Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

. . . machine-gunning law enforcement officers. Taking place mostly in Oklahoma and Arkansas, BUNNY follows the escapades of two animated stick rabbits as they outsmart a set of quintuplet sheriffs (as opposed to clone sheriffs, which were virtually unheard of in the 1960s). As same-looking sheriff after sheriff bites the dust here, a balladeer sings stanza upon stanza about how much fun it is to take down the Law. (BUNNY AND CLAUDE seem to be joy robbers, stealing carrots from store and field, but leaving nearly all of this orange loot to rot on the road.) Someone wrote a book entitled, "I Learned Everything There Is to Know in Kindergarten," which bodes ill for BUNNY AND CLAUDE's five-year-old target audience. America's South is full of "survivalists," filling up one storage unit after another with Sandy Hook-sized ammunition magazines for their Bushmasters, in hopes of pulling a David Koresh Waco exit and going out in blazes of "glory" against America lawmen (sensing that the North Koreans won't invade anytime soon, RED DAWN or not). But they learned BUNNY AND CLAUDE's ballad in kindergarten. It's only a matter of time before they change their tune to "I Shot the Sheriff," too.

Although Bunny and Cluade isn't that well known, I think it is a lot of fun and very underrated. It is too short though, and I think the roadblock joke could have been timed better and perhaps a crack at the corniness of it wouldn't have gone amiss.However, I loved the wacky animation style. Bunny and Claude mayn't have the smoothest or most colourful animation, but as I've said I loved its wackiness, the backgrounds and colours were still quite nice and the characters looked good too.There is also some truly rootin' tootin' music. Not just the main theme, which wonderfully accompanied the hilarious beginning, but also the switch between 60s organ-guitar groove music to the banjo style, two styles that are not easy to pull off especially when alternated together but somehow Lava makes it work. I have to say also the sound effects are great to spot and decent-sounding on the ear.The jokes and dialogue are a treat. While the dialogue is fun, Bunny and Claude is an example of a cartoon that is sight gag driven. And boy are they fun, in fact the roadblock is the only one that doesn't quite work. The one with the mouse and the one with the sheriff dressed up as a carrot to trap Bunny and Claude however are hoots. I equally loved the (very) fast pace and original story.The characters are great fun and zany. In all honesty though the sly as foxes titular characters were more likable than the sheriff, who is a slightly cliché but fun character, and vocal wise sounds like a criss-cross of Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam. The voice work from Mel Blanc and Pat Woodell is also excellent.So in conclusion, imperfect but a lot of fun. 8/10 Bethany Cox

True. True. It is spoofing a 1967 movie. The cartoon was made in 1968. The drawing were wacky. It was so 60's. Craig POWERPUFF GIRLS McCracken modernized these kind of drawings. There were plenty of jokes and gags. If you listen to some of the sound effects, they are the ones you frequently hear in Hanna Barbera cartoons. Claude's voice is by Mel Blanc because it sounded like Heathcliff. Blanc also did the voice of the Sheriff, because it sounded like Foghorn Leghorm. Mel Blanc is such a great voice actor. God bless his soul (the same goes to PEANUTS creator Charles Schultz). The music is so 60's. The Sheriff is gullible. the title rabits bare sly as foxes. It is funny. I think the orgin of today's wacky cartoons come from those kind of cartoons. Cool eh?

But I do have to give it some credit. It is original. It's like Bugs Bunny meets Bonny, and Clyde (which it basically is based on), but with 2 different rabbit characters which might deliver some laughs. This short really isn't that well known, but if you watch the Looney Tunes block on Cartoon Network, you might see this.A fairly decent toon. 8/10.