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What's up, Doc? I now have another volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection! The cartoons have never looked better or funnier than before. There are even more shorts in this collection than in the first volume. Even the cartoons with miscellaneous characters are really entertaining. I like the inro by Whoopie Goldberg. She had a terrific message to give before the cartoons started. Anyway, if you miss seeing the Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network or Boomerang, this and other Looney Tunes volumes are the stuff for you!
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I purchased this volume along with volumes 1 & 2. After watching both volumes without incident, I pulled off the factory seal on volume 3 and discovered, instead of the DVDs, there were 5 BLANK Memorex CD-Rs! I'm not blaming Amazon, because they don't make the things. I writing this mainly as a warning to other customers. Amazon has allowed me to return the defective set and is sending me a replacement. I will post a review of the set once I receive it. Volumes 1 & 2 were great.
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Volume 3 in the "Golden Collection" series has number of good cartoons, but not the sheer density of good cartoons found in the first two volumes. All in all, a solid 4-star outing. However, I'm deducting a star for having an annoying, unskippable disclaimer at the beginning of each DVD "hosted" by Whoppi Goldberg. The purpose of this collection is to watch classic cartoons, not to listen to people whine about how the past wasn't as progressive as today.
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Not as good as Volume One, but still an excellent collection. This set (Vol. 3) is geared more toward animation buffs and collectors, rather than the casual cartoon fan. Disc One focuses on Bugs Bunny, Disc Two focuses on Hollywood caricatures and parodies, Disc Three focuses on Porky Pig, and Disc Four is a miscellaneous hodge podge of Looney Tunes favorites.
The caricatures of golden-age Hollywood stars are classic, but few people today will recognize the references (or care). And most casual Looney Tunes viewers probably won't care about the evolution of Porky, with a disc of several black & white 1930s cartoons. That makes this collection better-suited for the serious Looney Tunes fanatic, in my opinion.
(For casual fans not interested in special features or history lessons, there are the 2-disc "Spotlight Collection" DVDs. They are just the cartoons and seem ideal for kids or families who just want to have fun watching Bugs, Daffy & Co. Check out Vol. 1.)
Like the other Golden Collection sets, this one comes with a lot of cool extras, including:
- the Chuck Jones documentary "Chuck Amuck"
- "Behind-the-Tunes" featurettes about the Wabbit Season trilogy, Bosko and the early black & white toons, the restoration process, Frank Tashlin, Pepe Le Pew, and wartime cartoons
- Chuck Jones's non-Warner Bros. film "The Bear That Wasn't"
- Private Snafu WWII shorts "Rumors", "Snafuperman", and "Spies"
- audio commentaries for select cartoons
And the Looney Tunes cartoons themselves are very good. Many memorable cartoons from my childhood, growing up watching Looney Tunes on TV, as well as some more historically or culturally significant efforts.
Highlights include:
"Duck! Rabbit, Duck!" - part 3 of the classic Rabbit Season/Duck Season, Bugs-Daffy-Elmer trilogy (parts 1 and 2 are both included on Golden Collection, Vol. One)
"Robin Hood Daffy" - Daffy as an outrageous Robin Hood, Porky as Friar Tuck (a classic)
"The Honey-Mousers" - an all-mouse parody of "The Honeymooners" TV show
"Wackiki Wabbit" - shipwrecked sailors meet Bugs on a tropical island
"Porky Pig's Feat" - Porky and Daffy try to escape a hotel without paying their bill
"Swooner Crooner" - a Sinatra-like chicken singer distracts the hens
"Rocket Squad" - Daffy and Porky in an outer-space "Dragnet" parody
"Steal Wool" - a wolf tries to outsmart a sheepdog from 9 to 5
"Daffy Duck & Egghead" - Daffy's zany second-ever appearance, eluding a dim-witted hunter
"To Beep or Not to Beep" - the token Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote short
This collection also includes appearances by Sylvester & Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, Pepe Le Pew, and Foghorn Leghorn.
This third volume of the Golden Collection series has a glossier packaging than the first two sets and very nice-looking Hollywood-y menus. My set also came with a "collectible litho cell" entitled "The Stars Are Out", featuring Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Pepe, Tweety, Speedy, and Wile E. inside the red Looney Tunes rings.
While this is undoubtedly an excellent DVD set, featuring great cartoons and great extras, I consider it a notch or two below the first Golden Collection set, which I think had a better mix of top-grade Looney Tunes classics. The more specialized focus of the later sets make them a little less fun to just sit down and watch. The sets are still great for collectors, though, and there are enough great cartoons to justify adding Vol. 3 to a growing Looney Tunes collection. (But I wouldn't start with this one.)
All of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets are excellent. The Looney Tunes are still hilarious fun to watch and the 4-disc sets contain around 60 cartoons and loads of bonus features. The sets make great gifts and can be occasionally found on sale for around $26 (down from about $50). This one isn't the best of the series, but it's still very good.
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I'm glad I purchased this collection because I needed a good laugh. I have forgotten about many of these shorts and the characters in them because I watched them so long ago. The writers of this collection had to have been looney themselves....Do yourself a favor and buy this and get ready to laugh.
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