Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

John T. Ryan IF IT WEREN'T for one particular extended gag, this could very well have been indistinguishable from so many of the Bugs Bunny pictures of its day. That's not to say that it wasn't an enjoyable and worthwhile 8 minutes well spent, for it would have been Any BB Cartoon of this period is pigeon holed in this manner.UP TO THE point of which we speak, it was typically a "aren't we smarter than those hicks, hayseeds and ridge-runners. It's the same premise that spawned and sustained THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES for so many seasons, a one joke comedy extended to the nth degree.THIS ONE GAG that we're raving about is when Bugs becomes the Square Dance Caller. It lasts for a good 2 1/2 minutes or so and is really a Tour de Force for Voice actor, Mel Blanc.THIS ROUTINE ALONE should put Mel into Animators Heaven as swell as their Hall of Fame (if there is one!).

phantom_tollbooth Robert McKimson's 'Hillbilly Hare' is probably the director's best loved short and I'd have to concur with the majority. 'Hillbilly Hare' is an absolutely fantastic piece of work and one of the few Robert McKimson cartoons which really stands up alongside the best work of his contemporaries. Pitting Bugs against a couple of stereotype hillbillies, 'Hillbilly Hare's' first half features some decent heckling but the halfway mark is the turning point as Bugs drags up and uses his sex appeal to tempt the two hillbillies into a square-dancing rehearsal. This leads to an extended climactic square-dance sequence which is one of my favourite routines in cartoon history. The success of this sequence is down to several contributors. Writer Tedd Pierce has written a fantastically funny set of lyrics which are delivered with astonishing comedic brilliance by Mel Blanc in one of the highlights of his long and distinguished voice-over career. McKimson creates the perfect visual accompaniment for this astonishing sequence. While 'Hillbilly Hare' might take a few minutes to really get going, its extended musical climax is one of the greatest moments in cartoon history. It never fails to have me roaring with laughter and it elevates the cartoon to the status of a true classic.

slymusic Directed by Bob McKimson, "Hillbilly Hare" is a lively and funny Bugs Bunny cartoon involving square dancing, which was quite a favorite pastime among the staff at the Warner Bros. cartoon department. Director Chuck Jones was probably the most notorious square dancer of them all! (Don't read the next few paragraphs if you haven't seen this cartoon.) The funniest highlight of "Hillbilly Hare" involves the climactic (and hectic) square dance sequence in which Bugs, disguised as a slinky female, entices two hillbilly brothers to actively participate. (As usual, Bugs minds his own business until someone comes along and tries to give him a hard time. In this case, these two "persistenant little cusses" try to shoot him.) After briefly dancing in drag with the two brothers, Bugs very quickly changes his disguise and becomes the square dance caller, with a violin to boot. Taking full advantage of his new role, Bugs has the brothers literally bending over backwards in order to adhere to his calls. Before the final iris-out, these two hillbillies promenade out of the dance hall, pull each other's beards, splash into the brook, wallow into a pigpen, bash each other with fence posts, get themselves baled into squares of hay, run like crazy, and finally fall off a cliff.Other highlights involve a couple of other tricks that Bugs pulls on these two men before the square dance. As one of the brothers aims a rifle at Bugs, Bugs switches the position of the gunstock so that the gentleman actually blasts himself instead! And Bugs allows the two men to chase him into a powder shack, where it is completely dark inside; Bugs offers them his lighter as he quietly slips out! All you avid square dancers out there will love "Hillbilly Hare." Lesson learned: if you pick on Bugs Bunny and afterwards follow his square dance calls, you will be in big trouble!

sglacker One of Bob McKimson's best, and further proof that he's perpetually under-rated compared to the "Big 4" WB directors (Avery, Clampett, Jones, Freleng).Personally, I find his short features more watchable than either Avery's or Clampett's, although part of that has to do with the fact that both the art form and the characters were further evolved by the time McKimson was directing with his own production unit. But don't discount McKimson's animation as being a BIG part of Clampett's successes either.I would rate this, along with "Boobs in the Woods" as two of McKimson's best. Both hold their own in comparison to the best of Freleng and Jones' cartoons.