LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

TheLittleSongbird Rabbit Punch reminded me very much of Bunny Hugged, except I think Rabbit Punch is better, the pacing is more secure here for one thing. The story may be nothing special, but what does compensate are some wonderful, colourful animation and a beautifully orchestrated music score. What also added to the sense of fun was some nice witty dialogue and clever visual gags. Not to mention a great performance from Bugs, voiced as ever with real exuberance by the one and only Mel Blanc, who immortalised these great cartoons and characters that shaped my childhood, and for that I am very grateful. Overall, a very good Bugs Bunny cartoon, that is definitely worth watching. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Cihan "Sean Victorydawn" Vercan (CihanVercan) CONTAINS A SOURCE OF QUOTATION - At the nearest boxing stadium to Bugs Bunny's neighbourhood, he witnesses from his rabbit hole that unfair contests are being performed. When he challenges the heavyweight boxing champion, Bugs finds himself at the ring. He gets into the spirit of boxing right away, but cannot gain an advantage over the Champ; till he brings his usual sly and dodgy methods to the ring.-(1)Bugs grabs the sportscaster's microphone and begins describing action that's not taking place, all of it so much in his favor that it wears down the Champ's resistance. "The Champ is confused," says Bugs "Bugs lands a beauty to the solar plexus!" and the Champ tries ward it off, flinching from its impact at the very thought. "The Champ is groggy!" shouts Bugs as the sportscaster, getting more feverish, making up so many 'rabbit punches' the Champ can't figure out where all the punches are coming from, and finally "The Champ is down!"(1). - The Champ really falls down when he gets the shaft of the invisible rabbit punches. But this was just one round, and after that the Champ uses Bugs Bunny's methods till the 110th round has Bugs tied up to railway tracks, while the Champ becomes the locomotive driver that is about to mash Bugs Bunny.How Bugs saves himself from that trouble is very unique. For a second time after he's beaten by Yosemite Sam in Hare Trigger(1945), this time the Champ beats Bugs; but only on paper(again). When the screen goes white, Bugs comes out of the side with a scissors in his hand; revealing that his ego is larger than the story writers'.Bugs becomes his own contest sportscaster, masquerades as a doctor, pretends as a popcorn peddler, and even cuts the motion picture film he's printed on. Rabbit Punch not only offers a lot of punches, it also adds more to Bugs Bunny's unconventional methods to outpower his adversaries. This episode is available on MGM/UA video Bugs Bunny Classics(1989).(1): Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare(1990) by Joe Adamson, pg:146, Henry Holt and Company New York

Lee Eisenberg Watching Chuck Jones's "Rabbit Punch", I quickly saw that it had pretty much the same plot as "Bunny Hugged" - seeing that a wrestling champ easily clobbers his pitifully weak opponents, Bugs takes him on, and...you can probably guess what he does - although this one came first. But even knowing what sorts of things were going to happen, it was still a pleasure to watch Bugs Bunny make mincemeat out of a big bully of a wrestler (anonymous here, the big brute became The Crusher in the remake).I once read that one of the rules about Bugs Bunny getting confronted with unpleasant situations is that he never initiates the predicaments. One might say that by heckling the bellicose champions in "Baseball Bugs" and "Rabbit Punch", he initiates the predicaments. But whether or not he does, we always know that he's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve, so we need only sit back and wait for him to do his stuff. Worth seeing.

paulo20 Avid fans may note the resemblance of this toon's plot to Freleng's Baseball Bunny (1946); i.e. Bugs berates big, hulking athlete(s) for playing dirty and boasts that he can defeat said athlete(s) and athlete(s) takes him up on it (actually, lots of toons borrowed plots and themes from other toons, but whatever). Chuck Jones was a big fan of Friz Freleng and didn't think he was in the same league (though I myself would beg to differ). I see this cartoon as either an attempt to place himself in that league or a tribute to recognize Freleng's ability. Whatever it is, it's a great cartoon. Those toons where Bugs defeats his adversary but not without taking a few lumps himself tend to be the best Bugs cartoons. This one's one of my favorites.