utgard14
Funny Bugs Bunny short directed by Robert McKimson. This time Bugs shows up at a greyhound racetrack, where he mistakenly thinks a fake rabbit used as a lure for the dogs to chase is real. So Bugs tries to rescue the rabbit and winds up fighting with the dogs. A simple but fun cartoon with some good gags and lines. The animation is beautiful, with well-drawn characters and backgrounds. Love the colors. Carl Stalling's music is quite nice and the voice work from Mel Blanc is, as usual, excellent. This isn't one of my favorite Bugs cartoons but it is a good one that movies along quickly. The stuff with the racetrack announcer is probably my favorite part of the short.
ccthemovieman-1
Bugs tunnels from underneath and finds himself at the local dog track After checking out all the entries, he wanders over to the fence to get a close look at the race.It begins and, lo-and-behold, there's a cute little rabbit! Bugs is immediately smitten. Unfortunately, that's the mechanical one the dogs chase each race. Bugs doesn't know it's a fake, he thinks "she" is cute and he's going to save her before all those dogs catch up to her.Bugs does his best by trying to eliminate the field, one by one. However, the gray dog is more than a challenge for Bugs....and, for some reason, Bugs has a hard time catching up "to that dame."The cartoon is funny and something a bit different. I can't recall seeing any cartoons involving dog (greyhound, to be exact) races.
slymusic
"The Grey Hounded Hare" is one of the weaker Bugs Bunny cartoons directed by Bob McKimson. The chubby Bugs causes a great deal of mischief at a greyhound racetrack. His objective: to prevent the canines from chasing a mechanical female rabbit, with whom he becomes infatuated(!).Highlights from this cartoon? Not very many. The racetrack commentator offers some good puns about each dog's name as he introduces the canines before the race begins. Bugs jumps onto one particular dog's back and covers its eyes, causing it to run in all directions and crash into a wall. And at the end of this short, Bugs receives a severe electrical shock from kissing the mechanical rabbit. (Honestly, something is truly wrong with Bugs if he insists on protecting & pursuing this mechanical device and never figuring it out!) "The Grey Hounded Hare" is a cartoon with plenty of action and violence, but most of the harm is inflicted on the innocent canines. Considering how greyhounds are abused, beaten, left for dead, and generally mistreated, those of you who own greyhounds will probably wish to skip this cartoon.
Spleen
All too often, Bugs Bunny resembles the stereotypical American tourist, bigoted, unable to understand why he's not welcome, incapable of realising that he got things wrong the first time round. (That's the stereotype, anyway. I've yet to encounter it in real life.) He is BEYOND brash, his rhinoceros-thick hide so impenetrable that the creature inside must be regarded as merely stupid. We long for his comeuppance, are galled to discover it will never come, and insulted by the request that we be GLAD that it will never come.At least, that's what happens here. Bugs falls in love with a mechanical racetrack hare, and rushes off to save it from the slavering greyhounds chasing it - and he never learns his error, as I kept hoping he would, so that he'd go away and leave the rest of the world alone. It's not always like this with Bugs. He's impossible to dislike in a wonderful work like "Rabbit of Seville", for example, because Chuck Jones is a master director who knows how to make the character work for rather than against the cartoon. But it's important to realise that Robert McKimson's sin here is purely negative. He doesn't MAKE Bugs irritating; the character is irritating already. Rather, McKimson's stale and unimaginative direction does nothing whatever to alter or subvert or compensate for the character, leaving us with a tiresome, earthbound cartoon about an odious loudmouth.
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