ReaderKenka
Let's be realistic.
Manthast
Absolutely amazing
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Tweekums
This is a great animated short featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd who is, as usual, trying to kill him.The film opens in a theatre where they are preparing for a performance of The Barber of Seville. Before the opera starts Bugs enters the theatre being followed by Elmer how ends up on stage. The conductor starts the orchestra playing and Bugs, taking the role of the barber invites Elmer into his shop for a shave. What follows is hilarious as Bugs shaves Elmer with a cut throat razor, makes a large salad on his head and even proposes to him although unlike the later operatic short "What's Opera, Doc" Elmer ends up in the role of the bride.Chuck Jones has done a great job matching the animation to the music with hilarious results, he even manages to make Bugs giving Elmer a scalp massage laugh out loud funny.
phantom_tollbooth
Chuck Jones's 'Rabbit of Seville' lives in the shadow of his other, more famous musical masterpiece 'What's Opera Doc', which also stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Nevertheless, 'Rabbit of Seville' is still a very famous and acclaimed cartoon, despite the misleadingly half-hearted non-pun of the title! Executed with typical skill, 'Rabbit of Seville' relies heavily on the genius direction of Chuck Jones as he flawlessly choreographs the animation of Bugs and Elmer's confrontation with the music from 'The Barber of Seville'. Bugs memorably creates his own lyrics in an early scene that culminates in a truly horrific gag with a carelessly brandished razor! After the early lyric based scenes, not another word is spoken until Bugs' cocky, one word denouement. Instead, the action focuses in on the marriage between the music and the animation, all of which is superbly realised. The best moment is the increasingly frantic chase scene towards the end in which Elmer and Bugs continually turn the tables on each other with bigger and bigger weapons. 'Rabbit of Seville' has rightfully passed into legend as a masterpiece and is fondly remembered by even those who have little interest in animation history. I'm sure most kids of my generation (when Warner cartoons were still being regularly shown on TV), if asked to sing a lyric from 'The Barber of Seville', would reply with "Welcome to my shop, let me cut your mop, let me shave your crop"!
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"! :-)
movieman_kev
Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd wander into a production of The Barber of Seville at the Hollywood Bowl. Bugs promptly takes the part of the barber and gives Elmer a shave and hair treatment he won't soon forget all set to musical lyrics. This hilarious Hugo-nominated musical cartoon is on Disk 1 of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1" It's the last short on disk 1 and quite possibly the best. And on a disk that contains the great 'What's up Doc?', 'Rabbit Seasoning', and 'Wabbit Twouble', that's no small feat. I'm a bit perplexed why this short didn't have a music-only track, nor commentary, but i'm VERY happy that it was on the DVD at all. The music is fantastic, the humour top of the line. This is one of the best Bugs cartoons in my mind.My Grade: A +