Mightyzebra
This Bugs Bunny episode, based on "The Barber of Seville" was so cleverly done with only nine or so lines. For me, anyway, what usually makes a Looney Tunes episode is the lines from the characters and the abundance of them, but here there hardly any! Yet, this is one of my new favourites of the episodes from the Looney Tunes store. In this episode, a huge showing of "The Barber of Seville" is just about to be shown, when, after being hunted by Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny retreats into the door leading to the theatre. Elmer Fudd follows and out of the blue, someone pulls up the curtains for everyone to see. Everyone watches Elmer and Bugs doing "The Barber of Seville" - in their own style!I liked this episode because of the references to the opera (which I have heard bits of and like), the clever planning of Bugs' and Elmer's dance movements and the humour. This episode is very well done and very good quality. I recommend it to people who like Bugs Bunny and Elmer and for people who do not despise opera. Enjoy "The Rabbit of Seville"! :-)
js325482
This is one of the Best Bugs Bunny shorts that I've seen.The whole story of Bugs escaping Elmer through the opera "Barber of Seville" is pure genius. The whole short is filled with great music and funny scenes.and yes, Bugs DOES go in drag in it for a little bit and Elmer DOES wear a wedding dress near the end, but it is tastefully done with humor.I also crack up at the beard shaving scene and Bugs putting all of the stuff on Elmers scalp so that he grows hair. Then Elmer actually grows hair... which turns into flowers because of Bugs being funny. Then the chase goes back one.This is a short that I love along with "What's Opera, Doc" and "All This and Rabbit Stew" (which isn't shown anymore because of it's racial stereotype of black people.) and it deserves a 10/10 rating.
Akbar Shahzad (rapt0r_claw-1)
Warner Bros. Cartoon Department was a factory that churned out the best cartoon shorts in history over a period of thirty years, over ninety per cent of these cartoons above the level most studios could hope to reach. But if that hadn't been so, if all the hundreds of cartoons that were turned out over the decades were complete crap, "What's Opera, Doc?" would come and give the studio world-wide renown. "Rabbit of Seville" seems to be in the same league. It's one of the handful of cartoons that really has no visible flaws. After repeated viewings (thanks to DVD) I still can't see anything wrong with it. The music and the animation are perfectly synchronized, and might be equal Disney's "Nutcracker Suite" sequence from "Fantasia." The action and the music sometimes get so frantic and so fast that your heart beats 200 times a minute. The gags are perfectly ingenious, nobody thought of those kinds of gags before and they were never repeated. Bugs and Elmer are great actors. No cartoons but possibly "Duck Amuck" and "What's Opera, Doc?" match it. Bugs's songs are fantastic, if you can keep up with the words. Nobody had seen anything like "Rabbit of Seville" before and nobody has seen anything similar since. So many trademarks that seem like Warner Bros. staples now were actually only used in "Seville." It really is unmatched. Beautiful.
Young Garrett
This animated short is from what dreams are made. Its musical direction, humour, animation, build up and climax are flawless. It is funny that this small animated feature is worthy of such praise, no matter how great it is.
However, the fact that this cartoon is only six minutes long means that it can achieve said perfection. Recent, much longer, fantasy epics are some of the greatest films of all time, however, their length (which is totally necessary) adds to the potential for problems.Yet, to say that "The Rabbit of Seville" is short but sweet is akin to saying the battle of Stalingrad was a "bit messy".Chuck Jones, Mel Blanc and all involved created perfection with this, all further attempts at animated comic shorts should be judged by this standard of excellence.
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