i must have seen a different film!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

. . . is a Wile E. Coyote who's a smug blabbermouth. It would make about as much sense for Wile to give up his roadrunner diet in favor of rabbit stew as it would for the losers of American Presidential Primaries to start naming fellow drop-outs as running mates. Yet for all their wisdom, this is exactly what the Looney Tunes people do in their animated short, OPERATION: RABBIT. Wile's I.Q. seems to drop here about 50 points every time that he proclaims himself to be a genius, so he's in the range of Absolute Zero Fahrentheit (that is, about minus 450) by the time this disappointing outing drags to its end. Since Bugs seems to play down to the level of his competition, this whole exercise is not much better than trying to tough out a DUMB AND DUMBER flick. America wants to see BATMAN VERSUS SUPERMAN, IRONMAN V. CAPTAIN AMER!CA, ALIEN V. PREDATOR, FREDDY V. JASON, or ELMER FUDD V. WILE COYOTE. Instead, Warner gives us Winkin' v. Nod!

In a slight break from protocol, Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, and Mel Blanc pit Wile E. Coyote - aka Supergenius - against Bugs Bunny. But, sure enough, Bugs has ways of avoiding capture...most of which involve Wile E. getting maimed somehow.The point is that no matter how hard he tries, Wile E. has no success in any field, whether going after the Road Runner or Bugs Bunny. And they play it to great effect. "Operation: Rabbit" is a classic just like the rest of the Looney Tunes cartoons from that era. Having Wile E. talk doesn't diminish the quality at all.Mud spelled backwards is dum. Exactly!

Early Wile E. Coyote isn't chasing the Roadrunner, but Bugs Bunny! He's pulling these schemes we know so well from his later adventures with the miep-miep character, and obviously each time is losing out, getting blown up no less than 5 times.The schemes he pulls are pretty funny, although to me it doesn't match up to the episodes with the Roadrunner. In particular the overuse of his (annoying) voice doesn't work well. We hear him blabbing he's a genious about 10 times. Alright, we get it.Still, I had some good laughs from this decent cartoon. Interesting for those into the Coyote character I suppose. 6/10.

Rating 10/10 Explanation: A movie anyone should see. It could range anywhere from excellent to brilliant classic. As you could see in plots, Wile E. Coyote hiatuses his chases with the Road Runner in temporary favor of Bugs Bunny. Does his luck change? No, not really, in fact, not at all. The laughs from this short can bring it to the greatest Looney Tunes short in history.