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| Bugs Bunny and the Fabulous Elmer Fudd |
HERR MEETS HARE (1945). Director: Friz Freleng.
The DVD for Hollywood Canteen features two vintage wartime Bugs Bunny cartoons. In the first, Stage Door Cartoon, the "wascally wabbitt" is chased by Elmer Fudd into a theater, where the luckless hunter is forced to perform on stage for an audience, including a bit where he does a frightfully high dive into a very, very small glass of water. In Herr Meets Hare, Bugs takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in Germany, where he encounters a Nazi hunter and even Adolf Hitler. At one point Bugs pretends to be a diva in a Wagnerian opera (recalling the classic What's Opera, Doc?). As usual, Mel Blanc does his brilliant voice characterizations.
The strange thing is that the latter cartoon features a disclaimer from TCM (which released the DVD) about ethnic and racial stereotyping, but the only stereotypes in the cartoon are of Nazis. Have we become so ridiculously politically correct that we have to worry about offending Nazis? Oy vey!
Verdict: Amusing, fluid, and well-done cartoons. ***.
2 comments:
Need to see these again, they were all so well done. Thanks for the reminder, Bill, I did love all those Bugs Bunny cartoons growing up, they were so clever...
-C
You said it! They were silly and sophisticated at the same time. I loved Bu8gs, but my favorite was always the inimitable Daffy Duck!
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