Nice effects though.

Excellent, a Must See

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Rabbit Punch reminded me very much of Bunny Hugged, except I think Rabbit Punch is better, the pacing is more secure here for one thing. The story may be nothing special, but what does compensate are some wonderful, colourful animation and a beautifully orchestrated music score. What also added to the sense of fun was some nice witty dialogue and clever visual gags. Not to mention a great performance from Bugs, voiced as ever with real exuberance by the one and only Mel Blanc, who immortalised these great cartoons and characters that shaped my childhood, and for that I am very grateful. Overall, a very good Bugs Bunny cartoon, that is definitely worth watching. 8/10 Bethany Cox

CONTAINS A SOURCE OF QUOTATION - At the nearest boxing stadium to Bugs Bunny's neighbourhood, he witnesses from his rabbit hole that unfair contests are being performed. When he challenges the heavyweight boxing champion, Bugs finds himself at the ring. He gets into the spirit of boxing right away, but cannot gain an advantage over the Champ; till he brings his usual sly and dodgy methods to the ring.-(1)Bugs grabs the sportscaster's microphone and begins describing action that's not taking place, all of it so much in his favor that it wears down the Champ's resistance. "The Champ is confused," says Bugs "Bugs lands a beauty to the solar plexus!" and the Champ tries ward it off, flinching from its impact at the very thought. "The Champ is groggy!" shouts Bugs as the sportscaster, getting more feverish, making up so many 'rabbit punches' the Champ can't figure out where all the punches are coming from, and finally "The Champ is down!"(1). - The Champ really falls down when he gets the shaft of the invisible rabbit punches. But this was just one round, and after that the Champ uses Bugs Bunny's methods till the 110th round has Bugs tied up to railway tracks, while the Champ becomes the locomotive driver that is about to mash Bugs Bunny.How Bugs saves himself from that trouble is very unique. For a second time after he's beaten by Yosemite Sam in Hare Trigger(1945), this time the Champ beats Bugs; but only on paper(again). When the screen goes white, Bugs comes out of the side with a scissors in his hand; revealing that his ego is larger than the story writers'.Bugs becomes his own contest sportscaster, masquerades as a doctor, pretends as a popcorn peddler, and even cuts the motion picture film he's printed on. Rabbit Punch not only offers a lot of punches, it also adds more to Bugs Bunny's unconventional methods to outpower his adversaries. This episode is available on MGM/UA video Bugs Bunny Classics(1989).(1): Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare(1990) by Joe Adamson, pg:146, Henry Holt and Company New York

Watching Chuck Jones's "Rabbit Punch", I quickly saw that it had pretty much the same plot as "Bunny Hugged" - seeing that a wrestling champ easily clobbers his pitifully weak opponents, Bugs takes him on, and...you can probably guess what he does - although this one came first. But even knowing what sorts of things were going to happen, it was still a pleasure to watch Bugs Bunny make mincemeat out of a big bully of a wrestler (anonymous here, the big brute became The Crusher in the remake).I once read that one of the rules about Bugs Bunny getting confronted with unpleasant situations is that he never initiates the predicaments. One might say that by heckling the bellicose champions in "Baseball Bugs" and "Rabbit Punch", he initiates the predicaments. But whether or not he does, we always know that he's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve, so we need only sit back and wait for him to do his stuff. Worth seeing.

TIDBIT - Rabbits never fight fair.And nowhere is that more evident than in this classic "Rabbit Punch" where boxing fan Bugs jeers and heckles a boxing champion until he finds himself in the ring with the aforementioned champ to duke it out.And anyone who knows what Bugs Bunny is capable of pretty much expects the champ to get the worst of the deal.Director Chuck Jones makes a veritable ballet out of the antics in the ring and manages to make Bugs (naturally voiced by Blanc) and the champ (Bletcher) graceful, clumsy, victorious and beaten up badly in equal turns.And granted, this is the only boxing match you'll ever see axle grease, bricks, cannons and trains used in.Ten stars and a golden glove for "Rabbit Punch" and for our champ Bugs.