Bugs Hugged (1951)

Bugs Hugged Review

Bugs Hugged is a 1951 animated short film from the Merry Melodies series. It is a pointless remake.

This is basically a remake of ‘Rabbit Punch’ which was a solid little wrestling flick from 1948. It’s basically the same, though it’s changed from wrestling to boxing. It benefits from great animation and reliably memorable Bugs, but everything else is too similar which really bothered me.

The action is very repetitive, and Crusher himself isn’t all that fun or memorable. I also found the humor very disappointing as it did not make me chuckle once. It has some fine moments, but most of it, especially the middle, is very forgettable and again overly rehashed from a previous much better movie.

Bugs Hugged is well animated and Bugs is fine per usual, but this remake copies the original too much without ever introducing anything new or interesting to it.