ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

tavm What's Up Doc? is a pretty amusing, if not hilarious, cartoon from director Robert McKimson about Bugs Bunny's rise in show biz. As a child, he learns to play Franz Lizst on the piano. Then as an adult, he starts in the chorus in various musical revues. Bugs blows his big chance, however, when his solo act only gets crickets chirping (a familiar cartoon gag for when a performer bombs). Down on his luck, he sits on a park bench with Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, and Bing Crosby when headliner Elmer Fudd walks by. Fudd rejects everybody as they do their trademark cues except Bugs. Bugs is basically a stooge to Elmer so he switches punchlines in New York which causes an angry Fudd to get a rifle in the wabbit's face making Bugs say, "What's Up Doc?" for the first time. As he notices the audience eat it up, he tells Elmer to say it again. He does and the applause gets louder! That leads to their first screen test at Warner Bros. where Bugs sings "What's Up Doc?" with Elmer singing and dancing along at the end. Having told all this to a female reporter, Bugs looks at his watch and says he's due on the set for his next starring role. As the curtain with his initials goes up, we see him singing and dancing with...those same chorus boys he performed earlier with in his career! Like I said mostly amusing if not hilarious though I loved many of the jokes that Elmer and Bugs did in the vaudeville segments. And the celebrity voices done mostly by Mel Blanc were spot on. Anyone who saw the live-action What's Up, Doc? that starred Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal should be very familiar with the "What's Up Doc?" number since that sequence appeared at the end of that movie. This short is part of Volume one of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.

Lee Eisenberg Before Hollywood biographies centered on drug abuse and such things, "What's Up Doc?" portrayed Bugs Bunny telling his life story from childhood - "I knew I was different, and then it hit me: I was a rabbit in a human world." - up to his career in entertainment. However, it seems like there's a little less in this cartoon than the Looney Tunes cartoons usually showed. But I'd say that it's strength lies in its portrayal of the lack of employment in Hollywood (which I've heard is actually around 95%), and how it forces individuals into self-degrading work. I always get the feeling that whenever the Termite Terrace crowd made cartoons spoofing Tinseltown, they were probably basing the cartoons on their personal experiences. Maybe I can't prove that, but I just get that feeling.So, it's not the greatest cartoon, but worth seeing. I don't know whether or not you're rooting for me, so now I have to go.

MartinHafer The film begins with Bugs at his palatial mansion being interviewed by a Hollywood columnist. She asks him to recall his rise to stardom from his earliest days on Vaudeville (when he was continually pelted with pies by his partner Elmer) to the accidental switching of roles to Bugs' attempt to make it on Broadway singing in the chorus. It's all cute fun and leads up the the cartoon's conclusion when Bugs shows that he's finally made it on screen and begins acting his big scene---an exact duplicate of his chorus days on Broadway. I liked this cute ending but doubt if the average kid would really understand the joke.As always, the production values are tops and this is a highly entertaining film.

eye3 For my money, the penultimate of Bugs Bunny's career.Bugs tells his life story over the phone to the Disassociated Press (a clue for what we're in for.) We follow the trace of his career from dancing school, vaudeville, unemployment, a break from "big vaudeville star" Elmer Fudd (!), a twist in the act that's a hit with the audience and puts them in the big time.And finally, Hollywood. The bit where they sing the title song does it for me. But even then, they still have a joke on him at the end. See it yourself.