8 Ball Bunny
8 Ball Bunny
NR | 08 July 1950 (USA)
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Bugs helps a penguin return home.

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Matialth

Good concept, poorly executed.

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LouHomey

From my favorite movies..

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Teddie Blake

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Hot 888 Mama

. . . or however many dozen of the Bugs Bunny "Merrie Melodies" cartoon shorts have been locked up in vaults for decades because what was agreed to be "funny" by the majority of Americans in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s has been Blacklisted by the cultural elite as being incompatible with free speech today. Very few people now alive, therefore, have seen EVERY "Merrie Melodie" ever released. In order to decide for yourself what you should have access to watch, you either need to be about 100 years old (which theoretically would enable you to have seen each of these censored cartoons during their initial release; let's hope that you're not one of the 90% of your age group suffering from Old People's Disease) or you must be a "researcher" belonging to the cultural elite, in which case you probably can even read the stuff locked away from Tom Hanks in THE DA VINCI CODE movie. Still, it's hard to fathom WHY the Black hobo in the boxcar willing to murder anyone for fried chicken and the gibbering South American tribesmen gyrating in circles did not put 8 BALL BUNNY behind the proverbial Eight Ball on the cultural elites' S--- List.

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TheLittleSongbird

I love 8 Ball Bunny, it was both funny and extremely cute. The animation is beautiful, very colourful and lively, with nice backgrounds especially. The music is rousing and sweet too, and the dialogue sparkles with wit and zest, Bugs has the best lines but the repeated line said by Humphrey Bogart sure was funny. The sight gags are like the cartoon, funny and cute, especially when the little penguin cried or clapped. The characters are great, Bugs is both caring and reluctant, but the penguin held my attention the most. Maybe it's because I have a thing for penguins, but this particular penguin was adorable and melted my heart immediately. Overall, wonderful, well worth watching I think for the penguin alone. 10/10 Bethany Cox

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Robert Reynolds

This is a very good Bugs Bunny short which illustrates that no good deed goes unpunished. Because I want to touch on several details, this is a spoiler warning: This short opens with the star attraction of an ice show, a penguin, being left behind, trying to catch up to the truck and winding up falling into Bug's hole and disturbing an honest rabbit's slumber. At the sight of the penguin in tears, Bugs promises to get him home-a promise he'll have repeated cause to regret for the rest of the short.They hop a freight, where a hobo looks at the penguin and observes that "Penguins is practically chickens" and starts planning the dinner menu. Bugs gets rid of him with some balletic moves which would earn him an audition with the ABT.Bugs puts his charge on the Admiral Byrd, provisioned with "some ice cubes you can munch on the way", only to later discover that the ship is bound for Brooklyn. He swims to the ship in time to find that the poor little guy is once again viewed with an eye toward the culinary. Bugs rescues him once again and they set off on a series of adventures.The highlights of this section for me include Bugs playing a guitar and singing a calypso song while the penguin labors with an ax to hollow out a tree to fashion a crude boat and a scene where our heroes are in a boiling pot surrounded by singing and dancing natives (this time, they're both on the menu). Both scenes are punctuated by the running gag-Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, uttering the immortal line, "Could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?", which happens several times.After several gags and a montage, Bugs finally gets the penguin to the South Pole, only to learn that he's not from the South Pole, causing Bugs to throw a fit. The closing gag is hilarious, so I won't spoil it here.This short is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 and is well worth seeing. Recommended.

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Shawn Watson

Bugs Bunny's peaceful sleep is interrupted by a stray baby penguin. Unable to turn away such a little cutie, with big, sad eyes, Bugs makes it his duty to take him back home. When he finds out home is actually in the South Pole he wishes he hadn't.So begins a long trek south, through Mexico and jungles and mountains. It's quite funny and Bugs' antics are wonderfully amusing as usual. I'm not sure what the deal is with the hobo who looks like Humphrey Bogart but it's obviously a reference to a movie I've not seen.Like the best of Looney Tunes cartoons, this one ends with an hilarious twist.

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