Awesome Movie

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

. . . he'll ask for a cup of milk, and Bugs Bunny applies this Principle of Animal Psychology to the medium-horn bull upon which he's declared war in Warner Bros.' animated short, BULLY FOR BUGS. As most Americans learned in High School Civics Class, you cannot fight a war without someone having a gun. Bugs decides to bless his bovine foe with this conflict's lone firearm. Of course, if you give a bull a gun, he'll ask for bullets. Since Animal Psychology suggests that if one tiny bullet is good, two bigger bullets are better, this incautious bull quickly ingests an entire box of exploding elephant ammo to "feed" his security crutch, which is now an inseparable part of himself. As at least 72,306 sets of U.S. parents have learned in recent years, toddlers, kids, pets, and farm animals lacking expert tutoring in weaponry wind up stone-cold dead when paired with a loaded Death Projectile Spray Tube (that is, a gun). This is pretty much how the bull bullying Bugs finishes. Warner is showing us that guns are the domain of angry losers.

Unlike most of the people on this website, I do not think that this Bugs Bunny episode is a classic. It is not bad, I do quite like it, but I cannot see how so many people would consider this a "classic Looney Tune".I do find this short quite funny, but I find the animation and the theme quite mediocre. Bugs Bunny is clever, but he is not clever enough... I can understand why Bugs Bunny would have been fooled in his earlier cartoons, but not this one. In this episode, Bugs Bunny is trying to reach a carrot festival, but has ended up in Mexico in the middle of a dangerous bullfight. He replaces the matador and tries to fight the bull. Who will eventually earn his true victory?I recommend this to people who like very slapsticky Bugs Bunny episodes and to people who only like Looney Tunes because it is funny. Other people may like it, but not all that much. Enjoy "Bully for Bugs"! :-)7 and a half out of ten.

Sometimes motion pictures are made in defiance of the studio heads, and "Bully for Bugs" is one such picture. The head of the Warner Bros. cartoons at that time, a humorless man named Eddie Selzer, told director Chuck Jones that he didn't want any cartoons about bullfights. Jones and writer Michael Maltese looked at each other and decided they had to do it! What resulted was one of the most popular Bugs Bunny cartoons. Indeed, Bugs literally gets his butt whipped by the bull a few times, but he ultimately wins the day by using his ultra-quick wits, rather than physical strength, to defeat the bull.Here are my favorite moments from "Bully for Bugs" (DON'T read any further if you haven't yet seen this classic cartoon). Bugs sets up a myriad of booby traps (a ramp, grease, glue, sandpaper, a match, and ultimately, a keg of TNT!) for the charging bull during the grand finale. (The arena must be excessively huge for all the time that the bull traverses the air!) Earlier, Bugs does his own interpretive dance to "La Cucaracha," followed by the half-conscious bull. Donning an over-sized sombrero, Bugs repeatedly slaps the bull in time to another familiar Mexican theme. And Chuck Jones really makes good use of facial expressions in this cartoon, as for example the human bullfighter's smirk & panicked expression upon the bull's first appearance, and the bull's sinister grin when he realizes he can actually shoot Bugs with his horns (he swallowed Bugs' rifle)."Bully for Bugs" is a winner, no question about it. The moral: Don't mess with Bugs Bunny, no matter how big you are!

Famed cartoon director Chuck Jones has said that this cartoon came about because his then-producer, Edward Selzer, caught him doodling a drawing of a bull one day and told Jones that he was *not* to make cartoon about bullfighting. Of such defiant acts are great cartoons made. This is one of the all-time great Looney Tunes, with great camera angles (note the ant's-eye view of a confident Bugs as the bull gains ground on him), hilarious give-and-take between Bugs and his adversary, and a gut-busting ending (beautifully scored by Carl Stalling). For years, CBS was stupid enough to broadcast this cartoon with its fantastic climax cruelly edited. You can now find the whole thing intact in Jones' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie and on the Jones compilation videocassette From Hare to Eternity, as well as in intermittent broadcasts on Cartoon Network