Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The_Film_Cricket What makes the Warner Bros. animated shorts created between the early 30s and the late 50s so interesting is that are brought to life through a combination of perfect timing, wonderful writing and a wicked sense of humor. That wicked sense of humor got passed the Hays office in the early 30s probably because the censorship watchdogs assumed that they were simple-minded cartoons and paid them no mind (or they were too busy crabbing about the length of Betty Boop's skirt). These dayts that attitude comes mostly from distributors who routinely pigeonhole these works of comic art as 'kiddie fare' (which explains why the great black and white Popeye cartoons of the early 30s are always shown in color) so they routinely chop, cut and trim them to fit a time schedule.Those same distributors who like to package these great works as 'kiddie fare' are primarily responsible for what doesn't work in 'Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales', the third of Warner Bros. compilation films linking new (rather ersatz) material to introduce old classic cartoons.The linking premise this time has Bugs and Daffy as book salesmen for Rambling House going their separate ways to try and see who can make more money. Bugs ends up at a castle in Arabia run by Yosemite Sam who demands that Bugs read 1001 stories to his loudmouth son Prince Abba Dabba. The first problem is that the premise is lame and the character of the son is irritating with his loud mouth and hyena whine every time Bugs refuses to read him a story. Daffy meanwhile has unmemorable incounters with Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd.The other problem is that the classic cartoons that they include have been cut mostly to fit the storyline of the new linking material. One of the greatest animated shorts ever made was Chuck Jones' brilliant 'One Froggy Evening' in which a greedy construction worker finds a box containing a frog that can sing and dance. The downside being that the frog won't sing for anyone but him. This falters all of the man's attempts to make money selling him as an act. The greatest irony of this cartoon is that there are no speaking parts except when the frog sings. The problem in this movie is that new narration by Bugs as he reads the story interrupts the quiet comic flow and worst of all, the hilarious, wicked final punchline is cut off.I was afraid that this kind of prepackaged butchery was becoming a trend until Cartoon Network put together three shows which really celebrate how important these shorts are. The best is 'Toonheads' which has a theme every week showing how different artists interpreted different characters. The others are 'The Tex Avery Show' and 'The Bob Clampett Show' which spotlight the best works of each artist and allow the viewer to learn a little about what went into their inspiration.'1001 Rabbit Tales' is an example of a practice in the 1980s of hurling any moving cartoon image at children and assuming that it would stick. Thankfully, that era has passed.

Arlis Fuson Friz, Chuck and others all had shorts featured on this one.I love Looney Tunes and have the golden collection sets and watch them and love them and they are put together really well. I think that we all know how people in the movie business are good at putting out any product to make money off of. This here is a perfect example of how..This is a compilation of shorts pieced together with popular shorts and new material written to piece it all together.The good thing is that these shorts are not as common as shorts on the first two movies, however they are still popular. Things like Michigan Dave and the stork who takes bugs to a family of gorillas are nice additions.I love how slow poke Rodriquez was added here as thats not a popular one, as well as Daffy and the trophy duck.I was disappointed to see a short in this film that was also in The Great American Chase. How can this be a sequel and have the same thing as part 1.I liked this one better than any of the "movies" but it still was nothing spectacular and we've seen it all so much. I wanted for once there to be an actual movie. I haven't seen the two daffy duck movies that are considered sequels to this, maybe some more original stuff was included in those.This one gets 5 out of 10 stars cause I have seen them less, and liked the connecting theme more.

Lee Eisenberg After the creative team that made the classic Looney Tunes cartoons stopped making original cartoons, they made compilations of varying quality (after they all died, the cartoons turned into total garbage). "Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" has Bugs and Daffy as book salesmen who go their separate ways to try and sell books. Eventually, Bugs arrives in the Arabian desert, where Yosemite Sam is the sultan and has a spoiled brat son. So, Bugs agrees to read to the boy, under the threat of bathing in boiling oil if he fails.I guess that overall, this compilation is pretty harmless. If nothing else, they still had Mel Blanc doing the voices. But are compilations really that necessary?

Kat Miss While I do agree with the fact that this is not the best way to see these wonderful cartoons, there's no denying that for some this is the only way. Regular TV programming has fazed out Bugs Bunny cartoons. Great video compliations are out-of-print. And if you don't have cable TV, you're screwed.It edits the original shorts with new linking material, which is not a new practice. Robert Youngson made a career out of this genre; his titles include "4 Clowns" and "Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20s". Also, the MGM That's Entertainment! series, which is up to three. Most critics tend to praise those titles, but condemn the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes films.That is not fair. "1001 Rabbit Tales" is a very good movie on its' own terms. Supervised by the late, great Friz Freleng, the linking material is the best so far in this series. The "plot" involves Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as salesmen for Rambling House Publishing (a great in-joke that's just one of many). They go their separate ways and Bugs ends up being a storyteller for Yosemite Sam's son (this is where the old cartoons enter in)Freleng selects some of the very best Looney Tunes shorts for this film. His selections include "One Froggy Evening", one of the greatest of all time and "Goldilocks and the Three Cats" (featuring Sylvester Jr.) and his editing is seamless this time round, unlike previous entries where it looked more obvious. Those critics who feel obliged to hate a film like this can go back on the horse they rode in on. Even Maltin thought it was decent at 2 1/2 stars. This is wonderful entertainment and considering today's entertainment, timeless.**** out of 4 stars