Looney Tunes – Golden Collection, Volume Two
February 11, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
- Greetings, Looneytics! For all who rightly place Looney Tunes alongside Mom, apple pie and web-surfing at work as American institutions, this is your time to rise and shine and watch. Yes, here on four discs you’ll find 60 more of the finest, funniest, bestest Golden Era cartoons from the feverishly bent artistic minds at Termite Terrace. Disc 1 showcases a certain wascally wabbit. The happiness o
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Greetings, Looneytics! For all who rightly place Looney Tunes alongside Mom, apple pie and web-surfing at work as American institutions, this is your time to rise and shine and watch. Yes, here on 4 discs you’ll find 60 more of the finest, funniest, bestest Golden Era cartoons from the feverishly bent artistic minds at Termite Terrace. Disc 1 showcases a certain wascally wabbit. The happiness of pursuit is center stage in Disc 2 and 3′s respective batches of Road Runner and Sylvester/Tweety fun. Disc 4 is an all-star cavalcade of Hollywood parodies and more. All 60 toons are restored, remastered, uncut. And each disc is chock-a-block with bonus goodies. It’s a 24-carrot gem of a collection. Anything less would be dethp… More >>
I wouldnt know how the product was cause I never recieved the product. An ongoing problem I have had with this site and I hope that the amazon team improves this problem soon.
Rating: 1 / 5
I don’t get the reviews on this page. If WB was giving these DVDs away, I would have upped the rating to 2 stars. But they’re not. The cost of this DVD far outweighs its worth. The cartoons are not remastered. They are still the original untouched drawings with all the specs spots and lines, mono sound, anachronistic parodies – almost no bugs, daffy or all your favorites. A real shame for a WB fan. My advice to those considering this purchase, especially if you are a Road Runner fan, is to get the collection with the first 2 DVDs – also expensive, but DVD 3 & 4 is utter trash for twice the cost. My feeling is that WB is ripping off its fans for whatever they are worth. Thanks WB.
Rating: 1 / 5
I remember as a young boy those special occasions where I woke up on Saturday morning at my Grandparents home (who had cable) and we got to see hours of the best cartoons ever made. They were all made by WB. What was odd was that each year that passed cartoons got less intelligent and less funny. Later in life I realized that it was not because I was getting older and didn’t appreciate cartoons as much anymore, but that intelligent cartoon markers are really rare and were dwindling.
WB has sunk way down in quality in their cartoons! If you have ever seen new attempts that they have made at recapturing the humor of their old cartoons, you might agree that there recent efforts (the last 20 years) is an abomination to their earlier work.
The problem is that the decision makers and the writers of today (especially from WB) don’t even know what made the earlier cartoons – not just hilarious – but priceless!
Good humor comes from the irony of life, not slapstick. Combine the two, sure, but the slapstick doesn’t work on it’s own (unless you’re stupid).
The old WB cartoons focused on the ridiculous quarks of the characters. If you go back and watch some really old ones you will notice the characters constantly debating with themselves whilst they play their parts. Mal Blank was obviously huge in bringing these characters to life! Now a days, writers try to replicate the humor of yesterday by repeating the obvious slapstick line/action that the infamous character used to say or do but they have but not a clue as to what made the scene funny in the first place!
Personally, I think if you liked the Road Runner shorts you missed it entirely! Please go and watch some of the stupid cartoons they make today. Those were the only WB shorts that missed the mark. And what floors me is when I ask someone that I am getting to know, “Did you like the old WB cartoons?” and they answer “Oh ya, especially the Road Runner/Coyote ones”. Instantly I realize that this person doesn’t get things!
Anyway, my plea to WB is “Please include lots of the really early shorts in your upcoming volumes, even stuff with Bosco.”
I wonder if you agree with me…?
Rating: 4 / 5
I was disappointed with this collection of cartoons. In my opinion there are very few good episodes.
Rating: 2 / 5
Before you buy this, know that What’s Opera Doc is also strangley included with the “Spotlight Collection Vol 2 and has many other repeats, including One Froggy Evening. So, if you have Spotlight collection 2, you’ll be disappointed with the Golden Collection, as you’ll see many repeats on both DVD sets.
Knowing that Volume 2 actually has some repeats from the first spotlight collection (not to be confused with the Golden Collection Volume 1) so keep this in mind if you own Spotlight Collectoin 2 before buying Golden Colection 2. I also noticed a few bugs bunny ones and probably 5-7 repeats from Tweety/Sylvester taken directly from volume 1. Not sure what the deal is. I can only assume they ran out of cartoons? Which is crazy. But for the few repeats there are, this is a sweet collection. It includes one DVD with 80% Roadrunner VS Coyote although it’s still missing several from that series, but definitely a good start until volume 3. A DVD full of Elmer VS Bugs from the 40′s, 50′s and 60′s and some Daffy included too. The last disc is basic Warner Brothers Looney Cartoons without the main chracters, with a few throw ins from Porky Pig. Still more of the Hollywood parodies skits are also loaded in this collection and of course the Infamous What’s Opera Doc is back for volume 2. Much of these toons are must haves and some of what the best has to offer. I still want more new ones from the 60′s which were my favs growing up in the 70′s on the Bugs Bunny Road Runner show, but we’ll have to wait.
I did notice something that makes me mad! There are a few edits I noticed and the cartoon is not “untouched” or edited like Warner Brother Claims. I noticed a few cuts in the violence, whether it’d be guns, hammers, or what have you. But the most blatent cut is when Elmer is dreaming (within in the Big Snooze) and Bugs Bunny is shown taking a “single sleeping pill”. A true fan who knows the cartoon and who owns the VHS tapes, knows that in the original Bugs guzzled and overdosed on an entire bottle of pills. I hate the censored version. Why take away the original the way it was meant to be? I know it’s to tone down the violence and ideas of drugs or what have you, but I want my cartoons how they used to be, not cut to be good for the kiddies! If your kids don’t know better, than the should watch it when they know better! But with that, I’m done ripping it, because I’m still happy, I love Warner Brothers Cartoons and there will never be an era like that again. Cartoons stink now and this is quality entertainment at it’s finest. The speech impaired characters will never be surpassed, and that’s all folks.
Rating: 5 / 5