Consisting of three segments, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie follows Bugs Bunny's time spanning feud with Yosemite Sam as Satan repeatedly sends Sam back to different eras to kill Bugs Bunny only for Sam to wind up back in Hell (segment 1). Bugs Bunny is code named Elegant Mess and tries to take down gangster criminals Rocky and Mugsy (Segment 2). And the Looney Tunes attend an award show called The Oswalds for awards in excellence in animated characters that culminates in a talent showdown between Bugs and Daffy.
The second compilation film featuring the Looney Tunes, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie was released two years after The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie and much like its predecessor was made in response to the success of airings of Looney Tunes shorts in syndication and intended to be sold to CBS along with the previous film for airings on TV. While the previous film featured the work of Chuck Jones, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie focuses on the work of director Friz Freeling and as a showcase it has a lot of the same issues that the previous film had, but now has the issue of trying to tie together an actual plot out of these original standalone shorts.
Of the three segments that make up the movie, the only one that feels like a cohesive whole story (or the closest approximation to one) is the second segment titled The Unmentionables which features Bugs Bunny as Elegant Mess in a parody of the Untouchables trying to take down Rocky and Mugsy. While still somewhat disjointed due to the episodic structure, it is at least more cohesive and does feature some legitimately funny moments in the additional linking material created for the film. The first short is a remake of what was already a package cartoon in Devil's Feud Cake called Satan's Waitin' which is rather anemic with Yosemite Sam sent back to various points in history in order to take down Bugs Bunny and send him to hell as his replacement and this is probably the sloppiest of the segments with the plots clearly never intended to be tied together with this "plot" down to the fact at one point not only does Sam refer to Bugs as "stranger" but abandons his pursuit to rob a train. The Oswalds is very middle of the road and really just exists to showcase cartoons that couldn't be tied into any narrative and while that would be fine on its own, the footage is edited so we're often looking at the cartoons from a distance, cropped, and sometimes at an angle with the actual cartoon only taking up 40% of the screen while a still of an audience and stage takes up the rest. I will say the ending of the linking footage was a reasonably funny joke, but most of the linking footage in this segment feels like filler that only cuts away from the cartoons.
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is a step down in terms of quality from The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, while the packing of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner was probably looser with it being Bugs Bunny lounging around his mansion and talking casually to the audience, it at least made sense in context with the film celebrating the anniversary of the character and showing a more matured Bugs reflecting upon his life and career. This film just feels like those half hour specials like Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet or Howl-o-Ween special stapled end to end to make a feature film. I can really only recommend this movie to completionists because you're really better off watching the original shorts as intended.
The second compilation film featuring the Looney Tunes, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie was released two years after The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie and much like its predecessor was made in response to the success of airings of Looney Tunes shorts in syndication and intended to be sold to CBS along with the previous film for airings on TV. While the previous film featured the work of Chuck Jones, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie focuses on the work of director Friz Freeling and as a showcase it has a lot of the same issues that the previous film had, but now has the issue of trying to tie together an actual plot out of these original standalone shorts.
Of the three segments that make up the movie, the only one that feels like a cohesive whole story (or the closest approximation to one) is the second segment titled The Unmentionables which features Bugs Bunny as Elegant Mess in a parody of the Untouchables trying to take down Rocky and Mugsy. While still somewhat disjointed due to the episodic structure, it is at least more cohesive and does feature some legitimately funny moments in the additional linking material created for the film. The first short is a remake of what was already a package cartoon in Devil's Feud Cake called Satan's Waitin' which is rather anemic with Yosemite Sam sent back to various points in history in order to take down Bugs Bunny and send him to hell as his replacement and this is probably the sloppiest of the segments with the plots clearly never intended to be tied together with this "plot" down to the fact at one point not only does Sam refer to Bugs as "stranger" but abandons his pursuit to rob a train. The Oswalds is very middle of the road and really just exists to showcase cartoons that couldn't be tied into any narrative and while that would be fine on its own, the footage is edited so we're often looking at the cartoons from a distance, cropped, and sometimes at an angle with the actual cartoon only taking up 40% of the screen while a still of an audience and stage takes up the rest. I will say the ending of the linking footage was a reasonably funny joke, but most of the linking footage in this segment feels like filler that only cuts away from the cartoons.
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is a step down in terms of quality from The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, while the packing of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner was probably looser with it being Bugs Bunny lounging around his mansion and talking casually to the audience, it at least made sense in context with the film celebrating the anniversary of the character and showing a more matured Bugs reflecting upon his life and career. This film just feels like those half hour specials like Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet or Howl-o-Ween special stapled end to end to make a feature film. I can really only recommend this movie to completionists because you're really better off watching the original shorts as intended.