Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Bugs Bunny was performing aerial stunts as a B-19. That's the upshot of THE HARE-BRAINED HYPNOTIST, a World War Two Era Warner Bros. animated short. Bugs kisses Elmer Fudd once during HARE-BRAINED, while Elmer smooches the friendly rabbit thrice, proving that humans are 200% more likely to be gay than rodents and\or rabbits. (Speaking of mice, the 5-12-16 USA Today editorializes that Disney Megacorp's greed over Mickey Mouse's copyright and its continual bribing of the U.S. Congress makes a mockery of such "protection," resulting in our Capitol Dome becoming an international laughing stock, and putting Western Civilization on the brink of implosion.) Can you imagine if all your favorite things were rotting away because Warner Bros. was Hell-bent upon keeping Elmer Fudd locked up in solitary confinement until our Sun burned out?! I bet that you'd call that pretty Looney Tunes. Yet, as USA Today states, most old movies and shorts are crumbling to dust Today, along with 98% of the World's Great Literature, because everyone's lawyers warn them not to risk Disney's Wrath.

TheLittleSongbird As an avid Looney Tunes fan, this was throughly enjoyable and clever. While perhaps a tad too short with an abrupt ending, The Hare-Brained Hypnotist was simply great fun.The animation is really good, with beautiful crisp backgrounds and lavish colouring. The music is wonderful too, from the haunting opening credits from the rousing and playful motifs that crops up every now and again, it is a mighty fine orchestral score. The story is pretty dark in tone in comparison to other Looney Tunes cartoons, but has enough amusing moments, thanks to some funny, witty dialogue typical Looney Tunes fashion and some clever sight gags. Bugs is a lot of fun yet again and Elmer is a great foil, and both characters are superbly voiced by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan.Overall, very clever and fun. 9/10 Bethany Cox

ccthemovieman-1 Elmer reads that one can hypnotize "dumb animals" so when he's out hunting one day (and reading the book at the same time), he comes across a bear. Lo and behold - it works! He puts the bear to sleep and has him float around like a canary. He then realizes this is his chance to finally capture the elusive Bugs Bunny.However, Bugs, as well know, is anything but a "dumb animal," and turns the tables on dumb Mr. Fudd. By the way, does Elmer's laugh annoy anyone else out here? It annoys me. This is one guy I don't mind getting the short end of the stick when it comes to Bugs Bunny's mayhem. He's right on when he calls Elmer "a jerk" in this story.The last third of this picture is excellent, however, when Elmer turns into a rabbit and asks Bugs, "What's up, doc?" He then drives Bugs crazy.That's one thing about these cleverly-written cartoons; the smarter Bugs doesn't always prevail, as we see in here.

movieman_kev Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny find themselves as each other thanks to Elmer's faulty attempt to hypnotize Bugs. I found this cartoon to be clever and funny for the most part and the change between the personalities of the two main characters was interesting. I didn't really care for the ending as it just seemed that the powers that be told Friz to wrap it up to keep the length of the short to a lean 7 minutes even and it seemed like a non-ending more than anything else. But overall I did enjoy this one a lot. This animated short can be seen on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.My Grade: B+