One of my all time favorites.

Excellent but underrated film

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Friz Freleng's 'Little Red Riding Rabbit' is a much admired gem of a cartoon and another strong retort to those who accuse Freleng of being a dull director. Taking liberties with the original Red Riding Hood story, 'Little Red Riding Rabbit' deletes Grandma from the story entirely and features a wolf who is actually more interested in the contents of Red's picnic basket than the girl herself. These contents turn out to be Bugs Bunny, who sets about having enormous fun with the dumb wolf in a series of beautifully orchestrated routines including a truly inspired vocal sparring match in which Bugs repeats everything the wolf says and slyly switches places so that he controls the dialogue. As great as the battle between Bugs and the wolf is, however, the cartoon is completely stolen by the loud-mouthed Red who persistently bursts in on the action to try and get the traditional version of the story back on track. By the end even Bugs has had enough of her and teams up with the wolf to deal with the little annoyance. In 'Little Red Riding Rabbit', Bugs is neither the good-hearted moral crusader or the aggressively anarchic lunatic, he's simply a mischievous manipulator having a great time with the latest dupes he's been presented with. This lends 'Little Red Riding Rabbit' an enjoyable sense of ethical ambiguity which makes the cruel finale seem entirely appropriate. It's a perfectly paced, beautifully written and hilariously executed classic.

Everybody knows how the story of Little Red Riding Hood should go. The titular character should be an innocent, precocious and trusting little girl, and her ultimate adversary, the Wolf, should be a ugly and contemptible villain – but all this is forgotten when Bugs Bunny comes around! 'Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944),' directed by Friz Freleng and released on January 4, 1944, is a pretty average Merrie Melody for the most part, but the ending is one of the most audacious and satisfying conclusions to a Warner Bros. cartoon that I've ever seen; I was almost tempted to rise from my chair and offer a standing ovation. Mel Blanc, in his first credited voice role, provides the voice for the rascally Bugs, Billy Bletcher plays the gruff Wolf, and Bea Benaderet – whom I can't decide whether to praise or chastise – offers a voice to one of the most annoying cartoon characters ever conceived.Fortunately, though this isn't always the case, the filmmakers here were quite aware that the character of Little Red Riding Hood was immediately irritating, and they make this known from the very beginning, provoking the audience with a grating rendition of "The Five O'Clock Whistle." Little Red is strutting through the forest, basket-in-hand, when a familiar head pops itself out of the basket and politely asks where she is heading: "Ta bring a little bunny rabbit to my grandma's. Ta HAVE, see?" Meanwhile, the irritable Wolf cunningly switches the "short cut" sign, leading Red onto a lengthy path over the mountains instead of three steps to Grandma's doorstep, and uses the additional time to disguise himself in the old lady's bed. When Little Red finally gets to Grandma's house, and begins to notice curious peculiarities about her elderly relative, the Wolf surprises everybody by kicking the annoying little girl out of the house and going for her rabbit instead.From here, Bugs goes about getting the best of the Wolf, and there's a dynamite sequence of running in and out of random doorways (vaguely reminiscent of the sinister shenanigans in George Méliès' 'The Cook in Trouble (1904)'). It's all a nice bit of fun, but hardly groundbreaking, and Little Red returns on occasion to continue the version of the story with which she's most familiar. The cartoon's ending is the moment that ranks among Merrie Melodies' finest hours, and it achieves the impossible by making the preceding appearances of Little Red Riding Hood tolerable, and even enjoyable. Bugs' decision to roast the irksome little girl over the hot ashes may lead him to hate himself in the morning, but, for his audience, it provides yet another explanation for why he's one of cinema's most beloved cartoon characters.

I wish I could say how much I loved this cartoon, as others seem to here. Overall, except for the last minute - which I loved - it wasn't entertaining, just grating. Of course, that "grating" was on purpose and led the final scene which was a pleasant surprise.Until, then, the first thing that hits you is, "This isn't the 'Little Red Riding Hood' I know! It's some bobby-soxer Judy Garland-with glasses and-an-attitude .....and a voice that makes you wince more than hearing nails on a blackboard. Anyway, with Bugs along for the ride in her lunch basket, the two travel on their way to Granny's. The big bad wolf beats them here, thanks to a false "short cut" signs he plants to fool Red.The wild stuff starts at Grandma's. beginning with the note Granny leaves on the door. Bugs and the wolf get into a long and silly chase that isn't really funny. Now that last part, beginning with the wolf trying save his.....umm....well....valuable parts, shall we say, from being burned off is hilarious. The last scene was almost too good to be true, but I loved it. Now there is some JUSTICE!

Directed by Friz Freleng, "Little Red Riding Rabbit" is an excellent Bugs Bunny cartoon that spoofs the famous Little Red Riding Hood tale. In this particular film, Red Riding Hood is an annoying little brat with a stentorian voice who constantly interrupts the Big Bad Wolf as he chases Bugs around Granny's house. Whenever she does interrupt the wolf, trying to make some comment about his odd facial features, he is quite funny in his attempts to simply get rid of her. Her best moment occurs at the opening of this short as she skips down the road and, with her overbearing voice, sings "Five O'Clock Whistle." There are two especially memorable gags as the wolf chases Bugs around the house. One is a typical Friz Freleng gag in which Bugs runs through one doorway and exits through a different doorway, frustrating the wolf to no end. The other gag, reminiscent of "The Heckling Hare" (1941), has Bugs repeating everything the wolf says. Then Bugs gets the wolf to repeat some silly things HE says, and before the wolf knows it, he ends up singing "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet." "Little Red Riding Rabbit" is a classic Warner Bros. cartoon. Friz Freleng loved to do parodies of the various fairy tales, and this film succeeds by a landslide.