Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.
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- Mel Blanc , Bea Benaderet , Arthur Q. Bryan , June Foray , Lennie Weinrib
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Thanks for the memories!
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
What makes the Warner Bros. animated shorts created between the early 30s and the late 50s so interesting is that are brought to life through a combination of perfect timing, wonderful writing and a wicked sense of humor. That wicked sense of humor got passed the Hays office in the early 30s probably because the censorship watchdogs assumed that they were simple-minded cartoons and paid them no mind (or they were too busy crabbing about the length of Betty Boop's skirt). These dayts that attitude comes mostly from distributors who routinely pigeonhole these works of comic art as 'kiddie fare' (which explains why the great black and white Popeye cartoons of the early 30s are always shown in color) so they routinely chop, cut and trim them to fit a time schedule.Those same distributors who like to package these great works as 'kiddie fare' are primarily responsible for what doesn't work in 'Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales', the third of Warner Bros. compilation films linking new (rather ersatz) material to introduce old classic cartoons.The linking premise this time has Bugs and Daffy as book salesmen for Rambling House going their separate ways to try and see who can make more money. Bugs ends up at a castle in Arabia run by Yosemite Sam who demands that Bugs read 1001 stories to his loudmouth son Prince Abba Dabba. The first problem is that the premise is lame and the character of the son is irritating with his loud mouth and hyena whine every time Bugs refuses to read him a story. Daffy meanwhile has unmemorable incounters with Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd.The other problem is that the classic cartoons that they include have been cut mostly to fit the storyline of the new linking material. One of the greatest animated shorts ever made was Chuck Jones' brilliant 'One Froggy Evening' in which a greedy construction worker finds a box containing a frog that can sing and dance. The downside being that the frog won't sing for anyone but him. This falters all of the man's attempts to make money selling him as an act. The greatest irony of this cartoon is that there are no speaking parts except when the frog sings. The problem in this movie is that new narration by Bugs as he reads the story interrupts the quiet comic flow and worst of all, the hilarious, wicked final punchline is cut off.I was afraid that this kind of prepackaged butchery was becoming a trend until Cartoon Network put together three shows which really celebrate how important these shorts are. The best is 'Toonheads' which has a theme every week showing how different artists interpreted different characters. The others are 'The Tex Avery Show' and 'The Bob Clampett Show' which spotlight the best works of each artist and allow the viewer to learn a little about what went into their inspiration.'1001 Rabbit Tales' is an example of a practice in the 1980s of hurling any moving cartoon image at children and assuming that it would stick. Thankfully, that era has passed.
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are book salesmen.They go different ways to sell books and a lot of fun stuff happens to them.Bugs ends up in Sultan Yosemite Sam's palace, where he is forced to tell tales to Prince Abadaba.Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) is directed by Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson.It has a compilation of classic Warner Bros. shorts.As voice artists you can hear Mel Blanc, who does the voice of Bugs, Daffy, Porky Pig and so on.Arthur Q. Bryan is Elmer Fudd.June Foray (who is 94 years old today!) is Granny and some others.Shepard Menken is Old Storyteller.Lennie Weinrib is Abadaba.Bill Roberts is Michigan J. Frog.I had most fun watching this.As did my 7-year old cousins.It's hilarious when Daffy pretends to be the stuffed duck.Or Sylvester trying to catch the gigantic Tweety in the beanstalk tale.Not to forget Sylvester as the Pied Piper and Speedy Gonzales doing his thing.These Looney Tunes tales are great fun- for both kids and adults.
I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes and animated films then I strongly recommend that you watch this movie today!
Another one of the quick-fix movies by the Warner Bros. studio to make some fast money off the famed Looney Tunes characters. Old cartoons starring most all the major characters are held together by an unfunny new cartoon that has book salesman Bugs Bunny telling stories to Yosemite Sam's young brat of a son in a palace in the middle of the desert. Naturally there is also Daffy Duck trying to survive the harsh desert environment. It is tough to survive this harsh cut-and-paste mess. Watch the Cartoon Network instead. 2.5 out of 5 stars.