Product Description

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 19-OCT-2004
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16378 in DVD
• Brand: Unknown
• Released on: 2004-10-26
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Animated, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 408 minutes

Amazon.com
Mix The Great Race with the slapstick humor of Road Runner cartoons and the wildly inventive minds of Hanna-Barbera, and you've got the 1968 animated series Wacky Races. You remember the lineup: the Slag brothers in the Boulder-Mobile; the Gruesome Twosome in the Creepy Coupe, with a dragon in its belfry; Prof. Pat Pending (ha ha) in the Convert-a-Car; Red Max in the Crimson Haybailer biplane; Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly in the tank-like Army Surplus Special; the Ant Hill Mob in the Bullitt-Proof Bomb; Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chugga-Bug; Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth the beaver in the Buzz Wagon; the Belle of the Brickyard, Penelope Pitstop, in the Compact Pussycat; Peter Perfect in the Turbo Terrific; and our hissable villains, Dick Dastardly and his snickering muttering dog, Muttley ("Sassa frassin'...") in the Mean Machine. In each 11-minute episode, the physics-defying cars compete in different areas of the country ("See-Saw to Arkansas," "Rhode Island Road Race," "The Carlsbad or Bust Bash"), so evenly matched that any car has a chance to win despite the evil schemes of Dastardly and Muttley, who always seem to come to a Wile E. Coyote-type end (writer Mike Maltese worked on both series). There's never really a plot, but just a string of situations and gags before someone finally crosses the finish line to earn the checkered flag.

The DVD set contains all 34 episodes of the series, looking reasonably good. Four members of the original creative team appear on a commentary track on four different episodes, and their discussion is less interesting for what they have to say about Wacky Races ("What was that car again?") than for their memories of working for Hanna-Barbera ("we did things off the top of the head"). There's also pop-up factoids on two episodes, a 20-minute recap of the series' history, and a look at the two spinoff series, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. That a relatively short-lived series could inspire two spinoffs, toys, comic books, a CD-ROM game, and other souvenirs is a testament to its ability to capture the Saturday-morning imagination and create a lot of fond memories. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

The greatest Hanna Barbera cartoon series ever made!,
When I found out that "Wacky Races" was out on DVD, I was thrilled with delight, because I haven't seen those cartoons in decades, so I ordered my own copy of it! I like all of the drivers & their cars, including Dick Dastardly & Muttley and the Mean Machine, especially when they cheat & something bad happens to Dastardly and Muttley laughs about it. I also like the creative names of the episodes (See-Saw to Arkansas, The Great Cold Rush Race, etc.). I also enjoy the special bonus features, especially the featurettes about the making of "Wacky Races" & the spinoffs, "Dastardly & Muttley & their flying machines" and "The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop". I definitely love how the set is packaged in full-color & the two foldouts containing a group photo of every single wacky racer. What really gets me laughing (and I'm sure it's the same for anyone who sees or has seen it) are the hysterical one-liners & puns in every episode. To sum it up in one word, this DVD set is terrific! I definitely love this DVD set and to anyone that's a fan of 60's/70's animation, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, or any cartoons, in general, I recommend that you buy this set, because, believe me, it is GREAT!

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What a set
I love these old cartoon packages. Can take me back to when i was a kid eating cereal in front of the TV. This and 'Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines' are Killer sets and cant be missed if you liked cartoons. A lot of fun in these sets. Takes you back to when things were a bit 'lighter' than they are today. Some great one liners as well. Todays cartoons cant match the older gems.