Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three (2005)

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 3

This is a great collection of Looney Tunes. Makes three of the five collections I own and a welcome addition. Recommend it highly. September 11, 2008

Looney Toons vol. 3

Got tired of getting up on Saturdays with wierd cartoons on my TV. Said to myself what ever happened to bugs and daffy, well I found them. June 29, 2008

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three

This is, easily, the weakest set of the first three volumes of Looney Tunes. There are still four discs with a total of 60 animated shorts. The first disc is titled Bugs Bunny classics & has 15 cartoons, almost all of them are classics. Like the first two volumes, the first disc, featuring Bugs Bunny, is the best disc of the set. Disc Two is titled Hollywood Caricatures & Parodies. IO was looking forward to this one but it turned out to be lame. It barely has any appearances by the classic Looney Tunes characters. Some of these are black & white, many of them coming from the thirties. The third disc is titled Porky & the Pigs is even less impressive than disc two. This disc has five or six cartoons in black & white that are, also, from the thirties. We do get to see the evolvement of Porky Pig through the first few cartoons. Discs two & three are probably important from a historical viewpoint &, though I'm a bit of a historical buff, I don't really need it. Don't get me wrong, there are some good cartoons on these two discs, most of them occurring near the end of each disc. There are even some characters that many fans will barely remember. Disc four in the first two volumes was the weakest but in this volume is the second best of the set. It's titled All-Star Cartoon Party & that's exactly what it is. The fifteen cartoons on this disc actually made me feel I was watching a TV version of Looney Tunes because it presented so many of the characters we've come to know; Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzalez, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Sam the Sheepdog &, the original incarnation of Coyote: Ralph Wolf. This disc also has a couple of other characters that we're familiar with.

This is a so-so collection of Looney Tunes but it doesn't compare very well to the first two volumes. As in the first two sets there are a ton of extras included in the collection; all feature the same introduction with Whoopi Goldberg. This set may be a little bit more for the historian but it's still enjoyable, nevertheless. I would suggest that the buyer waits until this set goes on sale, it's not worth the MSRP. June 20, 2008

More 24-Carrot Gold

When you're a kid, almost any cartoon seems like a work of art, but as someone who grew up on Grape Ape, Hong Kong Phooey and Inch High Private Eye - and has now had an opportunity to revisit them on Boomerang - it is obvious that what seems brilliant to a child may actually be utterly mediocre tripe. I don't know if there were any really good cartoons made between the late 1960s and early 1980s, certainly these cartoons pale in comparison to their predecessors, particularly those produced from the `30s to the `50s by Warner Brothers. These cartoons would appeal equally to adults and children. They were classics.

Volume 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection features another 60 cartoons from that wonderful era. Volumes 1 and 2 featured the best and most well-known of the Looney Tunes library, but there is still plenty of great material in this four disc set.

Disc One is "Bugs Bunny Classics", an array of cartoons featuring the most prominent of the Warner Brothers characters. Now that Warner Brothers is going deeper into their library, I got a chance to see cartoons that I don't ever recall seeing, including Wackiki Wabbit (in which a pair of shipwrecked sailors view Bugs as their next meal) and Hillbilly Hare (which takes Bugs to Appalachia). There are also more familiar cartoons, like A Hare Grows in Manhattan and Duck! Rabbit! Duck, the latter of which is part of a trilogy of cartoons with Daffy Duck trying to convince Elmer Fudd to hunt down Bugs.

Disc Two is "Hollywood Caricatures and Parodies, which features some of the earliest Warner Brothers sound cartoons. Admittedly, the early cartoons are not exactly WB at its peak, with a lot of forgettable characters like Bosko and Buddy who have little real personality. There is also much more of an emphasis on music in these cartoons, often with humor taking a back seat to songs. Parodies of movies and TV shows are also a bit hit-or-miss, making this disc the weakest of the four (but still entertaining).

Disc Three is "Porky and the Pigs" which features, of course, Porky Pig, who was the first really big Looney Tunes character. This disc shows him from his early super-heavy days in cartoons like Porky's Party and Porky's Romance to later films where he acts as a foil/sidekick for Daffy; these include the well-known Robin Hood Daffy and the much-more-rarely-seen Rocket Squad.

Finally, Disc Four is the All-Star Cartoon Party with a grab bag of great Warner Brothers characters, from Bugs and Daffy to the Road Runner, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester and Pepe LePew.

In addition to the sixty cartoons, there are heaps of extras, including commentary tracks, behind-the-scenes mini-documentaries, extra cartoons "from the vaults" such as the Private Snafu cartoons shown to WWII soldiers, a forgettable TV pilot for a show called Philbert and some longer documentaries on Chuck Jones and Bugs Bunny. This set may not be quite at the level of the first two (personally, I find Volume 2 the best), but it is still a great collection and a great opportunity to show today's kids just how good cartoons can be. June 17, 2008

Great set, but to pricely

This series was possuble to have more racy cartoons of Loonely tunes, but it did not. So I was dispointed by that, not becuase these are not great cartoons. But becuase 50 dollars is alot for dvd set of any kind. it is shame they do not show these cartoons anymore, because they such rich part of childhood for many people. I am 30 years old and remember many of these cartoons and i still love them the same. I get them more and they were made more for a adults. May 30, 2008

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