A Star Is Bored

It's no "Duck Amuck" (1953), but "A Star Is Bored" is a passable Looney Tunes cartoon that goes behind the scenes of a movie studio. Bugs Bunny plays an actor and, apparently, screenwriter, while Daffy Duck suffers the indignities and cartoon violence of being the rabbit's stuntman and foil. Neither the final reveal or anything else has the same effect as "Duck Amuck," where animation itself was deconstructed, but this is slightly amusing nonetheless.

The title is a play on that of the Judy Garland version of "A Star Is Born" (1954), but besides both being about filmmaking, this cartoon short doesn't have anything to do with the lengthy, live-action film. I viewed this after reviewing the Garland picture, however, and Bugs, Daffy and company are a good way to cheer one up after that emotionally-devastating feature.