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DVD Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three
Like the previous entries in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series, volume 3 confirms how brilliant the Warner Bros. artists were and how durable their creations have proven. The set includes classics that every cartoon buff will recognize: "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!," "Robin Hood Daffy," "Birds Anonymous." Other selections are less familiar but significant in the development of the studio: "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," the first Looney Tune; "I Haven't Got a Hat," the earliest Warners cartoon viewers can watch for fun, rather than as an historic curiosity; "Porky's Romance," in which director Frank Tashlin introduced rapid cutting to cartoons. Some of the caricature films have aged less gracefully. Younger audiences will recognize the drawn versions of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Katharine Hepburn, and Charlie Chaplin. But will anyone under the age of 60 remember Edna Mae Oliver, George Arliss, or Ned Sparks?
The producers have once again loaded the discs with supplemental material, including "Point Food Rationing," a unseen short explaining wartime ration books; a BBC documentary on Chuck Jones; and interstitial animated sequences for The Bugs Bunny Show. "Philbert" ranks as the oddest of the extras: an unsold (and leaden) pilot from 1963, featuring live actors and an animated title character. Whoopi Goldberg introduces the set, explaining that some of the ethnic gags would no longer be considered appropriate. But she correctly adds that to remove them would falsify both the history of animation and American popular culture. It all adds up to a set every cartoon fan will want. (Unrated, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon
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At this rate, it will take for ever to release the whole collection
I would like to thank the people at Warner Bros. for releasing these jems of the cartoon world, and I plea to them to speed up the pace and release 2 or 3 collections a year insted of only 1 per year.
Best regards,
The Best Selection Yet, but also the same complaints
I can hardly believe some of the reviews I'm reading here. It seems every one wants more Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzalez and Chuck Jones. They want the cartoons from the 50s. Well, I've seen most of the WB cartoons over many long years, and the Speedy Gonzalezes stink; Forghorn Leghorn is funny once and then boring; and Chuck Jones is the most overrated catroonist of all times. He made some good cartoons--as a matter of fact, a lot of good cartoons--but he made a lot of junk too, including some of his most heralded (like "Some Froggy Evening" which is obvious, coy and not funny at all.)
Tashlin, Avery and, especially, Clampett, rule. Porky Pig's Feat, a (horror of horrors!) black & white cartoon from the 40s (horrors again) may be the funniest cartoon ever made. Clampett is the only director who could make a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs was the goat and still make it hilarious: Falling Hare being the best example. But my god! that's a war time cartoon with references to A-Cards and Gremlins and its too much to expect people today to understand that!
This set even includes what is probably Freleng's best cartoon: She Was An Acrobat's Daughter, a wicked send-up of a night at the movies: but, heavenly days (a little Fibber McGee & Molly lingo there) there were references to Newsreels & Lew Lehr (who's dat?) and Leslie Howard & Bette Davis in the Petrified Forest. A lot of the reviewers here, I'm sure, were offended by the inclusion of anything that is so obscure in this new millenium. In "Thugs With Dirty Mugs", there is a joke about Fred Allen; In "A Gruesome Twosome", another of the greatest cartoons ever, there is a parody of Jimmy Durante! It seems it's asking too much to expect anyone post baby boom to understand anything that happened before the television age.
I liked this set for the reason most of the reviewers here disliked it: because of its concentration on the funnier, better written, more satirical cartoons of the pre-Jones age. The black & white Looney Tunes are terrific. I agree with one of the other reviewers, though, in that I'd like to see some of Tex Avery's travelogue spoofs. They are hilarious collections of the corniest gags imaginable.
About the PC stuff--it's intolerable, but we just have to tolerate it. These fascists are in control of this country now (and I don't mean since the recent election--it happened way before that) and we just have to put up with it. It's just curious that they think we should be offended by some stereotypes and not by others. Stereotypes of Black Americans are to be shuddered at but--why, the Durante spoof is a take off on an Italian American; the Edward G. Robinson spoof in "Thugs With Dirty Mugs" is a take off on a Jewish American. The finger shaking lecture is an old tradition in this country and the only thing that changes is what we get lectured about. The thing that never changes is the hypocrisy and the selective morality.
Other reviewers here, who probably are in favor of the PC fascism (I've read a few of them) make the usual, unimaginative and lame accusations: we don't like the PC lecturing because we're all racists. The fact is I don't care WHAT the lecture is about. I resent the fact of the lecture at all. We turn to these DVDs for entertainment, not for any lecture on how evil our ancestors were. If there were religious lectures at the beginning of DVDs of modern movies, which may offend church goers, I'm sure the pinkos would crab about that--and rightly so. It is the presence and not the content of the lecture that is offensive.
