Thanks for the memories!

Admirable film.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

. . . was most notable for its warning to American men NOT to fall for double-dealing, duplicitous, back-stabbing, false, two-timing, fickle, untrue, flighty foreign chicks. By and large, CASABLANCA was successful in its Messaging, as the French-accented Jackie Kennedy was the closest brush that Americans had from 1942 until this past Friday with the Terrifying Prospect of having a Foreign First Lady NOT fully vetted by anyone given the run of Our People's White House. However, by 1995 Doonesbury Comic Strip Artist Gary Trudeau had publicized National Buffoon Donald J. Rump's "Run for the Presidency" so widely that Warner Bros. felt it incumbent to bring their Looney Tunes Animated Shorts Seers division out of mothballs to remake their iconic World War Two feature as a brief cartoon warning America even more explicitly of Rump's Loose Cannon Proclivities. Casting Penelope Pussywillow as Femme Fatale Ilsa ("Kitty" here, or the future Melancholia Rump, in Real Life) and Bugs Bunny as CARROTBLANCA's failing casino owner Rick (this is Bugs' ONLY portrayal of Rump himself, a sorry task usually relegated to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Pepe LePew, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety Bird, Taz, Bosko, Buddy, Egghead, or Yosemite Sam) Warner warns that if Ilsa bails out on Victor (Sylvester Cat here) in favor of Rick, then Putin will gain America's nuclear access codes from Melancholia. A word to the wise: Better stock up ASAP on those Haz-Mat anti-radiation protective suits (like the home invaders wear in E.T.) for EACH member of you family!

I really don't care for many of the Looney Tunes cartoons made after the classic era and even less for those made from the '90s on. This is one of the more well-regarded and I can't for the life of me see why. It's a parody of Casablanca that tries to shoehorn in every character they can, even if they're only in it briefly. So it was seemingly targeted at an older audience that not only had seen a lot of Looney Tunes but had seen Casablanca, as well. Obviously you don't have to be older to know Casablanca but, let's be real, there aren't a lot of kids who have seen it or would even want to. That was as true in 1995 as it is today. The animation is showy but hollow. The voice work is the usual weak Blanc mimicry the later Looney Tunes have. The biggest problem with it is that it's just not funny. I didn't laugh once when I first saw it twenty years ago and, seeing it again today, I'm still not laughing. I love Looney Tunes and I love Casablanca. I appreciate that the effort behind this was sincere but I'm not really going to bump its rating up because of that. I just don't like it and I don't really understand why the heck they made it.

It's not brilliant and it's not very funny but you could do worse. It's only about five minutes long, so it's' not as if you're wasting a lifetime.The plot is a send-up of Casablanca with Bugs Bunny in Bogie's role. I liked Tweety's impersonation of Peter Lorre and the end sequence with the plane (Sylvester impatiently waiting in the plane).The "film" has a few laughs and it's a good concept -- the animation is poor and characters are all-over-the-place but you could still do a lot worse as far as animation is concerned.I originally saw the short years ago but recently watched it again on my Casablanca DVD. I'm not sure I'd want to watch it again but, for what it is, it's not too bad.It's watchable.

This short is welcome and enjoyable for many reasons and on many levels. It's a good spoof of Casablanca, it's as hilarious as the best of the work Warner Brothers did in their heyday and half the fun is in spotting the characters in small roles or as extras (waiters, sitting at tables, etc.), as with The Scarlet Pumpernickel or the glorious Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which used the same concept. Excellent short of recent vintage which maintains the spirit of the old shorts. Glad to see that it's available. Well worth watching. Most recommended.