Wednesday, September 19, 2018

The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979), 6

G | 1h 38min | Animation, Comedy, Family | 30 September 1979
Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe
Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Paul Julian.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078915/

~45 songs in the Soundtracks; I doubt that any of them had more than a few bars played.

Rated 5 on 2015-05-07, which is a bit extreme.

This is a compilation of 11 mostly-intact and several more portions of (Road Runner) cartoons. The worst part of this film is the joining segments, which try to be witty and fail miserably. If they'd been just straight narrative, the film would have been better.

The second worst thing is they have edited the cartoons, mostly to chop off the original introduction, so as not to conflict with the added join-segments. I can't say I know what occured during those missing moments, but I feel their absence.

The menu does name the 'toons, except the lengthy compilation of 19 (it says) RR 'toons. I didn't check that the IMDb Connections page had all 11 listed.

It's really stretching things to list this as Music. Only 2 of the 'toons are music-based: Long-Haired Hare and What's Opera, Doc?

Because I'd give a lot of these 'toons a 7 or 8 were they intact (they're all directed by Chuck Jones, except perhaps some of the RR stuff, but he created those characters; dates are '49-'63 according to the Connections), but they're not intact and we get the offensive filler material, so my rating today is "meh." I'd rather pop in a Golden Collection disc and watch a blend of mediocre and great 'toons, all of which are as complete as could be found.

Warner, dir. Jones & Monroe; 6