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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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The fifth collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies continues Warner Bros.' scattershot approach, mixing classics and obscurities. Among the best-known and funniest cartoons are "Ali Baba Bunny" (Daffy yelling, "I'm rich! I'm socially secure!"), "Bewitched Bunny" (Witch Hazel galloping off in a cloud of hair pins), and "Buccaneer Bunny" (a sterling example of one of director Friz Freleng's favorite gags: having the characters run up and down stairs and in and out of various doors). "Gold Diggers of '49" and "Little Red Walking Hood" show Tex Avery beginning to explore the self-reflexive gags that would be become one of the hallmarks of his mature style. In "Walking Hood," Grandma stops the action to answer the phone and place her order with the grocer--including a case of gin. "The Daffy Doc" is Bob Clampett at his most surreal, with Daffy and Porky getting sucked into an iron lung, bulging and shrinking like balloon animals. Some of the earliest cartoons predate the adoption of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as the theme song for the Warner Bros. cartoons. Many shorts from the early '30s were built around songs from Warner's musicals: "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" (written for Gold Diggers of 1933) features caricatures of Mae West, George Bernard Shaw, Benito Mussolini, and Bing Crosby frolicking to the title tune. Greta Garbo delivers the closing, "That's All, Folks!" Like the previous four sets, Golden Collection Volume 5 comes loaded with extras that range from three WWII films in which Mr. Hook urges sailors to buy war bonds to "Extremes and In-Betweens: A Life in Animation" (2000), a documentary about Oscar-winning director Chuck Jones. Many of these cartoons will have viewers of all ages in stitches. (Unrated, suitable for ages 6 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, mild risqué humor, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five
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User Comments About Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five
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ONE OF THE BEST LOONEY TUNES COLLECTIONS!
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It kept me laughing right to the end of every cartoon. 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. I loved this Looney Tunes Collection. WHAT A WACKY WABBIT.
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Still great, but a letdown
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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. 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. Silly but super. And Ali-Babba Bunny (Hasan Chop) is a favorite of a lot of people. 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. These characters are being neglected by these sets since the first volume. Transylvania 6-5000 is one I had hoped for with Bugs and a Vampire.
Buccaneer Bunny with Yosemite Sam is one of the best Bugs-Sam cartoons ever too. 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. But Translyvania and Ali Babba would have won such a contest anyway for this set.
I had wanted a Taz, more Pepe LePew's or Foghorn Leghorns. Another villain that they give a southern accent to and think that means he can be carried by Bugs and counted then as variety.
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. After counting down the days for a year for this installment, I was let down. There are some duds here though, like Oily Hare.
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great collection.got it for my grandkids to watch when they visit and they love this series.good ole cartoons.
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Spare us the cr@p, deliver the goodies!
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In fact, shame on those who do. But weak humor, tired ideas and limited animation, that I truly abhor. 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. Keep them coming for all I care; I don't mind. Personally, I love Speedy Gonzalez, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the two lazy crows, the sombreroed cricket and every other ethnic pun aimed at Mexico and Mexicans. 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. Why not release it,if it's already available on YouTube for free, only in substandard quality. Now there's a comic masterpiece worth apologizing for.
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. Why put this insipid short and not the extraordinary "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves" that's kept locked in a vault. Case in question: "Señorella and the Glass Huarache". 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. Señorella's only merit is that it was the last cartoon to be produced by the original WB studio.
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This collection is for the most part what I remember as a child. The fact that WB kept these uncut and not so PC by todays standard's is nice. OK so I admit I'm a fan of ol'time animation. These were once the standard on Saturday morning.
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