Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection
by Tex Avery
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Actor: Bill Thompson, Paul FreesDirector: Tex Avery
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Fred Quimby
Writer: Heck Allen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection
DVD Review: I'm Happy With This Set!
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed watching all of the cartoons all over again on DVD. It looks so much better on DVD than on TV. It also includes a Tex Avery documentary which was pretty interesting to watch.DVD Review: It just dosn't get any better
Summary: 5 Stars
Tex Avery's Droopy is the new juvel in my collection of old cartoon shorts. Even my 9 years old daughter has it as her favourite (up in front of Disney Treasures, Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes collections!).DVD Review: Not Disappointed
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband really wanted to watch some "real" cartoons for a change. We found these and they are great. Although they have a disclaimer in the beginning letting you know the way cartoons were made years ago are not appropriate by any means now, it was still fun to watch. I haven't seen my husband laugh that hard in a really long time. Good Times!!DVD Review: Tex Avery's Droopy - The complete Theatrical Collection
Summary: 5 Stars
Just love the classics, and these are never going to go out of style or get boring. My kids, who are up on what's cool and the newest and best still enjoy this and think it's funny. DVD Review: Good value for Disc 1, and Dispenses with the PC Nonsense
Summary: 4 Stars
I have always been a huge fan of the MGM/WB theatrical animated shorts, and happily laid down $23 at SunCoast for this collection. Long story short - Disc 1 has almost all the good stuff. There are 1 or 2 good ones on Disc 2 (Deputy Droopy being one of my favorites), but these shorts are presented in order of release date, and Disc 2 features mainly cartoons produced in a more art-decco style that was popular in the 50s. I prefer the more lavish images prevalent during the golden-age 40s, and I just think the stories and gags were better then. "Droopy's Double Trouble," for instance, demonstrates 7 minutes of some of the most brilliant writing and comic timing this medium has ever presented.
Disc 2 has a few amusing moments, but definitely not worth the price tag. Had they charged $35-40 for this collection, I would have given it fewer stars.
On another note, you may have already read that unlike the Tom & Jerry cartoons, none of the shorts in this collection are edited from any of the non-PC (short for "Popularity Contest") material that a post-90s audience may find objectionable. WB Home Video did the right thing by not bowing to the demands of the PC crowd, who seem unwilling to consider that mature adults could watch a bomb-to-blackface gag and do anything other than pull on a brownshirt and jackboots and start chanting "Zieg Heil." Somehow, they consider anything even remotely racial in nature to be anathema and worthy of censorship, while profanity, promiscuity and pot are completely acceptable. Who elected them guardians of decency and truth? Larry Flint?
Frankly, I do not allow my 5-year-old son to watch certain cartoons (eg, "Droopy's Good Deed" goes far beyond the regular b2b gag and moves into direct insults toward darker-skinned people, like when the tophat explodes), but that is my discretion as a parent to decide what is appropriate for him and when. I myself posses the maturity to look at such depictions and say to myself, "It is wrong to present someone as stupid/lazy/sloppy merely because their skin is darker." Do not insult my intelligence, or that of those around me, by suggesting we cannot examine something controversial and not be able to separate the good from the bad.
Description of Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection
Droopy, a detective basset hound, lulls the bad guys into a false sense of security by acting slow and dumb when in actual fact he is a genius. The shrewd Droopy always outwits his enemies! Droopy Dog was a low-key animated movie character created by Tex Avery at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943, this mournful deadpan witty Basset hound detective who spoke in a jowly monotone voice and, though he didn't look like much, was shrewd enough to outwit his enemies - the conniving Butch the Irish bulldog and the thieving, nasty wolf and English Fox.DVD Features:
Documentaries:"Droopy and Friends: A Laugh Back" ? - a documentary retrospective featuring the highlights of Tex Averys iconic character and band of regular misfits, which made the collection so memorable and dear to our hearts. ? Peppered through the featurette will be moments reflecting on Texs early days, from inspiration, to his passions as an artist, entertainer and eventual auteur.
Gag Reel:'Doggone Gags" - a montage of great moments from the Droopy series, culled together in the fashion of a gag reel.
Frederick "Tex" Avery directed some of the funniest cartoons ever made, but he relied primarily on situations and moving graphics, rather than on the personalities of familiar characters. Droopy, the phlegmatic basset hound, was one of the few characters Avery used regularly: His?low-key presence was the perfect counter to the extreme takes, fast cuts, frenetic action, and general mayhem going on around him. Avery is also noted for "self-reflexive gags:" the characters know they're in a cartoon and often comment on the fact. In "Dumb-Hounded,"a sprinting wolf cuts a corner too sharply, skids past the sprocket holes at the edge of the film, and onto the blank screen. Droopy frequently turns to the camera and comments, "You now what? I'm happy." Some of the later films in the collection, made by animators Dick Lundy and Michael Lah, lack Avery's manic panache. The last cartoons in the collection were designed for the CinemaScope format: Droopy's pudgy form looks lost in those vast frames, and the flattened graphics pioneered by the UPA studio distort his rounded shape. But those are minor caveats. Fans have waited impatiently for Tex Avery's seminal cartoons to be released on DVD in the US, and this collection is a must-have for anyone interested in animation.(Unrated, suitable for ages 6 and older: cartoon violence, alcohol and tobacco use, risqu? humor) --Charles Solomon
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