A lot of fun.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

. . . Presidential Election Fiasco with this 1944 Looney Tune, THE OLD GREY HARE, explicitly set in the year 2000 AD. Eerily enough, Elmer Fudd does not need to change his appearance (other than aging 56 years) or vocal inflections at all in order to deliver a spot-on performance as Democratic popular vote winner (and, therefore, U.S. President-Elect) Al Gore. (There's also a scene in which Mr. Fudd doubles as the infamous squinting "hanging chads" inspector, the main meme the Rich People's Party used to filch the White House for its draft-dodging, alcoholic Cokehead silver-spoon contender--W--the sort of Cartoonish jerk one would expect to launch a "family-honor" vendetta based upon bogus "intelligence" about fabricated "Weapons of Mass Destruction"--drawn at the 3:00 mark of OLD GREY HARE--that produced 5,000 U.S. Service Heroes fatalities, one million-plus murdered Iraqis, wasted $2 trillion of American taxpayer funds, and created ISIS' World War 3, which still continues to haunt the world. Despite Bugs Bunny--as W--blowing up Elmer (7:30) at his finish line (uncannily foreshadowing the W-enabled Boston Marathon bombers), Warner's warning went unheeded, Americans did NOT riot in the streets when Election Loser W was bribed into the Oval Office--and the rest is Sad History.

"The Old Grey Hare" is a 7.5-minute cartoon from over 80 years ago and not one of the most famous or least famous Warner Bros works starring Bugs Bunny. Bob Clampett, Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan are very prolific with these films, but writer Michael Sasanoff has not come up with too many of these films, but judging from this one here, it is not a major loss. Science-fiction wise it is somewhat interesting as this is a genre that is included in some of the highest appreciated cartoons from the 1950s. I think it was fun to see the young and old version of Bugs and Elmer, but story-wise and comedy-wise there is little memorable quality in here unfortunately. I cannot agree with the high IMDb rating. I have seen many superior Looney (car)Toons). Thumbs down.

This is a Bugs and Elmer short from Warner Brothers. There will be spoilers ahead:This is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons. Elmer is bemoaning his lack of success at capturing or shooting bugs when an ethereal voice tells him to be patient and takes him forward across the decades to the far off year...2000! In addition to learning that Bing Crosby's horse still hasn't come in and that there's such a thing as "Smell-o-vision" in 2000, Elmer also finds he has a space age, Buck Rogers type of weapon. He sees an elderly Bugs who's basically Bugs with a grey beard and that durn lumbago. He irks Elmer and the "runs", but is blasted by Elmer.The "dying" Bugs begins to take Elmer down memory lane, where we see them as kids, though still very much in character. Age-appropriate gags take place which leave Elmer empty handed and we go back to the future, where Bugs is digging a grave. Things don't work out for Elmer any more in the end than they generally go, with a classic ending.This short is on multiple DVD/Blu Ray discs and is well worth looking for. Most recommended.

On this, what would have been Mel Blanc's 99th birthday, I wanted to talk about one of his many accomplishments as a voice artist. In the Termite Terrace crowd's first look into the future - preceding "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century" - the unseen God takes Elmer Fudd into the 21st century to see whether or not he can ever catch Bugs Bunny. I just found it neat to see what they expected the 21st century to look like. For example, Smellevision makes television obsolete (but Carl Stalling denies that it'll work). Surely we can forgive these various predictions for not envisioning the Internet or anything like that.So, while the most important part may be the memory of the first time that Elmer chased Bugs when they were infants, my favorite part was seeing their joke prediction. So I consider "The Old Grey Hare" worth seeing. Available in the documentary "Bugs Bunny Superstar".Smellevision. It sounds kind of like John Waters's use of Odorama in "Polyester".