Monday, September 24, 2018

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981), 6-

G | 1h 19min | Animation, Comedy, Crime | 20 November 1981
Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts.
Director: Friz Freleng
Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg, June Foray.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082679/

No chapter menu, so I have to trust the IMDb Connections to say this contains (portions of) 12 'toons, plus 3 full 'toons as bonus features.

With the prior compilation film, The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979), I was irritated by the poor quality of the newly devised connector material. That's not true here, but that's because the contrast with the vintage 'toons is not so great. These are Friz Freleng works, and I seldom found him as funny as Chuck Jones. That's true here. It's still LT, and still Carl Stalling for most of it, so it's still good stuff. But I'd rather see the tunes in their entirety without the filler. Too bad they didn't create such a path for the dvd.

The Soundtracks contain many songs, but none are "performed", and none of the 'toons are music-oriented, which is actually a specialty of FF. This is tagged with genre Music, but shouldn't be.

Warner, dir, Freleng; 6-