Directed by Friz Freleng, "Little Red Riding Rabbit" is an excellent Bugs Bunny cartoon that spoofs the famous Little Red Riding Hood tale. In this particular film, Red Riding Hood is an annoying little brat with a stentorian voice who constantly interrupts the Big Bad Wolf as he chases Bugs around Granny's house. Whenever she does interrupt the wolf, trying to make some comment about his odd facial features, he is quite funny in his attempts to simply get rid of her. Her best moment occurs at the opening of this short as she skips down the road and, with her overbearing voice, sings "Five O'Clock Whistle."
There are two especially memorable gags as the wolf chases Bugs around the house. One is a typical Friz Freleng gag in which Bugs runs through one doorway and exits through a different doorway, frustrating the wolf to no end. The other gag, reminiscent of "The Heckling Hare" (1941), has Bugs repeating everything the wolf says. Then Bugs gets the wolf to repeat some silly things HE says, and before the wolf knows it, he ends up singing "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet."
"Little Red Riding Rabbit" is a classic Warner Bros. cartoon. Friz Freleng loved to do parodies of the various fairy tales, and this film succeeds by a landslide.
There are two especially memorable gags as the wolf chases Bugs around the house. One is a typical Friz Freleng gag in which Bugs runs through one doorway and exits through a different doorway, frustrating the wolf to no end. The other gag, reminiscent of "The Heckling Hare" (1941), has Bugs repeating everything the wolf says. Then Bugs gets the wolf to repeat some silly things HE says, and before the wolf knows it, he ends up singing "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet."
"Little Red Riding Rabbit" is a classic Warner Bros. cartoon. Friz Freleng loved to do parodies of the various fairy tales, and this film succeeds by a landslide.