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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Directed By: Arthur Davis, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin, Friz Freleng, Gerry Woolery
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Theatrical Release: November 2, 1935
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Julie Bennett, Ben Frommer, Tedd Pierce
More Looney Tunes...your wish is our command. In this 4-disc set are 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed and over 5 hours of extra special features. Indeed, some have never before been on home video! Disc 1 features some of the best Bugs and Daffy shorts ever. Disc 2 is filled with Looney Tunes version of fairy tales. Disc 3 features the best of Looney Tunes directed by Bob Clampett. And Disc 4 is all about the early daze.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentaries
Featurette
Music Only Track
Other
TV Special
User Submitted Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five Reviews
November 12, 2008
ONE OF THE BEST LOONEY TUNES COLLECTIONS!
I loved this Looney Tunes Collection! It kept me laughing right to the end of every cartoon! WHAT A WACKY WABBIT!! Plus all the rest of my favorite characters I grew up watching on Saturday mornings when I was a kid - THA-THA-THA'S ALL FOLKS!
October 22, 2008
Still great, but a letdown
After counting down the days for a year for this installment, I was let down. Its still great and the bonus features as always are fun, and I am glad I own it, but it had a lot of old and specialty cartoons. I had wanted a Taz, more Pepe LePew's or Foghorn Leghorns. These characters are being neglected by these sets since the first volume. There were some gems: Wagon Heels no one probably knew about before this set and its one of the best animated shorts I've ever seen. Buccaneer Bunny with Yosemite Sam is one of the best Bugs-Sam cartoons ever too. Transylvania 6-5000 is one I had hoped for with Bugs and a Vampire. Silly but super. And Ali-Babba Bunny (Hasan Chop) is a favorite of a lot of people. There are some duds here though, like Oily Hare. Another villain that they give a southern accent to and think that means he can be carried by Bugs and counted then as variety.
I kept hoping Warner Brothers would create a "fan's choice" cartoon for each volume, where fans could go to a web site and vote for a certain cartoon title to be put on the next volume to come out. But Translyvania and Ali Babba would have won such a contest anyway for this set. The Fairy Tales disc is probably the weakest of any single disc in any Golden Collection volume so far: a lot of Red Riding Hood and a lot of Three Little Pigs but the problem is the best fairy tale cartoons were already released (The Three Little Pigs to the Brahm's Hungarian Dances and the Jazz-combo Three Little Pigs version and the Red Riding Hood with glasses and Bugs and a wolf, and all those Tortoise and the Hare discs) so this disc feels forced. And the only fairy tale story I still wanted was Bugs and the Beanstalk where Bugs and Daffy battle a giant Elmer Fudd who wants to grind their bones- which Warner Brothers probably felt was too alike Ali Babba Bunny for inclusion, but the whole fairy tale disc feels forced.
October 6, 2008
good collection
great collection.got it for my grandkids to watch when they visit and they love this series.good ole cartoons!
September 10, 2008
Spare us the cr@p, deliver the goodies!
If I'm to put up with politically correct disclaimers, at least let me get my money's worth, instead of ripping me off with second-best material.
Case in question: "Señorella and the Glass Huarache".
Now don't get me wrong, I am Mexican and not in the least offended by the depiction of my fellow nationals in the cartoon. Personally, I love Speedy Gonzalez, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the two lazy crows, the sombreroed cricket and every other ethnic pun aimed at Mexico and Mexicans. Keep them coming for all I care; I don't mind. In fact, shame on those who do!
But weak humor, tired ideas and limited animation, that I truly abhor. Señorella's only merit is that it was the last cartoon to be produced by the original WB studio. Aside from that, its storytelling is slow, the gags are predictable, and the entire thing has that cheap DePatie-Freleng look, in anticipation of toon decadence to come. Why put this insipid short and not the extraordinary "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves" that's kept locked in a vault? Now there's a comic masterpiece worth apologizing for! Why not release it,if it's already available on YouTube for free, only in substandard quality?
Warner might as well charge for it, complete with a sermon by Whoopy Goldberg and Ted Danson -in blackface, if it makes them feel better- decrying its content, instead of defrauding the consumer with a "Golden Collection" filled with nickel-and-dime stuff!
August 9, 2008
Fun tunes
OK so I admit I'm a fan of ol'time animation. This collection is for the most part what I remember as a child. These were once the standard on Saturday morning. The fact that WB kept these uncut and not so PC by todays standard's is nice.
