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Looney Tunes - The Premiere Collection

Looney Tunes - The Premiere Collection

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't Buy This
Review: These are Remastered ? looks like your looking through a dirty lens who want's to see a bunch of dust spots. I got alot of DVD's and this is the worst one i got.Not Worth It Save You'r Money and get the Looney Tunes 4 disc sets.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Too many Chuck Jones cartoons
Review: Actually, even one Chuck Jones cartoon would have been too many for me. I received this as a holiday gift, so I can't complain about its merits vis a vis the Golden Collection. The selection of cartoons is superficial and random, with no attempt being made to include the best of each character or director. If you spent your childhood obsessively watching Warner Brothers cartoons on local TV like a good American, practically none of the cartoons that you would probably want to see again are included (unless you actually ENJOYED watching Speedy Gonzales or Foghorn Leghorn). If you are a newcomer to Warner Brothers animation, this set will only make you wonder what the fuss is about.

Worst of all, this DVD is dominated by the work of the incredibly over-rated Chuck Jones, whose fans apparently think that longevity equals artistic talent. With the exception of the Roadrunner cartoons, his work has always struck me as pretentious and too convinced of its own genius to be even remotely funny. His characterization of Bugs and Daffy as a pair of feuding homosexuals was tedious and his timing was off. The fact that he was the only Warners cartoon director to survive into our era has ensured that his name is inextricably combined with Warner Brothers cartoons in the lazy American public's mind while truly funny directors like Avery, Clampett, and McKimson are largely forgotten.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: toons are always funny
Review: amazing dvd
great cartoons
remembering seeing these on Cartoon network as a kid
great cartoons
hilarious, a little shocking at times with what they put in but it was worth laughs. you're never too young or old for cartoons. I watched Bugs bunny at age 5 and still watch him. I know people that are 80 and up and watch him. you're never too young or old for toons. this is an amazing dvd I'm so glad I got it. and I'm so glad they released this on dvd

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I would give it 0 stars if I could here's why...
Review: An insider stated that if you want more of the looney tunes and avery toons to come out in box sets in the future, then you must buy the looney tunes golden collection. The premiere collection only has half, 28 as opposed to 58 total on the golden collection. There are no commentaries, galleries etc. Why would you want this piece of garbage? If you want Warner Brothers to release the older and funniest looney tunes (red riding hood etc) then buy the golden collection. I have background sources on this folks. The golden collection will last you months and is a better buy. If you want to learn how these toons were made buy the golden collection! I'm telling this for a reason! The golden collection is the best choice.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Looney Tunes - The Spotlight Collection, Volume 1
Review: Before you "Golden Collection" advocates bash this collection, please take note that it's a GREAT collection. Sure, it's the "watered down" version of the first Golden Collection box set, but not everyone can spend the amount that the Golden Collection Box Sets cost. I hope that WHV releases The Spotlight Collection Volume 3 and so on, along with the Golden Collection box sets, that way, everyone is happy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cartoons are for CHILDREN (hint) and This Is Excellent!!!
Review: Come on, folks, these are actually made for little people, not adults. This DVD is wonderful, pure magic that my 5-year-old loves. We don't have cable and he watches only DVD's and videos. He has a large collection, but this is one of his all-time favorites.
PARENTS, if you don't need all the bells and whistles but buy for your kids and NOT because you want to be a child for life, then this is an excellent choise -- your child(ren) will love it and you'll have money left to buy another DVD or video.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is pointless...
Review: Except for the fact that it is considerably cheaper then the Golden Collection, this Premiere Collection is completely pointless. Especially since there is a "buy both now!" option to buy this as well as the Golden Collection. Any person that is a fan of Looney Tunes enough to buy this Permiere Collection might as well spring the little extra money and get the AWESOME Golden Collection. But then again, if you only want HALF of a good thing, by all means get this one!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is pointless...
Review: Except for the fact that it is considerably cheaper then the Golden Collection, this Premiere Collection is completely pointless. Especially since there is a "buy both now!" option to buy this as well as the Golden Collection. Any person that is a fan of Looney Tunes enough to buy this Permiere Collection might as well spring the little extra money and get the AWESOME Golden Collection. But then again, if you only want HALF of a good thing, by all means get this one!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Solid collection of classic Looney Tunes
Review: For those folks not interested in the bells and whistles(i.e., extras, interviews, rarities, etc) available on the deluxe Golden Collection, The Premiere Collection is a very good place to start collecting these classic shorts. The positives carried over from Golden are many; these are transferred from new prints with considerable digital clean up (without any digital alteration to the original images). The unforgiving quality of DVD is such that you will see many analog flaws on some of the older cartoons (particularly those with darker colored backgrounds). There's a considerable amount of what appears to be dust but could just be analog imperfections in the surviving negatives and prints generated from them. More than likely, many of these errors were there from the moment they shot the cartoons and were on the original animation background cels.

The set is flawed not so much by what is included but by what it omits; There's none of Tex Avery's formative Warner cartoons and Bob Clampett's wacky style is represented only by a couple of shorts (and his most zany Porky in Wackyland is MIA). While the set (like The Golden Collection) is heavy on Chuck Jones that could actually be a good thing. Jones' shorts were far and away the best the unit produced (outside of Clampett's) and also the most innovative. That's not to dismiss Friz Freleng's classics or Robert McKimson's best cartoons; Jones was more consistent and also pushed the boundary much more as a director. Much of his best work was done with Maurice Nobel and Michael Maltese and there's a couple of representative samples here as well (most notably The Fast and The Furry-ous).

If you purchase this set, though, be forewarned as a couple of Jones' best works are missing; Duck Dodgers, Drip-a Long Daffy, Rabbit Fire, Rabbit of Seville and the brilliant Duck Amuck are nowhere to be found on this set. The cartoons that are included including the brilliant Scaredy Cat are important works but this collection is a bit lite on Jones' best work.

Marketing is the key word here folks. Most stores that wouldn't carry a more expensive boxed set like Golden will cary the two disc sets like this. Hopefully both are well received so that the classics missing from this set will make it to a second or third one.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Listen up, boneheads......
Review: For those of you who don't have the dough to spend on the 4 disc set, THIS is your best bet. Most of these idiots don't understand markerting so please ignore the idiotic comments posted. The 4 disc set IS better in overall value, extras etc. But if you can live with the spare 2 disc set, its a solid choice.


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