Bugs Bunny & Road Runner Movie

Buy This Item Bugs Bunny & Road Runner Movie by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 8-29-2008     Chuck 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 <I>Robin Hood Daffy</I>, <I>What's Opera, Doc?</I>, <I>Bully for Bugs</I>, and <I>Duck Amuck</I>, 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 <I>Hare-way to the Stars</I> and <I>Operation: Rabbit</I>, but not <I>Rabbit of Seville</I> or <I>A Bear for Punishment</I>? Nor is the material always shown to its best advantage: <I>Long Haired Hare</I> has, unfortunately, been cut, and combining footage from several <I>Road Runner</I> shorts into a 20-minute montage weakens the pacing Jones built into the individual films. These caveats aside, <I>The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie</I> 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) <I>--Charles Solomon</i> Reader Reviews This 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. //wiredweird

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