Hillbilly Hare

1950
7.8| 0h7m| NR| en
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While vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.

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Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story
Steineded How sad is this?
Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Freaktana A Major Disappointment
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . to the Men and Culture of the American South. Warner Bros. was never in ideological lock-step with studios such as MGM (which released the infamously revisionist and harmful public nuisance labeled GONE WITH THE WIND). HILLBILLY HARE opens with the "Martin Brothers" demonstrating to Bugs Bunny that guys in such Southern regions as the Arkansas Ozarks have never heard tell of razors. It goes on to show that such dudes feel naked without an over-sized gun in their fists to compensate for whatever phallic inadequacies or short-comings they may feel at the moment. When Bugs is able to tie up the barrel of Curt Martin's shot gun into a pretzel, it's a clue that Warner's animators want their audience to know that a Southerner's gun is not simply cold, hard blue steel, but also a warm, pliable tube more likely to spit out on themselves than anyone else as they manipulate it. Next, Bugs demonstrates that Southern gentleman are prone to be taken in by transvestites. Bugs throws on some Daisy Dukes, and the Martins begin drooling all over themselves. Finally, Bugs demonstrates how Sons of the South are dumber than posts--so dense, in fact, that all it takes is a malicious square dance caller's perverse rhymes to make them clobber each other with fence posts! It's hard for anyone who's seen Will Smith's CONCUSSION to believe that the NFL still will be in business five years from now. But as HILLBILLY HARE indicates, as long as there are Southern boys, we'll always have football!
Petri Pelkonen The hillbilly brothers Curt and Punkinhead Martin haven't had luck in the rabbit hunt.Now they have determined to get Bugs Bunny.Probably not the easiest target.Hillbilly Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon from 1950.Its director is Robert McKimson and it's produced and released through Warner Bros. Pictures.Bugs is voiced by Mel Blanc, who else.He also does the voice of Curt Martin.Stan Freberg is the voice of Punkinhead Martin.Then there's also John T. Smith.This short represents slapstick comedy at its best.Bugs Bunny's long square dance number with the song is a riot.We also see Bugs wearing women's clothes.That makes the boys whistle.This is seven minutes pure Bugs Bunny fun.
Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) This is another great Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Bob McKimson along with "Acrobatty Bunny" from 1946, "Hurdy-Gurdy Hare" from the same year this short is made in - 1950, "Rabbit's Kin" from 1952 with Stan Freberg again as Pete Puma this time; "Wet Hare" from 1962.Mel Blanc & Stan Freberg were great as the two hillbilly brothers Curt & Pumpkinhead Martin. Not to be mean, but a hillbilly's speech impediment is funny to me. The best scene in this cartoon, is the square dance scene where Bugs makes up a hilarious square ditty :"Whomp him low! and Whomp him high! stick your finger in his eye!" Something like that. So anyway I really love this cartoon.
TheOtherFool Banned cartoon this time takes a swing at those southern red-neck hill- billies, who talk funny and aren't too clever.Bugs is being chased by two of these hill-billies, who happen to be brothers and are looking for some animals to kill.The first part of this short film is nothing special, but in the second part things all burst out into a song, sung in part by Bugs and it involves a great dance by the three characters. When Bugs takes over the song he makes the hill-billies do these crazy things like dancing with pigs and stuff like that. Very good song, check it out!Great fun, in particular in it's second part: 7/10.