a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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

. . . "just who shot who?"--and the crux of RABBIT OF SEVILLE is, "Just who wed who?" (SPOILER ALERT--) As a matter of fact, Bugs Bunny gay-marries Elmer Fudd at the end of Act Two. It's a shotgun (as well as a double ax, pistol, and triple cannon) wedding. But bride Elmer wears white anyway. Groom Bugs' courtship is necessarily brief, lasting about three seconds (though this may be prolonged by hare standards). However, before Elmer is finished doling out their wedding cake, Man-Mannizer (well, he wouldn't be a "womanizer" under the circumstances, would he?) Bugs is trolling for his next conquest. Though Hollywood campaigned for Gay Marriage throughout the 1900s, most such efforts at opinion-shaping ran as subtle undercurrents in the little noticed backwaters of feature films (such as RIO BRAVO, released a decade after RABBIT OF SEVILLE). Not so the output of the bold and brazen Warner Bros. They often seemed almost too eager to trot out their take on questions such as Gay Marriage front and center, whether by means of a feature film or an animated short.

Bugs was always in control. When we see him being pursued by Elmer Fudd, ducking shotgun bursts, we still know that the diminutive bald little Hunter doesn't have a chance. The guys wander on to an opera stage and continue their combativeness to the music of the Barber of Seville. Apparently, there was a time when the average citizen had a thing for opera and these cartoon presentations fed into that. Anyway, the pacing is masterful. Elmer is about as gullible as he can be, and bugs takes advantage at every turn. The pacing of the famous musical piece works very well and our two heroes find their way to a masterful conclusion.

Classic Looney Tunes short has Bugs and Elmer playing around with the Barber of Seville opera. So many wonderful gags in this one, including the adjustable barber chairs that seem to have no limit to how high they can go, Figaro Fertilizer, and Bugs in señorita drag. Flawless voice work from Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan, although the cartoon is mostly action with little dialogue. The animation is beautiful with great colors and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. It's a cartoon set to a famous opera so obviously the music drives the action. Rossini's music speaks for itself but the lyrics Bugs and Elmer add to it are hilarious. This is yet another feather in the cap of Chuck Jones, the most creative of all the Termite Terrace legends (in my opinion).

Elmer Fudd chases Bugs into an opera house and they precede to sing and dance to The Barber of Seville. This has classic sight gags, like the barber chair case and bugs rubbing hair tonic into Elmer's head with his feet. My favorite bit is when Bugs, in drag, struts around with two pairs of scissors, cutting the suspenders off from Elmer which turns his face bright red. There is also the salad that he puts on Fudd noggin and the fertilizer bottle which makes a large patch of red flowers grow on Elmer's head. All this goes on to a fantastic score as Bugs belts out some silly rhymes. There is even a musically matched gag with the two leads producing bigger and bigger weapons until Bugs is left to propose, so that Elmer will get in a wedding dress and dropped through the threshold onto the ground below. What's Opera Doc has a better premise, it is an opera as opposed to them interrupting one, but this another seven minutes in looney heaven.