Haredevil Hare (1948)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

the audience applauded

Simply Perfect

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

In "Haredevil Hare" Bugs Bunny is the less than willing first rabbit shot into space. However, he's tricked and soon is sent hurtling towards the moon. There he soon meets Marvin the Martian (he's not called Marvin and looks and sounds a bit different in this, his first appearance). Unfortunately, Marvin is intent on blowing up the Earth and it's up to Bugs to stop him. But Marvin has help in the form of a green space dog. Can Bugs save the day?Like the rest of the Bugs cartoons of the era, this one has exquisite animation and is quite entertaining. While I have never adored the Marvin character as much as many, it is enjoyable and worth seeing.

While Bugs is initially reluctant to go on a rocket to the moon, the carrots that are dropped inside makes him change his mind. After he lands there, a Martian ship also stops there. A funny-looking little man in a Roman soldier outfit comes out and speaks in a funny voice (though it's different than the eventual voice we know him from). This guy, who we eventually know as Marvin the Martian, nonchalantly tells Bugs, after he asks what he's doing with his space modulator, that he plans to blow up the earth. It takes awhile before the rabbit stops him so Marvin then sends his dog after him. Bugs outsmarts the dog by changing one word in their exchange that makes the dog give his explosive back to Bugs. There's a chase and...Oh, just watch the short. Nice introduction of a space series that also incorporated Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in another Marvin the Martian cartoon called Duck Dodgers... Highly amusing throughout.

This is the first cartoon featuring Marvin the Martian and his sidekick, K-9. Marvin has become even more popular today than he was when Warner Bros. was making those fabulous shorts in the 40's and 50's., much like Taz (although why the adoration for that simple character is beyond my comprehension - but that is a comment for another section). Marvin is trying to blow up the Earth and of course Bugs tries to stop him, because everyone he knows is there. This is a great cartoon, not my favorite with the Martian, but a very good beginning for him. Of note is that Mel Blanc would change the voice for him in subsequent cartoons, and the later interpretation is an improvement, but the one he has in this one takes nothing away from it.

Here we meet for the first time, that lovable mouthless Martian, Marvin, only back then, he was known as Commander X2. He also has a green eared dog named K9 who assists him. In this first of many attempts to "blow up the earth" with the "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulatoah", X2 is thwarted by heroic Bugs, who didn't want to go to the moon in the first place, but oh, aren't we glad he did???!!!