bugssponge
Wow, what a wonderful cartoon. Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny have always been a good pairing and make cartoons hilarious. Friz Freleng really took it home this time with the academy award. Friz actually won four Academy Awards. The funniest part for me was when Yosemite Sam told the dragon not to sneeze and he did and the some castle turned into a rocket and lifted off.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Knighty Knight Bugs" is a 6.5-minute short film from 1958, so this little cartoon will have its 60th anniversary soon. World War Ii was over at this point for a long time and so Freleng Foster and Blanc were really unpolitical again with their work here. And it was one of their biggest successes as it won an Academy Award. Bugs is ordered to get a Singing Sword for his King, but Sam protects it and this is one of the rare occasions where I can understand Sam as Bugs is basically a thief or maybe I should say his King as what he tells Bugs will happen with him if he does not get the sword. Add a dragon into the mix, even if he is mostly more like a horse in here and you have this cartoon in a nut-shell. Some of the action and dialogues were funny, but I don't think it's anywhere near Warner Bros' best. Worth a watch for cartoon fans, but the Oscars may have been a bit too much. I recommend checking it out.
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . during their Medieval Literature Class, but how about Sir Osis of Liver? Osis is just one of several new wrinkles Warner Bros.' Looney Tune folks iron on to the patchwork of the Arthurian Legends in their KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS outing. Death, of course, is the Number One Theme running through the Age of Chivalry. As Queen Guenevere qualifies her prospective escort to the Fair in CAMELOT, she asks "You'll pierce right through him?" to which Sir Sagramore replies, "I'll barbecue him!" Bugs Bunny goes Sagramore one or two better in dispatching Yosemite Sam's "Black Knight" here. First, Bugs pounds and drowns Sam. Then he flattens and folds him. Next Yosemite is stalled and walled. Finally, Bugs acts as judge, jury, and executioner, blasting Sam out of the docket via turret rocket. Since there's no screeching plus-sized ladies around to signify the conclusion of KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS, the Looney Tunes animators substitute a warbling broadsword for this final obligatory part of their take on the Dudes of the Round Table.
bob the moo
Bugs Bunny comes across a great castle where he finds the treasure of a singing sword. He attempts to get away with it only to find that the castle is protected by Yosemite Sam and his fierce (?) fire breathing dragon. When Bugs gets control of the castle, Sam has to try and take it back - without too much success.This cartoon is the only Bugs Bunny effort to have won an Oscar and, while I believe he deserved to have one of his shorts win such an award I don't think that this is the one that he deserved it for. The plot is fairly usual for Bugs fair and is pretty enjoyable all told - he outsmarts Sam as always and it is generally pretty funny. The animation is bright and colourful but the material is not as sharp as one would have hoped and Sam actually hurts himself more often than Bugs causes it directly by being smarter.Having said that Sam is still a good foil for Bugs and he makes him a stronger character. Bugs is as enjoyable as ever even if he is less active and tricky than he usually is. The dragon is pretty much a non-event and isn't really that good - acting more as a thorn in Sam's side than anything else. Overall this is still an OK cartoon but it is far from Bugs' best and it doesn't deserve to be the one that he won his award for.
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