Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . decked out in a green leotard complemented by white sneakers, the school uniform of the early 1960s on Michigan State University's East Lansing campus. (Just as Wisconsin Badger fans sport cheese wedge hats, Warner Bros.' animators--always sticklers for Real Life accuracy--draw in broom bristles atop Sparty, I mean Marvin's head, another common sight around Ingham County, denoting MSU's annual sweeps versus their beleaguered intra-state rival, the U-M teams). Inexplicably, Marvin's antagonist here (an Orange-garbed Bugs Bunny) seems to represent Syracuse U., rather than the Spartans' primary traditional rival, our University of Maryland. Marvin inhabits a Florida island nine seconds away from Cape Canaveral by rocket. Surgeons from MSU's Large Animal Department have replaced his brain with that of a Wolverine, so he thinks that he's on STAR TREK. (You can tell this because Marvin says one crazy thing after another.) The East Lansing pranksters who've paired Bugs with Marvin trick Bugs into eating an aluminum carrot early on. The Syracuse bunny muses, "Why do I like carrots, anyway? There's not much meat on them, and they're kind of dry." Obviously, the MAD AS A HARE writer slipped this Double Entendre in to further disparage the U of M carrot-helmeted Woverines.

Lee Eisenberg I have read about how Warner Bros. closed the Looney Tunes department in 1963. That might have actually been a good choice, considering that they seemed to be running a little short of ideas by then. In "Mad as a Mars Hare", Bugs Bunny gets sent to Mars as an expendable astro-rabbit, but Marvin the Martian has no desire to have anyone else on his planet and starts plotting to get rid of Bugs.Whereas previous Bugs-Marvin pairings focused on Bugs's gags aimed at Marvin, this one has a little too much talk. Don't get me wrong; any Chuck Jones cartoon is a good one - at least the ones that I've seen - but it seems like they could have had more than just the characters explaining their stories. And if I may say so, I must challenge what Bugs said about Mars making Siberia look like Miami Beach. I spent last autumn in Yekaterinburg, Russia (near Siberia) and had a great time there. Everything that I've heard about Miami and it's surrounding area make it sound very undesirable. If it makes me some sort of weirdo to prefer part of Russia to part of America, then so be it.Anyway, "MAAMH" is an OK cartoon, but not great.

bob the moo Sent to Mars in place of a human, the expendable Bugs Bunny arrives to find Marvin the alien on Mars and not to happy to have the company and immediately greets him armed to the teeth with space age ray guns.It's been a while since I have seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Marvin and this film was welcome to me for that reason. However this film is not very good. The first half of the film seems to be mostly talk - Marvin explaining himself and then Bugs filling in the audience as to why he was put on a rocket by NASA. The problem is that this isn't very funny and it takes up half the time of the film!The rest of the film really only consists of two gags around the use of the ray gun, and these aren't that funny either. Bugs is also not himself - he isn't given the chance to do any real trickery and the punchline betrays his character totally. Marvin is OK and does his `that makes me very angry' line a few times, but he can't carry the short.Overall this cartoon is a shame because it is a missed opportunity - both Bugs and Marvin are funny and have made some good cartoons together; sadly this isn't one of them.

Robert Reynolds Most of the gags in this are verbal in nature, rather than sight gags (though it has a fair number of those as well) and Marvin may have more of the best lines than Bugs, particularly in the beginning. As is often the case, the title is a play on words-in this case, "mad as a March hare", which I believe was derived from Alice in Wonderland. Marvin's comments on "the flora and fauna of Earth likely would have delighted H. L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce! The ending scene is beautiful, particularly the closing line. Great fun is had by all (well, not by Marvin, not at the end, anyway). Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.