bugs Bunny, but a little sad too.
It's good goofy fun. The assembly is a bit forced, but the individual `toons are part of how my generation grew up.
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Worst Of The Bugs Bunny Movies!Very dull, seems like it lasts forever. Trust me here people, you'll be shutting this one off, ten minutes into it. Yes, it's that bad!
You wanna see a good movie, then go buy or rent Gigli. Totally brilliant!!!!
Avoid.
Pogo has spoken!
Top-notch, it should only be released on DVDShortly after this came out, the media was swamped with well-meaning attacks on the violence in children's programming, much of which was directed at such classic cartoons as featured here - clearly a wrong-headed knee-jerk reaction gone too far. Perhaps that is why WB never re-released it on DVD. As it is, it is a prized member of my VHS collection, but I'd really like a newer one.On the other hand, what I wouldn't like is the politically correct editing that started appearing in WB cartoon anthologies released after this one. For that alone, I despair of ever seeing this released in its original form again. In a post-Columbine world, I suppose such temerity is to be expected, but it's simply wrong to butcher such masterpieces of the animators' art. But enough about that... This is, to me the definitive WB cartoons. The only thing that could have improved it was more of the same, plus some other often overlooked characters such as the 3 bears. I've always been a huge fan of the late Chuck Jones and his Roadrunner cartoons in particular. This video has (almost?) all of them, grouped to run sequentially. As previously noted, some of the cartoons included here are on other WB collections, where their questionable editing for content is quite evident. If you're an adult who can realize that when Wile E. Coyote falls 2000 feet, followed by an anvil, what's on display are Chuck Jones' artistry and comic genius rather than anything remotely related to reality, the you're in the target demographic. Let's face it, these cartoons with their somewhat dated references don't belong to the Columbine generation, they belong to us old-timers who grew up with them - and we deserve to be able to see them. And that, succinctly, is what this is - the best of the best, without a post-modern social conscience.
Anyone who gives this 1 star is loonier than the movie!Chuck Jones is a master and has the funniest cartoons ever created. Bugs Bunny narrates this hilariously looney movie. This tape includes:DUCK AMUCK-- An absolute classic! One of the best cartoons ever made! And that's HIGH praise! WHAT'S OPERA DOC?-- Just as good! One of Bugs Bunny's finest performances, not to mention Elmer Fudd's! DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24TH 1/2 CENTURY-- This is so funny, every second of it has you laughing at something else, if it doesn't than your still laughing at the last gag! Cartoon Network made a TV show about Duck Dodgers and it's really funny but not close to being as funny as this! HARE-WAY TO THE STARS-- One of Marvin the Martian's funniest performance. It is topped by DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24TH 1/2 CENTURY but Daffy provides most of the laughs in THAT one. ALI BABA BUNNY-- Every cartoon in this is funny! And this one is no exception. It is FUNNY!!!!!! ROBIN HOOD DAFFY-- "I'm Robin Hood, and I'm very good at avoiding the sherrif's eye!" Or so Daffy says. But Porky Pig is not convinced that he's who he says he is. This biggest hoot is the gag where Daffy is swinging down to the Sherrif and planning to steal his gold, but he bumps into every tree there. Another one of the best parts is the end. Not to mention all the Road Runner cartoons in it!
The only complaint I have is where Bugs is naming his "FATHERS" and included are: Tex Avery, Robert Mckimson, Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones. And that's all fine and dandy! But what about Bob Clampett??? He did as much as the others! And Ben Hardaway may not have directed too many cartoons with the hare (two, actually) but he was the original creator of Bugs and so she be included as one of Bugs' fathers.
Buy this! That's all I have left to say!
A fallen Master.......As I wrote the title Fallen Master I immediately thought of Chuck Jones standing on a cliff and falling off a cliff and getting hit by a bowling ball, an anvil, and some stuff from the acme company and then getting up again. Well, with the passing of Chuck Jones, the thing that can keep getting up is these fantastic cartoons. Chuck Jones has contributed as much to our pop cultural package as Walt Disney. There is no Jonesland, but Jones was a master. Think of the phrases of our society...That's All Folks...What's Up Doc, Suffering Succotash, beep beep. As always I see these pieces as a generational links. I watched these with my father, now my son sits here, and at four he is finding all the puns. These works are funny in many ways. And we have Jones to thank for this sort of multilevel family entertainment. I write this as a plea for you to get some Jones for your collection. If not this, then something else. And at night, don't light a candle for Jones, but maybe one of those big sparkling firecrakers he is so fond of.
Amazon.com essential videoChuck Jones directed some of the funniest shorts in the history of filmmaking, and this 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics Robin Hood Daffy, What's Opera, Doc?, Bully for Bugs, and Duck Amuck, which remain as hilarious as they were when first released almost 50 years ago. As with any collection, the viewer wonders why some films were included and others omitted: Why Hare-way to the Stars and Operation: Rabbit, but not Rabbit of Seville or A Bear for Punishment? Nor is the material always shown to its best advantage: Long Haired Hare has, unfortunately, been cut, and combining footage from several Road Runner shorts into a 20-minute montage weakens the pacing Jones built into the individual films. These caveats aside, The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc. (Ages 4 and older) --Charles Solomon
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