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Summary: Eh....Excellent, Doc!
Review: This is a fantastic collection! I have been fortunate enough to have watched these shorts over the past 30+ years and they still stand up to time.It's true that not all of my fav's are on here (Where's Ralph Phillips?) but I hope that WB releases more of these sets in the near future. The special features are wonderful. There is one on disc 3 from cartoon network called lost toon heads that was a pure treat to watch! Speaking of Ralph, I didn't know that they made a short of him for High School kids for the army. Truly a true gem! I'm so glad I purchased it!
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Summary: It is Worth the Money
Review: Most of us grew up with Looney Tunes, so I am not going to review them here. The question is whether the DVD set is worth the money. The answer is "Yes!" The video has been cleaned up. It is not perfect because you can see artifacts caused by scratches on the original prints. If you look carefully you can also see patterns that look a little like magnified images of bacteria in many of the cartoons. Even so, the color is vivid and you can easily forgive artifacts caused by technological shortcomings from decades ago. The sound is mono, but surprisingly clear. What made this DVD set a good value are the extras. Many, but not all the cartoons come with optional commentary tracks. They are not commentaries from their original creators but from a historian and a film maker. Nonetheless, they give me information that added to the enjoyment of the cartoons. A second set of extras are called "Behind the Tunes". They featured some of the original creators of the cartoons as well some of their close relatives. It was surprising to me to find out that one of the animated characters was actually based on the personality of one of the directors. A third set of extras featured a documentary about Looney Tunes made in the 70's. Unlike some of the anime titles I bought recently, I have absolutely no regret about spending good money on this quality release.
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Summary: Perfection! An extroardinary collection of classic WB toons!
Review: Let's face it, when it comes to cartoons, LOONEY TUNES rule! This superb DVD collection distills the over 1100 Looney Tunes made over the course of nearly 40 years, and brings us some of the very best selections, along with exceptionally entertaining bonus features. Each cartoon has been meticulously restored, with dazzling color and great sound quality. These shorts look as great as they must have when they were first released to theaters decades ago. The hilarity is contagious, so be warned! Among the great highlights: DUCK AMUCK (Probably Chuck Jones' masterpiece)
RABBIT OF SEVILLE (The amazing send off of Rossini)
DUCK DODGERS & THE 24 1/2 CENTURY (Need I say more?)
BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID (Clampett's take on Bugs with Buzzard)
BUGS BUNNY & THE THREE BEARS ("Tell me more about my eyes!")
FAST AND FURRY-OUS (The very FIRST Road Runner cartoon)
DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO (The surrealistic Porky Pig masterpiece)
SCAREDY CAT (Sylvester and Porky in a macabre lampoon)
HAREDEVIL HARE (The FIRST Bugs Bunny & Marvin Martian cartoon)
DEVIL MAY HARE (The FIRST Tasmanian Devil cartoon)
SPEEDY GONZALES (The Oscar winning cartoon with the famous mouse)
WABBIT TWOUBLE (Bugs and Elmer in an early Bob Clampett gem)
BULLY FOR BUGS (Bugs as matador vs. a nefarious bull)
THE FOGHORN LEGHORN (The rattled rooster at his best)
FEED THE KITTY (The little kitten bewitches bulldog Marc Anthony)
BASEBALL BUGS (Wait till you see the colors on this one!)... and that's ONLY the tip of the iceburg. 40 more beguiling LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES masterpieces have been assembled here with great care, with the participation of several animation veterans and experts. Nicest touch of all is an introduction by Chuck Jones, obviously taped before his recent passing. This collection is a great start from the brothers Warner, and I'll just have to wear out these discs until the next volumes are released. BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!
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Summary: SPACE JAM!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I love space jam...I am really looking forward to seeing the new TOONS movie...YOU ROCK ON BUGS!!!! Number 1 baby ROCK HARD!! Come get Some....
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Summary: Warning: Best Cartoons Not Included!
Review: First I said, "Finally, the beloved and hilarious Warner Bros. shorts are available on dvd!". Yes, there are 56 shorts and lots of bonus features in the Golden Collection. Soon, however, I noticed the blatant omission of some of the best cartoons. This oversight is incredible and just wrong.
This collection does not include classics such as: What's Opera, Doc? ("Kill the wabbit")
Ali Baba Bunny ("I'm rich! I'm a happy miser!")
Little Red Riding Rabbit (...a little bunny rabbit...TA HAVE!!")
Broomstick Bunny (Witch Hazel meets trick-or-treater Bugs)
Show Biz Bugs (Daffy explodes in an attempt to upstage Bugs)
One Froggy Evening (classic Chuck Jones short)
Rhapsody Rabbit (a mouse interferes with Bugs' piano concert)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Daffy dreams he's Duck Twacy)
Gorilla My Dreams (Bugs pretends to be a baby ape)
Rabbit Hood (Bugs sells the King's property to the Sheriff)
Bugs Bunny Rides Again (best Bugs vs. Yosemite Sam toon)
Buccaneer Bunny (best Sam as pirate toon)
Bushy Hare (Bugs vs. angry, spear-toting native in Australia)
Operation: Rabbit (hilarious as Wile E. Coyote tries to get Bugs) What a shame. Hopefully the folks at Warner will wise up and release these wonderful shorts too.
And also in this collection, they only included one Road Runner short (Fast and Furry-ous), but they should have also included "Beep Beep" and "Going! Going! Gosh!".
Overall a decent collection with good picture and sound but dubious choices of which cartoons to include.
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Summary: "OF COURSE YOU KNOW THIS MEANS LAUGHS!"
Review: 14 CARROT GOLD. THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!...
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Summary: Much better than I was anticipating. Get it. NOW.
