This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

. . . for Bugs Bunny in LUMBER JACK-RABBIT. Though Bugs gets a brief glimpse from a distance of a gigantic Paul Bunyan, he interacts exclusively with Mr. Bunyan's equally massive dog, the 4,600-ton Smidgen. Since this hound must eat at least 50 tons of meat daily to maintain even a starvation diet, Bugs represents a drop in his bucket. (This was NOT the case with my own dogs, two of whom died when little rabbit bones became intestinal obstructions.) Bugs mystifies Smidgen by setting up a "carrot mine" in the Bunyan Garden of Gargantuan Veggies. Smidgen wonders where Bugs has gotten miles of steel railroad tracks on which to push cars full of carrot ore tailings onto a slag heap. Why bother, Smidgen wonders. Is Bugs planning on filling an Olympic-sized swimming pool with carrot juice? Does the Wascally Rabbit have an Everest-sized mold for carrot jello? Does he plan on setting a Guinness World Record for the largest carrot cake ever? Bugs is so busy getting under Smidgen's skin, he never has time to provide the mountainous mutt with any answers. Too bad.

When this film was originally released, theater patrons were not handed those stupid cardboard glasses with blue and red cellophane lenses, that are used today. Instead we had to rent genuine Polaroid glasses. (This is the main reason 3-D went out of favor, simply because cinema patrons objected to paying the additional charge to rent the glasses).I was one of the few that raised no ruckus at all. I loved 3-D. And one of my best 3-D experiences was "Lumber Jack Rabbit" in which Bugs encounters a giant Paul Bunyan and his equally over-sized mutt, Smidgin.Inventively directed by Chuck Jones, with good jests, rapid cutting, and lots and lots of deepie effects (but not too much of simply throwing objects into the camera), "Lumber Jack Rabbit" (the title is misleading) is a real entertainment treat. Bugs himself is in fine fettle. Highly recommended.

So I understand that "Lumber Jack-Rabbit" was the only Looney Tunes cartoon filmed in 3-D. Why didn't they film "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century" like that? But no matter what got filmed like that, the format unfortunately doesn't show up on TV. I guess that you just can't try to transpose anything from one format to another! No matter, I still thought that this was a funny cartoon, as Bugs Bunny stumbles onto Paul Bunyan's farm and has to contend with Bunyan's over-sized dog Smidgen. As always, despite being a tiny fraction of the size, Bugs somehow always has the upper hand.So, this is far from the best cartoon that they ever produced. After "Duck Amuck" and "What's Opera, Doc?", I really expect a lot from Chuck Jones. But this one's OK in a pinch.

Chuck Jones truly put the characters into the shape and form they are today... I will say that it was a group effort with the animators at WB but the things he did and the characterisation he gave was flawless.If only there was another Chuck Jones in todays animation studios, to revitalise the wb characters past the shells we see today.