GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

MartinHafer Although IMDb indicates that Warner Brothers pulled this one from circulation because of the way it portrayed Indians, it IS available from at least two sources--as an extra with "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) as well as on "Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Award-Nominated Animation: Cinema Favorites" (which is how I saw it).The film is pretty much like a Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon except that instead of Elmer, you have a cute American Indian character that is a lot like Elmer. Whether folks actually find this offensive, I have no idea at all. However, ALL of Bugs' foils look stupid--so I don't think Looney Tunes was singling out Indians.This cartoon, by the way, marks the second year in a row that this brand-new character, Bugs, was nominated for an Academy Award. Previously he was nominated for "A Wild Hare". And, like "A Wild Hare", the animation in "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" is exquisite--much nicer than the later Bugs cartoons.

Hot 888 Mama . . . it is still occasionally funny seven plus decades after its release. Merrie Melodies producer Leon Schlesinger could have chosen to make Bugs Bunny the "Hiawatha" Native American character here, but everyone knew that the voice of Bugs--Mel Blanc--was a white guy ("blanc" even means "white" in French). Bugs always needed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer under the rules of Merrie Melodies, and everyone else needed to be portrayed as a bumbling idiot. The doltish clown could be a farm animal, such as a pig, or it could be a historical or literary figure known to the target audience, such as "Hiawatha." The latter was a character in a long poem 100 years old by the time the cartoon came out, dreamed up by a member of the Authors playing card deck named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (who had a bushy gray beard to cover up facial scars incurred when his wife stood too close to the fireplace and burned to death, despite the author's futile efforts to quench her flames). American school teachers used to punish young children by making them memorize and recite the sonorous opening of this interminable piece, with the kid parroting back the most lines gaining the same sort of freakish recognition as the child reciting the number pi to the most decimal places. As you may guess, a lot more kids watching this in their local Bijou were pulling for Bugs (not a character in Longfellow's Hiawatha) than the ill-fated Native American!

catradhtem "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" is Bugs Bunny's first film directed by Friz Freleng, and it's a wonderful sample of what Freleng would have in store for Bugs for the next 23 years.Freleng already starts throwing a curveball into the standard Bugs formula by inserting Bugs into the story of Little Hiawatha. While there is not much difference in intelligence between Hiawatha and, say, Elmer Fudd, Freleng does a great job at making the new character look funny (particularly in Hiawatha's run, which causes him to trip over himself often).Freleng also introduces a new traditional Bugs joke...having the wabbit climb into a boiling pot thinking it's a bathtub. This little sequence alone is also fun to watch, including the little puff of relaxing steam that comes out of Bugs' mouth once he gets both feet inside.And although Bugs acts more confident in this picture than he has in the recent past, even he is not safe from foolish mistakes. At the end of one scene Bugs leaps into the air, intending to land into a rabbit hole, but just misses and smacks his head on the ground. He sheepishly crawls into the hole, looking apologetically at the audience. How can you not like this character??Sadly, this cartoon is not seen often because it deals with a Native American character. But if you get the chance somehow, do sit down and watch this cartoon. It's one of the early Bugs' best.

Robert Reynolds This short, nominated for an Oscar, is a good, not great, cartoon. It does introduce a bit of Longfellow and any Bugs Bunny is a good cartoon and worth watching. There just isn't anything terribly funny or special about this particular cartoon besides the poem sections read at the beginning and end. But it is worth watching. It runs periodically on Cartoon Network.