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The contents of these discs are:
Disc 1 - Best of Bugs Bunny
14 Cartoons (8 with commentary, 3 with music-only track):
Baseball Bugs
Rabbit Seasoning
Long-Haired Hare
High Diving Hare
Bully for Bugs
What's Up Doc?
Rabbit's Kin
Water, Water Every Hare
Big House Bunny
Big Top Bunny
My Bunny Lies over the sea
Wabbit Twouble
Ballot Box Bunny
Rabbit of Seville
Extras: A Greeting from Chuck Jones, New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "A Rabbit For All Seasons," "Short-Fuse Shootout," "Forever Befuddled." Bonus Cartoons: "Blooper Bunny," "Bugs Bunny at the Movies (with commentary). Excerpts from The Bugs Bunny Show: "My Dream is Yours," "Two Guys From Texas." Vaults: "A Star is Bored." Bridging sequences: "The Astro Nuts Audio Recording Sessions with Mel Blanc." Trailer and still gallery
Disc 2 - Best of Daffy & Porky
14 Cartoons (5 with commentary, 4 with music-only track):
Duck Amuck
Dough for the Do-Do
Drip-Along Daffy
Scaredy Cat
The Ducksters
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Yankee Doodle Daffy
Porky Chops
Wearing of the Grin
Deduce, You Say
Boobs in the Woods
Golden Yeggs
Rabbit Fire
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
Extras: New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "Hard Luck Duck," "Porky Pig Roast," "Animal Quackers." Stills gallery
Disc 3 - Looney Tunes All Stars
14 Cartoons (7 with commentary, 1 with music-only track):
Elmer's Candid Camera
Bugs Bunny and The 3 Bears
Fast and Furry-ous
Hair-Raising Hare
The Awful Orphan
Haredevil Hare
For Scent-imental Reasons
Frigid Hare
The Hypo-Chondri-Cat
Baton Bunny
Feed the Kitty
Don't Give Up The Sheep
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
Extras: Documentary "Toon Heads: The Lost Cartoons." New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "Too Fast, Too Furry-ous," "Merrie Melodies: Carl Stalling and Cartoon Music," "Blanc Expressions." From the Vaults: "Hair-Raising Hare Schematics," "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat Schematics." Still gallery
Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All Stars
14 Cartoons (6 with commentary, 3 with music-only track):
Canary Row
Bunker Hill Bunny
Kit for Cat
Putty Tat Trouble
Bugs and Thugs
Canned Feud
Lumber Jerks
Speedy Gonzales
Tweety's S.O.S.
Foghorn Leghorn
Daffy Duck Hunt
Early to Bet
Broken Leghorn
Devil May Hare
Extras: New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "Needy for Speedy," "Putty Problems and Canary Rows," "Southern Pride Chicken." From the Vaults: "Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid," "Virgil Ross Pencil Tests." Stills gallery
Get hold of this fantastic set and join Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck Roadrunner, Tweety and Sylvester, The Tazmanian Devil and all th other classic Looney Tunes stars. And let's all keep our fingers crossed that the second volume arrives soon!
This set really takes me back to when I was a kid; kicking off my shoes from school, grabbing a can of vimto and a curly-wurly and watching Daffy Duck's beak fall off. Brilliant!
What Warner Bros. have done is mix together early cartoons with their later output. I think some go back as far as the early 1940's . Back then animation was still a relatively new art form and it's very apparant the team at had not yet fully figured out - either in terms characterisation or timing - the art of making comedy from a sequence of drawings. Many of the characters are not even really the finished article, and the lightness of touch, verve and sheer vitality that characterises the later work seems curiously absent. Yes, there are some funny moments, but far too often you get cartoons that have a slightly dark, stodgy quality, with slack, ponderous or repetitive animation, timing that's not quite right and heavy-handed humour that just isn't funny and at times is even a little bit creepy.
With each successive release things seem to improve, and by the early to mid 50's Jones, Freling, Avery and co. had, both in a technical and aesthetic terms, really started to get their act together. The scripts are smarter, the direction is tighter, the animation snappier and more articulate and the characters themselves are better drawn and more communicative. Timing is now right on the money and every frame seems brightly lit with a kind of brash confident charm that has justifiably made them classics. Genuine laugh-out-loud moments and that don't seem to diminish with repeated viewings.
Just a shame that a) there aren't more of them, b) you have to wade through a fair bit of dross to get to the gems.
Call me a cynic but I can sense the marketing man's (grasping) hand in all this, his reasoning being something like; 'no-one in their right mind would buy the early stuff on its own, let's mix them all together, that way we can keep back a lot of the real quality and release it over time - we'll make more that way.'
I reckon most people, like me, are not buying this item as a historical document showing the development of an animation studio. Rather we want the best possible entertainment for our money, and in this respect I feel that, considering the title of these DVDs, and the sheer wealth of truly brilliant cartoons WB has at its disposal, we're being rather misled.
The later films get 5 stars, there's just not enough of them.
Many clips that I remember from my childhood (only 22) but also lots which is clearly pretty old. Love it!
We all had to sit through at least some of them with him. It was worth it - they're funny & he loved them. Read more
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