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Bugs Bunny & Road Runner Movie [VHS]

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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!

"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.

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.

This film has me rolling to this day. Daffy vs. Marvin The Martian totally rocks. When Daffy gets the drop on Marvin with his "disentigrating pistol" it literally disentigrated. That is just the funniest scene in this entire movie. Get this movie and you'll laugh your head off.

I don't care what anyone says. This movie is most likely the best movie conducted by Warner Brothers. Bugs Bunny is hip and funny. Daffy Duck is hilarious and greedy as ever. Elmer Fudd is a great addition, with a great singing voice(In his opera with bugs bunny entitled "What's Opera Doc?". And in addition, Wile E. Coyote takes many bruises from his long-lasting adversary, the road runner. This movie is a delicious blend of all the best cartoons in Looney Tune history all put together in one great movie cassete.

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!

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.

This movie was put during the time when CBS was carrying reruns of the Looney Tunes shorts under the title "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" on their Saturday morning cartoon lineup. So it was right for Warner Brothers to give them top billing for the movie which is a collection of some of those shorts (originally the way the ought to be seen. ON THE SILVER SCREEN!), with wrap-arounds of new animation with the viewer paying a visit to Bugs's home (it's an unusual palace for a movie star to live in and I'll leave it at that. Surprised it's not a rabbit hole?)

At the beginning of the movie Bugs give a comical explanation on why people are amused by "chase scenes" and it throws in a Star Wars gag. After that Bugs pays his respect to his "many fathers" who in real life are the producers, directors, writers, and animators of the classic Bugs Bunny shorts. Also the late Mel Blanc gets a nod as well for he is the original voice of Bugs (and pretty much of the other Looney Tunes).

Then we get into the some of classics that made the Bugs and his friends famous. Include one, which is more/less, a rewrite on "Hairdevil Hare." The one with the "10,000 Instant Martians" and four of them chase Bugs. Also on the video as the original "Duck Dodgers" short, the "Duck Amuck" in which Daffy faces off with his faceless animator who gets a kick out of giving the duck a beating. Also given a nod is the "What's Opera Doc!"(famous for "KILL THE WABBIT!") which is not one of my personal favorites but is a respected short, so it had to be put in.

In between the shorts we have the Bugs wrap arounds showing us pictures of his foes in his "home" and introducing the cartoon shorts.

The Road Runner cartoons come at the very end of the film, and it's more/less a best of Road Runner gags rather than just showing us separate Road Runner shorts, but it give the viewers a longer Road Runner experience so of speak.

There are many video compilations out there of cartoon shorts, but "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" although intended for theateral release is best one to get. Not saying the other ones are bad, but this one is good.

This compilation contains many of the great Looney Tunes cartoons by the late great Chuck Jones. Included here are Duck Amuck, Robin Hood Daffy, Duck Dogers In The 24th and Half Century & Bully For Bugs (which are basically uncut), What's Opera Doc?, Operation Rabbit (although very little of it) and many more. We also get to see Bugs Bunny battling Marvin the Martian. I've watched it every weekend since I got it. The cartoons are pulled together by a narrative by Bugs himself which is pretty funny in itself.

This is great I have watched this movie about 60 times and I'm tired of it I remember that I rented it a couple of times when I was little and then after 10 years I saw it again on TV and I remembered the good all days this video has when Daffy argues with an unseen animator one of the funniest parts is when he paints Daffy 4-legged, with a flower face a weird tale and other alterations also a great part is when he draws 2 daffys you can distinguish them because one has a darker orange parts but the most remembered thing about this short is when daffy is erased an starts yelling at the animator. The end is Daffy and Elmer in an opera like chase this is really funny you should try to see it.