Bugs Bunny is one of my favourite Looney Tunes characters, and Yosemite Sam is one of his best-written opponents, making their partnership one of the most fun.
Although all their cartoons have many pleasures, 'Hare Lift' is one of their best collaborations. The animation is excellent, no surprise seeing as the best animation in the Looney Tunes cartoons came from the cartoons made the late 1940s to about 1958 in my opinion. Here the animation is drawn absolutely beautifully, the colours are vibrant but never garish and there is a lot of meticulous detail here. Both Bugs and Yosemite Sam are well drawn and their movements move easily, Sam here being more kinetic in movement is a touch more expressive.
Carl Stalling, my favourite of the regular Looney Tunes composers by quite some margin, provides yet another outstanding music score. The music is supremely characterful and energetic, the orchestration is lush and clever and most importantly aside from that it's very memorable it fits with to the action and adds to it, Stalling also showing his perhaps unmatched ability at that time to enhance the action. Also note how the energy and frenzy keeps piling up in the climax to thrilling effect.
With any Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam collaboration, one expects great gags and dialogue. 'Hare Lift' has both of those, in fact containing some of the sharpest and wittiest dialogue (Bugs' wit and matter-of-factness contrasting brilliantly with the increasingly desperation and tough-guy-act of Sam's) and even with the references to 'Falling Hare' some of the funniest and most inspired gags and slapstick of all their cartoons. The story is not as routine or as predictable as it could have been, and has wonderful energy, especially once Bugs and Sam are together. The climax is most exciting, one of the most exciting of any of their cartoons.
Both Bugs and Sam are on top form and their chemistry is a fond reminder as to why the two are so popular together. Mel Blanc's voice work is characteristically spot on, once again as always showing an ability that has yet to be matched or bettered as consistently brilliantly for voicing more than one character and making each character completely individual from the other.
Overall, although the Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoons all have many pleasures 'Hare Lift' is one of their classics. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Although all their cartoons have many pleasures, 'Hare Lift' is one of their best collaborations. The animation is excellent, no surprise seeing as the best animation in the Looney Tunes cartoons came from the cartoons made the late 1940s to about 1958 in my opinion. Here the animation is drawn absolutely beautifully, the colours are vibrant but never garish and there is a lot of meticulous detail here. Both Bugs and Yosemite Sam are well drawn and their movements move easily, Sam here being more kinetic in movement is a touch more expressive.
Carl Stalling, my favourite of the regular Looney Tunes composers by quite some margin, provides yet another outstanding music score. The music is supremely characterful and energetic, the orchestration is lush and clever and most importantly aside from that it's very memorable it fits with to the action and adds to it, Stalling also showing his perhaps unmatched ability at that time to enhance the action. Also note how the energy and frenzy keeps piling up in the climax to thrilling effect.
With any Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam collaboration, one expects great gags and dialogue. 'Hare Lift' has both of those, in fact containing some of the sharpest and wittiest dialogue (Bugs' wit and matter-of-factness contrasting brilliantly with the increasingly desperation and tough-guy-act of Sam's) and even with the references to 'Falling Hare' some of the funniest and most inspired gags and slapstick of all their cartoons. The story is not as routine or as predictable as it could have been, and has wonderful energy, especially once Bugs and Sam are together. The climax is most exciting, one of the most exciting of any of their cartoons.
Both Bugs and Sam are on top form and their chemistry is a fond reminder as to why the two are so popular together. Mel Blanc's voice work is characteristically spot on, once again as always showing an ability that has yet to be matched or bettered as consistently brilliantly for voicing more than one character and making each character completely individual from the other.
Overall, although the Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoons all have many pleasures 'Hare Lift' is one of their classics. 10/10 Bethany Cox