| Hare-Way to the Stars | |
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| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian) series | |
Marvin the Martian tells Bugs Bunny he is going to blow up the Earth using the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator as it obstructs his view of Venus. |
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| Directed by | Chuck Jones |
| Produced by | Eddie Selzer |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Richard Thompson Ken Harris Abe Levitow |
| Layouts by | Maurice Noble |
| Backgrounds by | Philip De Guard |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | March 29, 1958 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6:55 |
| Language | English |
Hare-Way to the Stars is a 1957 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short, starring Bugs Bunny, and released on March 29, 1958.
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The cartoon starts when Bugs Bunny, feeling the effects of mixing radish juice with carrot juice the night before, unknowingly climbs out of his hole and into a rocket ship that is about to be launched into space. He realizes what has happened once he screws open the tip of the ship, and is immediately hit by the satellite Sputnik and lands on what appears to be a space station. While there, Bugs meets Marvin the Martian who is trying to blow up earth with the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator (in reality a stick of dynamite, it is also the same device he tried to use in his debut short Haredevil Hare, though that Space Modulator was Uranium rather than Illudium) because "it obstructs my view of Venus".
Bugs steals Marvin's explosive and Marvin uses different tricks to try to catch Bugs and get the explosive back, including using ‘just add water’ Instant Martians to chase Bugs around the space station and catch him. In true Bugs fashion, he tricks the Martians into flying off the road and falling through a trap door. Bugs then steals one of the Martian's spaceships, and while flying by, swaps the explosive he stole from Marvin for the bottle of 'just add water' Martians. The explosive is lit, and soon exploded in Marvin’s hand (destroying his space station in the process), who concedes that it is "back to the old drawing board" while Bugs is flying back to Earth. When Bugs arrives at Earth he has to crash land and finds himself and the bottle of Martians falling into the sewer. The Martians begin to grow and as that happens Bugs climbs out of the sewer, frantically replaces the manhole cover and warns the audience to "Run for the hills folks, or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians!", before he takes his own advice as the ground shakes with the invaders underneath.
The instant Martians resemble the Martian from another Chuck Jones cartoon, Jumpin' Jupiter. They are depicted as large, green, and buzzard-like, with purple tufts of feathers around their necks and little palm-tree shaped antennas. They are also apparently mute.
The cartoon was featured on the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray box set (released November 15, 2011) with the cartoon restored and in high definition. This cartoon was also made part of the feature film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (sometimes known as "The Great American Chase"), and Bugs even remarked that "old Chuck seemed detoimined to get poor little old me into outer space, too!".
| Preceded by Hare-Less Wolf |
Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1958 |
Succeeded by Now Hare This |