Manthast
Absolutely amazing
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Hadrina
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . their favorite hare yakking in the guttural tones of White House Pretender Don Juan Rump during this prophetic offering from Warner Bros.' prognosticators of (The Then) Far Future, that unparalleled Animated Shorts Seers bunch (aka, The Looney Tuners) during this Pre-World War Two offering, ELMER'S PET RABBIT. This brief cartoon begins with the mentor of Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin (as an Elmer Fudd dressed in Classic KGB garb) buying a young Bugs in a pet shop for 98 cents, reflecting how Putin's tutor recruited reform school teenager Rump for a couple copies of Mad Magazine (not every traitor holds out for 30 pieces of silver!). The remainder of ELMER'S PET RABBIT documents the sexual perversion inherent in the Rump\Putin relationship once the latter assumes the responsibility of being Rump's KGB controller (this switch is telegraphed when a noticeably younger Elmer dons a bathrobe, "I-Swim-Across-the-Volga-Daily" Putin's trademark gear). ELMER'S PET RABBIT will strike 21st Century Viewers as being right up to the New York Minute, even down to the strange Moments of Rump\Putin Bromance dominating Today's headlines (that is, July 8, 2017).
Stephen Holloway
Yes, Mel Blanc voiced Bugs in this short. But, in an different voice. Anyway, Elmer buys Bugs at an pet shop and takes him home. Bugs complains about his surroundings when he sees the gate and home Elmer has built for him. Bugs decides to get in Elmer's home and move in with his owner. How DID Bugs got in Elmer's home in the first place? We'll probably never know. Still, the bathtub gag was good far as worrying Elmer to death. Bugs isn't through he even tries sleeping in Elmer's bed twice. The first time lead to an brief chase but Bugs went back to Elmer's bed again. Also, at one point the two characters danced, which lead Bugs to be kicked out. Now the animation was OK, but the one thing that I didn't like was Bugs Bunny's voice I mean what is, an prototype voice or something? Anyway it's OK but, unless you love Bugs or Elmer, don't watch it.Final score: an 6 out of 10.
catradhtem
One would think that after the theatrical success and response the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, "A Wild Hare," generated that the Termite Terrace boys would follow it up with something even--pardon the pun--"wilder" for their new star.However, that does not seem to be case with "Elmer's Pet Rabbit." Unlike the first encounter between Bugs and Elmer in which Bugs knows from frame one how it will end, in this one the control between the two characters shift back and forth. In one scene Bugs has one-upped Elmer, in the next Elmer is throwing him out. Bugs seems less confident, which at times makes it hard for the audience to really root for him.This is most surprising when one considers that it was scripted by Rich Hogan, who wrote the previous "A Wild Hare." Not surprising, however, is that this slow ordeal was directed by Chuck Jones. Sure, he has conceived some of Bugs' grandest films in the 1950's, but at 1941 Jones was still concentrating on micro-directing...slowing down every action to a crawl so that you pick up every detail, every twitch and expression, and every aside. 1941's Jones was not the man to follow wildman Tex Avery.And of course, Bugs is still growing into his true self at this point. It could be speculated that "Pet Rabbit" was in production before or at the same time of "A Wild Hare," because how else can one explain the slushier pre-Bugs baritone voice Mel Blanc uses for the wabbit?As a Bugs cartoon, this one is only for completists. As a non-Bugs cartoon, it is simply slow and pointless.
Pumpkin-22
This very unusual early teaming of Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny (long before he found his "voice") is of interest to hardcore fans, though it would be a while before they became the well-oiled machine...
