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I wanted to but couldn't!

Absolutely the worst movie.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

. . . but maybe what he MEANT to say was that there was nothing NUDE in broad daylight. Bugs Bunny disproves this adage in MISSISSIPPI HARE, as a Promenade Deck Costume Malfunction exposes his nether regions to a Southern Gentleman Admirer and, to quote the Warner star, "Oh well, we almost had a romantic ending." Bugs is either Transgendered or Transvestite in MISSISSIPPI HARE, but the North Carolina legislature cannot say which. However, the buxom bunny is sporting D cups at the very least, and he's already smooched Col. Shuffle full on the kisser. Warner uses MISSISSIPPI HARE to urge the sexually confused American South to "Go jump in the lake!" (or is it "Go leap in the river of fudge-hued sludge"?). Col. Shuffle Takes the Plunge four times, with a cremation thrown in there somewhere. Bugs' Gentleman Admirer also is last seen splashing in the drink, leaving Bugs as Last Mammal Standing. Since Bugs is baled into a giant wad of cotton as this episode begins, only a touch of serendipity (there's a hint of that Great Emancipator Abe Lincoln freeing Bugs below deck of the "Southern Star paddle-wheel steamship) bails him out. Join the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, in boycotting the South, Bugs seems to be saying here on behalf of Warner Bros.

While I can agree that many of the cartoons that Warner Brothers pulled from circulation were quite racist, I think they made a big mistake in the case of "Mississippi Hare". First, I doubt if many people would in any way consider it racist--and I don't think we should always cater to those who the easily offended. Second, it is a pretty good cartoon and it's a shame to ban it (officially or unofficially).The film is set in what appears to be the antebellum South. It begins with a black worker picking cotton and accidentally dropping Bugs Bunny into a hopper that then transfers him to a river boat. What, exactly, is racist about this? In those days and after, a huge majority of people working in the cotton fields WERE black Americans. Should they have made them white or green so as not to offend?! Plus, the person is just a person--no stereotypical facial features (or ANY) are seen--just a brown-skinned arm. My attitude about this is just get over it--it IS a part of our history, like it or not! As for what happens next, Bugs has a run in with Colonel Shuffle--a gambler who is angry Bugs beat him so badly at poker (or course, Bugs having six Aces might also have something to do with it). During the rest of the film, Bugs does he did best with Elmer or Yosimite Sam--he terrorizes the victim repeatedly for our viewing pleasure. It's all pretty funny--particularly the final line. My advice is to download it from archive.org--you're bound to enjoy it.

Accidentally picked up and stuffed into a bale of cotton, Bugs winds up on a steamship headed to Mississippi. Fearful of being discovered as a stowaway and thrown into the river, Bugs dons two different disguises, beginning with his Southern aristocrat outfit and finishing with his Southern Belle look.In the bulk of the story, Bugs battles a Yosemite Sam-type character in "Colonel Shuffle," a gambler who doesn't tolerate losing. Overall, the duels between the two had a few funny sight gags but not many. The dialog was the attraction here more than the slapstick visuals.The final line Bugs delivers in here - directed to us, the audience, - was "cute." Overall, however, this was okay, but nothing special. Note: I was stunned to see from other reviewers here comment that the Politically-Correct Police banned this cartoon because a black person was seen early on picking cotton. Excuse me, but what's the problem? Many blacks did pick cotton down South. So what? You censor a cartoon for showing something that happened in history? Black people would not be offended at that opening scene. That's going way overboard. It sounds like modern-day Nazism. By the way, where is the concerned PC Police in all these cartoons and movies which almost always show Southerners to be stupid? Banning Bugs Bunny cartoons? How lame and ludicrous can you get?As another reviewer said, the cartoon isn't offensive, just not all that funny.

One of the better Bugs shorts, although not seen much today due to its depiction of blacks picking cotton and parodies of Uncle Tom's Cabin. If you can forgive those misgivings, then this is a definite must see short. Bugs takes on a Mississippi Colonel on a riverboat.