Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6
February 26, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
- We?ve saved the best for last? more of your favorite Looney Tunes?your wish is our command. The concluding release from the Golden Collection Series is a 4-disc set with 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed. Plus, 15 bonus shorts to make this the biggest collection of Looney Tunes ever! Indeed, some have never before been on home video!Disc 1 ? Looney Tunes All Stars, featurin
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We’ve saved the best for last… more of your favorite Looney Tunes…your wish is our command. The concluding release from the Golden Collection Series is a 4-disc set with 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed. Plus, 15 bonus shorts to make this the biggest collection of Looney Tunes ever! Indeed, some have never before been on home video!Amazon.com
Fifteen cartoons dating from World War II give Volume 6 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection more focus than previous sets. Many of the 1940′s cartoons remain very funny. Bugs Bunny dresses up as Brunnhilda and rides in to the strains of “Tannhauser” in “Herr Meets Hare” (1945), a gag Chuck Jones re-used to greater effect in “What’s Ope… More >>
with each year my excitement was diminished and my expectations fell. to read this is the last set in the series and to see what shorts are included is the last shovel of dirt on the grave. four disc of exactly what i do not want to see. one whole disc of patriotic war cartoons? ugh. two disc from waaaaaaaay in the back of the vault and another disc of “all stars” aka generic watch em once and pack em off to collect some dust. and a bizaro world bargain at forty something dollars. no thanks and zero stars.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you are perhaps a cartoon historian you might appreciate this collection, however, this set of cartoons is not entertaining. There are a lot of cartoons that are just not funny. So if you are a casual cartoon fan, I would stay away from it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve purchased all the Golden collections thus far and when I saw that “Speedy” had a disk all to himself I was sure it wouldn’t be long till “Pepe” and “Foghorn” had the same. Who picks these? Bosko? I don’t think anyone’s left alive that remembers him. I know everyone has there own favorites, but come on! When they played “Overture, dim the lights” and they all marched out I didn’t see Bosko in the line.
Rating: 1 / 5
What a disappointment. If I want a study in early black and white cartoons I will buy the Disney MICKEY MOUSE BLACK AND WHITE set. At least they were honest. This Looney Tunes set features an entire disc of black and white very unfunny cartoons. I didn’t mind that in earlier sets they featured a few early black and white Porky Pig…but these are the very very early Bosco, etc. Come on guys….what happened to ROAD RUNNER, BUGS BUNNY, SPEED GONZALAS, etc? I can see what Warner is trying to do….stretch out their library so they can go up to VOLUME 100. At least Disney broke their sets out – DONALD DUCK SET, MICKEY MOUSE SET, GOOFY SET, PLUTO SET, ETC. Come on Warner….lets get more of the good stuff…you are going to make enough money with the 100′s of quality Mel Blanc cartoons to keep em coming for the next few years.
Rating: 1 / 5
It’s hard to believe that Warner Bros. was once one of The Great Studios. The Looney Tunes Collection is potentially outstanding — one could even say of historical note, given the role of cartoons from the 40s through the mid-60s. But with two great releases in Volume 1 and Volume 2, the collection has steadily declined to this sad excuse in Volume 6.
Warner Bros. has taken the same approach that the music industry has taken with CDs — with the same result, namely a decline in public interest and a public turn to online downloading.
That approach consists in putting one or two great tracks on a disc to attract buyers and ramming garbage down our throats with the remainder.
What made Looney Tunes great was outstanding animators — Chuck Jones, Bill McKimson, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Ben Washam. Some of their work has become iconographic in American culture, as much as any great movie (like Wizard of Oz or Gone With the Wind). Warner drops any attempt to capture this. Certainly by Volume 4, Warner has established it’s plan to ram less interesting material down our throats.
This wouldn’t matter IF Warner included more of the gems. But entire characters are almost unrepresented in the series. Most notably to my mind is Claude the Cat — hilarious and absent but for two cartoons (if I remember correctly). Better known and almost as unrecognized is Pepe le Pew.
Warner destroyed what could have been a consistently great collection just as they destroyed the Batman series.
Again, a triumph of moronic marketing over substance and quality.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: I have a huge personal collection of these cartoons on tape. Since Warner has effectively abandoned these treasures, practically putting them out with the trash, I will now treat my collection as in the public domain. Look for Looney Tunes online.
Rating: 1 / 5