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

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

. . . Presidential Election Fiasco with this 1944 Looney Tune, THE OLD GREY HARE, explicitly set in the year 2000 AD. Eerily enough, Elmer Fudd does not need to change his appearance (other than aging 56 years) or vocal inflections at all in order to deliver a spot-on performance as Democratic popular vote winner (and, therefore, U.S. President-Elect) Al Gore. (There's also a scene in which Mr. Fudd doubles as the infamous squinting "hanging chads" inspector, the main meme the Rich People's Party used to filch the White House for its draft-dodging, alcoholic Cokehead silver-spoon contender--W--the sort of Cartoonish jerk one would expect to launch a "family-honor" vendetta based upon bogus "intelligence" about fabricated "Weapons of Mass Destruction"--drawn at the 3:00 mark of OLD GREY HARE--that produced 5,000 U.S. Service Heroes fatalities, one million-plus murdered Iraqis, wasted $2 trillion of American taxpayer funds, and created ISIS' World War 3, which still continues to haunt the world. Despite Bugs Bunny--as W--blowing up Elmer (7:30) at his finish line (uncannily foreshadowing the W-enabled Boston Marathon bombers), Warner's warning went unheeded, Americans did NOT riot in the streets when Election Loser W was bribed into the Oval Office--and the rest is Sad History.

"The Old Grey Hare" is a 7.5-minute cartoon from over 80 years ago and not one of the most famous or least famous Warner Bros works starring Bugs Bunny. Bob Clampett, Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan are very prolific with these films, but writer Michael Sasanoff has not come up with too many of these films, but judging from this one here, it is not a major loss. Science-fiction wise it is somewhat interesting as this is a genre that is included in some of the highest appreciated cartoons from the 1950s. I think it was fun to see the young and old version of Bugs and Elmer, but story-wise and comedy-wise there is little memorable quality in here unfortunately. I cannot agree with the high IMDb rating. I have seen many superior Looney (car)Toons). Thumbs down.

I have gone on record as not being the biggest fan of Robert Clampett. He repeats a lot of corny gags that didn't really bear repeating, some of his animation had the tendency to become too rubbery, but what I most objected to was actually not a failing of his own, but a sort of tribute, as dozens of animators that followed trying to emulate him most often accentuated his bad traits at the expense of his genius. Ah, that's the rub! How can you copy genius?This cartoon was one of those masterpieces Clampett created while he was at Warner Bros. We've all seen a hundred cartoons (my exaggerate - he he) where they show characters in infancy to old age, but never has anyone captured the brilliance of this one. As Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd go to the year 2000, the chase is on with a space age type rifle, and when we see them as infants, the chase was on even then with a popgun.Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of Clampett's, but all animation lovers have to be indebted to those works he directed at WB that even today (especially today) are high water marks for anyone in this medium.

This one makes me laugh. True, it's not a Chuck Jones, who many consider the master of the genre, but it's right up there at the top.Elmer Fudd is probably my favorite foil to bugs, and here he is brimming with pathos. His stutter is as prominent as his brow, and the script for this is astounding. Whomever wrote these little 'cartoons' hopefully moved on to great things, because they are better than most films made today! Well worth your time.