Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . as it's a gladiator sport pairing people whose sole intent it to beat each other's brains out. Now, if we live in a World in which diminished Brain Power were a Virtue, boxing would actually make sense. But a recent survey conducted by the Ring Physicians Group (or RPG) discovered that the average pugilist lost one IQ point per fight. Since 40 bouts constitutes a typical ring career on the ropes, and 121.7 is the median Intelligence Quotient of boxing rookies, "lucky" boxers retire with an IQ in the 80 to 83 range. (Unlucky boxers die in the Ring.) This sort of mental deterioration not only bans them from driving in 18 states, but it also more than doubles the time they must spend to solve a crossword puzzle. (Though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that most retired boxers are not eligible for the Death Penalty due to their diminished faculties, many of them might be better off taking up NFL football, as Jury Nullification exempts the NFL's Best and Brightest killers from ever facing the Needle.) Bugs Bunny skates around all of these issues during RABBIT PUNCH, before he tires of such a tawdry exercise and literally cuts this cartoon short.

Cihan "Sean Victorydawn" Vercan (CihanVercan) CONTAINS A SOURCE OF QUOTATION - At the nearest boxing stadium to Bugs Bunny's neighbourhood, he witnesses from his rabbit hole that unfair contests are being performed. When he challenges the heavyweight boxing champion, Bugs finds himself at the ring. He gets into the spirit of boxing right away, but cannot gain an advantage over the Champ; till he brings his usual sly and dodgy methods to the ring.-(1)Bugs grabs the sportscaster's microphone and begins describing action that's not taking place, all of it so much in his favor that it wears down the Champ's resistance. "The Champ is confused," says Bugs "Bugs lands a beauty to the solar plexus!" and the Champ tries ward it off, flinching from its impact at the very thought. "The Champ is groggy!" shouts Bugs as the sportscaster, getting more feverish, making up so many 'rabbit punches' the Champ can't figure out where all the punches are coming from, and finally "The Champ is down!"(1). - The Champ really falls down when he gets the shaft of the invisible rabbit punches. But this was just one round, and after that the Champ uses Bugs Bunny's methods till the 110th round has Bugs tied up to railway tracks, while the Champ becomes the locomotive driver that is about to mash Bugs Bunny.How Bugs saves himself from that trouble is very unique. For a second time after he's beaten by Yosemite Sam in Hare Trigger(1945), this time the Champ beats Bugs; but only on paper(again). When the screen goes white, Bugs comes out of the side with a scissors in his hand; revealing that his ego is larger than the story writers'.Bugs becomes his own contest sportscaster, masquerades as a doctor, pretends as a popcorn peddler, and even cuts the motion picture film he's printed on. Rabbit Punch not only offers a lot of punches, it also adds more to Bugs Bunny's unconventional methods to outpower his adversaries. This episode is available on MGM/UA video Bugs Bunny Classics(1989).(1): Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare(1990) by Joe Adamson, pg:146, Henry Holt and Company New York

phantom_tollbooth Chuck Jones's 'Rabbit Punch' is a great cartoon in which Bugs is drawn into a boxing match with The Champ (later redubbed The Crusher in the far inferior wrestling-based sequel 'Bunny Hugged') and ends up going 110 rounds with him, each round escalating in its levels of violence until finally Bugs finds himself tied to a train track! A fast paced, beautifully orchestrated cartoon which eventually turns into a series of unusual spot-gags, 'Rabbit Punch' is full of great sequences, the best being Bugs's grease-assisted ice skating routine which is abruptly ended by a glove to the head. There's also a famous ending in which Bugs admits psychical defeat by resorting to tampering with the very cartoon itself. Unlike the lifeless follow-up 'Bunny Hugged', 'Rabbit Punch' is filled with invention and moves along at a fast lick, making it an enormously enjoyable short.

Mister-6 TIDBIT - Rabbits never fight fair.And nowhere is that more evident than in this classic "Rabbit Punch" where boxing fan Bugs jeers and heckles a boxing champion until he finds himself in the ring with the aforementioned champ to duke it out.And anyone who knows what Bugs Bunny is capable of pretty much expects the champ to get the worst of the deal.Director Chuck Jones makes a veritable ballet out of the antics in the ring and manages to make Bugs (naturally voiced by Blanc) and the champ (Bletcher) graceful, clumsy, victorious and beaten up badly in equal turns.And granted, this is the only boxing match you'll ever see axle grease, bricks, cannons and trains used in.Ten stars and a golden glove for "Rabbit Punch" and for our champ Bugs.