Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.'A-Lad-in His Lamp' from personal opinion, and quite a few others it seems, is one of the best cartoons from Robert McKimson during a period where he had not just hit his stride but also was in his prime. A director who isn't one of the greats in animation but was responsible for his fair share of good to classic cartoons (though he was not immune to average and less ones), meaning that he is deserving of more credit than he gets. Bugs is true to his very likeable, witty and hilarious persona that he is most famous for, while being just as much at home in a serious dangerous situation that he is here. The genie, wonderfully voiced by Jim Backus, is a riot, and while the villain is a less than subtle archetype he is great fun and a suitable threat. Mel Blanc as always is stellar in the usual multiple roles, that he shows the masterly and unequalled ability to give individuality to each of them.Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, vibrant in colour and very meticulous in detail. The story may be predictable, but it's beautifully paced with never a dull moment and strongly structured. Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.It's a very funny, often hilarious actually, cartoon too, with well-engineered gags, a great premise made the most out of and done inventively, witty dialogue and non-stop liveliness.Overall, a McKimson and Bugs classic. 10/10 Bethany Cox

. . . Bugs Bunny says to scimitar-wielding Caliph Pheffer, in Warner Bros.' prophetic warning to Saddam Hussein not to mess with the Bushes (aka, shrubs) during this 1948 release from their Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners), A-LAD-IN HIS LAMP. Robin Williams might have said G'Day to Vietnam, but 89% of Millennial Animation experts agree that his performance in Disney's over-rated feature cartoon ALADDIN is totally derived from Jim Backus' "Genii with the light brown hair" here, to the level of extreme (if second-rate) plagiarism. Of course, the lame-brained folks forming the Pack of the Rat at Disney seldom if ever provide clairvoyant touches with their moving pictures, while Warner Bros. often if not always can be counted upon to be Warning the World of its upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti. If a young Saddam Hussein had only seen A-LAD-IN HIS LAMP, surely he'd refrained from harassing the Bushes with a ten-foot pole (or even a Seven-Incher). But no, he had to insult them at some backyard Texas BBQ in honor of the Bin Laden Family, suffering the penalty of being strung up and Lynched (not to mention getting more than ONE MILLION of his constituents killed, along with 5,000 U.S. troops, at a cost of THREE BILLION BUCKS to America, 10 billion plus to the world economy, and counting, of course)!

Bugs stumbles upon a magic lamp and finds a somewhat annoying genie, voiced by Jim Backus. While the genie is able to grant wishes, he's also a bit snippy and after a while tells Bugs to leave him alone OR ELSE--even though through the genie's own ineptitude he's put Bugs into harms way with the dangerous Hasan, who is intent on killing Bugs. Again and again Bugs tries to get help but the genie tells him to go away (he's taking a shower or on a hot date, etc.). Finally, after receiving his last warning, Hasan inadvertently bothers the genie--who responds by pulverizing him! A cute cartoon with very high production values and a lot of laughs.

This lackluster Bugs Bunny vehicle is most notable for being the first (uncredited) appearance of Jim Backus anywhere, a year before he became the voice of Mr. Magoo. It certainly was not the first cartoon to have a pun on a-lad-in in it's title. While building a home (digging a tunnel with a shuffle), Bugs stumbles upon Aladdin's lamp. `Smoky' the Genie, who seems to have been a great inspiration to Johnny Carson, talks Bugs into visiting his estate in Baghdad and sends him off flying. He failed to inform Bugs the estate is now owned by the violent Galiph Hassen Pheffer.Is this really the Bugs Bunny we know and love? Instead of outsmarting everybody else, he spends this cartoon being duped by the genie and delivers some of the worst puns ever (hare-plane, hare-em). The genie himself is too busy taking a bath or having diner to offer any help, so Bugs has to fend for himself trying to keep the lamp out of Galiph's hands. The most original jokes are to be found during the establishing shots when we first get to Baghdad. Apparently this cartoon has come under fire for the depiction of Iraqi, but then again is there any forties Warner effort left that has not offended anybody?4 out of 10