Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas

Plot synopsis:
Bugs is living in his rabbit hole that is just outside of Las Vegas, when Yosemite Sam builds a casino over it. Being given the option to gamble or get out, Bugs tries his luck. At every game he plays (blackjack, roulette, slots) he doesn't lose, much to Sam's consternation. By the time he leaves with a sum total of $8,042,123,297.55, Sam is down to his last quarter. After reprimanding a group of cheaters, he notices that lucky medals, four leaf clovers, horse shoes, or rabbit's feet are not allowed, and realizes that he's been duped.
Bugs has meanwhile used his newfound riches to buy a luxury hotel suite. Sam follows him shooting and Bugs is forced to win a prize car to outrace him; Sam, meanwhile, drives a giant boat, complete with cannons. The two race out of Las Vegas and eventually make it to the Hoover Dam. There is a conveniently placed slot machine, which Sam uses his last quarter to play. He "wins", but the screen reads H2O, causing the dam to burst.
Sam phones Bugs, who is atop the now empty dam, to tell him, "I hate you, rabbit." Porky ends the film with his usual "That's all folks!"

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Decent but not great. I did like Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas in general, but I don't consider it great. I did find the cartoon a little too short and rushed though, and while I loved the Las Vegas setting and it started off lively and colourful it started to lack finesse particularly in the backgrounds and Yosemite Sam's character design towards the end, then again I don't think the fuzzy picture quality helped much. The voice acting also felt rather inconsistent. Bugs sounded fine and sounds very like Mel Blanc(the ultimate voice actor in the Looney Tunes cartoons) in the 80s. However Sam sounds off, his intonation in his iconic cursing is spot on, but there are other points especially before he is swept away by water where the voice feels overdone and almost like screaming. However, the music and sound effects are decent enough, the writing is very clever and funny(nobody curses like Yosemite Sam in my view) and the sight gags are memorable and timed well. Also the idea of the story is great and is done to good effect. All in all, not great but decent. 7/10 Bethany Cox. As Looney Tunes offerings became few and far between in Our 21st Century . . .. . . . Warner Bros. by necessity was forced to engage in more dual-purpose economical piggy-backing in order to keep up with any prophecies about America's (then) Far Future which its Golden Age Animated Shorts Seers division of prognosticators may have missed. Viewers "in the know" actually will notice AT LEAST 879 separate predictions packed into the six minutes of Warner's HARE AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, at least two of which have come to pass in just this past week. The more important fulfilled prophecy is the exact amount of White House Resident-Elect Rump's personal debt to his Red Commie Russian KGB Puppetmaster, Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin, placed at the 3:24 mark here at $8,042,123,297.55, which is exactly 45 cents less than the eight billion dollar-plus figure leaked by the British MI6 Agent (the Looney Tunes' Muse of the Future obviously rounds things off in accordance with American I.R.S. auditing standards). Of seeming lesser import is Bugs Bunny driving a RED SPORTS CAR off a prize pedestal inside Yosemite Sam's Las Vegas casino, just as does Jamie Foxx's character in his live-action feature debuting this past weekend, SLEEPLESS (Warner forecasts this right down to the car color and design). Frankly, I cannot see exactly how these two fulfilled prophecies might be connected--YET!