I'll never understand why Robert McKimson wasn't nearly as good a director as he was an animator.Under the direction of Bob Clampett,McKimson animated some of the best scenes of Bugs Bunny's career.McKimson's smooth style,along with Rob Scribner's wacky animation,in the Clampett toons resulted in the very best of Looney Tunes animation during the 1940's.

After director Frank Tashlin left in 1946, McKimson took over his unit. I would naturally understand that McKimson would not be as wacky as Clampett but this was no excuse for Mckimson's largely less then stellar out put. Mckimson's completetly abandoned his execellent character designs he made under Clampett direction, the characters became way too bulky and ugly then later slimmed down then appeared rather flat and bland.Mckimson also made the characters sometimes too brash, even Bugs Bunny became obnoxious in "Rebel Rabbit". Mckimson's work wasn't all bad though,"Rabbit's Kin","What's up Doc ?",and "Pop 'im Pop !" had excellent,well timed gags. Alright, I'll get to the actual review.

"Easter Yeggs" is a mediocre effort,Mckimson uses the ugly, bulky, Bugs Bunny design in this short and most the gags fall flat. Also,as Lupercal stated in his review, Elmer Fudd is characterized as a nasty person. Fudd is always the antagonist when in a Bugs Bunny cartoon but he is not bad guy he's a kind,simple minded,fool who likes hunting. Here in Eatser Eggs,Elmer want to vicously kill Bugs to make rabbit stew. Elmer whould go hunting or go to a store to get a rabbit,not cruely take advantage of Bugs delivering easter eggs to get one. There are some funny spots to this short,Bugs reading a "how to multiply" book (think about it,you'll get it),the encounter with the "Dead End Kid",and Bugs attempting a magic trick. Overall,this short is pretty sub-par.Mckimson did way better stuff.

This is a very lacklustre Looney Tunes, which still didn't stop Warner putting in on their vol 3 box, when they still haven't released 'Ding Dog Daddy', which I think is light years ahead of this.

As with 'Crowing Pains' (also directed by McKimson, also in 1947. Hmmmm...) you just don't get the feeling that he's 'living' the cartoon at the risk of sounding arty or stupid.

The Easter Bunny is shagged out, evidently from years of what must be a very arduous chore. Bugs cheerfully agrees to do it for him. How hard can it be? But here's the first problem. I'm not saying that Bugs is beyond doing good deeds, but he's too smart to do this one. He should obviously be able to see that his biting off more than he can chew.

Anyway he begins his delivery duties, running into a beastly child, and then Elmer Fudd. Elmer has his whole house decked out with signs saying "welcome Easter Bunny, and so on, and then, from inside the house, he wickedly confides to us that it's a trick, and when the bunny comes in - blam! The way this is done, again, just misses the character's personality somehow. Elmer isn't that nasty. He can me sort of scheming, in a stupid, guaranteed-to-fail sort of way, but in this scene he seems for a moment to be almost sinister.

I won't spoil the rest of it, because you may like it more than I do. The basic concept is quite good, but the realisation should have been a lot better. The whole thing just needs a jolt of electricity, and someone who had a better grasp of the characters. Two stars, but only just.