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Summary: Some music elements missing?
Review: Good news and bad news. The good news is that you can view this timeless comedy classic in far better shape than most anyone younger than 50 has ever seen. The bad news is that the surviving prints are not pristine, and the animation wasn't that clean in the first place. Therefore, like the Looney Tunes "Golden Collection," the DVD format means that you get to see the cartoons in their full glory from the best available source material, including (moving) dust, scratches, visible overlays, etc. Still, that seems a small price to pay to view 40-50 year old artifacts of the zenith of non-computerized animation, an era that may never be repeated. An outstanding value for the sheer amount of programming material you get for the low price.
One minor complaint is that some deliberate content editing has been done. In particular, some music elements seem missing. I was looking forward to acquiring this collection (and future seasons) due to fond memories of some side-splitting moments. These include the "Mr. Know-It-All" segment on "High Fidelity" and a Dudley Do-Right episode where a fur smuggling ring (which hid the furs in musical instruments) is foiled when a tuba player rips into the "Wabash Cannonball" and starts spewing furs all over the stage. I was pleased to find the "High Fidelity" segment on the second side of disk two. However, I originally recall that during a gag with reel-to-reel tape, Bullwinkle not only breaks into a Highland dance in a kilt ("Oooh, must have put on a *Scotch* tape!"), he sings the lyrics to a Scottish song. On the DVD, only the bagpipe music is heard, not the lyrics. Was this edited from the original, and if so, was it due to failure to clear the necessary music rights? If so, it's a shame, as it renders the gag somewhat less funny (as I wanted to share it with others who likely haven't seen the version that I have).
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Summary: Best Animated DVD Set - Hands Down
Review: How anyone could rate this set below 5 stars is beyond me. 52, yes 52 shows of R&B along with Sherman, Mr. Peobody, Fractured fairy tails... it goes on. This set is priced substantially less than other animated series on the market and you get so much more. The humor is ageless and the quality is suberb. Who cares if you have to get up and flip the disc over, for some of you that's all the excersize you get. I also don't mind the fact that all the the cartoons are strung together, it creates a break, cliff hanger if you will, between the R&B episodes. The intros and credits are also not an issue. The R&B series are the best animated sets on the market.
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Summary: Fan Remembers Originals Opening Sequences & Commercials
Review: I finally finished watching the second Rocky and Bullwinkle DVD set. Much to my very pleasant surprise, starting on show #44 on disc 4, they used the FIRST season opening and closing title/credits sequences! Like with the second year opening/closing sequences, this was the very first time I had seen these in color. Mind you, this is not the original theme music used, which I think was better synchronized with the action on the screen, still it is great to finally again see Rocky and Bullwinkle chased up and down the hill by the loosened pinwheels! The split-second shot showing their faces in horror as they realize the fireworks are coming loose is my favorite pose of the Frostbite Falls duo!
Those of you who probably saw Rocky and Bullwinkle on TV for the first time during the years of repeats are familiar with only the dancing moose opening title sequence. I saw "Rocky and His Friends" when it first aired in the late 1950s and early 1960s and I take sheer delight in seeing these original title sequences again.
Two other nice touches are: (1) On this DVD set we see several of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club" cartoons which took the place of "Bullwinkle's Corner" or "Mr. Know It All" on some programs. In Keith Scott's book "The Moose That Roared" it says that there were only nine "Fan Club" cartoons. (2) We finally get to see a few of the Bullwinkle cereal commercials. There are SO MANY more!
I do wish, however, the booklet would have listed each "Bullwinkle's Corner", "Mr. Know It All", and "Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club" cartoon by title like all the other cartoons on each disc.
Additional comments added at a later date:
This DVD set contains all of the Rocky and Bullwinkle catoons from Season 2. There are 52 half-hour programs on this DVD set. No, they did not have a new program on the air every week that year. Referring again to Keith Scott's book "The Moose That Roared", during the second year that this program was on ABC television, there were new programs TWICE a week, Thursdays and Sundays. Production for this season began soon enough to produce this many episodes. There are twice as many episodes on this DVD set as on the Season 1 set but at no increase in price from most retailers. Quite a bargain.
I do wish the booklets included in this series would list the original broadcast dates for the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons if not the other features as well.
