Looney Tunes fans we don't talk as much and well I want to make an effort to fix that as such i'm dedicating the next few days to reviewing Looney Tunes shorts. I've already got tomorrow's short or shorts in mind but what was a hard choice for me at least is which shorts should I review for you all today and well the first short that came to mind is one that many consider one of the best Bugs Bunny cartoons and the other is the final Daffy Duck cartoon to be directed by Tex Avery and so here is my review of "Rabbit Of Seville" and "Daffy Duck In Hollywood" enjoy Looney Tunes fans.
The plot of "Rabbit Of Seville" is Bugs is being chased by Elmer Fudd and the two end up at a production of "The Barber Of Seville" where Bugs has to try and outwit Elmer where as in "Daffy Duck In Hollywood" a director is trying to finish a movie and daffy is constantly messing with him. I have to say that the plot of "Daffy Duck In Hollywood" is very thin at best with it virtually not being there where as the plot of "Rabbit Of Seville" is your standerd Bugs and Elmer cartoon but done to some really great music.
Now even tho the late and great Mel Blanc is in both cartoons bith he and Arthur Q. Bryan don't get alot of line in this short plus Mel is also in "Daffy Duck In Hollywood and so to stop me repeating myself I will only talk about his acting when I get to talking about the acting in that short. As for this short like I said the actors don't get many lines of dialog with most of the short being done over music but from little acting there is it's really well done in my opinion.
As for "Daffy Duck In Hollywood" we have Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck / I. M. Stupendous / Rooster Actor and The Assistant Directors , Herman Bing as Von Hamburger and Sara Berner as Katherine Hepburn Chick and The Fat Lady. There's not much that I can say about Mel Blanc's acting because as always he's freaking perfect in both of these shorts and as for for the other two they do a really good job playing multiple characters and making them all sound very distinct in my opinion.
It's obvious that Warner Bros did the animation fort these shorts as such i'll be naming of a few of the individuals who did the animation. So starting with Daffy Duck In Hollywood we have Virgil Ross and Irven Spence doing the animation for this short and I have to say that the animation was of a really high quality I cannot say for sure if i've seen any more of there work but based of this cartoon i'd be more then happy to check a few out if I can find any of them that is.
Doing the animation for Rabbit Of Seville is Phil Monroe , Ben Washam , Ken Harris , Lloyd Vaughan and Emery Hawkins. Just like with the In Hollywood the animation here was at a very high standard and without looking at who the director of the short is you can tell just by the above picture who it is because it's in that directors visual style which since i'm a fan of the director who by the way if Chuck Jones is a plus for me.
The main reason as to why I wanted to watch Rabbit Of Seville is because it features the famous I guess joke of Bugs messaging Elmer's head with Bug's feet and then hands. That to me was honestly a really creative thing and it does seem like something Bugs would do and so I have to wonder why haven't other Bugs Bunny cartoons have him try and do something new in order to escape an enemy since it's something that clearly does work when done well.
As I said before alot of "Rabbit Of Seville" is done strictly to music and I have to say that the whole cartoon is really well timed with the music. Whenever there's a piano playing you'd see the characters do something that would reflect that or when some chase music starts playing a chase breaks out and when the chase music ends so does the chase it's honestly a really well timed cartoon at least when it comes to the music anyways.
Now the Daffy Duck cartoon does sadly feature the version of Daffy that I hate the most due to how much exposure this version has been getting lately and that's Screwy Daffy. However tho to this cartoon's credit they don't have this version of the character paired up with Porky Pig and they and they at least make an effort to have him somewhat be funny but this version of the character will never be Daffy to me since to me the character is more funny when things aren't going his way and he has a huge ego.
Now then since both of these are comedies that now means that we have to talk about the jokes in the both shorts and yea I will be talking about them both together because honestly what I have to say applies to both of them. In my opinion the jokes in both of these shorts are pretty funny but there's not as funny as they perhaps could be which is a shame because the Looney tunes shorts are usually full of some really good and laugh out loud funny jokes.
Overall if I had to choose which one I preferred out of these two short's i'd honestly go with Rabbit Of Seville simply because the scene with Bugs and Elmer chasing each other each one getting a bigger weapon is honestly really funny. That said there are some bad things about about cartoons which i've mentioned in this very review as such Rabbit Of Seville gets an 8 out of 10 from me where as Daffy Duck In Hollywood gets a 6 out of 10 from me and there's only one way I could every dream of ending a Looney Tunes review THAT'S ALL FOLKS!
