SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . begins by recycling the lame title ballad from the earlier animated short. The cigar-chomping Bunny Parker has one foot in the grave, judging by her habitually pained expression. No doubt she has some Stogie-induced form of oral cancer, precluding her from eating any of the pointy orange vegetables she and partner Claude filch. Yet Bunny continues to egg on Mr. Barrow to illegally appropriate ever greater quantities of the nutritious root, leading to the GREAT CARROT-TRAIN ROBBERY. Big screen railroad heists have fascinated Americans since the 1890s, since they often involve high-speed fights fought atop box car catwalks. CARROT-TRAIN is no exception, and the pursuing sheriff is in for more exercise here (with less shooting) than he experienced in episode one of BUNNY AND CLAUDE. Still, Warner Bros.' animation of the 1960s is a pale imitation of their work from 20 years earlier, and it's only gone further downhill since Richard III hunched his way out of the White House. I don't recall Bunny doing anything recently, so I assume she's long gone (done in by her nicotine addiction). Fortunately, Claude now has the right to marry if he hits it off with Bugs--even in every county of Kentucky!

tavm Just watched this on the Saturday Morning Blog as linked from Daily Motion. It's one of the last cartoons from the Warner Bros. Studio made on a regular schedule during the last part of the '60s. This was the second-and last-cartoon that starred Bunny and Claude, a carrot-stealing couple that were a rabbit-spoof of the Warren Beatty-Faye Dunaway picture made for the studio, Bonnie and Clyde. With suitable hillbilly-sounding music provided by William Lava and an inept sheriff chasing them, The Great Carrot-Train Robbery is no great shakes but with direction by last holdout from the Golden Age, Robert McKimson, there are some pretty funny sight gags especially when the sheriff has trouble getting in his running car with his horse sitting along! Along with veteran Mel Blanc, Pat Woodell-perhaps best known as the first Bobbie Jo on "Petticoat Junction"-is the other voice here. So to anyone curious about all things Warner animation, The Great Carrot-Train Robbery is worth a look.

slipjig It saddens me to know that someone like Robert McKimson, after decades of directing some brilliant work for Warner Brothers, had by 1969 been reduced to making fourth-rate imitations of sixth-rate Hanna-Barbera TV dreck. Bunny and Claude, apparently, were an attempt to create a new franchise for WB Animation (a good idea, since shorts from that period starring Porky, Daffy, etc. had pretty much lost sight of who those characters were). They did their best, even attempting to inject a little of the spirit of the actual "Bonnie and Clyde" into the mix; I'm thinking of Bunny reclining on a pile of carrots in a boxcar and simpering, "Come here, Claude," in what is the closest to a seduction scene as you'll ever see in a WB cartoon.There are two problems, however. The first is that the animation is depressingly cheap. This I can forgive, since budgets for theatrical animated shorts were drying up very quickly. The second I cannot forgive: it's not funny. Not even in passing. Not even a titter's-worth. I absolutely cannot reconcile in my head the fact that the same studio produced such phenomenal works as "Duck Amuck" and "What's Opera, Doc" only 15 years earlier. Just goes to show you that you can never go home again. Sigh...My rating: 1 out of a possible 10.

dootuss This was the 2nd cartoon short that is based on the Bunny and Claude cartoons (apparently, this was also the last one ever made), and like the first one, it's pretty good. It's funny, and loaded with the usual humor that cartoons way back when had, which of course now are cliches. Like the other cartoon, it has campy music, which isn't a good thing. Frankly, despite this was the last Bunny and Claude short ever made, it's still pretty good. 9/10.