I must be in a horrid mood today. Everybody else is proclaiming 'Long-Haired Hare (1949)' as one of the premium Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoons, but I just couldn't get into it.
Long Haired-Hare may be the only cartoon short with the distinction of incorporating a hilarious, epic lesson in harmonic physics as a climatic punch-line.
I love the bugs vs Elmer opera cartoons. My two year old daughter loves them too which means I have seen this about 30 times.
As is usually the case, we are supposed to accept the idea that serious music is somehow not accessible to the everyman. Bugs is his boorish self and torments an opera singer.
If you were to ask me, "Who do you prefer, Daffy or Bugs?", I would immediately say Daffy.
Long-Haired Hare (1949) *** (out of 4)An opera singer is trying to practice but Bugs' singing is getting on his nerves so the two soon have a battle of the voices. This is a pretty good short but I wouldn't call it a shining moment for the gang of Looney Toons.
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Classic Bugs Bunny short from the great Chuck Jones. One of many Looney Tunes shorts designed to take elitists down a peg.
"Long-Haired Hare" is a cartoon movie from over 65 years ago starring the famous Bugs Bunny. This means of course that Mel Blanc is on board too and the director-writer team are Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese as so many other times.
