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Summary: get serious
Review: no black and white, no wartime, no great piggy bank robbery, no historical organization. a scattershot collection omitting many crucial cartoons. when will warners realize the value of what they have and start issuing it in a way that makes sense for collectors and fans alike.
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Summary: People Please RELAX
Review: I happen to work at Warner Bros.DVD authoring facility and have been working on these DVD's for quite some time now.
Do you really think Warner would release all the classics and all the Oscar winners in the first collection. Get real. If all the best ones were all in one collection, there would be no need for more boxsets in the future. Trust me the others are on the way.
they take time and effort to restore the prints. I guess you could call WB greedy, but from a marketing standpoint it makes sense to spread them out.
By the way, there were over 1000 'looney tunes' and 'merrie melodies' created. At aprox 56 cartoons per set, it would take almost 20 box sets to release them all. (ain't gonna happen)
my guess (and it means more job security for me) is that Warner will release 1 or 2 collections per year if the consumer response is good. So please buy them. It's worth it.
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Summary: A Must For the Looney Fan
Review: This is a great dvd set to add to your collection. Not only is it the restored cartoons but loads of wondeful extras. I must say that this has plenty of things included that I had never seen before about the toons. Every cartoon is a joy to watch and the comedy is something missing in most modern day cartoons. Overall, this is one of the best boxed sets of the year and a great buy.
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Summary: A Really Great Collection
Review: I rarely give 5 stars, but this collection deserves it big time. First, it is well laid out. I can get every cartoon to play with just one click. Very minimal "FBI" crud, it all appears at the end which should be a standard for every DVD!!!Quality is FANTASTIC! I see quite a bit of dust and scratches on the original cells, especially in dark moments. Distracting, yes, but look on the bright side, this is what they saw in the theater. Note that because of the war, many cells had to be cleaned and reused (unfortunately for those who collect animation cells) so much of the scratches are due to this process. THE most important thing of all, they are uncensored. This has to be the single, greatest decision WB has ever made. Keep it up for the next collection!! As for the choice of cartoons, I cannot believe how many good ones they stuck in this collection. I am having a blast reliving the fun with my kids. It was a crackup to play the "music only" version of "Rabbit Seasonings" and let my son (who has watched this episode 80 times) do the dialog. Was WB expecting this kind of enjoyment? Well done, WB, the Termite Terrace gang would be proud.
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Summary: Ones you know, and many you'll be glad to know!
Review: Great collection. Has all the ones you'd expect, plus some you maybe never saw before. Great color and quality. From the barber of seville, to "monsters lead such interesting lives", to a really cute little penguin, and a puma... great.
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Summary: Let's DO talk about what this collection is NOT!
Review: Okay, the Golden Collection DVD is a very commendable start. But it is possible to find many cartoons for all of these characters...except one. That one - Foghorn Leghorn - is a universal favorite, with every adult I know, and it is virtually impossible to find his features in Region 1 format. The videos available with Foghorn's picture are deceitful marketing, as they have exactly one of his cartoons ("Crowing Pains") and then several embarrassingly antique animations that no one but the animators' mothers could love. I have assumed there was some legal or commercial reason they were deliberately not issuing the thirty of so Foghorn Leghorn cartoons.
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Summary: Fantastic - but please give us more!
Review: This collection is wonderful - we've already had a lot of fun introducing our kids to these cartoons we grew up on, that are so much better than Saturday morning TV nowadays.
The only flaw: the cartoons we notice are missing! We really hope the next volume has 'One Froggy Evening', 'What's Opera, Doc?', 'Duck Rabbit Duck', 'Hare-Way to the Stars' and 'Ali Baba Bunny', as well as lesser known gems like 'Terrier Stricken' (which left me howling the one time I saw it), and all the ones whose names we can't remember (e.g. Bugs and the witch - 'alacapocus!').
