Oh dear here we start with Bugs Bunny again. It's not that I dislike the character but, funnily enough I think his cartoons are the weakest out of the whole Looney Tunes stable.But then the ones that are great stand out as bona fide classics ( I'm thinking What's Opera Doc at this point)
Bunke Hill Bunny is, however, not a great cartoon.
So far the four Yosemite Sam/Bugs Bunny offerings on the boxset have been a teensy bit weak. it's on boxset four that the really good ones start pouring in so there will be a bit of a wait.
As with Freleng cartoon, we are plunged straight into the action as the whole picture starts with images of the 1776 Amercian Civil war. The picture then cuts to Yosemite Sam as a Hessian and Bugs as a minuteman battling it out with cannons.
sam then declares that since he's outnumbered Bugs 'one to one' he should surrender. Bugs refuses and this leads to a series of visual gags involving bombs ( the bomb/baseball sequence is great and unmissable) cannons , dynamite and gunpowder ( another very good scene) Sam gives up and anounces that he's a Hessian without agression and joins Bugs in they march into the sunset.
It's a bit difficult to comment on this without repeating myself. It's a solid no frills cartoon. I'll watch it but it's not one I come back to. Plus it's way too similar to 1949's Buccaneer Bunny.
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