Review: This past week, Warner Bros finally started releasing Looney Tunes cartoons on DVD. That's something I know has been a popular request for many years now. The collection that is out now has something like 48 toons on it. The 4 DVD set is broken up into four categories. "Bugs Bunny", "The Best of Daffy & Porky", with 3 & 4 being called "Looney Tunes All Stars". There's something like 1200 Looney Tunes cartoons, and about 250 of them have Bugs Bunny in them. At about 50 a set, it'll take awhile to release everything, but I read somewhere that releasing all of them is the plan. Yikes! Anyway, the set was better than I was expecting. I was figuring it would be a bunch of cartoons and not much else. Turns out there's a gob of behind the scenes things. They even put commentaries on a bunch of cartoons. As the bulk of the people who worked on these things are dead now, they have other folks doing commentaries, usually introducing some old audio clip from one of the original directors of the particular cartoon. There's features on various characters, and a bunch of other items. Again, I was very pleasantly surprised that the disc was as good as it was quality wise. I grew up on Looney Tunes cartoons on Saturday morning. If you're interested in quality well made cartoons, you cannot go wrong with this set. I also would hope that those of us (I'm 38) who are older and have kids expose their own children to this, and let them see some good stuff for a change. The bulk of the Bugs Bunny cartoons (like 97% of them) were made before I was born, so Saturday morning cartoons were defined by Looney Tunes to me - which is why I think most of the stuff that has come since (Smurfs, Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls, etc)) are total crap. Seeing these cartoons again is a real great trip down memory lane - I really enjoyed them before, and I really enjoy them now. Very VERY strongly recommended. There is also a 2 DVD set which has about half of what this has on it, but who wants that? Get this one - it's great!
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Summary: I just noticed!!!!!!!!
Review: Hey, did anyone else notice that "What's Opera, Doc?" is missing??? I also discovered that "One Froggy Evening" is missing too!!! Just thought I'd point that out here in the reviews area, because I'm pretty sure nobody else has mentioned it yet. And I'm sooooooo mad that my personal favorite cartoon, from 1938, the unreleased & never even seen "Early Animation Blows" short wasn't included... this DVD is a total fraud without that crucial short! Plus, that cover!! When I'm sitting around for hours and hours staring at the cover on my DVD jacket, it has to be good or I'm not buying! In addition, I'd rather wait fifty more years without anything than buy this collection when it doesn't include the entire 1000 cartoon series!! Forget these 40 or 50 cartoon selections... everybody needs to wait until all those boring crappy Fat Porky shorts from the late '30's are all rev'vved up and ready to go. Don't release a single cartoon until all 1000 are ready!! Then, and only then, will I buy!! If it's cheap enough, I mean.
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Summary: About the editing of these cartoons....
Review: It is true that Warner Brothers made the vast majority of Looney Tunes Cartoons from 1937 to about 1959. Long before the Civil Rights Movement and because they were cartoons of their time, they sometimes did make jokes about African Americans or Asian Americans, and many other people of different races that was considered funny at the time, but today would not be. So over the years, Warner Brothers has had to do some very large amount of editing to many of their cartoons where such moments were taken out of the films. I even heard a story that later in his life, Chuck Jones himself asked Warners to remove those scenes in many of the early cartoons so that he made. If true, it shows how much of a class act he was and always thought of his fans and what the cartoons ment to them. In this collection, some of the scenes that were edited out have been put back in, but they are few and far between takes.
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Summary: "Ehhh {crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch}. What's up, Doc?"
Review: Friz Freleng (1905-1995), Chuck Jones (1912-2002) and Robert McKimson (1910-1977) directed hundreds of different short, animated cartoons starting in the late 1920's through the early 1960's for Warner Brothers. Beginning in 1937, actor Mel Blanc (1908-1989) began to do the voices for many of the animated characters, including the first characters for the cartoons that would eventually become known as "Looney Tunes": Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Later, in 1940, actor Arthur Q. Bryan (1899-1959) began doing the voice for what would become a very popular Looney Tunes character, Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd was introduced in the cartoon entitled "Elmer's Candid Camera" that also featured a rabbit character that would became the basis for the most popular and beloved Looney Tunes character: Bugs Bunny, whose voice was done by Mel Blanc. The third, and final, actor to lend her voice to the Looney Tunes characters was June Foray (1917-), who did the voices for Granny and Witch Hazel to name two. Other Looney Tunes characters who got their voices from Mel Blanc include Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester, Pepe le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dog, Wile E. Coyote, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian and the Tasmanian Devil. I was thrilled to see Warner Brothers begin to release the Looney Tunes cartoons on DVD. "The Golden Collection", a set of 4 DVD's containing 56 different Looney Tunes cartoons, is not even one-tenth of the total number of cartoons created by Friz Feleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, June Foray, and the many animators that were involved over the years. Not only is the animation of the cartoons in "The Golden Collection" fully restored, scenes that are now considered inappropriate for commercial television have been included. I was surprised to watch a cartoon on the first DVD that I had never previously seen, "Big House Bunny" (1950), but after viewing it, I understood why no commercial television station had probably ever aired it. Thankfully, "Elmer's Candid Camera" is included on the third disk of "The Golden Collection". Overall, I rate "Looney Tunes - The Golden Collection" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars. The cartoons featured on these 4 DVD's are just as enjoyable today as they were when they were first viewed by theater-going audiences long before they began to be aired on commercial television. The stories and animation are by no means dated; instead, they demonstrate the high quality of the animation art long before computer-generated graphics came into use. Sadly, only June Foray remains alive today of the original masters of Looney Tune art, but their legacy of animation will continue to be enjoyed by generations of children (and adults) for years to come.
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