Product Details

• Actors: Nicolai Shutorov, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
• Directors: Phil Monroe, Chuck Jones
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 22, 1993
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790733811
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,609 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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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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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They Don't Make Cartoons Like This Anymore!, May 5, 2000

By	W. Langan "take403" (the end of the world to your town!) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie will take you back to the days before computer animation, and "Let's see how vulgar we can get away with being"-style cynicism as portrayed in one cartoon mentioned several reviews below. Nope, none of that! What you get is plenty of classic Looney Tunes as directed by Chuck Jones and narrated and hosted by Bugs. He introduces his voice-man Mel Blanc: "He had a million voices and he was nice enough to give me one of them!" Oh yes, the cartoons: Daffy fights Marvin the Martian, plays Robin Hood, and gets tortured by an animator in Duck Amuck. Bugs sings opera with Elmer (everybody sing: "Kill the wabbit!") and later tortures a petulant opera singer himself. And of course, the Coyote tries in vain to catch the Road Runner. That's all you need to know, folks!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good collection of some of the classic Looney Tunes, November 24, 2000

By	retrowens (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" is a great collection of many of the best Looney Tunes cartoons. Most of them are Bugs Bunny cartoons, but it also has some of the other Looney Tunes such as Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Marvin The Martian, and Road Runner. If you've seen a lot of the Looney Tunes cartoons you might recognize some of them already such as the one where Bugs Bunny is the artist who won't draw things the way Daffy Duck wants them, a bullfight, and a classic confrontation between Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny with Elmer Fudd as the hunter, as Daffy and Bugs argue over whether it's Duck Season or Rabbit Season.

My only complaint is that there's only one cartoon that features both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It's the last cartoon on the tape, but it's the longest cartoon in the whole movie, so I can't really complain that much.

"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" is pretty much a compilation of many of the famous short cartoons. For anybody who grew up watching Looney Tunes or for any kids that like Looney Tunes, this is a great buy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top-notch, it should only be released on DVD, April 21, 2004

By	Bob Stout (Houston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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, 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.