A classic animated series that everyone loves and who must have seen at least 1 episode. Although only having one season, the Looney Tunes have many episodes each one better than the other. A series that everyone loves and that everyone should see several episodes (I at least I diden´t see any bad episodes)
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afonsobritofalves11 November 2018
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tanjiten-5653129 June 2021I love This so much, This Is The Real Comedy. Make me laugh often.
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erwinwallpaper19 May 2022Looney Tunes is an iconic animated series. Looney Tunes is like all the iconic cartoon characters combined into one. Many iconic characters, such as: Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Tasmanian Devil, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd, and many more. This makes Looney Tunes like a crowded cartoon. Even so, the story is definitely fresh and there is always something new and interesting.
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Movie Nuttball5 July 2005When this show was on I watched it every time I could! I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes then I strongly recommend that you watch this show!
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shelbythuylinh28 November 2021Really you can't go wrong with Bugs, Daffy, Roadrunner, Porky, Pep Le Pew, just to name a few there.
As this was when that kids of the 80's like yours truly there. And in the watching them as they did not take themselves too seriously there.
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renegadeviking-271-52856811 March 2021The thing is, that's not even half of the total amount of Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies) cartoons. Between 1930 and 1969, Warner Brothers released over 1100 cartoons. The Golden Collection presents a drop in the ocean of this catalogue.
It does hit most of the high notes though. If you were to stop and think of a truly great Looney Tunes cartoon, chances are good that it's here. From metatextual masterpiece Duck Amuck and classic genre parody Duck Dodgers in the 24th ½ Century to slapstick Road Runners (does anyone really know the names of the those beyond just an amorphous whole of 'Road Runner cartoons'?) and set-piece sensation Baseball Bugs, the Golden Collection is hardly bereft of good content.
And yet, despite this, many characters are under-represented. Bugs Bunny gets a good showing, as you'd imagine, with a dedicated disc in each of the first four volumes, a co-starring disc with Daffy in the fifth and appearances on other discs through-out all six sets. Porky Pig also comes off well in terms of sheer volume, especially in regards to his early black and white shorts, which are the focus of a couple of later discs. There's also a best of Road Runner, a best of Speedy Gonzales, a best of Tweety and Sylvester. But some big names get a short shrift. There's very little from Pepe Le Pew, for instance. Foghorn Leghorn is also under-represented, while of Taz's five golden age appearances, only one is found here.
The flipside of this is that there's room for more obscure content. Volume 6 has a disc of very early black and white shorts, featuring failed stars like Bosko, Buddy, Foxy and Beans. One-off shorts, not featuring any of the recognisable stars, are also pretty well featured across the set, often providing nice surprises to unfamiliar viewers (I especially liked The Fighting 69 ½th about red and black ants going to war over a picnic). The Fighting 69 1/2th Looney Tunes Golden Collection Ants about to go over the top in The Fighting 69 1/2th
The cartoons are, on the whole, well presented, having been restored extensively. As is often the case with DVD restoration, it's perhaps not quite so apparent how much has been done until you watch the little feature about the restoration process. This is not to say the cartoons look perfect though. Many are afflicted with a lot of dirt and speckles on the picture, but we're assured this was present on the animation cels when they were originally filmed, so have been left on for authenticity. I'm not entirely convinced by that - some of the dirt looks too static to have just been on the cels and I think, given the extensive restoration, it may have been worth just clearing up all that as well, to make everything look completely clean.
There's an other aspect to presentation though, the order the cartoons are compiled and this is where the Golden Collection falls down. As noted before, this is essentially a compendium of Best Ofs, with each disc having a theme, whether it be by character, director or subject matter. While this sounds sensible, it doesn't make for a brilliant viewing experience. Take the disc of fairy tales shorts for example: It features 15 cartoons based around fairy tales, some with familiar stars like Bugs and Sylvester, but mostly one-offs with no recurring characters. They often draw from the same source material though - there are several based on Goldilocks, several on the Three Little Pigs (both of which feature a Big Bad Wolf in the proceedings). While there are obviously some differences between shorts, it makes for a very samey and over-familiar viewing experience. There are only so many parodies of Goldilocks a person can endure in one sitting (and let's be honest, it's not like a viewer is going to consistently bounce between several discs, but rather just go through one, then onto another). I assure you, that's not Mickey Mouse. I assure you, that's not Mickey Mouse. Title card for Smile, Darn Ya, Smile, featuring Foxy.
This problem is endemic to the set and it's not always as unavoidable as you'd think. The musicals disc, aside from featuring classics like One Froggy Evening and Hollywood Steps Out, contains two different shorts based around the same concept of characters on book covers coming to life and making music. The same idea is used multiple times with magazine covers and product packaging on other discs. Now, the reuse of these concepts is understandable for the original production period - there would be years between cartoons, little chance of the shorts being repeated for audiences, so recycling ideas was fair game. But shoving them together so closely on these DVDs doesn't do any of them any favours.
This problem afflicts the character based sets as well though. Road Runner cartoons are generally quite similar - they're all based around a formula and often feature largely unconnected set-pieces - so putting 11 of them on the same disc makes for slightly repetitive viewing, which is to say nothing of Speedy Gonzales, who is a bit one note to start with, let alone for fifteen shorts in a row. Even beyond that though, there are odd choices here. Knighty Knight Bugs, an Oscar winning short pitting Bugs against Yosemite Sam in a medieval setting, is accompanied on its disc by about three other medieval-style Bugs shorts, which works only to make them all feel less distinctive and individual. This happens frequently across the collection. The Honey Mousers Looney Tunes Golden Collection Beating the Flintstones to the punch was The Honey-Mousers
Really, this proves to show the flaw in Best Of collections. I can't help but feel that these shorts would be more enjoyable to watch if collected in order of release. Chronological boxsets of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, perhaps one or two years per release, would be economical, covering one or two discs and provide a nice variety of characters and concepts: a Road Runner there, a Pepe Le Pew here and enough Bugs Bunny in each set (well, except the 1930s ones) to keep the kids and marketing team happy. It seems eminently sensible.
It's not being done though. The Golden Collection has been supplemented by a string of Superstars sets, single disc releases based around individual characters (the first couple of which unfortunately crop many shorts to widescreen). While this means that Pepe Le Pew and the Hippety-Hopper actually get some DVD representation, I can't imagine it's the best way to watch those shorts (given they're again based around pretty standard formulae). Both those series have been supplanted by the Platinum Collection on Blu-Ray, which is another Best Of series (and available on DVD), in HD with some different shorts. But that's apparently stalled at three volumes, meaning it provides less than this Complete Golden Collection. Duck Amuck Looney Tunes Golden Collection Daffy has an existential crisis in Duck Amuck
So, there is currently no perfect way to get Looney Tunes on home video. Despite its less than brilliant running orders and omissions (including, in Region 2, the complete censorship of 7 shorts included on the R1 release), the Complete Golden Collection is the best option available.
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