Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Dreadfully Boring

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

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Fun Bob McKimson-directed Bugs short that has Bugs tussling with a Texas oil baron who bears a slight resemblance to Yosemite Sam. The plot kind of writes itself: the baron sets up an oil derrick right on top of Bugs' rabbit hole. Bugs has a problem with that and is promptly told to "git." This, of course, means war. It's a funny cartoon with a couple of interesting new characters - the clichéd but amusing oil baron and his silent valet Maverick. The animation is beautiful with well-drawn characters and backgrounds and lovely bright colors. Great voice work from Mel Blanc. Really a solid cartoon all around. Not one of Bugs' best but still good.

. . . Bugs Bunny notes to conclude OILY HARE, a Warner Bros. animated short. There may have been a few folks living in Texas when this cartoon first aired in the Mid-1900s, but certainly NOT the scads teeming there Today. Few or Many, Warner again goes out of its way to deduct at least one star from this state's rating. OILY HARE opens with a highway sign proclaiming that Dallas has been renamed "Dollar$, Texa$." (Don't forget that this was a couple decades BEFORE Debbie Did Dallas for Dollars!) We next see a green limousine so excessive that it employs a long-distance switchboard operator riding in the middle to relay messages from the Oil Mogul passenger to the chauffeur up front. Next to the fireplace toward the rear of this vehicle paces "Orvil Rich, Texan." Orvil proves to be a Beta Fracker, expending enough dynamite in his oil recovery operations to crack every house foundation from Albuquerque to Atlanta. Texas has enjoyed each of the Ten Plagues of Egypt at least twice during the past century, and Orvil's latest boondoggle transmutes his oily Reign of Terror into a Rain of Carrots. In a best case scenario, Texas' final Big Bang will break it off from America, and set it adrift in the Gulf. Clearly this would be Warner's way of dealing with our "Texa$" Problem.

While not the best of the canon, Oily Hare is a fun and worthwhile Looney Tunes. The animation is colourful and vibrant with interesting character designs, and the music is fun and authentic. The dialogue is great and filled with clever puns, while the sight gags are funny and the story doesn't fall into the trap of being predictable. The ending is also effective, and Bugs and the Texan are fun individually and together, coupled with superb voice work from Mel Blanc. The cartoon is a little too fast at times but overall, it is a very good and perhaps under-seen cartoon.8/10 Bethany Cox

While "Oily Hare" has its plot, the idea of a Texas oil well is what catches my attention. The unctuous - or should I say "oily" - tycoon here is exactly the type who would have forced the Cajuns off of their land in Louisiana, just as he tries to do to Bugs Bunny. And we see how much the oil industry affects policy today.Of course, I've probably gone too far in analyzing this cartoon. I'm sure that it was intended as crazy entertainment, and it certainly entertains. When they start playing Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" is when you know that you're in for something really cool, and boy are you! Anyway, a pretty funny one.