DuckTales - Volume 3
by Steve Clark (VIII), Fred Wolf
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Actor: Brian Cummings, Corey Burton, Hamilton Camp, Miriam Flynn, Tony AnselmoDirector: Fred Wolf, Steve Clark (VIII)
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 546 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Reviews of DuckTales - Volume 3
DVD Review: Childhood
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember Saturday morning cartoons with DuckTales, and they are just as funny as I remember them.DVD Review: Ducktales Wahoo!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
How good it is to see the old cartoons coming back to watch. Hey disney, when will the rest of gargoyles be coming out. its been two years.DVD Review: Great - thoroughly enjoyable
Summary: 5 Stars
My grandson loved this latest volume - he has watched volume 1 & 2 endlessly so the new material in volume 3 was a great success. Thank you for the super service.DVD Review: Great Stroll Down Memory Lane, Poor Quality
Summary: 3 Stars
I've seen better quality on the Disney Channel Reruns of this show. I didn't see any real problems with the first set (Volume One) on dvd, but this latest issue of Volume Three is awful. The sound is unpredictable, up and down and the picture quality is lacking, marred by white flecks and grainy animation throughout the shows. I could live with the bare bones packaging if the dvd quality was better. Shame on Disney for producing shoddy products and not giving us our money's worth.DVD Review: DuckTales Volume 3 The Best of the Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
Disney's DuckTales: Volume 3
(Released November 13, 2007 by Walt Disney Home Video) DVD Review by Joe Torcivia
This volume of DUCKTALES, the 1987 animated series based on the characters appearing in writer/artist Carl Barks' series of UNCLE SCROOGE comic books, covers the "tale" end of the initial season and the two prime time specials (both later carved into five-part episodes) "Time is Money" and "Super Ducktales". These last two introduce the soon-to-be-regular characters of "cave-kid" Bubba Duck and robotically armored super hero Gizmoduck, respectively. This would leave one, relatively short volume of the series left to go.
The series origin, "Treasure of the Golden Suns", (Volume 2) and a few other early episodes like "Sphinx for the Memories", "Where No Duck has Gone Before" and "Home Sweet Homer" (all Volume 1) excepted, I think that the best batch of shows were at this stage. After that, there was a slight decline, as the series moved further away from its comic-book foundation. Still, a number of episodes to come are more than worthwhile.
For me, standouts include the following:
"All Ducks on Deck". (Disc 2) How could this NOT be a favorite for me, as it featured the too-seldom seen Donald Duck and a surprise appearance by Mickey Mouse's greatest comics foe; The Phantom Blot! (Even though they never meet cloak to beak!) I will never forget the utter jaw-dropping experience of coming home from work in late 1987, turning on the VCR and seeing an animated version of The Phantom Blot!
Even if the Blot's design owed more to 1970s comic books (...complete with opening mouth and evil smile - This is a guy UNDER A CLOAK, remember?) than the more classic 1930s Floyd Gottfredson comic strip or 1960s Paul Murry comic book versions - it was A-OK with me! By this time in the run, I'd thought I'd seen ALL of DT's tricks (...and what wonderful tricks they were!), but THIS? And Donald's opening "tall sea-tale" sequence is just as unforgettable as the Blowhard Blot - especially for a show that almost (unjustly) ignored Donald completely!
If only Disney would release HOUSE OF MOUSE, so I could complete the Animated Blot Trilogy with the more Gottfredson-inspired (...but no less hammy) Blot seen on that series. And, Super Goof, Zeke (Big Bad) Wolf, and Pete. Disney, I want HOM too!
In "Ducky Horror Picture Show" (Disc 2), the Ducks take a backseat to the antics of a bunch of funny movie-style monsters, who have chosen Duckburg for their annual convention. There were so many nice little touches like the Greyhound Skeleton on the side of the Monsters' bus. My favorite is when the Creature from the Blue Lagoon receives his invitation to the Monsters Convention - stares at it for a beat, as the standard DUCKTALES dramatic music cue plays (...and we wonder what he's going to do) - and unexpectedly puts on a party hat and blows a horn full of bubbles! And, appealing to this Long Islander, a reference to "Great Neck, NY", to boot - or would that be "to BITE"! Sure, the monsters were clich?d. So what? It's not as if they were Filmation's The Groovy Ghoulies!
