Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . Bugs Bunny was performing aerial stunts as a B-19. That's the upshot of THE HARE-BRAINED HYPNOTIST, a World War Two Era Warner Bros. animated short. Bugs kisses Elmer Fudd once during HARE-BRAINED, while Elmer smooches the friendly rabbit thrice, proving that humans are 200% more likely to be gay than rodents and\or rabbits. (Speaking of mice, the 5-12-16 USA Today editorializes that Disney Megacorp's greed over Mickey Mouse's copyright and its continual bribing of the U.S. Congress makes a mockery of such "protection," resulting in our Capitol Dome becoming an international laughing stock, and putting Western Civilization on the brink of implosion.) Can you imagine if all your favorite things were rotting away because Warner Bros. was Hell-bent upon keeping Elmer Fudd locked up in solitary confinement until our Sun burned out?! I bet that you'd call that pretty Looney Tunes. Yet, as USA Today states, most old movies and shorts are crumbling to dust Today, along with 98% of the World's Great Literature, because everyone's lawyers warn them not to risk Disney's Wrath.
phantom_tollbooth
Friz Freleng's 'The Hare-Brained Hypnotist' is an ingenious and very funny cartoon which plays with the normal conventions of a Bugs and Elmer cartoon. This was a brave concept considering how early in Bugs' career this film was made but his impact was so instant that the Bugs/Elmer dynamic was already well enough established with audiences for this experimental take on it to work. Elmer Fudd takes up hypnotism as a way of overpowering woodland animals. With a view to using it on Bugs, he pursues the rabbit but cannot get him to cooperate long enough to hypnotise him. This sequence sets out the normal occurrences of a Bugs and Elmer picture for anyone who may be unfamiliar with them. However, when Bugs hypnotises Elmer into thinking he's a rabbit, Elmer takes on the characteristics of Bugs and begins heckling right back, forcing Bugs into the Elmer role. It's an unexpected and brilliantly executed twist which makes for a fascinating role-reversal based second half. One of the rare cartoons where Bugs ends up as the fall guy, 'The Hare-Brained Hypnotist' is a refreshing experience as Elmer finally gets some payback. The slightly too bizarre ending does not detract from how brilliantly Freleng has pulled off a potentially very complex film.
ccthemovieman-1
Elmer reads that one can hypnotize "dumb animals" so when he's out hunting one day (and reading the book at the same time), he comes across a bear. Lo and behold - it works! He puts the bear to sleep and has him float around like a canary. He then realizes this is his chance to finally capture the elusive Bugs Bunny.However, Bugs, as well know, is anything but a "dumb animal," and turns the tables on dumb Mr. Fudd. By the way, does Elmer's laugh annoy anyone else out here? It annoys me. This is one guy I don't mind getting the short end of the stick when it comes to Bugs Bunny's mayhem. He's right on when he calls Elmer "a jerk" in this story.The last third of this picture is excellent, however, when Elmer turns into a rabbit and asks Bugs, "What's up, doc?" He then drives Bugs crazy.That's one thing about these cleverly-written cartoons; the smarter Bugs doesn't always prevail, as we see in here.
slymusic
"The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" is probably not one of the better cartoons in the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd series, but it still has its good moments. Elmer hypnotizes a bear to chirp and fly like a canary bird, and as it does so, the familiar song "Listen to the Mockingbird" can be heard, thanks to the cleverness of Carl W. Stalling. When Elmer sticks his rifle in Bugs' rabbit hole, Bugs grabs the rifle and starts a tug-of-war with Elmer. They both apply this same tug-of-war gag a little later, after Bugs hypnotizes Elmer and switches roles with him. And while Bugs talks to the audience and munches on a carrot, Elmer hides behind him and shoves two more carrots in Bugs' mouth.This cartoon was directed by Friz Freleng, who wasn't crazy about Elmer Fudd and probably felt uncomfortable using him. This could be why he allowed Elmer and Bugs to switch roles in the second half of the picture, so that Elmer does not appear to be nearly as idiotic as he usually does. It is not often that we see Bugs as the fall guy, thus proving that nobody, not even Bugs Bunny, wins ALL the time. So when he becomes the victim instead of the prankster, he sure does take it hard! In any event, Friz need not have worried about Elmer for long, because another one of Bugs' adversaries was soon to take root. The name: Yosemite Sam!
