Tortoise Beats Hare
Tortoise Beats Hare
NR | 15 March 1941 (USA)
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Bugs Bunny challenges slick Cecil Turtle to a race.

Reviews
Memorergi good film but with many flaws
Prolabas Deeper than the descriptions
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . has been dominated in recent decades by guys who did NOT cut their teeth in Falmouth fun runs? This Looney Tunes animated short--TORTOISE BEATS HARE--provides some insight into one of the big scandals of American Sport. The May 13, 2016 USA TODAY discloses that one of these nations prone to sweep up the entire BM Top Ten and all the Prize Money at Boston every year--Kenya--will be banned from running in this year's Summer Olympics for Doping (and the other bunch, Ethiopia, surely will follow). You might wonder what this has to do with Bugs versus the tortoise. Like most American Distance Runners, Bugs has a species bias: All turtles look alike to him. This makes it easy for NINE terrapins to trick Bugs and CHEAT their way to "Victory." Similarly, all East Africans are indistinguishable for American runners and media people. Already PR0VEN cheaters with their doping, it's not much of a stretch to imagine that these bogus competitors are running the "Rosie Ruiz Scam," on a Grand World-Wide Scale, turning in "unbelievable" record times of 2:02 or 2:03 by mass producing race numbers on copy machines and then popping a fresh guy on the course every couple miles, just like Cecil and his eight little turtle buddies here.
Lee Eisenberg Aesop's fable gets brought to life in the first pairing of Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle. I guess that you could say that Bugs Bunny has a tendency to let his ego get in the way of everything, especially since Cecil has friends in high - and low - places. A previous reviewer said that Tex Avery helped bring Bugs to his fullest potential here. I don't know whether I fully agree with that, but there's no doubt that Avery (or, as Bugs pronounces it: a-vary) had some neat ideas.Anyway, the title explains how it ends. Some scenes in "Tortoise Beats Hare" were shown in the sequel "Tortoise Wins by a Hare". I suppose that no matter what happens, that'll never be all, folks. At least not for the Looney Tunes.
movieman_kev Bugs Bunny is incensed after seeing the name of the cartoon. There's no was a small slow turtle can beat his wiry fast rabbit legs and he aims to prove it. Enter Cecil Turtle, in the first of three races he'd have with Bugs. The short is funny and it's nice seeing Bugs being the fall guy once in a while. I found it very humorous, yet I still maintain that "Tortoise Wins by a Hare" has the edge over this cartoon, as slight as that edge may be. This animated short can be seen on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2. It also features an optional commentary by Chuck Jones via old interviews. If that's not enough it also features a SECOND commentary by Micheal Barrier.My Grade: A
Robert Reynolds Although several Warner Brothers directors had a significant hand in the development of Bugs, the one most responsible for setting his personality as the rabbit we know and love (excepting maybe Daffy, Elmer and Yosemite Sam-they don't seem to care for Bugs much) was Tex Avery. This short was an early glimpse of the wascally wabbit as we know him today. Interestingly enough, Avery was responsible for creating Daffy and also the character who evolved into Elmer Fudd (Egghead), so Avery is very much a critical figure for two of the major studios as far as short animation goes. That's why I consider Tex Avery to be the best director of animated shorts and as seminal in their develoment as Walt Disney was to the animated feature film. Well worth seeing. Most recommended.
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