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I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

"Mad as a Mars Hare" is an American cartoon from 1963, so this one is already over half a century old and it includes some of Warner Bros' greatest again in Chuck Jones, Mel Blanc and John W. Dunn, who was also really prolific back then, even if his name may not be as known as some other cartoon writers for WB. Anyway, the antagonist here is once again the Martian, a character who is not as prolific as Elmer and Sam for example, but still the films in which he appears all made it somehow famous, perhaps because of the SciFi space element. And it is somewhat entertaining. The film is perhaps at its best when the two protagonists aren't united yet and when we are introduced to them, especially the scenes with Bugs refusing to step outside the rocket. What a difference a carrot makes. But the Neanderthal scene at the end was fine too. Overall, it is a well-rounded entertaining effort and I cannot deny I have a soft spot for the Martian too. Needless to say Blanc's once again spot-on with his voice acting for the little guy here. The man's a legend. The film's a winner. Go check it out.

. . . decked out in a green leotard complemented by white sneakers, the school uniform of the early 1960s on Michigan State University's East Lansing campus. (Just as Wisconsin Badger fans sport cheese wedge hats, Warner Bros.' animators--always sticklers for Real Life accuracy--draw in broom bristles atop Sparty, I mean Marvin's head, another common sight around Ingham County, denoting MSU's annual sweeps versus their beleaguered intra-state rival, the U-M teams). Inexplicably, Marvin's antagonist here (an Orange-garbed Bugs Bunny) seems to represent Syracuse U., rather than the Spartans' primary traditional rival, our University of Maryland. Marvin inhabits a Florida island nine seconds away from Cape Canaveral by rocket. Surgeons from MSU's Large Animal Department have replaced his brain with that of a Wolverine, so he thinks that he's on STAR TREK. (You can tell this because Marvin says one crazy thing after another.) The East Lansing pranksters who've paired Bugs with Marvin trick Bugs into eating an aluminum carrot early on. The Syracuse bunny muses, "Why do I like carrots, anyway? There's not much meat on them, and they're kind of dry." Obviously, the MAD AS A HARE writer slipped this Double Entendre in to further disparage the U of M carrot-helmeted Woverines.

This is a real shame, that this cartoon isn't a classic for while it is entertaining it has too many flaws for me to consider it a classic. While the animation is very well done and detailed, the vocal characterisations of Mel Blanc are top notch and the music is beautiful, what let it down is that it is too talky. It is good that there is dialogue and all that, but there is too much of it. Consequently the jokes don't work as well as it should. Also it may be just me, but I found the dialogue rather hit and miss. There are some good lines like "wait a minute, are you out of your CottonTail mind?" and "because rabbits are expendable that's why" but Marvin is given very little to do because his dialogue isn't that much to go on. Overall, decent but it isn't a favourite of mine unfortunately. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Most of the gags in this are verbal in nature, rather than sight gags (though it has a fair number of those as well) and Marvin may have more of the best lines than Bugs, particularly in the beginning. As is often the case, the title is a play on words-in this case, "mad as a March hare", which I believe was derived from Alice in Wonderland. Marvin's comments on "the flora and fauna of Earth likely would have delighted H. L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce! The ending scene is beautiful, particularly the closing line. Great fun is had by all (well, not by Marvin, not at the end, anyway). Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.