
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy classic cartoon mayhem, rapid-fire gags, exaggerated voices, and loosely connected storybook adventures.
- Tone
- playful, whimsical, campy
- Payoff
- amusement
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- storytelling, rivalry, trickery, survival, imagination
- Setting
- timeless storybook past, fantastical castle and comic book-selling routes