This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

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

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

. . . into a Real Life witch's oven, Warner Bros. dressed up Bugs Bunny in drag as Gretl, Brunnhilde, or some other fairy tale German chick to cavort in the Black Forest, playing footsie with top-ranking Nazi Hermann Goering. After joking around with "Fatso" Goering's take on Sigfried, Bugs decides to add a Josef Stalin impression to his Stylings on Adolph Hitler, so that all the European Front's Villains-in-Chief are covered during HERR MEETS HARE. Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes Animation Division taught America that there's always a silver lining in even the grimmest of situations. Following in Bugs Bunny's paw steps, a New York City-area mattress store recently ran a TV ad for its September 11 Fifteenth Anniversary Sale featuring two "towers" of mattresses toppling down! Not to be outdone, a European-raised Quarterback-of-Color has responded to the spate of Cop Killings in places such as Dallas and Baton Rouge by initiating a post-Olympics gymnastics event in which he and many of his athletic peer group compete to see who can contort themselves in the most disrespectful manner as our Star Spangled Tribute Hymn to the World War Two KIA's, space shuttle, and 9-11 victims is played. Surely Bugs Bunny would die laughing to see THAT!

Directed by Friz Freleng, "Herr Meets Hare" is a fine Bugs Bunny cartoon released at the tail end of World War II. Specifically, this cartoon makes a hilarious spoof of Field Marshal Hermann Goering, nicknamed "Fatso" in this film. Fatso is the epitome of mental retardation as he pursues Bugs Bunny in the Black Forest.My favorite moments from "Herr Meets Hare" include the following (DO NOT read any further if you have not yet seen this cartoon). I love Bugs' Hitler disguise and mock German dialect as he gives Goering a verbal dressing-down and rips off all his medals. Bugs is also really funny with his Stalin disguise at the very end of the cartoon. AND watch for Bugs' Wagnerian Brunhilda disguise (predating "What's Opera, Doc?" [1957]) and his subsequent dance with Goering (as Siegfried)."Herr Meets Hare" was supposedly unseen from the time of its theatrical release until the time it was released on DVD (the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6 Disc 2). But unless my memory deceives me, I DO recollect seeing this cartoon on TV during my high school days (early 1990s), because I distinctly remember Bugs Bunny's lame Hitler disguise. Maybe he paraded as Hitler in other cartoons besides this one.

A lost Bugs Bunny hits the surface in Germany's Schwarzwald where he meets up with Goering (Eh Doc, which way to Las Vegas?). Goering tries to catch him with his bird as this Bugs short is taking all the well-known steps: Bugs dresses up a couple of times (including one time as Hitler), and Goering is foolish enough to fall for it. Then Goering finally catches Bugs and takes him to Hitler. This is such a funny scene! As Goering goes in he shouts 'Heil Hitler'. Hitler doesn't even look up from his solitaire card-game (!) and says: 'Heil Me'. That really cracked me up.A funny propaganda short, this one: 7/10.

The first time I saw this cartoon was on the same Internet site where I found "Tokio Jokio", and let me tell ya: Aside from Bugs Bunny disguising himself as Hitler and Stalin, this cartoon is tame enough even for cable (and it was. A CN special on World War Two cartoons managed to show this uncut). Besides, today's kids wouldn't get the jokes, so why are the PC Police making older cartoon viewers suffer by banning this and other WW-II cartoons from all media?BTW: The scene where Bugs Bunny dresses as the Brunhilde and dances with Hermann Goerring was later re-used in the magnificently done, Chuck Jones-directed, "What's Opera, Doc", only Goerring was replaced with Elmer Fudd dressed in Viking garb, there was a duet called "Return My Love" (that ALWAYS made me cry everytime I watch it. Why, don't ask?) that was sung by Elmer and Bugs, the scene was longer than it was in "Herr Meets Hare", and the setting was excellently done by the late, great Maurice Noble (1910-2001).