Julian9ehp Chuck Jones wins for Marvin and Bugs, using them freshly in this late cartoon. He wins against the horrible score by Bill Lava, even using it to advantage in the mechanical carrot scene. He wins against a limited set of backgrounds, and the wide-screen madness of movies in the early '60s. (Few pans, few camera movements, thick outlines for the characters.) He even wins against his own tendency for too much talk and too much exposition. He still draws well, he still has good writers, and he still has many good jokes. Even with the ending (no spoilers), which frightened me so when I was a child, I'd recommend this cartoon to almost everyone.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . decked out in a green leotard complemented by white sneakers, the school uniform of the early 1960s on Michigan State University's East Lansing campus. (Just as Wisconsin Badger fans sport cheese wedge hats, Warner Bros.' animators--always sticklers for Real Life accuracy--draw in broom bristles atop Sparty, I mean Marvin's head, another common sight around Ingham County, denoting MSU's annual sweeps versus their beleaguered intra-state rival, the U-M teams). Inexplicably, Marvin's antagonist here (an Orange-garbed Bugs Bunny) seems to represent Syracuse U., rather than the Spartans' primary traditional rival, our University of Maryland. Marvin inhabits a Florida island nine seconds away from Cape Canaveral by rocket. Surgeons from MSU's Large Animal Department have replaced his brain with that of a Wolverine, so he thinks that he's on STAR TREK. (You can tell this because Marvin says one crazy thing after another.) The East Lansing pranksters who've paired Bugs with Marvin trick Bugs into eating an aluminum carrot early on. The Syracuse bunny muses, "Why do I like carrots, anyway? There's not much meat on them, and they're kind of dry." Obviously, the MAD AS A HARE writer slipped this Double Entendre in to further disparage the U of M carrot-helmeted Woverines.

TheLittleSongbird This is a real shame, that this cartoon isn't a classic for while it is entertaining it has too many flaws for me to consider it a classic. While the animation is very well done and detailed, the vocal characterisations of Mel Blanc are top notch and the music is beautiful, what let it down is that it is too talky. It is good that there is dialogue and all that, but there is too much of it. Consequently the jokes don't work as well as it should. Also it may be just me, but I found the dialogue rather hit and miss. There are some good lines like "wait a minute, are you out of your CottonTail mind?" and "because rabbits are expendable that's why" but Marvin is given very little to do because his dialogue isn't that much to go on. Overall, decent but it isn't a favourite of mine unfortunately. 7/10 Bethany Cox

bob the moo Sent to Mars in place of a human, the expendable Bugs Bunny arrives to find Marvin the alien on Mars and not to happy to have the company and immediately greets him armed to the teeth with space age ray guns.It's been a while since I have seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Marvin and this film was welcome to me for that reason. However this film is not very good. The first half of the film seems to be mostly talk - Marvin explaining himself and then Bugs filling in the audience as to why he was put on a rocket by NASA. The problem is that this isn't very funny and it takes up half the time of the film!The rest of the film really only consists of two gags around the use of the ray gun, and these aren't that funny either. Bugs is also not himself - he isn't given the chance to do any real trickery and the punchline betrays his character totally. Marvin is OK and does his `that makes me very angry' line a few times, but he can't carry the short.Overall this cartoon is a shame because it is a missed opportunity - both Bugs and Marvin are funny and have made some good cartoons together; sadly this isn't one of them.