oscaralbert Review of Rabbit Hood

Rabbit Hood (1949)

Warner Bros. continues its Campaign for Wealth Redistribution . . .

[8/10 · 28 April 2016]

. . . with this animated short, RABBIT HOOD. Following up on its classic live action feature ROBIN HOOD, this cartoon concludes with an archival footage cameo by that future Castro Boy Freedom Fighter himself, Errol Flynn. (Though most historians contend that John Wayne fingered Flynn for CIA Black Ops assassination because he felt that Errol was muscling in on his bridal pool with the release of CUBAN REBEL GIRLS, a significant minority of pundits argue that Il Duce never got over Bugs Bunny's tribute to the dashing Aussie here, getting his revenge over this slight a decade later.) Real Life Games of Thrones aside, RABBIT HOOD has many other notable aspects. Bugs Bunny goes through more costume changes that Frank Morgan did as THE WIZARD OF OZ, with each set of clothes similarly making a new man (or, in his case, rabbit). In his final King get-up, Bugs crowns the hapless Sheriff of Nottingham seven times, with his arise litany beginning, "Arise, Sir Loin of Beef." This part is topped only by the earlier bit in which Bugs bakes and frosts a cake made from scratch, finishing just in time for the woozy sheriff to catch a face full.