DVD : Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five

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Rating:

- 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!

Rating:

- 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.

Rating:

- good collection
great collection.got it for my grandkids to watch when they visit and they love this series.good ole cartoons!

Rating:

- 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!

Rating:

- 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.

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