"The Uncrashable Hindentanic" (Disc 1) is simply one of the flat-out FUNNIEST Duck stories ever done! More jokes per square inch, than any other! There is so much wonderful verbal humor here that it is the kind of script that one day I could only hope to remotely approach, in my capacity as a freelance scripter for the Disney Duck comic books! It was all the more amazing to me then because, less than three years prior (1984), the UNCLE SCROOGE comic books were generally devoid of humor during the final years under Whitman Publishing. A new publisher for the comics, Gladstone, had just started up in 1986 and had shown considerable (nay, phenomenal) improvement, but there was nothing like this!
Our story begins with a wager between Scrooge Mc Duck and his rival Flintheart Glomgold, and transforms into a star-studded send-up of the type of disaster films that were the specialty of producer Irwin Allen in the 1970s. Indeed, producer Allen was HIMSELF parodied as a character in this wonderful episode. A winner all the way!
"Status Seekers" (Disc 1) As a comic book devotee, it's a thrill to see the name of Carl Barks (creator of Scrooge Mc Duck, Gyro Gearloose, Flintheart Golmgold, The Beagle Boys, etc.) in the credits, as the author of the original story upon which this episode is based. Yes, I freeze-framed to savor it. This was a case where the "variant material" did not drag Barks' original story down (...as it did for previous DUCKTALES episodes "Back to the Klondike" and "Down and Out in Duckburg"), but actually enhanced it.
As with past volumes of DUCKTALES, there are no extras or commentaries. What a pity, considering the creative talent involved! Yes, there was a feature on Carl Barks as part of "Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume 2 (1942-1946)", but Barks, with his decades of comic book wonder, is the de-facto architect of DUCKTALES, and deserves mention in this context.
Actor Alan Young certainly merits a feature for so superbly bringing Scrooge to Scottish-accented life! Other fine performers who were DT regulars, such as Russi Taylor, Terrence Mc Govern, Chuck Mc Cann, and June Foray, are worthy of features as well!
If "money was an object", a sentiment Scrooge Mc Duck would ironically endorse, perhaps Disney could consider stringing together the vast number of existing DUCKTALES commercials and promos that were created during the life of the series (...some of which contained original animation, and most of which employed original vocals by the regular cast) to "manufacture" a feature. These would be fun to see.
That said, Disney's DuckTales: Volume 3, is a set so chock-full of good times that it gets my highest recommendation on the strength of the material found therein.
Description of DuckTales - Volume 3
Return to Duckburg USA with Scrooge McDuck and his smart-alecky nephews Huey Dewey and Louie in this exciting three-disc set! This hilarious collection takes Uncle Scrooge and the boys journeying into an African jungle stowing away on a secret aircraft carrier and rocketing into space searching for a lost "Money Bin." But wherever their zany adventures find them Scrooge and his crew including the energetic pilot Launchpad McQuack never forget that their greatest treasures are family and friendship! They may battle the Beagle Boys and tangle with Magica DeSpell but when it comes to laughs the DuckTales gang always comes out on top. Fans of all ages will love this collection of fine-feathered fun!System Requirements:Running Time: 546 Mins. Genre:?CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating:?NR UPC:?786936746969Scrooge McDuck is an expert on making and hoarding money who's completely intolerant of anything or anyone that might come between him and his fortune. Intent on teaching his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie everything he knows about money, Scrooge provides the boys with a lesson about cutting expenses and generating profits for their lemonade stand in "Duck to the Future." But when Magica poses as a fortune teller, steals Scrooge's first, very lucky dime, and magically transports Scrooge into a future run by the fully grown, ruthless businessmen Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Scrooge is forced to reconsider whether or not making money at the expense of others is really such a bargain. Scrooge's first dime, and the entire fortune he has stored in his revered money bin, is continually in peril from the threat of people like Magica in "Dime Enough For Luck," the clueless bean counter Fenton and the outlaw Beagle Brothers in the five-part "Super Ducktales," or Bubba the cave-duck from prehistoric times in the five "Time is Money" episodes. More often than not, it falls to inventor Gyro Gearloose, the ever-crashing Launchpad McQuack, and a healthy dose of good luck on Scrooge's part to preserve Scrooge's fortune. Throughout the entire 9-plus hours of animated fun and adventure, Scrooge can be counted upon to ruthlessly pursue personal profit no matter how shady the business deal, but time and again he is, at least momentarily, swayed by a sudden realization of the value of family and friendship. (Ages 5 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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