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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 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 |
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| This kind of set makes you not be able to wait for volume 6! Highlights of disc 1 are "Ali Baba Bunny" and "Stooper Duck." Plus, "Oily Hare" has never been released before! Bonus features are the 2000 documentary of Chuck Jones, The Bugs Bunny Show and The Bugs Bunny Show Commercials (a real treat!). Disc 2 contains such great hits as "Bewitched Bunny" (the first appearance of Witch hazel, this time voiced by Bea Benadaret and not June Foray) and "Little Red Walking Hood", where the backgrounds are made with colored pencil! "Paying the Piper", "Holiday for Shoestrings", "little Red Rodent hood", "The Trial of Mr. Wolf", "The Turn tale wolf", "A Gander at Mother Goose" and "Senorella and the Glass Hurache" (the last cartoons at the original studio) all have never been released to DVD or VHS. Bonus features are another documentary of Chuck Jones from 2002 and Behind-the=Tunes featurettes on fairy tales and Robert McKimson. Disc 3 highlights are "Wacky Wabbit", "Hare Ribbin'", and "The Old grey hare." Never before released are "Bacall to Arms", "Crazy Cruise", "Patient Porky" and "Prehistoric Porky". Bonuses are Behind-the-Tunes on Rare Looney Characters and Private Snafu. And if there is a featurette on Snafu, there has to be two cartoons with him too! They are "Coming Snafu" and "Gripes." Also featured are all three Mr. Hook shorts: "The Good Egg," ""The Return of Mr. Hook" and "Tokyo Woes." Also featured is a deleted scene from "Hare Ribbin", the storyboard for "Bashful Buzard" and Milt Franklyn's plan for a different bulls-eye opening! Finally Disc 4 features a great cartoon-"Porky's Preview." Almost all cartoons have never been released except "Scrap Happy Daffy" and "Porky's Preview." Bonuses are a trubute to Harman-Ising and all the other unsung maestros (directors) and 3 TV specials. | |
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