Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Vol. 2 (DVD) (FS)

I'm always afraid of sounding like a grumpy old man when I say they just don't make cartoons like when I was a kid. Actually, the cartoons made when I was a kid were pretty lousy. The ones I enjoyed were already twenty or more years old even in my elementary school years; I would be exposed to them only through repeats, primarily in the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show. While there are certainly plenty of decent cartoons nowadays, there is something special about the Looney Tunes that have made them last through the ages. The four disc Volume 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection provides sixty or so examples of this immortal animation.The first disc features Bugs Bunny in various adventures and misadventures. Bugs is the singlemost iconic figure in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies pantheon, and these are all good to great cartoons. Bugs contends with his usual adversaries of Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam as well as witches, Dr. Jekyll, French chefs and a number of other one-time adversaries. Although entertaining, to me, I still think the best discs in the set are still to follow.Disc two features the Road Runner. Actually, the principal character is that hard-luck scavenger, Wile E. Coyote. Because the story is pretty much the same in all these cartoons, they tend to blend together, so it's hard to remember if a certain gag occurred in Beep Beep or in Ready Set Zoom, but that's okay. This is fun stuff. The commentary tracks advise us of some of the "rules" of these films, especially that the Road Runner should never leave the road and Wile E. Coyote should always be done in by his own actions (the Road Runner doesn't do anything more than occasionally startle his adversary). And on this disc, the Road Runner cartoons are only the start; we also get some wonderful films featuring less frequently used characters: Cheese Chasers and Mouse Wreckers invert some of the usual cat and mouse gags by featuring the persecuted Claude the Cat, who would rather be left alone than deal with a pair of mice out to drive him crazy. The Dover Boys is also a gem that features some one-shot characters in a story that has its own unique look and feel; in fact, it was "too" unique and not very well-received by some of the Warner Brothers higher-ups.Disc three features Sylvester and Tweety. I've never been much of a fan of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon, and while these cartoons aren't bad, the best ones on this disc actually feature other characters and are primarily directed by the wacky Bob Clampett. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery has Daffy Duck dreaming of being Duck Twacy; Baby Bottleneck has Daffy and Porky Pig contending with distributing babies during a stork shortage; Duck Soup to Nuts spotlights the "classic" Daffy who is borderline insane as opposed to the angry, ambitious later version; and Porky in Wackyland is utterly bizarre and delightful. This disc also has the unusual Old Glory, a serious Porky Pig cartoon that provides a patriotic six minute history of the United States.The final disc features celebrity parodies and music. While some of these cartoons are merely decent with a greater emphasis on music than humor, there are also some real great ones here: Rhapsody Rabbit, Show Biz Bugs and Stage Door Cartoon are all standouts, and You Ought To Be In Pictures is a great mix of live action and animation. The two all-time classics, however are One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc? One Froggy Evening is a little morality play about a greedy man who finds a frog that performs elaborate song-and-dance numbers, but only when no one (besides the man) is watching. It's doubtful that any other character other than that frog has been able to achieve such fame based on so little screen time (only seven or so minutes). What's Opera, Doc? is considered by some to be the best cartoon EVER. It is the perfect blend of a so-called high art (opera) and low art (cartoons).All these cartoons, plus a lot of special features such as commentaries and rare footage, make this an exceptional package. It would be hyperbole to say every one of these cartoons is great, but most of them are: on individual merit, I'd say they are roughly 50% five-star, 40% four-star and 10% three-star material. Overall, this is easily a five-star package. There may be good and great cartoons nowadays, but these cartoons (generally fifty to seventy years old) still need to be seen.

