It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

CAST: "Bugs Bunny", "Yosemite Sam" (Sea-going Sam, the blood-thirstiest... pirate). Director: I. FRELENG. Story: Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce. Animation: Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross, Ken Champin, Gerry Chiniquy. Lay-outs: Hawley Pratt. Backgrounds: Paul Julian. Voice characterizations: Mel Blanc. Music director: Carl Stalling. Technicolor. Producer: Edward Selzer. Accidentally copyrighted twice, on the 31 March 1948 and again on 24 October 1948, both by The Vitaphone Corp. (In notice: 1947). Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny Special) Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. U.S. release: 8 May 1948. 1 reel. 7 minutes. COMMENT: Justly selected by Steve Schneider as one of the best of both the Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoons, this is admirably fast-moving, full of wonderful jests and japes, including a Bugs impersonation of Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh. The visual invention never falters from go to whoa, and there are some nice verbal paradoxes too, including Sam's pirate song in which rum turns into cider, plus a squawky stool-pigeon parrot ("He's in there! He's in there!") who meets a suitable comeuppance.

Terrific Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng, with Yosemite Sam as the cutest pirate you're likely to ever see. While burying his treasure on the beach, Sam disturbs Bugs in his rabbit hole. What follows is Bugs and Sam fighting it out on the high seas in hilarious fashion. It's a wonderful short with the legendary Mel Blanc having a blast doing the voices of Bugs and Sam. He even gets to do a Charles Laughton impersonation. The animation is beautiful with rich colors and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. The music is energetic and fun. It's a classic, plain and simple. Anybody who enjoys Bugs and Yosemite Sam will get a kick out of this one.

I have made no secret of loving Looney Tunes. Ever since I was a little girl, I loved watching them, laughing at the jokes and marvelling at the animation and music. At 18 I still watch them, and a vast majority of them are classics. While not the very best, and not quite top 20 standard, Buccaneer Bunny is simply classic Looney Tunes fun.The story may be a tad predictable, but it doesn't matter that much to me, as everything else works. The gags work wonderfully, all of them range from amusing to hilarious. True, one or two of them can be seen as predictable or repetitive, but again for me that isn't necessarily a bad thing. The writing is top notch, Buccaneer Bunny contains some of my all-time favourite Yosemite Sam quotes.Visually, Buccaneer Bunny is just great. While the characters are very well-drawn and the backgrounds excellent to look at, the colours are the real delight, whether you watch it on DVD or TV, the whole cartoon looks incredible. I also love good music in cartoons, films and the like; Buccaneer Bunny has plenty of that. It is rousing and energetic, fairly similar in style to Captain Hareblower.The characters are still likable and interact very well together. Yosemite Sam is a great foil, while Bugs is always entertaining and I loved the spoof on Charles Laughton. Another outstanding asset is the voice work- Mel Blanc rarely disappointed and had the gift of elevating even the weakest of material, and once again he is stellar. Overall, Buccaneer Bunny is a most excellent cartoon and a must-see really. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Before I first watched this Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam episode, I already expected some of the jokes, because I had watched the remake, "Captain Hareblower". The remake is quite funny and very slapsticky, but not quite as good as "Buccaneer Bunny" which includes slightly better jokes among the slapstick and farce.Anyhow, in this episode, Yosemite Sam, starring, as he phrases it, "The best buccaneer on the Spanish Main", is digging a hole to bury a trunk-full of treasure. However, it turns out he has dug into the burrow/warren of Bugs Bunny, who, from another supply of treasure buried before, is adorned in expensive earrings, necklaces and bracelets: in other words, jewellery. The buccaneer is not pleased with having this bunny before him, especially as Bugs tells him he will know where Sam will bury his treasure. Cartoon chaos ensues...I like this episode because of the animation and the jokes in it, even some of the slapstick ones are quite funny and good to watch. Bugs Bunny is as good as he usually is, tricking Yosemite Sam a great deal of times.I recommend this episode to people who like/ do not mind cartoon slapstick, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. Enjoy "Buccaneer Bunny"! :-)