The Bugs Bunny / Roadrunner Movie

Clip show,

It’s a clip show,

We’re recycling all your favorite bits.

Clip show,

It’s a clip show,

Where we show you nothing but the hits.

The clip show is the cheapest, most commercial type of tv program there is.  To market a clip show as a movie is just plain crass.  I mean, fine, rip me off with cheap remakes of beloved classics.  Endow favorite characters with new traits that change their nature and the tone of the work.  But just splicing together a bunch of old bits and calling them a movie?  I’d be furious if my kids hadn’t laughed all the way through it.  Ok, I’ll admit it – my wife and I laughed through a fair amount, as well.  “It’s duck season!  Rabbit season!  Rabbit season!  Duck Season!  BLAM!”  never gets old.

Yes, The Bugs Bunny / Roadrunner Movie is a clip show, but the clips are amazing.  If your kids aren’t familiar with Loony Toons, here’s a great place to start.  For that matter, here’s a great place to start if you want to familiarize your kids with classical music.  There’s a whole bit that’s essentially one long Leopold Stokowski joke.  There’s an 8-minute riff on ‘The Ring of the Nibelung.’  There’s so much good music here that even if you choose to read on the couch while your kids watch the picture, you’ll groove along on your ears alone.

So yeah, clip shows = cheap cash-ins.  But when you have clips like these, go for it.  The Bugs Bunny / Roadrunner Movie delighted my entire family.