Looney Tunes - The Golden Collection

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Summary: Just rented these...now I have to buy them...
Review: We rented all four DVDs from Netflix (my husband, who will be 40 next week LOVES Warner Bros cartoons!). After watching them with our 7- and 3-year-old children, I have to get it for his birthday, because he was such a kid again! He did notice that some of his "favorites" were not included (even without reading the amazon.com reviews) but he said he would love to own this set anyway. Can't wait to receive it!

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Summary: THE FUNNIEST CARTOON SERIES EVER!
Review: Love it, love it, love it!!! & now that I have kids...they love it, too!!! Laugh out loud funny...can't wait to get Volume 2! I am taking the advice of other reviewers...purchasing only the Golden Collections! Mel Blanc was the best!!!

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Summary: The stuff I was raised on!
Review: This is the stuff I ate cereal to on Saturday mornings! Oh how I missed it. My only complaint is that there are as of yet, only 2 DVD sets in the golden collection. More, MORE I SAY!!!!



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Summary: Artifacts of American Culture
Review: This collection is incredible. It features a few of the very favorites (Duck Amuck, Dock Dodgers, Three Bears) plus hours of others. I suppose you could complain that it's not back-to-back personal favorites, but WB needs to make future collections attractive, too.

And the 'lesser' cartoons are still good ones. Tortose Wins shows all the craftmanship that went into the early `toons, especially in the background art. Baseball Bugs shows just how literary these pieces were. Way in the background, up there on the outfield fence, is an ad for Filboid Studge - H. H. Munroe fans will surely recognize that one.

I like the mix of early and late, different characters starring, and the best-known with the less-remembered work. It shows me a lot about the animation styles of different times and Bugs development as a character (esp. from Elmer's Candid Camera). The later backgrounds weren't as artful, for example. Even so, these `toons are loads better than the ones that followed. There was a steady degradation of artwork and complexity, sliding down through the late 50s, then, with exceptions, plummeting through the 70s.

It's just good clean fun, silly puns in the titles, and a dose of personal nostalgia. The WWII-era cartoons also show an interesting slice of modern American history, how that war pervaded civilian life in ways that none since have been able to. Those really were different times.

//wiredweird

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Summary: HOORAY and BOO!!!!
Review: Hooray that these classic cartoons are available on DVD so that those of us who have enjoyed them for so many years can continue to be entertained by them.

Boo to cable and regular TV for putting us in the position of having to buy these classics by discontinuing to broadcast them.
Animation was originally written for adults, so don't be put off by the fact that these are cartoons. They are a form of entertainment.

This DVD set has hours of entertainment, and it has great clarity in sound and picture.

It always amazes me how creative and talented the writers and the people who do the voices of the characters were. They have been replaced by Anime,The Power Puff Girls,South Park and many others that holds no candle to The Looney Toons and the Flintstone programs.

Hooray to Chuck Jones for creating such great characters, such as,Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Wild E. Coyote, Elmer Fud, and all the other characters that are so enjoyable.
This DVD set brings back my childhood memories. It's well worth the money.

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Summary: Hilarious...and more violent than I ever realized!
Review: I, at the age of 16, must say that I watched these at a young age without ever realizing how unbelievably violent they were. Today, I really understand the gags and other such jokes and I must say, they still impress me. Each of the four discs features 14 classic cartoons, from as early as 1940 to as far as 1959. All 4 of the most improtant directors in Warner Bros. cartoon history are featured (Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Rob McKimson, and Friz Freleng.) All the major characters have their share of screen time: Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Roadrunner, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, and various other characters who made less of an impact on the world of Looney Tunes.

Each of the four discs contains 14 cartoons, making a grand total of 56. The first disc consists entirely of cartoons featuring the most famous cartoon character Warner Bros. ever spawned: Bugs Bunny. Disc 2 predominantly features Porky and Daffy. Discs 3 and 4 feature a wide variety of characters, from the big names to the obscure.

Each disc, in my opinion, features two major highlights.

Disc 1 faves: "Long Haired Hare" (Chuck Jones, 1948) and "Wabbit Twouble" (Bob Clampett, 1941.)

Disc 2 faves: "Duck Amuck" (Chuck Jones, 1951) and "Golden Yeggs" (Friz Freleng, 1949.)

Disc 3 faves: "Fast and Furry-ous" (Chuck Jones, 1948) and "Baton Bunny" (Chuck Jones, 1958.)

Disc 4 faves: "Canary Row" (Chuck Jones, 1951) and "Devil May Hare" (Bob McKimson, 1953.)

Then there's the extras. Ultimately, the extras are a great reason to get this DVD collection, especially if you're into the history of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Overall, I would highly recommend this to anyone who is into animation.

