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Warner Bros. has finally opened the Looney Tunes vaults, and they've done it in a BIG way! This collection includes 56 of the funniest, wackiest, looniest tunes in the whole lot, newly remastered and on DVD for the first time! Also includes a special introduction by Chuck Jones. 56 animated shorts on 4 DVDs. 2003/color-b&w/6 hrs., 51 min/NR/fullscreen.

The original LOONEY TUNES gang is back, and boy do they look terrific. Warner Home Video has compiled a terrific selection of 56 animated gems starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky, Pig, Elmer Fudd, along with dozens of other characters, and added hours and hours of bonus features and documentaries. This is sure to become a perennial in anyone's serious DVD collection.

Best of all, the cartoons have been GORGEOUSLY restored. Restoration means bringing something back to its ORIGINAL form, and that's what Warner Bros. has lovingly done here. The glorious Technicolor imagery is mind-boggling, the animation art is sharp and clear. So sharp and clear that you see can even see the dust that was on the original cels these cartoons were painted on.

THAT'S restoration.

Thank heavens Warner didn't go the route that Disney did with SLEEPING BEAUTY and monkey around with these images, wiping out all traces of the original cel animation and making them look like CGI. No, it's beautiful old-style animation, and each cartoon has been restored to look as they did when they first hit theater screens decades ago.

Each cartoon on this collection is an American classic in its own right. Happily these classics have not been tampered with, but are presented with the utmost respect and attention for the masterpieces they truly are.

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This Is the One To Buy  Jul 31, 2003
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. You know the characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Elmer Fudd. You love the cartoons, with the hilarious gags and sharp dialogue, the superb animation and design, the great voice acting and music. Well, let me tell you this: If you're looking for these cartoons on DVD, GET THIS SET and this set alone. The Looney Tunes Golden Collection features 56 cartoons from the 1940s and '50s, fully restored from the original negatives (so that they look better than you've ever seen them on TV). The cartoons will be uncut, so you'll get to see the gags they won't show on TV: the suicide gags in "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" and "Tortoise Wins By a Hare," the Russian-Roulette game at the end of "Ballot Box Bunny." And the set includes an incredible number of extras, including: audio commentaries by animation experts and voice actor Stan Freberg (who provides the voice of Pete Puma in "Rabbit's Kin" and Junyer Bear in "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears"); excerpts from TV shows and recording sessions; storyboards; featurettes; a new documentary on the making of Looney Tunes; music-only tracks for Carl Stalling's musical scores; and more, much, much more than I can list here.

It's hard to believe, but Warner Brothers is reportedly not sure that these cartoons can sell. This set is a test to see whether DVD collectors are in the market for Looney Tunes fully restored and presented with in-depth extras. If the set sells well, there will be more big boxes like this one, with still more cartoons (including earlier classics that are still in the process of restoration). If it doesn't sell, all we'll get is bare-bones samplers aimed at kids alone. So don't buy the bare-bones "Premiere Collection," a poorly presented kid-oriented release with no extras and only half of the cartoons on this set. Get the Golden Collection, and you'll not only get the extras, but you'll get Bugs posing as conductor Leopold Stokowski ("Leopold!") and getting revenge on an arrogant opera singer in "Long-Haired Hare"; Daffy and Porky battling Marvin the Martian for control of Planet X in "Duck Dodgers in the 24 & 1/2th Century"; Porky and Sylvester dealing with psycho-killer mice in "Scaredy Cat"; Bugs playing against an entire baseball team by himself in "Baseball Bugs"; Daffy as the host of the game show "Truth or AAAAAGGGGH!" in "The Ducksters," and on and on and on. 56 cartoons. Great extras. Help make "The Looney Tunes Golden Collection" a best-seller and you'll not only be helping the cause of classic animation on DVD, you'll be getting some of the best comedy films ever produced, animated or live-action. You'll be getting fascinating extras and supplements. You'll be getting hours and hours of great entertainment. What could be better than getting great entertainment in a good cause? Buy this set, and if enough people do, we'll get to see more sets of Bugs, Daffy, and the rest, to enjoy at home as often as we want -- and believe me, we'll want to watch it often.

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Perfection! An extroardinary collection of classic WB toons!  Nov 09, 2003
Let's face it, when it comes to cartoons, LOONEY TUNES rule! This superb DVD collection distills the over 1100 Looney Tunes made over the course of nearly 40 years, and brings us some of the very best selections, along with exceptionally entertaining bonus features.

Each cartoon has been meticulously restored, with dazzling color and great sound quality. These shorts look as great as they must have when they were first released to theaters decades ago.

The hilarity is contagious, so be warned!

Among the great highlights:

DUCK AMUCK (Probably Chuck Jones' masterpiece)
RABBIT OF SEVILLE (The amazing send off of Rossini)
DUCK DODGERS & THE 24 1/2 CENTURY (Need I say more?)
BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID (Clampett's take on Bugs with Buzzard)
BUGS BUNNY & THE THREE BEARS ("Tell me more about my eyes!")
FAST AND FURRY-OUS (The very FIRST Road Runner cartoon)
DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO (The surrealistic Porky Pig masterpiece)
SCAREDY CAT (Sylvester and Porky in a macabre lampoon)
HAREDEVIL HARE (The FIRST Bugs Bunny & Marvin Martian cartoon)
DEVIL MAY HARE (The FIRST Tasmanian Devil cartoon)
SPEEDY GONZALES (The Oscar winning cartoon with the famous mouse)
WABBIT TWOUBLE (Bugs and Elmer in an early Bob Clampett gem)
BULLY FOR BUGS (Bugs as matador vs. a nefarious bull)
THE FOGHORN LEGHORN (The rattled rooster at his best)
FEED THE KITTY (The little kitten bewitches bulldog Marc Anthony)
BASEBALL BUGS (Wait till you see the colors on this one!)...

and that's ONLY the tip of the iceburg. 40 more beguiling LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES masterpieces have been assembled here with great care, with the participation of several animation veterans and experts.

Nicest touch of all is an introduction by Chuck Jones, obviously taped before his recent passing.

This collection is a great start from the brothers Warner, and I'll just have to wear out these discs until the next volumes are released.

BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!

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