FILM

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)

Film · 1982 · 74 min · G · Animation · Comedy · Family

The movie that leaves all other sequels behind!

If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Starring Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Arthur Q. Bryan, June Foray, Shepard Menken, Lennie Weinrib, William Roberts