And the Envelope Please...

Rating:
Summary: A true disappointment
Review: Purchasing this DVD was a big mistake.

I expected to find some hidden animation treasures (like those found in The International Tournee of Animation tapes). No such luck. Many cartoons in this DVD are quite familiar and can be seen (even more clearly) on the Cartoon Network.

This Cartoon Crazys DVD projects a rather blurry image. For instance, the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons included suffer in comparison to the much superior visual quality found in "The Superman Cartoons of Max & Dave Fleischer".

Sound enhancements are actually annoying and unnecessary. They don't seem to meld seamlessly within the original soundtrack. In my opinion, those extra sound effects, with Dolby and what not, are reminiscent of Ted Turner's infamous obsession of colorizing every black-and-white movie classic.

Except for some interesting historical facts and trivia provided, I think there's little to recommend here.

Rating:
Summary: A true disappointment
Review: Purchasing this DVD was a big mistake.

I expected to find some hidden animation treasures (like those found in The International Tournee of Animation tapes). No such luck. Many cartoons in this DVD are quite familiar and can be seen (even more clearly) on the Cartoon Network.

This Cartoon Crazys DVD projects a rather blurry image. For instance, the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons included suffer in comparison to the much superior visual quality found in "The Superman Cartoons of Max & Dave Fleischer".

Sound enhancements are actually annoying and unnecessary. They don't seem to meld seamlessly within the original soundtrack. In my opinion, those extra sound effects, with Dolby and what not, are reminiscent of Ted Turner's infamous obsession of colorizing every black-and-white movie classic.

Except for some interesting historical facts and trivia provided, I think there's little to recommend here.

Rating:
Summary: Great idea ruined by VERY poor sound...
Review: You'd think companies would leave well enough alone... but NO, they have to go and try to improve things that DON'T need improving or CAN'T improved.

Frankly, the collection of cartoons on this DVD is excellent, but I can't recommend the disk. While the visual quality ranges from fair to very good, the audio is atrocious. Instead of simply cleaning up the old mono tracks for the toons, the company that released this DVD went ahead and "remastered" the soundtracks to the cartoons ==> ERGO, witness sound effects that NEVER existed in the original toons and horribly imbalanced soundtracks!

Save your money...

Hopefully, someone WILL release better versions of these toons in the near future.