NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
Ensofter
Overrated and overhyped
Livestonth
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Benas Mcloughlin
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
JohnHowardReid
PLAYERS: "Elmer Fudd", "Bugs Bunny". Director: CHARLES M. JONES. Story: Rich Hogan. Animation: Bob McKimson (sic). Music director: Carl W. Stalling. Color by Technicolor. Producer: Leon Schlesinger. Copyright 2 March 1940 by The Vitaphone Corp. A Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon. U.S. release: 2 March 1940. 1 reel. COMMENT: Aside from - as some people might say -- its historical importance as the first appearance of a somewhat unrecognizable Elmer Fudd (he is deliberately costumed to look old-fashioned), this early Bugs Bunny has not a great deal to recommend it. The pacing is slow and Bugs is even allowed a sham death scene. All the same, Bugs does have a certain appealing vitality which helps to make tolerable some of the predictable and overlong gags. And I am real sorry to disappoint all you movie historians, but Elmer Fudd makes a guest appearance in Tex Avery's 1939 Believe It Or Else.
MartinHafer
This is a very important film historically speaking. It's the first appearance for Elmer Fudd as well as Bugs Bunny. As for Elmer, he looks a bit different and instead of shooting rabbits, this one's a pacifist and just wants to photograph rabbits. And, as for Bugs, he's still an unnamed character and looks a bit difference from Bugs. Plus, he's got a darned annoying laugh--one that sounds a lot like Woody Woodpecker. Fortunately, this was soon dropped!The cartoon is very ordinary at best. I think that having Elmer be a nice guy instead of a guy toting a gun was a big mistake--and one they soon corrected. This is because it makes the rabbit a real jerk--and not particularly likable. Worth seeing for historical reasons but otherwise only fair.
Lee Eisenberg
In Elmer Fudd's first appearance, he tries to photograph wildlife, but an unidentified pesky rabbit - clearly Bugs Bunny's forebear - keeps interfering (cartoon rabbits show no mercy, do they?). One will note that both characters are very sedate here - as opposed to the wacky antics with which we usually associate them - and maybe that makes "Elmer's Candid Camera" seem a little weaker than when it first debuted. But if we interpret it as what it was originally meant to be, then it's acceptable. If nothing else, it's a good historical reference. Available on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.I wonder, are there any people in the world today named Elmer? There was Elmer Bernstein, but he's passed on.
Akbar Shahzad (rapt0r_claw-1)
ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA (1940) is the debut of Elmer Fudd and the Bugs Bunny prototype. Woody Woodpecker is much better suited to that annoying and painful shriek of a laugh. Elmer? He's better than the rabbit at least. Besides, what is it with that sadistic rabbit? All Elmer wanted to do is take pictures. Except for those small flaws, and the weird, primitive animation, I have no complaints about ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA.
