Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five | 
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Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 2983
Format: Animated, Box Set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 417
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.8
MPN: 085391121725
UPC: 085391121725
EAN: 0085391121725
ASIN: B000TSTEM8
Theatrical Release Date: November 2, 1935
Release Date: October 30, 2007
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Genre: Children's Video
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD
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The fifth collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies continues Warner Bros.' scattershot approach, mixing classics and obscurities. Among the best-known and funniest cartoons are "Ali Baba Bunny" (Daffy yelling, "I'm rich! I'm socially secure!"), "Bewitched Bunny" (Witch Hazel galloping off in a cloud of hair pins), and "Buccaneer Bunny" (a sterling example of one of director Friz Freleng's favorite gags: having the characters run up and down stairs and in and out of various doors). "Gold Diggers of '49" and "Little Red Walking Hood" show Tex Avery beginning to explore the self-reflexive gags that would be become one of the hallmarks of his mature style. In "Walking Hood," Grandma stops the action to answer the phone and place her order with the grocer--including a case of gin. "The Daffy Doc" is Bob Clampett at his most surreal, with Daffy and Porky getting sucked into an iron lung, bulging and shrinking like balloon animals. Some of the earliest cartoons predate the adoption of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as the theme song for the Warner Bros. cartoons. Many shorts from the early '30s were built around songs from Warner's musicals: "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" (written for Gold Diggers of 1933) features caricatures of Mae West, George Bernard Shaw, Benito Mussolini, and Bing Crosby frolicking to the title tune. Greta Garbo delivers the closing, "That's All, Folks!" Like the previous four sets, Golden Collection Volume 5 comes loaded with extras that range from three WWII films in which Mr. Hook urges sailors to buy war bonds to "Extremes and In-Betweens: A Life in Animation" (2000), a documentary about Oscar-winning director Chuck Jones. Many of these cartoons will have viewers of all ages in stitches. (Unrated, suitable for ages 6 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, mild risque humor, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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 good collection October 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
great collection.got it for my grandkids to watch when they visit and they love this series.good ole cartoons!
 Spare us the cr@p, deliver the goodies! September 10, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
If I'm to put up with politically correct disclaimers, at least let me get my money's worth, instead of ripping me off with second-best material.
Case in question: "Senorella and the Glass Huarache".
Now don't get me wrong, I am Mexican and not in the least offended by the depiction of my fellow nationals in the cartoon. Personally, I love Speedy Gonzalez, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the two lazy crows, the sombreroed cricket and every other ethnic pun aimed at Mexico and Mexicans. Keep them coming for all I care; I don't mind. In fact, shame on those who do!
But weak humor, tired ideas and limited animation, that I truly abhor. Senorella's only merit is that it was the last cartoon to be produced by the original WB studio. Aside from that, its storytelling is slow, the gags are predictable, and the entire thing has that cheap DePatie-Freleng look, in anticipation of toon decadence to come. Why put this insipid short and not the extraordinary "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves" that's kept locked in a vault? Now there's a comic masterpiece worth apologizing for! Why not release it,if it's already available on YouTube for free, only in substandard quality?
Warner might as well charge for it, complete with a sermon by Whoopy Goldberg and Ted Danson -in blackface, if it makes them feel better- decrying its content, instead of defrauding the consumer with a "Golden Collection" filled with nickel-and-dime stuff!
Fun tunes August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
OK so I admit I'm a fan of ol'time animation. This collection is for the most part what I remember as a child. These were once the standard on Saturday morning. The fact that WB kept these uncut and not so PC by todays standard's is nice.
Major disappointment August 7, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this set to be not only some of the worse cartoons but defective as well as several of the cartoons on the first and second DVD had broad green bands at the bottom of the picture. Also, the cartoon selection was horrible. To many Bugs Bunny cartoons and not enough the of the other great characters such as Yosemite Sam, Peppy L'Pew, Wile E. Coyote and Foghorn Leghorn. The cartoon Ali Baba Bunny is by far the worse cartoon ever done. The animation was all computer generated and lacked any of the style of the cartoons made before. And contrary to the statement made by an earlier reviewer that there were not enough Bugs Bunny cartoons - there were by far to many. I can only hope that the next volume is not defective.
Give us more of the 30's and 40's! June 25, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
In contrast with some of the other reviewers for this set I LOVE the older cartoons! "A Tale of Two Kitties" is one of my favorites and one that I had been waiting for. Tweety's original appearance and his somewhat sadistic personality are absolutely terrific. "Whadya know. I wan out of piddies." A great parody of Abbott and Costello! The Private Snafu and Mr. Hook shorts! The documentary on Chuck Jones. Beautiful living black and white shorts! Yay! "Eatin' on the Cuff." What a terrific little short! That Veronica Lake spider is not exactly politically correct but funny?! I really enjoyed "I've got to sing a Torch Song." Greta Garbo, Zazu Pitts, Mae West. It makes me want to see their movies. Next time more of the black and white Porkys! Buy one of these for yourself and one for your Dad and Mom too!(Maybe one for your grandparents as well!)
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