Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Hitchcoc Elmer Fudd becomes the hero of Siegfried as he woos Brunhilde (played by Bugs Bunny in drag--if a rabbit can be in drag). This is a classic animated feature with full orchestration. It integrates the eternal effort of Elmer to kill the wabbit while repeatedly falling for the smart alecky rodent. The singing, of course, is quite horrible, but great credit to Mel Blanc for carrying on and staying in tune. What a remarkable talent Blanc was, carrying on the careers of all those Warner Brothers figures, from Yosemite Sam to Daffy Duck. Anyway, this is a gem of a cartoon. As a kid, I hated this use of classical music. Now, we can see the ingenious melding of the two forms.

slymusic Whenever I think of animated cartoons that truly stand out as classics, "What's Opera, Doc?" is probably the preeminent cartoon that comes to my mind. An excellent spoof of Wagnerian opera, it is one of the most well-loved and well-remembered of all Warner Bros. cartoons. If anyone ever thought there couldn't possibly be any elegance connected with an animated cartoon, they need only to watch "What's Opera, Doc?" in order to be proved wrong. Director Chuck Jones, writer Michael Maltese, layout designer Maurice Noble, orchestrator Milt Franklyn, voice artists Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan - all of these folks and numerous others knew that this cartoon would take a lot of hard work, and all their effort definitely paid off! My favorite moments from "What's Opera, Doc?" include the following (DO NOT read any further until after you have actually seen this cartoon). The opening of this film reveals some rather intimidating cliff shadows of Elmer at his most dangerous. Elmer is rather funny with his opening quiet vocalization of "Be vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits" and especially with his frenzied "Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!" sung to a familiar Valkyrie theme; Bugs then sings to a horn accompaniment as he casually asks Elmer what he's up to. Bugs' and Elmer's love duet (with Bugs disguised as Brunhilda) is nicely punctuated by Bugs' fluttering eyelids. The musical accompaniment momentarily breaks away from being Wagnerian as Bugs' helmet & wig disguise drops off his head and bounces down the stairs."What's Opera, Doc?" is brilliant, simply brilliant! Chuck Jones was a very educated man who knew that if you're dealing with Wagnerian opera, by gad, you'd better have a large orchestra! Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan turned out to be fairly decent singers in their respective Bugs & Elmer characterizations. The dance sequences between hunter and rabbit were authentically recreated, and the uses of light, shadow, & color are almost beyond compare. Sometimes I think it's easy to become unaware of all the hard work & effort that goes into a brief animated cartoon; when we watch the cartoon, all we see is pure art, not the actual work that went on behind the scenes. As a result of all that hard work, "What's Opera, Doc?" is now available on DVD for all of us to enjoy and appreciate its elegance. If you're a fan of the Warner Bros. cartoons, you simply cannot miss "What's Opera, Doc?"

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) I absolutely love this cartoon! I though it's one of Bugs Bunny's best cartoons ever and also Chuck Jones' finest cartoons too. I especially love the "romance" scene when Bugs dresses in drag as the Valkyrie Brunhilde and Elmer/Siegfried falls for it. As a kid I used to record the love song "Return My Love," play it on my tape player and pretend to be a beautiful princess standing on the balcony waiting for her Prince Charming; I am a hopeless romantic (*sigh*).All-in-all, the animation, the backgrounds and the music put into this cartoon are excellent! I would love to say: "R.I.P Chuck, we will miss you."

higgle-1 I cannot even find the words to describe the greatness of this cartoon. It is officially listed as the greatest cartoon ever, and it darn well deserves it. As I have said, it was simply beautiful. The elegance and detail that went into it surpasses that of anything I've ever seen. Everything from the lightning storm to the end gag was breathtaking. Chuck Jones is the Einstein of animation direction, without a doubt. It was also hilarious, not the laugh-out-loud hilarious of other great Bugs Bunny cartoons, but with subtle irony and ridiculousness ("Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!"). The sensitivity astounds me, it's a metaphor of the whole Elmer/Bugs scene, the subconscious trust and dependency they have in each other beautifully represented by the ballet, and love song, and the consequences of Elmer's short-sightedness and Bugs' naivety tragically displayed in the finale. The little touches, like the intricately designed ballet scene, the tension of the helmet falling down the stairs, and the chilling image of the dress floating behind Bugs as he flees vainly from his doom, all accompanied by musical gags, timing, and style that has only been contested by my favorite "The Rabbit of Seville", sets off the scenes perfectly. The ending was for sure the crowning point of the whole cartoon, the sequence of the terrible lightning attack, Bugs' limp, crumpled corpse in the midst of the splintered mountain, (one of the greatest moments of animation history), Elmer's "Poor wittle wabbit" mourning, and, too top it all, the magnificent finale of Elmer carrying Bugs through the golden radiance to Valhalla, and, inevitably, Bugs' last quip, tops off this exquisite expression of greatness. This is also, I believe, the only cartoon tragedy I have ever seen, Bugs DOES die, the wabbit IS finally killed by Elmer, while Bugs did not do anything to deserve it it: the very definition of a tragedy. And yet, Bugs does not "lose", Elmer gets his comeuppance, the guilt of killing him, and his character break of "well, what did you expect in an opera, a happy ending?" still asserts that even his own death cannot defeat the great rabbit. He is a god, the Trickster god, and although mortal, cannot be beaten. There has never been, and will never be, another cartoon like this one.