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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I do agree that this is not one of Bug's better efforts, but it is an amusing little cartoon. What doesn't make it as good is that the first two minutes or so is a tad slow and unfunny, but once the action moves to the kitchen it is then when it gets quite amusing. There are a number of good things, particularly the art work, as the Parisian backgrounds are beautiful to look at. The music is great, and the sight gags in the latter half range from pretty good to very good indeed. Bugs himself is great, and the two chefs are not too bad either, personally it would have been better with just one chef but oh well. Finally, Mel Blanc's vocal characterisations are stellar as always. Overall, slow to start with, but it is really quite amusing once it kicks off. 8/10 Bethany Cox

French Rarebit (1951) ** (out of 4) Bugs Bunny finds himself in Paris, walking down a street when rival chefs start fighting over which one will have Bugs on their menu that night. Soon Bugs joins the fighting in order to make both of them look like fools. This was never one of my favorite Bugs shorts and I'd probably say this is one of the least entertaining over all. There's some nice imagination and good animation but outside of that this thing is pretty lifeless. You expect a lot more in terms of laughs but there's not a single one here, which is rather shocking. Another problem are the two chefs and how bland and boring they are. Not once did they make me laugh and they even manage to bring Bugs down to their unfunny level.

When two French chefs face off against each other over who gets to cook Bugs Bunny, Bugs winds up cooking them in this rather bizarre Robert McKimson short. The main problem with 'French Rarebit' is the chef characters who are both grating stereotypes, less offensive than they are just plain annoying (think the leprechauns from Chuck Jones's 'The Wearing of the Grin'). The whining pseudo-French takes up far more time than it should. The early scenes in which Bugs plays the two chefs off against each other are slow and unfunny but once he accompanies just one of the chefs to the kitchen, the cartoon begins to liven up. The scene in which Bugs walks him through a recipe by using him as the main ingredient is very funny indeed. When the other chef returns, however, the cartoon just begins repeating itself with gags that don't stand up to a second appearance in the same short. It seems that writer Tedd Pierce over-reached himself by including two chefs as rivals to Bugs when one would have been sufficient and made the film less cluttered. 'French Rarebit', then, is a quintessential example of "Too many cooks spoil the broth".

Bugs, hiding inside a crate of carrots, winds up on the streets of Paris when the crate falls off the truck. He then meanders down the street and is spotted by competing chefs. They both think the rabbit is what they need to complete their menus. The colors in here are magnificent as they make Paris look really colorful.Our bunny hero, as he usually does, makes fools of his opponents in a variety of ways that makes them look really stupid. In this case, one of the chefs is a little too stupid for humor. Although there were a handful of funny lines at the expense of the French stereotypes at the time, this really wasn't one of the better Bugs Bunny efforts.