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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume One
Average Customer Review : 4.5/5 based on 391 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
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" in the versions shown on television. Warner Bros. is obviously testing consumer response with this set. Although the erratic selection includes many classics, purists will argue (correctly) that it offers neither a fair representation of the directors' oeuvres, nor anything approaching a coherent history of the characters or studio style. (Nearly half the films were directed by Chuck Jones; only three are by Bob Clampett, and there's nothing by Tex Avery or Frank Tashlin.) But it seems petty to carp about omissions and biases when the discs offer excellent, uncensored prints of some of the funniest films ever made in the U.S.--or anywhere else. (Rated G, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon
Spotlight Reviews
Fun Stuff (2008-12-27)
Customer Review : 4
Great rainy day or Nothing on TV fun.
They don'tdo them like this anymore.
Exactly what i was hoping for. (2008-12-26)
Customer Review : 5
This is exactly what i was looking for, I shared my childhood saturday morning cartoon experience with my children. It was great fun...ENJOY.
Love the classic cartoons (2008-12-24)
Customer Review : 5
This is a great set, I have already ordered the next one in the series. Political correctness and general panzyism forced most of these cartoons either back to an editors desk or off TV for good. Its great to see all the hilarity in its purest form.
The way cartoons should be (2008-12-17)
Customer Review : 5
What ever happened to the great cartoons???? They are right here in the Looney Tunes Golden collection.If you really want the classic ones from years gone by....this is where to start. I will be buying the rest of the collections.....they are the best!
Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin! (2008-12-17)
Customer Review : 3
I have a number of nagging complaints about this collection, none of which stem from a lack of love for the classic Warner Brothers cartoons.
First off, I'm troubled that a super-deluxe collection like this one doesn't contain as many of my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons as did the old "Warner Brothers Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures" VHS tape. And that tape was less than an hour long and only had eight cartoons! I mean, no "Ali Baba Bunny"? No "Bunny Hugged"? No "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"? That old VHS tape had my favorite cartoons all in one place; I'm probably going to have to buy five or six or ten four-DVD box sets before i can re-assemble all my favorites together again -- in my mind, that old VHS is still the one true classic Bugs Bunny collection that no fan should be without. I understand that there are marketing reasons for this, but still, when I want to watch some Bugs Bunny cartoons, I'm going to be watching that beat-up old VHS tape, not disc 1 of this fancy four-DVD box set.
Second off, I'd like to see more of the material from the late 50's -- the cartoons that emerged after Warner Brothers started adapting the "Cartoon Modern" look were a pinnacle of a visual style that most of us, rightly or wrongly, still associate with that studio. Most of the material herein is from the late forties or very early fifties, which is fine but falls just short of my preferred era of their work.
Third off, whomever was in charge of the menu system on this set should be fired. The main menus are nearly static and very boring, and feel generally glitchy and hard to navigate. For instance, if I choose to play each cartoon individually ((as opposed to the "play all" function)), my "skip chapter" function is disabled, meaning that I can't just skip to the end of the cartoon and thus return to the main menu, I can only return to the main menu by selecting to return to the main menu. Why? What's the point of that? Further, the subtitles are buggy -- if you decide, in the middle of a cartoon, that you want to put the subtitles on, you can do so, but they generally will not work correctly unless you start the cartoon over from the beginning. Subtitles also get hung on the screen during fast forwarding. This is minor stuff, to be sure, but when I fork out this much money for a top-of-the-line product, I expect it to be, quite frankly, a top-of-the-line product, and someone is paid to test for these types of bugs.
Fourth off: Time-wise, this material could have all fit on 2 or 3 discs.
In short, love the cartoons -- don't feel that the packaging lives up to my expectations for a premium product such as this.
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