Comments on Compressed Hare

[Brandon Pierce]

Plot: Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten trillion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable. Eventually the magnet draws a rocket into Wile E.'s cave and it shoots the coyote into orbit.

Grade: C+

Comments and Observations:
1. This is an okay cartoon. But, like Rabbit's Feat, Bugs kinda acts like a baby (if anyone knows what I mean).
2. The gag of Wile E.'s magnet drawing in the Titanic was re-used in a comic book. In the comic, The Coyote finds himself in the Arctic and the only source of food is Playboy Penguin. Eventually, The Coyote uses a magnet to grab the bird, but instead the Titanic crashes into him. He holds up a sign saying, "The Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean!" And Playboy Penguin holds up a sign saying, "Must Be a strong magnet!"
3. Favorite Line: "Are you IN, Genius?" -- Bugs Bunny

Technicall Stuff: Made in 1961, directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.

[lislebartman]

This cartoon is one of my least favorite Bugs/Wile E. encounters, tying with "Rabbit's Feat". While it has some clever dialogue (rare for a Dave Detiege script), you can forecast the gags before they happen. The animation is okay, the backgrounds are very bright and flat and the music score is not one of Milt Franklyn's best.

My grade: C-

[Matthew Hunter]

I like this cartoon, actually. In fact, it's probably my favorite in the series, save for "Operation Rabbit", another favorite. I think the Bugs/Wile E. cartoons are all good, except for "Hare Breadth Hurry",which disappoints me...Bugs talks too much. Anyway, "Compressed Hare' is probably a good solid B in my book.
-Matthew

[angilbas]

This film rates a B+ in my book. Bugs's wordplay may have a bit less finesse than what Maltese would have provided, but it's entertaining. The animation is good and the backdrops look very fine. Jones was certainly in top form as he staged the climax, giving Wile E. a carrot, a mailbox and a few household items, then...

-Tony

[J Lee]

The puns are a little obvious and overdone in this one, but the end sequense (including Treg Brown's sound effects) make up for it. One of the best cartoons Warners did in the 1960s (when standards for "best cartoon" were obviously lower than in the 40s or the 50s)

[Cartman]

I liked Compressed Hare a little myself, but it's not one of my favorite Bugs/Coyote toons of all time.

[Jack]

It's an okay cartoon, but the dialog all seems forced, and it usually isn't very funny either. It's more grating than anything, IMO. It's a nice looking cartoon, though.

I get what you're saying about Bugs being a baby in "Rabbit's Feat." He really does act strange, more wacky then he ever did before.



Jack :D

[chuckamuck43]

I've read somewhere that Rabbit's Feat was an attempt to bring back some of Bugs' old wackiness. Chuck Jones was the WRONG director for that.

As for Compressed Hare, I like it allright.

Sigmund Freud would have a field day with the ending, though:o...(I know, sometimes a rocket and a cave are just a rocket and a cave!:D)

[Thad Komorowski]

I actually quite like "Compressed Hare". As J. Lee said, it's one of the best WB cartoons of the 1960s (considering that the "best" of the 1960s would be much lower than the "best" of the 1940s or 1950s).


"Well, even a genius has an off day....."



Thad K