Nonureva Really Surprised!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

gdstewarthenllan An absolutely wonderful cartoon. But I'm biased - saw it first at the Cartoon Cinema in Sheffield England in 1958 or thereabouts aged 7 with grandmother. To me it's one of the finest and funniest Bugs Bunny cartoons.Granted it might attract disparaging comment for the stereotypical Arabs - but it is of its time and that time was 1957. So far as I know it never has attracted criticism from the Arab world.It is delightful for the interplay between the greedy (capitalist?) duck and his pretensions ("I'm comfortably well off...") and the world wise but decent Bugs Bunny - who rescues the duck from his folly only for Daffy to blow it at the end - with yet more greed.A fable for our times yet again?Oh, and Pismo Beach is in California, not Florida.Duncan Stewart.

slymusic Written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones, "Ali Baba Bunny" is a brilliant Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon that just might be the epitome of Daffy's greediness. (If you haven't yet seen this cartoon, don't read any further.) While travelling underground with Bugs, Daffy suddenly spots a gigantic cache of riches, and rather than deciding to share it with Bugs, Daffy wants it all! When a fat, stupid guard named Hassan chases after Daffy, Daffy suddenly decides to call a truce with Bugs and hides under his turban, but once Hassan is gone, Daffy breaks the truce and grabs all the gold. What a greedy twit!There are two scenes in "Ali Baba Bunny" that I find especially hilarious. First, when Daffy initially spots all the jewels, he loudly declares it's all his by stomping on Bugs and burying him underground, then joyfully jumping into the gold coins to the musical accompaniment of "We're in the Money". And second, while disguised as a genie, Bugs does some wacky physical contortions as he recites his "iggity ackity ook ah ah" chant."Ali Baba Bunny" is such a great cartoon featuring wonderful facial expressions on the various characters, as well as some fine acting by that "Man of a Thousand Voices" Mel Blanc. Daffy Duck has always proved to be insanely jealous of Bugs Bunny, which only serves to make life worse for the hapless duck. As I mentioned earlier, "Ali Baba Bunny" is probably the purest example of Daffy not being willing to share ANYTHING (e.g., applause, safety, wealth) with Bugs.

Shira Dotnet Other people here on IMDb have given good plot synopses in their comments, so I'll try to describe other things about this cartoon that may interest some people, such as which DVD you can find it on (if you care).The copy of this cartoon that I saw was on the DVD set titled "Looney Tunes Movie Collection". It contains "two feature-length movies", both of which are collections of classic Looney Tunes cartoons loosely woven together with a minimal plot. The first DVD in the set, which contains the Ali Baba Bunny cartoon, is "The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie". Ali Baba Bunny is the 8th scene.The length of Ali Baba Bunny as it appears in "The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie" is 6 minutes 14 seconds. For people like me who enjoy spotting glimpses of belly dancing in movies and cartoons, Bugs does a couple of head slides and hip slides about 3 minutes and 44 seconds into it, when he is pretending to be a genie. It's only about 4 seconds long, but it's there.The other disk in the same 2-DVD package contains a much-shortened version of the same cartoon, under the name Hassan Chop. It is chopped, indeed. This falls within a movie called "Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" as the 6th scene. It is 1 minute 57 seconds in length. It tells basically the same story, but leaves out a lot along the way to achieve the shorter length. It doesn't have the genie scene with the hip slides.I prefer the Ali Baba Bunny version. Too many funny moments needed to be removed to create the shorter Hassan Chop version.

bob the moo Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are burrowing their way to a beach in South Florida they take a wrong turning and end up in a cave containing diamonds and riches. Daffy immediately reacts and greedily tries to claim all the treasure for himself. However as he carries it out of the cave he meets Hassan, the guard, who threatens to chop him in half. Daffy runs back to Bugs for help.Any short film staring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck is going to have potential no matter what the setting or plot, however it is no guarantee that the cartoon will work necessarily. This film is a case in point as I didn't feel it was very good. The material is reasonable enough and there is enough energy to be amusing but it is never really laugh-out-loud funny.Part of the problem for me were the characters. Bugs is OK but feels like he doesn't have enough material to really do his tricky stuff well, this is the downside of splitting the short with Daffy. As a fan of Daffy in his crazy period, his greedy side is not as funny to me but it is that that the film relies on here. As such this weakened the short a little for me but for fans of that side of the duck it shouldn't be too much of a problem.Overall this is an average cartoon despite the presence of two big stars. Neither Bugs nor Daffy are really used as well as they have been in other things on their own. However any short with these two is always going to be at least worth a look.