But folks, just learn to take it. It ain't going away. Remember, no one is really against censorship and the folks that crab the most about it only crab because they're not censors and they're not the ones deciding what gets approves. Right now what is generally called the "left" are the censors of our culture and it is their version of morality that decides what we can see and enjoy and what we will be lectured about. Get used to it.
But the PC garbage is what made me give this only 4 stars instead of the five it deserves.
Keep these alive, disclaimer or not!!
Yes, I thought the Whoppi disclaimers were absurd (HOW many generations have grown up with these cartoons, and now all of a sudden they're "bad"?) I never saw disclaimers on CBS when I watched these cartoons on Saturday mornings for years and years!!!
But aside from that, my main gripe is the organization. It would be better if they'd organize these into eras (I'm not as big on the Leon Schlesenger era from the 30s/early 40s as I am on the Fritz-era, and would rather these be organized chronologically. Not that I don't respect those early shorts for what they were, I just like the later ones better).
Regardless, as long as they keep releasing these I'll still keep getting them, since Cartoon Network and Nickelodean have completely removed them and decided that the new generation of kids "don't have the attention span" to appreciate them (I beg to differ, my kids LOVE Looney Tunes!), and replace them with garbage full of toilet humor (which, apparently, is OK by the PC police...)
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If you've got the others, grab this set as well. Looney Tunes have never looked better.
This time around, the box set is smaller and much more efficient. The previous sets had one disc per fold-out, which left extra space on the opposite side to fill up with dumb quotes from the shorts. Now the layout is much better.
The cover art however, could've been much better. It looks so much like the first volume - why couldn't they do something different? Volume 3's cover was refreshing, volume 4's looks bland. The gloss and emboss is nice, though.
I love the black and white shorts - the sense of humour in the early 30's shorts is totally different from later years. The characters would always make objects do things they weren't supposed to - like grabbing... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Chuck Jones - Robert McKimson - Friz Freleng DVD Release Date: Released the 14 November 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Brash, fast-paced, and hysterically funny, the Warner Brothers cartoons rank among the undisputed treasures of American animation and American comedy. This second collection, a follow-up to Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, includes such gems as "Porky in Wackyland," "A Bear for Punishment," "Gee Whiz-z-z," The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," and "I Love to Singa." A short documentary about director Bob Clampett features several cartoon historians, animator Eric Goldberg, Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont, and Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi (enthusiastic but over the top). But Warners continues its scattergun approach to selecting films. There are only eight cartoons by Clampett in the set, plus three by Tex Avery and one by Frank Tashlin. "Rabbit Fire"... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 02 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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For years, animation buffs have waited impatiently for the Warner Bros. cartoons to appear on DVD. The Warner shorts never commanded the budgets and prestige of the Disney and MGM films, and won fewer Oscars than they deserved. But decades after the best ones were created, they remain the quintessential Hollywood cartoons: brash, fast-paced, aggressively funny and uniquely American. Virtually everyone in the U.S. under the age of 60 grew up on these films, in theaters and on TV. The 56 cartoons in the set (out of a studio output of over 1,000) were transferred from good prints--which means the viewer can see dust, scratches, and occasional mistakes by the cel painters. The films are all presented uncut, in defiance of the killjoys who have insisted on censoring alleged "violence"... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Chuck Jones - Rudy Larriva - Robert McKimson DVD Release Date: Released the 28 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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How did they do it? How did Jay Ward and his crew create the perfect combination of self-conscious silliness, Cold War parody, bad puns, and iconic artwork?
And why has no one since been able to rise to that level of literate goofiness?
Bullwinkle's corner, Aesop and son, the fractured fairy tales, and Mr. Peabody's insane rewriting of history are still huge fun. Half the fun, though, is in knowing the original stories and seeing how they got twisted into these bits of amusement. Yes, I admit to nostaligic favoritism towards these relics of my childhood. Despite that, there really is a lot here for an adult willing to be amused.
Go ahead - be amused!
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The Disney treasures collection is the best and cheapest way of getting the entire series to their golden age shorts.
I must warn you not to buy any of these mini DVDS if you are someone who would love the full collection being the mini DVDS are just repeats or shorts due on future disney treasures.
Donald Duck has Stared in 165 shorts in total from 1934-1967
Below is a complete list of all his appearnces. it comes in 4 collumns: first the episode number, then the date, then the official clasification of the series it comes under, then the title.
All ones clasified as mickey mouse are seen in the 4 Volumes of Mickey mouse in the treasures. but their is one clasified as mickey not seen in mickeys collection being it does not star mickey which you will... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Dick Lundy DVD Release Date: 06 December 2005
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