Good movie but grossly overrated

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

"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.

This is a Bugs and Elmer short from Warner Brothers. There will be spoilers ahead:This is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons. Elmer is bemoaning his lack of success at capturing or shooting bugs when an ethereal voice tells him to be patient and takes him forward across the decades to the far off year...2000! In addition to learning that Bing Crosby's horse still hasn't come in and that there's such a thing as "Smell-o-vision" in 2000, Elmer also finds he has a space age, Buck Rogers type of weapon. He sees an elderly Bugs who's basically Bugs with a grey beard and that durn lumbago. He irks Elmer and the "runs", but is blasted by Elmer.The "dying" Bugs begins to take Elmer down memory lane, where we see them as kids, though still very much in character. Age-appropriate gags take place which leave Elmer empty handed and we go back to the future, where Bugs is digging a grave. Things don't work out for Elmer any more in the end than they generally go, with a classic ending.This short is on multiple DVD/Blu Ray discs and is well worth looking for. Most recommended.

Wow, this was a strange feeling to watch this cartoon near the end of 2007. The animated short was made almost 65 years ago and deals with Elmer Fudd being transported by God to the future: the year 2000, which probably seemed far, far away to audiences in the theater back then. Now, here we are almost another decade later.Anyway, Elmer suddenly finds himself "all winkled" and "gway," still in his hunter's outfit and sitting under a tree. He sees a newspaper headline that claims "Smellovision Replaces Television." Hey, I've seen today's programs and that prediction has pretty much come true!Even better is when Bugs pops out of his hole nearby and has a white goatee - hey, he's in style!!! Who knew back in 1944? "What's up, prune face?" he asks old-man Elmer.Bugs may need a cane to walk with his bad hip and limp, but he's still a wise-guy. Mel Blanc voicing Bugs as an old man is a hoot, too.Time is reversed in the second half of the cartoon when Bugs - supposedly on his death bed - relives old times with Elmer, beginning when the latter was baby crawling along the ground with diapers and a popgun, looking for "Bugsy."

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.