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Summary: Seemless
Review: I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH SEASON 2 OF ROCKY & BULLWINKLE,NOT WITH THE CONTENT,THAT WAS GREAT;HOWEVER, WITH THE WAY IT WAS DELIVERED. SONY - WONDER WENT ON THE CHEAP, THEY DOUBLE RECORDED ON EACH DVD. THAT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO FLIP EVERY DVD TO SEE THE SHOWS IN ORDER. THAT TO ME IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND NOT MENTION WHEN YOU ORDER OR ON THE BOX. SONY-WONDER SHOULD BE ASHAME OF IT SELF. SEASON 1 WAS ONLY RECORDED ON ONLY ONE SIDE, LIKE IT'S SUPPOSE TO.
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Summary: The 2nd of 6 Boxed Sets?
Review: If the description above is correct (52 episodes) we'll be getting the storylines UPSIDAISIUM (36 segments) and METAL-MUNCHING MICE (16 segments).
At this rate, it will take 6 Boxed Sets to finish the series.
I'm hoping that at some point, they re-instate the closing credits theme with the names in lights and the explosions at the end. That's the best version of the Bullwinkle theme and it's absent from the Season 1 box.
Also, the artwork says 6 discs while the description says 4 double sided discs. Which is correct and which is a filthy liar?
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Summary: Timeless humor
Review: My kids love these dvd's and the voices and writing are so well done and such fun that they didn't even notice that these are the cartoons of my generation.
When you're wondering whether or not to take a chance on letting kids get too much "exposure" from more contemporary "entertainment" put one of these discs in and take a break from worrying about too much that's just too much and just laugh because this is stress-free funny.
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Summary: Another dose of Moose and Squirrel
Review: Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose (the Jay standing for Jay Ward their alter ego/creator) is utterly brilliant. I loved it as a child, but that is nothing compared how I love it as a child. Everything had some subtle double meaning...well, okay not so subtle! Lol, remember this is Jay Ward who marched up to the White House on the quest to get Frost Bite Falls on the Map - write at the outbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis and nearly got through in the jail-house, where he would have been tormented by Mr. Big and Fearless Leader.
It's the reason DVDs were made. Such great quality. So sit back and enjoy Moose and Squirrel, Boris Badanov, Natasha Fatale, Gydney and Clloydd the Moon-men, Peter "WrongWay" Peachfuzz, Fearless Leader, The Mudville Manglers, Wassamatta U. and Peabody and his boy Sherman...and have a great time for the whole family. Just know while the kids are having fun - your are having MORE fun!
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Summary: My childhood, in a box
Review: Rocky and Bullwinkle were among my favorite cartoons as a kid. Not all of those memories stand up under an adult eye, but these do.
The R&B artwork isn't the most meticulous in animation history. Still, it's quite strong enough to carry the bad puns, strange views of history and fairy tales, and all the rest that made R&B so much fun.
The only disappointment is that the second season ran into trouble near the end, around episode 43. The animation quality went down, and there were few or no new extras (Fractured Fairy Tales, Aesop and Son, Mr. Peabody, Dudley Doright).
//wiredweird
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Summary: How Many discs?
Review: The covorart says 6 but the description says 4. I think it will be 4 though because what wood they need 6 discs for? I like the covorart alot better for this season. i cant wait until its out.
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Summary: Moose is on the Loose
Review: This boxset contains the remainder of "The Rocky Show" episodes that aired on ABC from 1959-61. It became the Bullwinkle Show on NBC for the next three seasons. Don't expect the real broadcast version of the show being packaged as episodes. The Rocky and Bullwinkle adventures on the first boxset were in proper order. But the inbetween cartoons were from all over the five seasons of the show. Mr. Peabody and Fractured Fairy Tales were mingled with later cartoons: Dudley Do-Right and Aesop & Son. If this goes in order and they contain the remainder of the Rocky Show episodes, the adventures are:Upsidasium
Metal-Munching Mice
Greenpernt Oogle
Rue Brittania
Buried Treasure
The Last Angry Moose
Wailing Whale It will be nice to see clear copies of the Rocky and Bullwinkle commercials. Bullwinkle does an amazing song to sell "Trix" cereal. It will be interesting to see how they work the Bullwinkle Show boxsets since they'll have only 21 Bullwinkle's Corners, 52 tandems (Mr. Peaboy/Dudley - Fractured/Aseops), and 85 R&B "episodes." Here's hoping there's just one more boxset so that we don't have to wait 2 years for the remaining episodes
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