Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790733814 Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790733811 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 22, 1993 Running Time: 98 minutes Sales Rank: 2376 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1979
Amazon.com essential video: 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 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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Rating: - A great compilation
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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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!
Rating: - Top-notch, it should only be released on DVD
Shortly 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, ... Read More
Rating: - 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. ... Read More
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- A great compilation
- Worst Of The Bugs Bunny Movies!
- Top-notch, it should only be released on DVD
