One of my all time favorites.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

As a huge Looney Tunes fan, I re-visited The Grey-Hounded Hare after seeing it a few times as a kid and completely forgetting about it, and I liked it. The story is rather standard and the lead dog while not a complete dud I agree didn't strike me as memorable. However, Bugs is great as always, likable but with a bit of arrogance about him. The animation with good colours and backgrounds and decently drawn characters is quite good, and the attention to visual detail is evident. The music is as quirky and energetic as I like it, the dialogue is witty and fresh and the pace is solid. Mel Blanc's voice work throughout is superb. Overall, above decent. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Bugs tunnels from underneath and finds himself at the local dog track After checking out all the entries, he wanders over to the fence to get a close look at the race.It begins and, lo-and-behold, there's a cute little rabbit! Bugs is immediately smitten. Unfortunately, that's the mechanical one the dogs chase each race. Bugs doesn't know it's a fake, he thinks "she" is cute and he's going to save her before all those dogs catch up to her.Bugs does his best by trying to eliminate the field, one by one. However, the gray dog is more than a challenge for Bugs....and, for some reason, Bugs has a hard time catching up "to that dame."The cartoon is funny and something a bit different. I can't recall seeing any cartoons involving dog (greyhound, to be exact) races.

THE GREY HOUNDED HARE is unfunny, basically everything Robert McKimson tries to make this cartoon succeed goes wrong. Do not we all love Bugs Bunny? Of course we do. But he just doesn't seem himself in this cartoon. I am at a loss as to why this film doesn't work, I don't know why it is quite barren and humorless.The story is one of the biggest negatives. Bugs likes a mechanical dog race track hare, and attempts to save her from the dogs that chase her. Since the object of his aggression is constantly running, it just doesn't seem like the sort of situation for a character like our beloved rabbit. He is a practical strategist, who sits down with his adversary and outwits him. What is there to outwit in this film? The dogs are running after the rabbit, and they have no intention whatsoever of stopping mid-race. Plus their personalities are nonexistent, there's no way to differentiate between the contestants. You are not sure whether they're smart or dumb. It's a useless situation for Bugs Bunny.I have some serious complaints about the direction by McKimson. The guys from Termite Terrace are mostly so impeccably precise when it comes to detail. McKimson just didn't seem to care. Before the race begins, the announcer introduces us to each contestant canine, ready to run in their pen, the doors soon to be opened. Since these are portraits of the dogs, the features and colors are drastically different from one to the other, though you can't recognize a distinct breed. This is a strong point. The close-ups are good. You know the names beforehand. But when the race begins, the commentator names the dogs as they pass by; and lo and behold, the names may be different, but all the dogs except for a big ferocious one are identical, rust-red whippet-like dogs! The whippet is a miniature but speedy version of the greyhound. In fact only one of the dogs in the introduction was similar. Why is this so? I am horrified.The animation seems a bit primitive, and there's not much I have to say about it. A plus point is good layouts: The kennels and the stands are both detailed and accurate. Not that much above your average Warner Bros. short film, however. And as another note, the ending is pretty useless. Overall, the attempts at slapstick fall flat on their faces inexplicably. If you have something better to do (you probably will) turn the sound off and wait for the next cartoon for seven minutes when you see the title. It's not worth it.

All too often, Bugs Bunny resembles the stereotypical American tourist, bigoted, unable to understand why he's not welcome, incapable of realising that he got things wrong the first time round. (That's the stereotype, anyway. I've yet to encounter it in real life.) He is BEYOND brash, his rhinoceros-thick hide so impenetrable that the creature inside must be regarded as merely stupid. We long for his comeuppance, are galled to discover it will never come, and insulted by the request that we be GLAD that it will never come.At least, that's what happens here. Bugs falls in love with a mechanical racetrack hare, and rushes off to save it from the slavering greyhounds chasing it - and he never learns his error, as I kept hoping he would, so that he'd go away and leave the rest of the world alone. It's not always like this with Bugs. He's impossible to dislike in a wonderful work like "Rabbit of Seville", for example, because Chuck Jones is a master director who knows how to make the character work for rather than against the cartoon. But it's important to realise that Robert McKimson's sin here is purely negative. He doesn't MAKE Bugs irritating; the character is irritating already. Rather, McKimson's stale and unimaginative direction does nothing whatever to alter or subvert or compensate for the character, leaving us with a tiresome, earthbound cartoon about an odious loudmouth.