August 7, 2008
Major disappointment
I found this set to be not only some of the worse cartoons but defective as well as several of the cartoons on the first and second DVD had broad green bands at the bottom of the picture. Also, the cartoon selection was horrible. To many Bugs Bunny cartoons and not enough the of the other great characters such as Yosemite Sam, Peppy L'Pew, Wile E. Coyote and Foghorn Leghorn. The cartoon Ali Baba Bunny is by far the worse cartoon ever done. The animation was all computer generated and lacked any of the style of the cartoons made before. And contrary to the statement made by an earlier reviewer that there were not enough Bugs Bunny cartoons - there were by far to many. I can only hope that the next volume is not defective.
June 25, 2008
Give us more of the 30's and 40's!
In contrast with some of the other reviewers for this set I LOVE the older cartoons! "A Tale of Two Kitties" is one of my favorites and one that I had been waiting for. Tweety's original appearance and his somewhat sadistic personality are absolutely terrific. "Whadya know. I wan out of piddies." A great parody of Abbott and Costello! The Private Snafu and Mr. Hook shorts! The documentary on Chuck Jones. Beautiful living black and white shorts! Yay! "Eatin' on the Cuff." What a terrific little short! That Veronica Lake spider is not exactly politically correct but funny?! I really enjoyed "I've got to sing a Torch Song." Greta Garbo, Zazu Pitts, Mae West. It makes me want to see their movies. Next time more of the black and white Porkys! Buy one of these for yourself and one for your Dad and Mom too!(Maybe one for your grandparents as well!)
June 17, 2008
Warner Brothers Ripping Off Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Fans
I agree with others who have complained about Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five. While the first four volumes had some of the really old stuff, Volume Five is all but saturated with them.
It is not that the really old, black-and-white cartoons have no merit. In their time, they were surely exceptional, mainly because there was nothing else to compare them to. Think about it--in the early days of cartoon animation, making a non-living character appear to move on a screen was truly remarkable. BUT the executives at Warner Brothers know very well that to most of us, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons mean the full colour cartoons of the 1950's and 1960's that were part of our weekly Saturday viewings as kids. Those are the cartoons that most of us want to see. Almost all of the very old stuff (from the 1930's and even 1940's) is just not entertaining compared to that produced in the 1950's and 1960's.
As other people have speculated, this is a sleazy attempt by Warner Brothers executives to soak us by selling a set of 60 cartoons, when only about 25 of them have any significant appeal. It is really disingenuous for WB to have full colour artwork adorning the Volume Five box, when most of the cartoons are black and white. Also, what about the other characters? Where are Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Coyote & Road Runner, and so on? Not in this set.
Unless WB stops this nonsense, I will not be buying Volume Six.
May 21, 2008
this one is alright, but..........
this is alright, but if they were smart, they would have organized each character into their own dvd sets. first off, they needed to put the other two abbott and costello parody cartoons on with the one they amazingly did add on this set! secondly, they keep ignoring foghorn leghorn, volume 6 better have a whole dvd with a good 20 of those. but these volumes are sloppy, i dont want some 30 year old morons personal favorite picks just because that screwball works at WB, they should come out with ALL bugs bunny in one dvd set, ALL foghorn leghorn in another, ALL hollywood parody in another... all racial/war ones in another... all in nice slipcase dvd sets, organized, so you dont get over half cartoons, cheesy weird BORING ones from the 30s....
May 8, 2008
Raving for classic cartoons.
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 is packed with lots of great classic cartoons that were made from a different era. This collection is equally great as the previous four volumes. At a time when standards were different, animators were free of making these fun likable animated shorts that were made from the depression era to the baby boomer era. These cartoons are completely uncut, just the way they were released at the movies. They're digitcally remastered so you can hear great sound and see a great clear picture. This collection has bonuses including interviews with animators, writers and producers behind the cartoon shorts. Plus clips from the classic "Bugs Bunny" TV shows from the early 1960's, with classic commercials too! Plus more exciting features!
Keep in mind this is a collection designed for adult fans who grew up with these shorts on weekday afternoon and Saturday morning TV. Some other shorts in this collection were not shown on TV due to the fact they had certain racial dialogue and some slapstick (or violent) scenes that would not be appropriate for children nor appropriate for cartoons produced today.
It's good the people of Warner Bros. Studios are helping to preserve history so it's not lost forever even for some of those controversial cartoons. Otherwise, most people would say they never existed.
There are over a thousand cartoons made at Warner Bros., so there's a good chance this series is going to continue for a long time. Just wait until Volume 6 comes along, Volume 7, 8 and so on.
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