{"id":53232,"date":"2026-05-27T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=53232"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:01:06","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-mad-as-a-mars-hare-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-mad-as-a-mars-hare-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mad as a Mars Hare <\/strong>(1963)<br \/>\nDirected by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble<br \/>\nStory by John Dunn<br \/>\nAnimation by Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray, Harry Love<br \/>\nMusic by Bill Lava<\/p>\n<p>Marvin the Martian amuses himself by viewing the Earth through a telescope. He watches a rocket launch from the Florida peninsula \u2013 and within seconds, the spacecraft crashes through his observatory and lands on Mars. The rocket\u2019s sole occupant is Astro-Rabbit Bugs Bunny, who claims the planet with a metal carrot-shaped canister that opens to wave a flag marked \u201cEarth\u201d and mechanized instruments that play \u201cYankee Doodle.\u201d Marvin\u2019s attempt to capture Bugs backfire when Bugs accidentally disintegrates him. Marvin tries again but uses one of his weapons incorrectly and turns Bugs into a behemothic \u201cNeanderthal Rabbit\u201d who crushes him.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last and least of the Golden Age cartoons featuring Marvin, \u201cMad as a Mars Hare\u201d is a dismal and annoying effort. The characters spend most of the film either talking to themselves or breaking the fourth wall to gab with the audience. Nothing that they say is even vaguely amusing.<\/p>\n<p>John Dunn\u2019s script is so inept that Bugs and Marvin don\u2019t interact until the cartoon is nearly two-thirds completed, and their confrontations are limited to standing in one place while talking and fumbling with Martian weaponry. While Bugs&#8217; transformation into the Neanderthal Rabbit is a great sight gag, it comes much too late to have a lasting effect and the cartoon ends with the transformed Bugs talking yet again to the viewer. <\/p>\n<p>The cheap-looking animation magnifies the story\u2019s shortcomings and the dual-direction by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble is abominable. This one should have stayed on the storyboard.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/162641929?h=785f1e873d\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"   allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad as a Mars Hare (1963) Directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble Story by John Dunn Animation by Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray, Harry Love Music by Bill Lava Marvin the Martian amuses himself by viewing the Earth through a telescope. He watches a rocket launch from the Florida peninsula \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":53233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,1317,3584],"class_list":["post-53232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-chuck-jones","tag-marvin-the-martian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53285,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232\/revisions\/53285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}