Here we go with the second volume of LTGC. The cover features a very primitive look, not that anything's wrong with that!Disc 1 does indeed have some Bugs Bunny Masterpieces! Highlights are:* The Big Snooze (Bob Clampett's final cartoon at Warner's)* Bugs Bunny Rides Again (one of the better Bugs/Yosemite pairings)* Bunny Hugged (one of the greatest with Chuck Jones)* Tortoise Beats Hare (Bugs and Cecil Turtle's first pairing)I also really enjoy the controversial "The Heckling Hare" (boy, we get some great ones from Tex Avery here!), "Slick Hare" (love Elmer pitted against Humphrey Bogart), "Baby Buggy Bunny" (very odd...), and "Hyde and Hare" (also very odd). Two golden age people have got commentaries- Bill Melendez does a commentary on "The Big Snooze," a cartoon he animated for, and June Foray does a commentary on the superb "Broomstick Bunny"- one of her first voice acting roles at Warner's. (It may be THE first, I'm not sure). There's also a pre-recorded Chuck Jones commentary on "Tortoise Beats Hare." Bonuses are a Tex Avery interview and a great TV special- "Bugs Bunny's Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary Part 1!" Part 2 is on Disc 3.Disc 2 has 11 Road Runner/Coyote pairings, and 4 other great Chuck Jones-directed cartoons. I really enjoy "Stop, Look and Hasten" (IMO, the best of the Road Runner's), and "Gee Whiz-z-z" (if only for the Batman gag alone). The 4 misce-looneyous Jones cartoons are all well-done! We've got "The Dover Boys," which was an extreme turning point to the zany side for Chuck Jones, there's "A Bear for Punnishment" (great three bears outing), and 2 other Hubie/Bertie/Claude Cat cartoons. Bonus features are great, and one of them is the TV pilot "Adventures of the Road Runner."On disc 3, there are all sorts of fantastic Friz Freleng episodes, with some Clampett for good measure, and even a bit of Chuck Jones. The title of the disc is "Tweety and Sylvester and Friends," so we'll see some good ones. "Bad Ol' Putty Tat," and "Room and Bird" happen to be my favorites of the Tweety/Sylvester's. Also included is the first Academy Award winner at Warner's, which also happens to be the first cartoon where Tweety and Sylvester were teamed together- "Tweetie Pie." Great Clampett cartoons are "Baby Bottleneck," "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," and "Porky in Wackyland." One of my favorites happens to be "Duck Soup to Nuts," a Freleng Daffy/Porky pair-up, which is very underrated. An all-new bonus short is included too- "Daffy Duck for President," which keeps the memory alive well.Looney Tunes All-Stars: Stage and Screen is Disc 4! We have some of the best cartoons of alllllllllllllllll time here- "One Froggy Evening" and "What's Opera, Doc." Other greats are "Back Alley Oproar," "Book Revue," "A Corny Concerto," "I Love to Singa," "The Three Little Bops," "Rhapsody Rabbit," "Show Biz Bugs," "You Ought to be in Pictures," and my personal favorite- "The Hep Cat." For features, there's some vintage audio with Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble, and Michael Maltese on "What's Opera, Doc?" as well as voice-over tracks for the aforementioned cartoon, as well as "The Three Little Bops." One cartoon included "From the Vaults" won the Academy Award for best documentary- "So Much for So Little."Get this if you haven't. It's great!

Love this collection. We are slowly building ours. Lots of variety and LOVE the tidbits and cartoons that we never saw before. They had a segment where they played the beginning of the old Bugs Bunny Road Runner show where they sang the song "On with the show this is it" it made everyone in the room watching it tear up. You have no idea. Its funny how something like that can evoke such incredibly strong and wonderful memories of our childhood. For that alone, this set is worth it. Great quality and packaging. Ever notice how Tweety birds song always starts the same? "I'm a tweet little bird in a gilded cage, tweetys my name but I don't know my age" hahahaha. Good times!

The second volume of the Golden collection is a must buy for everyone who purchased the first one. For people who don't have neither of the set, what are you waiting for? Run out and buy it.This time, WB, included 60 animated shorts and tons of extras. Some of the favorites include: One Froggy Evening, What's Opera, Doc?, The Dover Boys, Bear for Punishment, Corny Concerto and much, much more. The 4 disc set is divided into one disc for Bugs Bunny, 2nd disc for Road Runner/Coyote and Duffy Duck/Porky Pig shorts, 3rd disc is comprised of Tweety/Sylvester and more Duffy Duck/Porky Pig and lastly the 4th disc is called All Stars. This fourth disc was my favorite since it included some of the mentioned shorts like One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc? along with Three Little Bops and my new favorite I Love to Singa.The presentation is excellent for all of the shorts as WB remastered them for this DVD release. Some of the extras include audio commentary, music only tracks, voice only tracks and short documentaries called "Behind the Tunes". There are much more extras included in this set.Some people will be dissapointed in this set does not contain shorts with Marvin, Taz, Speedy, Foghorn Leghorn and Pepe Leppew. My guess is that these shorts will be coming in future volumes.Please release more volumes of the Golden Collection WB.

Simply amazing. The complete collection of seasons 1, 2, & 3. Now all I need to purchase is the last three seasons 🤪

There is nothing like watching these classic cartoon to give you a chuckle.

Très bien. Beaucoup de plaisir à écouter ces classiques d'animation