Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Hare, green fur and all, in this Warner Bros. animated short, HYDE AND HARE. Always a gifted pianist, America's favorite rabbit also performs Chopin's "Minute Waltz" flawlessly (though Mr. Hyde deprives us of the final 39 seconds). Dr. Jekyll as a wimpy bunny lover absent his live-action feature film strumpet patients plays a sour second fiddle to the harmonious hare, however, in HYDE. Most, if not all, viewers will finish this episode wondering what the chartreuse rabbit will do next, and resent Dr. Jekyll for hogging so much of the screen time, thus depriving us of an answer. Mr. Hyde fares little better here. One can take just so many Hyde-and-go-Squeak sequences within a confined space before they become quite monotonous. With most Looney Tunes, you feel that the animators reached at least 110% of the potential of their material. But HYDE AND HARE checks in at a much more pedestrian 65 or 70% at best.

TheLittleSongbird While the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon 'Hyde and Go Tweet' is the better take on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, being funnier and more creative, 'Hyde and Hare' is still very entertaining in its own right.'Hyde and Hare's' chief weak point is the ending. With the exception of Bugs's final line, which is pretty amusing, you can smell it from a mile off, Bugs's Hyde character is rather ugly and not frightening enough and the cartoon would have been two-joke if there was enough done with Bugs in the Hyde guise. Instead the ending scene felt rushed and in comparison to Dr Jekyll as Hyde there was nowhere near enough time dedicated to Bugs as Hyde. This viewer also does somewhat agree that the story is a touch thin and stretched, and also a touch repetitive (always a danger with one-joke cartoons).On the other hand, the animation (as was the case with most 1950s Looney Tunes cartoons) is very nice, typical Fritz Freleng, and the one element that is- slightly- better than 'Hyde and Go Tweet's', which was still very good but made at a time where the Looney Tunes cartoons' budgets were starting to get lower and animation getting cheaper (though it only started to get bad in the mid-60s with primarily the Daffy and Speedy series and the later Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote shorts. In 'Hyde and Hare' the backgrounds are fluid and colourful, the colours are bright and quite attractive to look at, Bugs and Dr. Jekyll are drawn well and Dr. Jekyll as Hyde this viewer personally found pretty frightening.Carl Stalling, a consistently great composer and my personal favourite for the Looney Tunes cartoons (like Milt Franklyn's scores a lot too, much less keen on Bill Lava's) provides a characteristically jaunty and characterful music score. It's lushly orchestrated, haunting in places (especially the opening credits) and syncs with the gags excellently and even enhances them (Franklyn was also very good at doing this, Lava's a good deal of the time were cheap-sounding, repetitive and even misplaced).There are funnier, more creative and less predictable Looney Tunes shorts, sure, but the dialogue is still clever and witty- Bugs bagging all the best lines, particularly the one quoted in the review summary, Dr Jekyll's comparatively is ever so slightly bland and repetitive- and the gags range from amusing to hilarious. 'Hyde and Hare' is paced efficiently and Freleng (one of the more famous and popular Looney Tunes directors, second to Chuck Jones) directs with energy, his directorial and animation style unmistakable. Bugs' distinctive personality shines brilliantly, his energy and actions getting increasingly manic, while Dr Jekyll is a good, understated (if much less funny) contrast, the rapport between the two never coming across as dull, which is good because it is the thing that holds 'Hyde and Hare' together. Mel Blanc's voice work is faultless, once again showing the unparallelled ability to voice more than one character in the same cartoon and give them different and individual personalities to one another.All in all, very entertaining. 8/10 Bethany Cox

ccthemovieman-1 "It's shameful; but it's a living," shrugs Bugs before he goes into his "timid little rabbit routine" so he can get his daily carrot from his "benefactor" at the park. Bugs plays it to the hilt, jumping into the man's arms and suggesting he adopt him as his pet and could feed him in bed every time. The quiet, unassuming little man is thrilled and carries Bugs to his home. The shock is that the man is "Dr. Jekyll!" It turns out both Bugs and "the doc" are not what they seem! This, then, was a two-joke cartoon the first part on the nice old man, the second on Bugs.I enjoyed the funny bits with Bugs imitating Liberace and then Dr. Jekyll's quick transformations back and forth to Mr. Hyde. That was not overdone, only went for a couple of minutes and was entertaining. The ending was the only weak part, too predictable and not funny. I still liked this cartoon, which was included in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 2 DVD.

rbverhoef This is a Looney Tunes version of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' and it is pretty funny. Bugs Bunny wants to be taken home by a gentleman and unfortunately the man is called Dr. Jekyll. From time to time he changes into Mr. Hyde and Bugs Bunny has no idea what is happening when the evil Mr. Hyde seems to be everywhere.Like I said this is pretty funny. The Bugs Bunny cartoons always have something nice in it and it is fun to see the classic story in a way like this. Especially the ending is quite good.