Little Red Riding Rabbit
Little Red Riding Rabbit
NR | 04 January 1944 (USA)
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Bugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.

Reviews
SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless
Manthast Absolutely amazing
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
TheLittleSongbird I cannot tell you how much I loved "Little Red Riding Rabbit". It is absolutely great; the animation is wonderful and the music is great. There are many priceless bits, the dialogue was mighty fine especially the repeated "Hey granma", "come on, come on! Take a powder. This is my racket" and "Put on your ol' gray favourite and a blue..." And the ending was hilarious. The voice characterisations are excellent, Mel Blanc as always is brilliant as Bugs, Bea Beanderet is deliberately annoying as the obnoxious Red and Billy Bletcher(who voiced Pete in the early Silly Symphony cartoons) is raspacious enough as the wolf. All in all, this cartoon is a great favourite of mine. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Michael_Elliott Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Classic Merrie Melodies short is a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story except here we have Bugs Bunny being what the wolf is wanting. A lot of people seem to be rather hit and miss on this short but I've always found it to be quite funny from start to finish. Some put down the granddaughter as being too annoying but I think that's the entire point and it does pay off well in the ending where things get mixed up a little. The action between the wolf and Bugs is pure classic with a number of great scenes including the wonderful one where Bugs puts a hot coal inside the wolf's pants. The animation is extremely well done and there's enough action for two movies.
phantom_tollbooth Friz Freleng's 'Little Red Riding Rabbit' is a much admired gem of a cartoon and another strong retort to those who accuse Freleng of being a dull director. Taking liberties with the original Red Riding Hood story, 'Little Red Riding Rabbit' deletes Grandma from the story entirely and features a wolf who is actually more interested in the contents of Red's picnic basket than the girl herself. These contents turn out to be Bugs Bunny, who sets about having enormous fun with the dumb wolf in a series of beautifully orchestrated routines including a truly inspired vocal sparring match in which Bugs repeats everything the wolf says and slyly switches places so that he controls the dialogue. As great as the battle between Bugs and the wolf is, however, the cartoon is completely stolen by the loud-mouthed Red who persistently bursts in on the action to try and get the traditional version of the story back on track. By the end even Bugs has had enough of her and teams up with the wolf to deal with the little annoyance. In 'Little Red Riding Rabbit', Bugs is neither the good-hearted moral crusader or the aggressively anarchic lunatic, he's simply a mischievous manipulator having a great time with the latest dupes he's been presented with. This lends 'Little Red Riding Rabbit' an enjoyable sense of ethical ambiguity which makes the cruel finale seem entirely appropriate. It's a perfectly paced, beautifully written and hilariously executed classic.
movieman_kev Bugs Bunny is in Little Reds wicker picnic basket as a present for her Grandma. But when they get there a wolf is in the house and no grandma in sight. Bugs and the wolf naturally go at it, but are constantly interrupted by an obnoxious Little Red who really wants to get her lines in. This is one of my all time favorite Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny shorts and the scene where the wolf is singing and dancing only to be interrupted by Little Red which he just casually slams the door in her face and goes right back to singing and dancing. That gets me laughing every single time I see it. GREAT stuff. This animated short can be seen on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.My Grade: A+