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Summary: Like giving TV censors the finger and saluting Chuck Jones
Review: As you've probably noticed in my title, I hate cartoons on TV. And there is a specific reason for that. Editing movies for TV is what I call "tampering with classics", and I WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY OF IT!!! But when I found out about this set, I was delighted. First off, some total gems are here and there in this collection (i.e. Duck Amuck, Feed The Kitty, Rabbit Fire, etc.), along with a couple of lesser-known ones (i.e. Tortoise Wins by A Hare, Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, Early to Bet). Special features are amazing, with music-only prints, an incredible acheivement considering the sound is monaural. To do that, they'd have to go rummaging through the WB vaults and find the original prints. WARNING: Sometimes the sound effects can be heard too. This is because of foreign issues, where a music-and-sound track is recorded, and foreign actors dub the dialogue over the sound and music. There are also audio commentaries, shorts, and trailers for cartoon marathons in theatres. A wonderful set.

Now to remastering: Each one of the 56 shorts in this collection has been digitally remastered from original prints in the vaults. Expect to see animation glitches here and there, a bit of dust floating upward. As for sound, it's the best mono track I've ever heard. There are no sound glitches, or anything like that in the remastered track. Besides, rather than 2 channels, it only takes up the center speaker on a surround system, making for defining picture and sound. I've got a vowel-less word for you: THX. THX didn't remaster the cartoons, but it sure sounds and looks like it!

Overall, Looney Looney Looney fans should rush out and buy this, AND Volume 2, which contains a whole flurry of Road Runners. BEEP-BEEP! And the good news? There will be more! So we'll probably have all the Loonies on DVD by the end of the decade. Or at least half of them.

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Summary: A must, must, must have for all Looney Tunes fans.
Review: This splendid 4-disc box set contains 56 restored and uncut Looney Tunes cartoons. One disc devoted to Bugs Bunny, the second to Daffy and Porky and third and fourth devoted to secondary stars such as Sylvester, Taz, Foghorn Leghorn etc.

Broken down the discs are as follows...

Disc 1-The Best of Bugs Bunny

Baseball Bugs, Rabbit Seasoning, Long-Haired Hare, High Diving Hare, Bully for Bugs, What's Up Doc?, Rabbit's Kin, Water, Water Every Hare, Big House Bunny, Big Top Bunny, My Bunny Lies over the sea, Wabbit Twouble, Ballot Box Bunny, Rabbit of Seville

Disc 2-The Best of Daffy & Porky

Duck Amuck, Dough for the Do-Do, Drip-Along Daffy, Scaredy Cat, The Ducksters, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Yankee Doodle Daffy, Porky Chops, Wearing of the Grin, Deduce, You Say, Boobs in the Woods, Golden Yeggs, Rabbit Fire, Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century

Disc 3-Looney Tunes All Stars

Elmer's Candid Camera, Bugs Bunny and The 3 Bears, Fast and Furry-ous, Hair-Raising Hare, The Awful Orphan, Haredevil Hare, For Scent-imental Reasons, Frigid Hare, The Hypo-Chondri-Cat , Baton Bunny, Feed the Kitty, Don't Give Up The Sheep, Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, Tortoise Wins By A Hare

Disc 4-Looney Tunes All Stars

Canary Row, Bunker Hill Bunny, Kit for Cat, Putty Tat Trouble, Bugs and Thugs, Canned Feud, Lumber Jerks, Speedy Gonzales, Tweety's S.O.S., Foghorn Leghorn, The, Daffy Duck Hunt, Early to Bet, Broken Leghorn, Devil May Hare

Amongst every disc is a treasure trove of extras. We get commentaries, isolated scores, animatics, pencil tests, still galleries and loads of documentaries featuring interviews with many of the folks involved in making the cartoons (the late Chuck Jones included) as well as voice actors for Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Leonard Maltin, Noel Blanc, Joe Dante and Bruce Broughton.

Plain and simple, if you are a Looney Tunes fan (if not WHY?) get this right away. I have yet to get Volume 2 but as soon I as I have the money I will. I desperately need another fix of Daffy.

All cartoons are presented in 1.37:1, as drawn with Dolby Mono sound.

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Summary: quick review.
Review: I can't believe they didn't have the singing frog!!! I heard it's on the new one so I'm happy. This is a must own, because they never play these classics anymore on television. I can only find that tweety bird detective crap on the cartoon network.

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Summary: Great except if you want the Spanish voice acting
Review: This is a great DVD. I had been awaiting it for a long time. It has a myriad of extras such as commentaries, featurettes, music-only audio tracks, documentaries. It is great.
However, they made one crucial mistake.

They excluded the Spanish voice acting.

This is unforgiveable. The voices in Spanish are excellent and in a few cases even better than the originals. I have nothing against the great Mel Blanc. He was incredibly talented and I love his work.

However, anyone who has seen Foghorn Leghorn in Spanish will agree that they are two completely different characters. In Spanish he is known as Gallo Claudio, Claude the Rooster, and he is much funnier. Foghorn Leghorn just sounds too American for me.

To all Latins out there who ever saw the Looney Tunes in Spanish and would like to hear them again, please avoid the Region 1 version of this DVD. I don't know if there'll ever be a latin-america version (Region 4) released, but that may be a better buy if it has the Spanish voice track.