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Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court [VHS]

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I may be wrong, but I believe this was the only continuous half-hour format show Chuck Jones ever did using the original Looney Tunes characters ("continuous" meaning all one story, as opposed to ones like Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over, which was was made up of three individual new shorts, or others which were actually spliced together from the classic shorts). In fact, I think it still stands as the only half-hour Looney Tune to this day.

I'll admit that it's not Jones's best, because he clearly has some trouble with the pacing of a half-hour show (the beginning of the second act drags a bit), but it's still a lot of fun, and it deserves to get aired more often than it is. The Ray Bradbury in-joke at the beginning is particularly funny if you go into it knowing that Jones and Bradbury were longtime friends-but the joke works anyway, because Mel Blanc's enunciation makes "Ray Bradbury" come off as a really goofy-sounding name.

Every so often, when we think about Bugs Bunny, we often think about the humor and joy that the directors and animators that've created such a breathtaking masterpiece of a character, a wabbit that was recently name TV Guide's Greatest Cartoon Character of All Time. Nevertheless, the wabbit continues to endure with all the humor and joy within every single heart in the world.

The Chuck Jones created special, Bugs Bunny In King Arthur's Court was a crazy remake based on the Mark Twain novel, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, the exact same novel that loosely based a previous Chuck Jones cartoon, Knight-Mare Hare. The special from 1979 was hilarious, with each and eveery angle of humor and joy you could still expect.

Although it still remains sad that Chuck Jones died in 2002, and this special he created for Warner Brothers was never reissued on video, it still stands as a fair testament, to one of the greatest characters in the world, and the greatest animator of the 20th Century.

The Looney Tunes gang takes on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" in this awkward, tedious Chuck Jones offering. The animation (mostly by veterans Ben Washam and Virgil Ross) is good at times, but the direction is erratic throughout. For diehard Jones fans only.