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Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.
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- Stars
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Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Robert Clampett
- Various
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the opening scene, Bugs is reading a book titled "Victory Thru Hare Power". It's a spoof on the title of "Victory Through Air Power", by Maj. Alexander de Seversky, published by Garden City Books, NY, in 1942. It was also adapted into a documentary film produced by Disney and released in 1943.
- GoofsIn the book "Victory Thru Hare Power", Bugs Bunny reads this sentence as he shows it to the audience: "A constant menace to pilots are the gremlins who wreck planes with diabolical sabotage." Grammatically speaking, the subject of the sentence, "A constant menace", is singular. So the sentence should read "A constant menace to pilots IS the gremlins ...". The fact that "gremlins" is plural is irrelevant.
- Quotes
[last lines]
[as the plane hurtles to a certain doom, the plane suddenly coughs and sputters, and stops a few feet off the ground]
The Gremlin: Sorry, folks. We ran out of gas.
Bugs Bunny: Yeah, you know how it is with these "A" cards.
- ConnectionsEdited into His Hare Raising Tale (1951)
- SoundtracksWait for Me Mary
(uncredited)
Written by Charles Tobias, Nat Simon and Harry Tobias
(based on "Down by the Riverside")
Played during the opening titles
Featured review
Bugs Bunny is relaxing on an A-Bomb reading a magazine and laughing at stories of gremlins interfering in the workings of aircraft. However when one such gremlin starts to mess around with the aircraft and equipment on the base, Bugs overcomes his disbelief to try and stop it.
Taking a good idea this film pitches Bugs against a gremlin to reasonable good effect to create an enjoyable, if far from great, cartoon. The gags are pretty good but parts of it do drag on a little too long without being funny the final punch-line is weak but yet seems to be built up to for at least a minute! Despite this it still worked quite well, although many of the topical (at the time) references went over my head made me think what watching Shrek will be like in about 50 years time!
The other big weakness it did have was in it's lead character which was a surprising thing to me. I love Bugs and enjoy seeing him twist things on those who would get him! I like to se the many ways he gets the upper hand. However here he was very much the lesser character in terms of scoring points. He is shown to be easily tricked and fooled and, at times, out of his depth in fact in the plane he is portrayed as terrified for the majority of the time. This didn't ruin the cartoon for me as it was still funny, but this was not the usual character I expect to see when I watch Bugs Bunny.
Overall this was an enjoyable cartoon despite it's weaknesses. Fans of Bugs (as I am) may struggle to enjoy it simply because our hero is painted as some sort of coward and weakling a far cry from his usual wise-ass self!
Taking a good idea this film pitches Bugs against a gremlin to reasonable good effect to create an enjoyable, if far from great, cartoon. The gags are pretty good but parts of it do drag on a little too long without being funny the final punch-line is weak but yet seems to be built up to for at least a minute! Despite this it still worked quite well, although many of the topical (at the time) references went over my head made me think what watching Shrek will be like in about 50 years time!
The other big weakness it did have was in it's lead character which was a surprising thing to me. I love Bugs and enjoy seeing him twist things on those who would get him! I like to se the many ways he gets the upper hand. However here he was very much the lesser character in terms of scoring points. He is shown to be easily tricked and fooled and, at times, out of his depth in fact in the plane he is portrayed as terrified for the majority of the time. This didn't ruin the cartoon for me as it was still funny, but this was not the usual character I expect to see when I watch Bugs Bunny.
Overall this was an enjoyable cartoon despite it's weaknesses. Fans of Bugs (as I am) may struggle to enjoy it simply because our hero is painted as some sort of coward and weakling a far cry from his usual wise-ass self!
- bob the moo
- Nov 7, 2003
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- Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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