Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)

The Worst Film Ever

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fresh and Exciting

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Very entertaining Bugs Bunny short from the great Chuck Jones. This one features Bugs facing off against Marvin the Martian. When Bugs is accidentally launched into space, he crashes onto a space station where Marvin is once again planning an attack on Earth with his "Explosive Space Modulator." Great voice work from Mel Blanc. Very nice music from Milt Franklyn. The animation is mostly excellent. The backgrounds and things like the spaceship are very well done, while Bugs looks a little rough sometimes. It's a funny cartoon with good lines and clever bits of creativity (like the silly birdlike Martian creatures Marvin sends after Bugs). Not my favorite Bugs & Marvin short but a very good one.

Bugs bunny is feeling somewhat hungover having mixed carrot juice and radish juice the night before; so much so that he doesn't notice when he gets to the top of the ladder out of his hole that he has also climbed up the inside of a rocket positioned above his hole. Opening the top he is surprised to find himself in space. He is hit by a Sputnik-like satellite which takes him so a strange platform where he finds Marvin the Martian about to blow up the Earth with an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator so that he can get a better view of Venus.Bugs steals the explosive which rather annoys Marvin, he adds water three dehydrated Martians which causes them to grow into large green bird-like creatures then tells them to catch Bugs. Of course he escapes and eventually steals a flying saucer to return to Earth... along with a container of dehydrated Martians which would have been fine if he hadn't crashed into water.This is a pretty funny cartoon although sadly Marvin is underused, the dehydrated Martians are nowhere near as funny as Marvin; he has one of the best cartoon voices.

When Bugs Bunny, after a miserable night's sleep, accidentally boards a rocket-ship, he inadvertently ends up in the domain of Marvin Martian, who wants to blow up earth. When Bugs steals Marvin's earth-shattering device, Marvin promptly sends some birdlike Martians after Bugs. Sure enough, Bugs is way ahead of him.Aside from Bugs Bunny's simple irreverence, it's always great how these cartoons weren't afraid to do whatever they wanted. Marvin sort of reminded me of a 17th century fop, how he talked. But either way, the cartoon is just one of many classics. Not to be missed. And you just might want to run to the hills...Silly-vization. Ha!

This and Duck Dodgers etc. are the two cartoons which have stuck in my mind since I first saw them over 40 years ago, though I didn't know the correct title until I thought of doing a search on 'Marvin Martian'. The last time I saw both was on 'The Bugs Bunny Show', which quite often - mostly, perhaps? - didn't include titles.I suspect that you have to be 40 years of age or older to really appreciate this cartoon, which encapsulates the entire 1950s into it's length. The Cold War, the Bomb, Modern Art, the approaching leap into Space, even the fashions and colors, are worked into the 7 minutes.In short, it's Warners Bros' supreme achieve in animation, and a fitting tribute to the Great Mel Blanc, not forgetting all those other geniuses whose names appear on the credits.If I was limited to one item of movie media on a desert island, this would be my selection. Believe it :) !