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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: LOONEY TUNES EAN: 0085391121725 Format: Animated, Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 085391121725 Number Of Items: 4 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 30, 2007 Running Time: 417 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1935 Editorial Review: Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Children's Video Rating: NR Release Date: 30-OCT-2007 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fun tunesOK 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. Rating:  - Major disappointmentI found this set to be not only some of the worse cartoons but defective as well as several of the cartoons on the first and second DVD had broad green bands at the bottom of the picture. Also, the cartoon selection was horrible. To many Bugs Bunny cartoons and not enough the of the other great characters such as Yosemite Sam, Peppy L'Pew, Wile E. Coyote and Foghorn Leghorn. The cartoon Ali Baba Bunny is by far the worse cartoon ever done. The animation was all computer generated and lacked any ... Read More Rating: - Give us more of the 30's and 40's!In contrast with some of the other reviewers for this set I LOVE the older cartoons! "A Tale of Two Kitties" is one of my favorites and one that I had been waiting for. Tweety's original appearance and his somewhat sadistic personality are absolutely terrific. "Whadya know. I wan out of piddies." A great parody of Abbott and Costello! The Private Snafu and Mr. Hook shorts! The documentary on Chuck Jones. Beautiful living black and white shorts! Yay! "Eatin' on the Cuff." What a terrific little short! ... Read More Rating:  - Warner Brothers Ripping Off Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies FansI agree with others who have complained about Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five. While the first four volumes had some of the really old stuff, Volume Five is all but saturated with them. It is not that the really old, black-and-white cartoons have no merit. In their time, they were surely exceptional, mainly because there was nothing else to compare them to. Think about it--in the early days of cartoon animation, making a non-living character appear to move on a screen was truly ... Read More Rating: - this one is alright, but..........this is alright, but if they were smart, they would have organized each character into their own dvd sets. first off, they needed to put the other two abbott and costello parody cartoons on with the one they amazingly did add on this set! secondly, they keep ignoring foghorn leghorn, volume 6 better have a whole dvd with a good 20 of those. but these volumes are sloppy, i dont want some 30 year old morons personal favorite picks just because that screwball works at WB, they should come out with ALL bugs bunny ... Read More |
