Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three
by Arthur Davis, Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton, Carl H. Lindahl, Chuck Jones

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three

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Actor: Arthur Q. Bryan, Billy Bletcher, Jack Benny, Joe Dougherty, Mel Blanc
Director: Arthur Davis, Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton, Carl H. Lindahl, Chuck Jones
Brand: LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 442 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:

RESTORED, REMASTERED AND REE-DICULOUS: COMPLETELY UNCUT AND UNCENSORED LOONEY-NESS, INCLUDING SOME HOME VIDEO DEBUTS!You know what you want. More three-day weekends. More ounces in a pound of chocolates. More Looney Tunes. Your wish is our command. Because in this 4-disc set are 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed on rabbit, duck, pig or humanity. Indeed, some have never befo

DVD Reviews of Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three

DVD Review: Trip down memory lane
Summary: 5 Stars

I have the first four Golden Collections and this one is by far my favorite. The reason that this collection is so cool is that it doesn't focus just on the main staples such as Bugs and Daffy all the time. This set spreads its wings a little and it is a better set for it. As always disc one is all Bugs all the time but this is great because Bugs is the best! Disc 2 is my favorite disc because it is full of Hollywood parodies. If you are a classic movie fan such as myself you will love this disc because you get to see some of the screen greats get a nice jab thrown their way. Disc 3 is awesome because it is devoted to Porky Pig and who doesn't love Porky? Disc 4 is a hodge podge called All star cartoon party which is a collection of all the big stars such as Bugs, Daffy and the others. Again I love all the Golden collections so far but this set has it all!

DVD Review: Another Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume for Me!
Summary: 5 Stars

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!

DVD Review: WARNING - SOME DEFECTIVE SETS OUT THERE!!
Summary: 1 Stars

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.

DVD Review: Decent Collection of Cartoons
Summary: 3 Stars

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.

DVD Review: A great set for collectors, featuring many popular cartoons
Summary: 4 Stars

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.

Description of Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three

RESTORED, REMASTERED AND REE-DICULOUS: COMPLETELY UNCUT AND UNCENSORED LOONEY-NESS, INCLUDING SOME HOME VIDEO DEBUTS! You know what you want. More three-day weekends. More ounces in a pound of chocolates. More Looney Tunes. Your wish is our command. Because in this 4-disc set are 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed on rabbit, duck, pig or humanity. Indeed, some have never before been on home video! Disc 1 features the tall, gray and haresome one. Disc 2 lampoons Hollywood. Ham actor Porky Pig rules Disc 3. And Disc 4 has the duck and a cast of crazies. One thing: to watch these, you must be as tall as this sign. Wrong disclaimer. Read the one in the box below. Got the idea? Now have fun. And pass the chocolates. Disclaimer Box Copy: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 3 Is Intended for the Adult Collector and May Not Be Suitable for Children.

Like the previous entries in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series, volume 3 confirms how brilliant the Warner Bros. artists were and how durable their creations have proven. The set includes classics that every cartoon buff will recognize: "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!," "Robin Hood Daffy," "Birds Anonymous." Other selections are less familiar but significant in the development of the studio: "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," the first Looney Tune; "I Haven't Got a Hat," the earliest Warners cartoon viewers can watch for fun, rather than as an historic curiosity; "Porky's Romance," in which director Frank Tashlin introduced rapid cutting to cartoons. Some of the caricature films have aged less gracefully. Younger audiences will recognize the drawn versions of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Katharine Hepburn, and Charlie Chaplin. But will anyone under the age of 60 remember Edna Mae Oliver, George Arliss, or Ned Sparks?

The producers have once again loaded the discs with supplemental material, including "Point Food Rationing," a unseen short explaining wartime ration books; a BBC documentary on Chuck Jones; and interstitial animated sequences for The Bugs Bunny Show. "Philbert" ranks as the oddest of the extras: an unsold (and leaden) pilot from 1963, featuring live actors and an animated title character. Whoopi Goldberg introduces the set, explaining that some of the ethnic gags would no longer be considered appropriate. But she correctly adds that to remove them would falsify both the history of animation and American popular culture. It all adds up to a set every cartoon fan will want. (Unrated, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

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