Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five | 
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Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 1619
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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 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
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!)
 Warner Brothers Ripping Off Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Fans June 17, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I agree with others who have complained about Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five. While the first four volumes had some of the really old stuff, Volume Five is all but saturated with them.
It is not that the really old, black-and-white cartoons have no merit. In their time, they were surely exceptional, mainly because there was nothing else to compare them to. Think about it--in the early days of cartoon animation, making a non-living character appear to move on a screen was truly remarkable. BUT the executives at Warner Brothers know very well that to most of us, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons mean the full colour cartoons of the 1950's and 1960's that were part of our weekly Saturday viewings as kids. Those are the cartoons that most of us want to see. Almost all of the very old stuff (from the 1930's and even 1940's) is just not entertaining compared to that produced in the 1950's and 1960's.
As other people have speculated, this is a sleazy attempt by Warner Brothers executives to soak us by selling a set of 60 cartoons, when only about 25 of them have any significant appeal. It is really disingenuous for WB to have full colour artwork adorning the Volume Five box, when most of the cartoons are black and white. Also, what about the other characters? Where are Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Coyote & Road Runner, and so on? Not in this set.
Unless WB stops this nonsense, I will not be buying Volume Six.
this one is alright, but.......... May 21, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
this is alright, but if they were smart, they would have organized each character into their own dvd sets. first off, they needed to put the other two abbott and costello parody cartoons on with the one they amazingly did add on this set! secondly, they keep ignoring foghorn leghorn, volume 6 better have a whole dvd with a good 20 of those. but these volumes are sloppy, i dont want some 30 year old morons personal favorite picks just because that screwball works at WB, they should come out with ALL bugs bunny in one dvd set, ALL foghorn leghorn in another, ALL hollywood parody in another... all racial/war ones in another... all in nice slipcase dvd sets, organized, so you dont get over half cartoons, cheesy weird BORING ones from the 30s....
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