Product Details

• Actors: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, June Foray, Shepard Menken, Lennie Weinrib
• Directors: Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson
• Writers: Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, David Detiege, John W. Dunn, Michael Maltese
• Producers: Friz Freleng
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 22, 1993
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000006FNM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,329 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Judge it by the period in which it was made, December 7, 2003

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James Cleaveland "webcomic artist" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bugs Bunny 1001 Rabbit Tales [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The thing that reviewers here seem to be forgetting is when this film was made: the 1980's. "Compilation" cartoons like this were the standard output for Warner Bros. throughout the 80's until they finally started producing original animated material again around 1990. They would produce various half-hour holiday specials each containing three or four cartoons linked by a loose frame story, and later they began doing movie-length ones (such as "Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island" and "Quackbusters") which would get aired on cable. Even as a kid, I knew these spliced-together productions were kind of lame, but even so, I enjoyed seeing my favorite characters in something sort-of-almost new. Mel Blanc did the voices for the linking animation.

As a nostalgia buff, I am pleased to see that these old shows still exist, despite the much better material Warner Bros. has produced since then; but they should certainly not be judged by the standards of either the classic original shorts or new animation that WB has produced since the 1990's.

Of the 80's "compilation" films, The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie is the first and definitely the best, because there is no attempt at a framing narrative. The linking animation simply has Bugs at his most charming (Chuck Jones directed these interstitial sequences) introducing each short.

Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is broken into three segments, and it works reasonably well, too.

Of the other three, which do use a framing narrative, Quackbusters is the best, because it actually contains two brand new shorts in their entirety (QB was produced around the time that Warner Animation was finally waking up again from its twenty-odd year slumber), and also because they used splices of the original cartoons' music soundtracks instead of new background music, which makes the transitions from old to new material feel less jarring. Still, Quackbusters, 1001 Rabbit Tales, and Fantastic Island are weak films.

For NEW original cartoons starring the Looney Tunes characters, you should certainly check out "Carrotblanca" (oh man... casting Tweety as Peter Lorre is one of the funniest things I've ever seen...) and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" (I gather that it's not selling many tickets, which is a pity. I saw it with my brother and his family, and we all laughed our heads off.). I'd skip "Space Jam"--it was amusing for the novelty of seeing the toons interact with real live actors, but that's about all there was to it; "Back In Action" captures their personalities much better, and Joe Alaskey does an admirable job voicing the characters.

Oh---and since it was made by Warner Animation, I'll put in a plug for "The Iron Giant," the most wonderful, underappreciated animated film of the last decade.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, February 8, 2002

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"ebynoe" (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bugs Bunny 1001 Rabbit Tales [VHS] (VHS Tape)

While you can never really go wrong with a Bug's Bunny movie, I wouldn't actively recommend this one. While there are several classic cartoon shorts here (Sylvester as "Jack" in Jack and The Beanstalk, The selectively singing Michigan J. Frog, and Bugs as a "baby monkey", to name a few), most of them are severely cut. They are woven together, (though not smoothly), through a subplot which has Bugs and Daffy on a bookselling expedition. This in itself isn't terribly funny, and doesn't really go anywhere. "The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Movie" and "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" are much better investments.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If there's Bugs, there's laughs!, November 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bugs Bunny 1001 Rabbit Tales [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is great, it's a bunch of episodes interwined by one story that was created after the episodes were made to make them look as if they were one big episode. Daffy will make you laugh always trying to be the smartest and always the greediest duck you'll ever know. "It's my treasure! It's my treasure!"