SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
KnotStronger
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Tweekums
While the story of this Bugs Bunny short isn't one of the best the execution is great. The cartoon opens with Bugs' rabbit hole being dug up my a construction worker, of course this means war and we all know who is going to win. Bugs is soon getting his revenge; dropping items on the worker, bouncing him up and down in an elevator and then disguising himself as the works foreman and ordering the worker to build a tall structure which is topped by a see-saw where a few bricks prevent the worker from falling... as Bugs takes off the bricks the worker removes items of clothing till he is left in his underwear, Bugs shows no mercy and removes the final brick sending him falling. Bugs doesn't get it all his own way, he is stunned when the worker swings a girder into his face, in this stunned state he staggers around the top or the building, each time we thing he is about to fall he steps onto an item being moved by a crane or a conveniently placed rope. This is the most creative part of the cartoon, the second best part is what Bugs does next... I won't say what he does exactly, just that it involves the creative use of a very hot rivet.Bugs is funny as usual and it was nice to see somebody get the better of him if only for a short while, it is just a shame the antagonist wasn't somebody more interesting. This was a nice addition to the DVD of "White Heat" starring James Cagney; a reminder that once when you went to the movies you got more than one film and a few adverts for your money.
slymusic
Directed by Chuck Jones, "Homeless Hare" is a very good Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs' hole becomes the center of a construction site as it gets lifted up by a crane. When Bugs kindly asks the burly, cigar-chomping construction worker to place his "home" back where it belongs, the sinister smart aleck does not comply. As he eventually learns, if you mess with Bugs Bunny, you better look out! Highlights: Carl W. Stalling wrote a catchy, jazzy snippet during the introductory credits. After Bugs antagonizes the villain by playing with the elevator, the treacherous palooka soars high into the air, sees a bird, looks down below, gives quite a humorous reaction, and falls all the way down into a vat of cement; as a finishing touch, a short, bespectacled construction worker takes the villain's cigar as he continues laying the cement. And watch the wry expression on Bugs' face as he removes bricks from what becomes, in effect, a teeter-totter numerous stories above the ground, with the villain standing on the other end of it! I had never seen "Homeless Hare" until I obtained the DVD (the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3 Disc 1). Bugs isn't really homeless, of course, and he intends to keep it that way.....by making life extremely hard for one thoughtless construction worker!
movieman_kev
A construction worker destroys Bug's home accidentally while doing his job. But seeing as how he's totally unrepentant about what he's done, Bugs decides to take it upon himself to teach him some manners. Definitely one of the lesser of the Bugs cartoons this short just didn't hit my funny bone as much as usual. It IS however one of the very few times I saw Bugs get his ass completely beat down (even if it only kept him out of commission for like half a minute). This animated short can be found on Disk 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3.My Grade: B-
Robert Reynolds
This is the first of two cartoons where a thoroughly obnoxious and unlikable construction worker tramples on our stalwart hero, with generally hilarious results (though the construction worker was probably less than happy about it all). The second of the two, No Parking Hare, is slightly better, but both are marvelous and are well worth watching. This one is happily available. Recommended.
