The Big Snooze (1946)
The Big Snooze Review
The Big Snooze is a 1946 animated short film from the Looney Tunes series. It is a hugely inventive cartoon.
Yes, we’ve seen dream sequences many times before in older cartoons, but this one reinvents basically the concept as it’s so damn original. So in this film Elmer Fudd refuses to chase Bugs anymore so he tears up his Warner Bros. contract and goes to sleep. But Bugs torments his sleep which eventually leads the poor man to sign up a new contract for the studio.
The dream sequence includes Elmer almost fully nude and most amusingly him in drag in a memorable green dress. I really liked those crazy scenes and his growing frustration with what’s going on. The ending is hilarious and the beginning sets up the cartoon perfectly and is so unique. I found Bugs good, but certainly Elmer stole the show from him here with a lot of memorable one-liners and superb facial expressions.
The Big Snooze finds Elmer at the height of his powers as he steals the show from Bugs himself and is hilarious. Also the concept itself is beyond inventive.
