Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

One thing I disliked about this cartoon was the slowness of it. The jokes were slow (not necessarily bad, just slow), the plot moved along slowly and even the animation was slow (in most places, anyway). This was the main thing I found mediocre.

"Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears" has an odd mix of humour. On the one hand, you have very funny and witty verbal jokes, funny Bugs Bunny acts and you have almost "cringey" slapstick and primarily unfunny sight gags. There is a great deal of originality in the cartoon (for those days anyway), which was very entertaining, fun and interesting to watch. On the whole, I thought it was an unusual Looney Tunes cartoon in quality of the different aspects, never have I had the same opinion of each aspect in a LT cartoon before (at least in my memory).

Anyhow, in this cartoon, we meet a small, grumpy father bear, a mummy bear and an utterly impossibly-biologically over-sized baby bear (he is bigger than either of his parents). The father bear is thinking of something or other, while baby bear waits impatiently for breakfast. They eventually decide to do the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Unfortunately they do not have porridge, so they have carrot soup instead. Not surprisingly, this attracts the Bugs Bunny rather than Goldilocks... Cartoon capers commence...

I am not sure whether I will watch this cartoon again, but it was perfectly pleasant at the time. I recommend this to people who like unusually slow Looney Tunes cartoons and to people who like Looney Tunes slapstick. Enjoy "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears"! :-)

7 and a half out of ten.

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)

**** (out of 4)

A masterpiece in the animation field has Papa, Mama and Baby bears hungry so they decide to try and lure Goldilocks in with carrot soup but instead they get Bugs Bunny. This take on the classic story is one of the greatest animated movies ever made. While there's nothing too ground breaking or special here, I think the story works so well that it's impossible not to fall for all the charm and laughs. Bugs is his classic, smart self as he's always one step ahead of the bears who are wanting to eat him. He brings plenty of laughs to the screen including a great sequence when he's eating where he tricks the baby bear into getting him some ketchup. What really makes this short memorable are the three bears and their personalities. This short runs just 7-minutes but it's amazing how much personality Jones can get into the film. I love how Mama bear overacts for the camera, how Papa bear is embarrassed to be acting the story out and then there's Baby bear and his dumbness. Some might object to the father beating the son but hey, it's all good fun.

I started re-watching this for the first time in a long time, and realized about 30 seconds in how unique this short is. I had to rewind it 2 minutes in and time the first shot - EIGHTY SECONDS. The first three shots are almost 4 full minutes long. In all, there are only 10 shots in this entire cartoon - brilliantly paced, inspirational for anyone who wants to learn how to better tell a story.

Three bears are hungry; nothing to eat in the entire house except a few old carrots. Papa Bear comes up with an idea: "Let's pretend this is Goldilocks and The Bears." When "Goldilocks" comes, I guess the plan is for the bears to eat their prey.

Mama Bear makes carrot soup. The aroma travels down into Bugs' hole where he literally floats to the house and slurps up all the porridge, er soup. The rest of the animated short involves the bears trying to get Bugs. However, our hero compliments Mama Bear about her eyes and looks....and she's easily taken in with the compliments.

However, that leads to an unsatisfactory end of this story for Bugs!

Overall, a fast-moving story but so-so at best in the humor department.

I have a very hard understanding why this cartoon short only has an IMDb score of 7.1, as it's an amazingly funny cartoon--one of the best Bugs Bunny appearances you can find. In this installment, Bugs' foes are the Three Bears--and these hilarious (and totally politically incorrect) characters are wonderful. Junyer Bear is a complete idiot and Papa Bear is a very short-tempered and ill-tempered father who spends most of the cartoon slapping his son around and trying to catch the bunny. Sure, child abuse isn't really funny--but here is is. I especially loved when the bears were recreating the Goldilocks story and Junyer kept saying "Duh....who's been sleeping in my porridge"--at which point, Papa goes ballistic. As for Momma Bear, she says and does very little...until Bugs woos her! All in all, a very funny and creative short. Well-animated and just plain fun.