The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) Reviews

The characters in "The Tortoise and the Hare" may not have become as ubiquitous as the Three Little Pigs, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy and company, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't retain a luster and permanent place as one of Disney's best and most enjoyable animated shorts.

The animation is clean, simple and leans heavily on the rubbery-yet-fluid dynamics of so many 1930s cartoons. The story packs in the moralistic lesson of doing something correctly at your own pace, hard work, working on building your skill sets, not giving up along with numerous humorous bits. The extended sequence of Max Hare showing off for a quartet of female bunnies clearly points in the direction and style of humor that rivals WB would fashion to form not just Bugs Bunny, but the entirety of the Looney Tunes canon.