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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five description 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 sterlin ... review details |
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| Warner Bros. continues to open their vault to us with the latest "Golden" collection. There's a lot to like here, but a few things I'm not so crazy about. Let's get them out of the way first.
The theme of each disk (you can see the "table of contents" elsewhere) has promise and the cartoon selections keep that promise. I didn't find many of my great favorites on any of the disks and, as is inevitable, a few toons on each just didn't grab me at all. The fourth disk, "Early Daze," contains B&W toons from the 30s and early 40s - although their historical interest can not be denied, the style is an acquired taste that I haven't wholly acquired. Some of the stereotypes, too, grate on modern sensibilities, especially the blackface humor that still circulated back when these toons were made. Earlier disks in the series had a disclaimer spoken by Whoopi Goldberg, and this doesn't. I hope that's because WB found viewers to be sophisticated enough to know that historical facts don't always suit contemporary mores, but let the viewer be warned anyway. The good in this collection is very good. There are lots of toons that I don't recall seeing before, and that's always fun. Quite a few of the early toons lampooned the famous faces of the day. Modern viewers will fail to recognize many of them - so much for fame! I was more interested to see the whole star-chasing fade away as the cartoon character took on personalities and lives of their own. The real gems of these collections show up in the extras. Those include WWII training films, with Pvt. Snafu, and TV specials. Since these toons addressed grown men, a few points clearly addressed that somewhat rougher audience. It's pretty tame by today's standards, but the pinups must have been racy stuff back in the 1940s. The TV specials are in fact special (including one with music conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and doggerel by Ogden Nash), and I'm still working my way through them. Despite some weak spots, the good in this collection makes it entirely worthwhile. -- wiredweird |
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