Official Synopsis
Bugs Bunny is a New York City cabbie who picks up the beautiful but bumbling perfume salesgirl, Lola Bunny, after she’s lost her job at a department store. Bugs, who drives Lola home from work in his taxi, has no idea he’s about to embark on the longest ride of his life!
In her spare time, Lola is an amateur perfume maker who’s convinced one day she’ll concoct the world’s most beautiful fragrance and sell it to the House of Moufette in Paris. Unbeknownst to Bugs, Lola, in one of her attempts to create the next big fragrance, has inadvertently invented an invisibility spray, and now the whole world is on their tails to steal her precious concoction!
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On the run to Paris, Bugs and Lola must outsmart everyone from government officials, to Lola’s greedy department store boss, Giovanni and even Yosemite Sam, all of whom are after Lola’s “scent-sational” invisibility spray.
Seriously, this entire 75 minute film revolves around perfume. And you know what? It’s slightly entertaining.
The first act starts with Lola Bunny being hung out to dry by her coworkers for even dreaming of putting together her own perfume line, and ultimately making something of herself. After she trashes her work, by accident, she is promptly fired and sent packing. She gets home, via a cab driven by Bugs Bunny — which she has to run into her home and get money for, to discover that her landlord has plucked her a rare flower, which she uses to produce her own line of perfume. The flower, sadly, is also wanted by military megalomaniacs, led by Foghorn Leghorn, who are on the tail of her landlord right before he dropped it off to Lola. What Lola ends up creating from the flower is not only a perfume that contains a beautiful scent, but also a perfume that renders its wearer invisible, and the military wants it badly.
The first act sets the tone for the rest of the film with its oddity and insanity. How you connect a flower to a military and then to invisibility is just asking for some stark criticism. How you turn all of that into a worldwide chase is nothing short of amazing. If it was anyone other than the Looney Tunes bunch, I would say this is a terrible, terrible idea, but the first act shines because of the characters, quick edits and the wonderful exposition that is all Looney Tunes style. Of course, I have to criticize it just a bit because it seems so slow from the get-go. Maybe 10 minutes into the movie, I started to wonder what the heck I had gotten into with reviewing this movie, but it smooths out by the time Bugs picks up Lola and takes off from there.
As the second act begins, the chase becomes more intense. It leads Bugs and Lola to Paris, France, thanks to some very friendly chipmunks (they deliver the best dialogue). Once in France, the ante is upped and the insanity starts kicking into fifth gear. First, you get Elmer Fudd in the mix and then Daffy Duck makes his presence known (and he needed more screen time — he was gold when he got going). Just as Bugs and Lola become cornered by the police, a third/left field element is thrown into the story and the ante is tripled heading into the final act. Again, all of this action surrounds perfume.
Loved the second act, as the story spends some time developing the budding relationship between Lola and Bugs. Their back and forth banter is quite good in the second act. The chipmunks get it going, though, as they have some very adult humor between them before Bugs and Lola get their groove on in Paris. Once the story shifts a bit and Lola becomes self-aware of her perfume creation, the story starts to toss in Looney Tunes character after character. The pace of the entire film picks up and starts really shifting to a higher plain of comedic value. When the third act hits, and it does like a ton of bricks, you will forget how simplistic the story started out.
The third act throws in even more characters, as it spirals towards its conclusion. I won’t tell you who shows up, but there is quite a twist. An enjoyable, ‘out of this world’ twist. *wink*, *wink*…
Anyway, Looney Tunes Rabbits Run is a surprisingly enjoyable adventure that starts out slow, but soon finds its footing and is off to the races. If I had to criticize anything outside of the slow beginning, it would be that Daffy Duck doesn’t get enough screen time. I know I said that earlier, but I just want to drive that point home as hard as I can. He is gold in this film and he helps to bridge the comedy together well. He needs his own movie now!
On the special features side of things, Looney Tunes Rabbits Run doesn’t disappoint. Here’s what to expect in addition to the movie:
Bonus Cartoons!
– Best Friends
– Coyote Falls
– Fur of Flying
– Rabid Rider
– I Taw, I Taw a Puddy Tat
While you won’t find commentary or usual features here, you do get more cartoons for the kiddies. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that one bit.
