Rabbit Hood (1949)

the audience applauded

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Blistering performances.

The first half of this eight minute cartoon is good but the second half is dreadful. The humor is so lame, I couldn't believe it. I kept waiting for the usual clever Bugs Bunny remarks or sight gags and they never came...until the last 10 seconds when Errol Flynn shows up!Early on, it looked like Bugs Bunny was in trouble and need of Little John and Robin Hood in this old tale. However, Bugs rarely needs help and he usually can talk his way out of anything, plus he's usually up against a total moron. That's the case here as his foe is the Sheriff Of Nottingham, who is dumber than Elmer Fudd. Little John, whom we also see, is stupid, too. Unfortunately, that makes for some lame humor Somebody who can't recognize a human being from a rabbit is funny? No, this was just stupid.The only funny part of the short was in the beginning when Bugs gets caught pilfering one of the king's carrots. You know it belongs to him because each carrot has its emblem on it!The only consistently good part of this animated short was the artwork. You knew this was going to be different just by the opening credits, done in Old English. The cartoon features some beautifully dawn scenes, and kudos to the restoration team at Looney Tunes for making this, as well as all of them on the Golden and Spotlight collection sets look fantastic.However, as everyone knows, the humor varies greatly from 'toon to 'toon, and this one was a disappointment, especially after reading all the rave reviews by others here.

In "Rabbit Hood", Bugs Bunny makes mincemeat of a guard after trying to steal some of Prince John's royal carrots while Little John idiotically claims that Robin Hood is coming. Knowing that this is Bugs Bunny, you can probably guess what sorts of tricks he has up his sleeve (or wherever he keeps them).Cartoons like this just go to show that the creators really reached their apex in the late '40s and early '50s. I learned from "Bugs Bunny Superstar" that Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, and that whole crowd liked to act out their cartoons during lunch breaks. I can imagine how much fun they must have had acting this one out! All in all, a great cartoon. It shows that entertainment just needs to be clever.

Great wiseacre comedy, like every Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny. One of the few that incorporated live-action cameos. Pay close attention when the Sheriff of Nottingham comes to an immense clearing and spies (to a rapid drumbeat) something red in the distance. He strains and squints to make it out, but all we can see is a red line moving slowly across the meadow straight for him. As it approaches it picks up speed and we can see it is a red carpet rapidly unrolling itself. It finishes unrolling directly at the Sheriff's feet, revealing Bugs dressed as the king of England...and no matter how many times you have seen it, Bugs' expression of serene tranquility and the Sheriff's reaction of utter astonishment and discombobulation will have you on the floor! "I knight you," King Bugs proclaims, "Sir Loin of Beef..."

This clever cartoon has Bugs Bunny playing both Robin Hood and the king, as he plots to steal the carrots from the Royal garden. A one-joke film, perhaps, but it does have as its crowning glory a snippet from the 1938 'Adventures of Robin Hood'.Is it any good? Most of the early Bugs Bunny films (of which this is one) were sharp - relying on the genius of Mel Blanc and Chuck Jones to deliver the laughs and the situations their audience were looking for. 'Rabbit Hood' is no exception. Bugs is at his usual foolish and arrogant best, with his spluttering catchphrases and his withering looks at the hapless people he cons (the Sheriff of Nottingham, of course, here).