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Summary: A monster set with brilliant features
Review: A lot of the people who have complained about this DVD set have done so because some of their favorite cartoons aren't on it. I can sympathize with them. I was disappointed when "One Froggy Evening," "Robin Hood Daffy" and "Duck Rabbit Duck" failed to make the cut. But I also have to sympathize with Warner Bros -- with 1100 Looney Tunes shorts to choose from, picking just 56 for the initial DVD release must be a Herculean task. Therefore, I decided to judge this set on the merits of what it has instead of what it is lacking. What it has is nothing short of spectacular. I firmly believe the Looney Tunes shorts are among the funniest things mankind has ever intentionally created. I could watch Bugs and Daffy, Porky, Tweety and Sylvester and the Road Runner and Coyote for days and never grow tired of them -- and that's just what this DVD allows me to do. 56 shorts, all in the best presentation I've ever seen. Not only that, but the extras... dear Heavens, are there extras! Hours of documentaries about the animation studio, clips originally animated for the Saturday morning cartoon show, audio tapes of Mel Blanc recording the voices, featurettes on nearly every major character, and an entire bonus cartoon, 1991's "(Blooper) Bunny," which celebrated Bugs Bunny's 51 1/2 Birthday." I've had the DVD for a week and I feel like I've only begun to scratch the surface. I'm sorry if your favorite short wasn't on this DVD, but take heart. Watch the great stuff that IS here... and by the time you finally finish going through ALL of it, hopefully, The Golden Collection Vol. 2 will be right around the corner.
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Summary: What's Cookin', Doc?-ONLY THE BEST DVD OF THE YEAR!
Review: I purchased this set the day it came out, and nothing has been on my television screen since. I just keep re-watching the hours and hours of unmitigated joy and hilarity contained on those "golden" discs. I buy a lot of DVDs, and have enjoyed some of the more long awaited, deluxe releases this year, but LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION hands down wins my own personal award for DVD of the year. If they gave Oscars for DVDs, this one would certainly deserve to take home the statuette. First and foremost, there are the cartoons themselves. They have been gorgeously restored. Any true fan of LOONEY TUNES knows how butchered and faded they have been presented on television all these years. Well, they suffer no longer, because the colors jump off the screen at you, the images are clear and sharp, and the sound has that unmistakable Warner Bros. sound in all its glory. Best of all the restored cartoons are truly restored as film. They haven't been run through a computer like Disney did to SNOW WHITE. The original cel animation remains pure and just as it was when each cartoon was made. Amen. The selection of cartoons is outstanding. There are dozens and dozens of favorites here, all uncut, and uncensored. Drawing from nearly 40 years worth of cartoons (over 1100), it would seem that everyone will have a favorite cartoon or two that isn't included here. Happily, this is only the first volume of cartoon craziness Warner Brothers has in store for us, and I'm hoping to see more of my favorites on future volumes. There's nothing to carp about, because every cartoon on this current collection is indeed, pure gold. The compilations have been assembled with freshness and diversity, so that each cartoon has a really different feel to it, and watching one after the other never, ever gets the least bid boring (which I found to be the case with the Disney sets which, aside from not being funny, really got monotonous after a while). The supplements run for hours and feature a bevy of animation experts and veteran Warner personnel to give fascinating behind the scenes stories (or as they call them Behind The Tunes) to tell of the aegis of the characters and the great years at WB that produced these magical shorts. Anyone who even casually likes Bugs and pals owes it to themselves to purchase this set. I've already bought 6 additional copies to give as Christmas gifts. It's literally the perfect gift for anyone who's 6 or 66. That's all folks!
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Summary: A good start...
Review: A good, albeit, watered down collection of Looney Tunes classics. While Warner Bros did a great job restoring these cartoons, they left out too many fan favorites. From a marketing perspective this makes sense, but c'mon! I'm a consumer and Looney Tunes fan, give me what I really want! I hope that the suits at Warner Bros. now have enough confidence with the sales of this collection to release more sets in the near future. Ideally, Warner Bros. should follow the set up of the "Walt Disney Treasures" series, releasing character by character in chronological order. Stick Leonard Maltin on there too. Maltin has way more to offer than the daughters of Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng when it comes to insight and commentary. In any event, I'm just glad that Warner Bros. finally began to release these cartoons on DVD. This should be the beginning of a prolific DVD library. One more thing, the clip art animated menus are an abombination. Warner Brothers should be ashamed of cutting corners and resorting to such an awful presentation.
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