Unlimitedia
Sick Product of a Sick System
Matrixiole
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
TheLittleSongbird
Rabbit Punch reminded me very much of Bunny Hugged, except I think Rabbit Punch is better, the pacing is more secure here for one thing. The story may be nothing special, but what does compensate are some wonderful, colourful animation and a beautifully orchestrated music score. What also added to the sense of fun was some nice witty dialogue and clever visual gags. Not to mention a great performance from Bugs, voiced as ever with real exuberance by the one and only Mel Blanc, who immortalised these great cartoons and characters that shaped my childhood, and for that I am very grateful. Overall, a very good Bugs Bunny cartoon, that is definitely worth watching. 8/10 Bethany Cox
slymusic
Written by Tedd Pierce & Michael Maltese, and directed by Chuck Jones, "Rabbit Punch" is a fine Bugs Bunny cartoon that teams him up with a familiar burly, mean-looking prizefighter who I believe was later known as the Crusher. This film certainly has the look and the boisterous atmosphere of an outdoor nocturnal prizefight, where plenty of funny gags abound as Bugs and his gargantuan opponent are not above a fair amount of subterfuge in order to win the match.There are a couple of scenes in "Rabbit Punch" that I think especially stand out. After Bugs dares to boo the multi-muscular palooka, Bugs makes a couple of hilarious facial expressions as he gets hoisted out of his hole, literally thrown into a dressing room and flying out wearing a pair of pink boxing trunks. While Bugs has a struggle with one of his challenger's legs, the big galoot peacefully lies onto the canvas playing solitaire, to the familiar accompaniment of Mendelssohn's Spring Song.As with all of Bugs' larger-than-life nemeses, in "Rabbit Punch" he takes care of his opponent not with his brawn, but with his brain. Problem is, after 110 rounds, I'm still unsure as to who the winner is.
Lee Eisenberg
Watching Chuck Jones's "Rabbit Punch", I quickly saw that it had pretty much the same plot as "Bunny Hugged" - seeing that a wrestling champ easily clobbers his pitifully weak opponents, Bugs takes him on, and...you can probably guess what he does - although this one came first. But even knowing what sorts of things were going to happen, it was still a pleasure to watch Bugs Bunny make mincemeat out of a big bully of a wrestler (anonymous here, the big brute became The Crusher in the remake).I once read that one of the rules about Bugs Bunny getting confronted with unpleasant situations is that he never initiates the predicaments. One might say that by heckling the bellicose champions in "Baseball Bugs" and "Rabbit Punch", he initiates the predicaments. But whether or not he does, we always know that he's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve, so we need only sit back and wait for him to do his stuff. Worth seeing.
romewdn
This old Merrie Melodies short transports one of our favorite cartoon heroes of all time, Bugs Bunny, into the world of professional boxing. The World Heavyweight Champion, known as the Champ, punched a Puny Boxer. Bugs criticized him for being a "dirty fightah," allowing him to be the new challenger, substituting for the Puny Boxer against the Champ. At last, Bugs survives after 110 rounds of boxing and wrestling combined. I liked the part where Bugs and the Champ took their boxing gloves off and made the sport look like wrestling. But in real life, you could be disqualified (DDQ) for that.
