Product Description

They're the clown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy. They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! And now, 28 of the very best animated shorts starring the very wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection! Just barely contained in two special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented animation celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation! Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark cartoon classic after another, there's Bugs Bunny's monstrously merry encounter with the tennis-shoe clad creature of Hair-Raising Hare. Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner racing to cartoon immortality in Fast and Furryous. Oscar?-winning animated gems, scenery-chewing Tazmanian Devils and much more! Plus, a dazzling array of totally Looney DVD bonus features!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3290 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2003-10-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 207 minutes

Customer Reviews

B E W A R E *PLEASE*!!!!!
If you are obsessive compulsive like I am, and buy things without looking at them first, please be warned that this collection of Looney Tunes cartoons are ALL CONTAINED within the Golden Collection also released this past November 4th!!!

I would suggest you buy the Golden Collection, but remember that if you do, that you do NOT need this collection.

Go for the GOLD!
Whilst cheaper this DVD set isn't worth the saving - the gold set contains special features and 56 restored shorts - this set will be bare bones. Additionally, the sale of the Gold Collection will depend on whether Special Editions of Looney Tunes are released in the furture - buy this and you might be restricting the value of what we see in the future. Limited extras, limited value - GO FOR THE 4 DVD GOLD COLLECTION!

Solid collection of classic Looney Tunes
For those folks not interested in the bells and whistles(i.e., extras, interviews, rarities, etc) available on the deluxe Golden Collection, The Premiere Collection is a very good place to start collecting these classic shorts. The positives carried over from Golden are many; these are transferred from new prints with considerable digital clean up (without any digital alteration to the original images). The unforgiving quality of DVD is such that you will see many analog flaws on some of the older cartoons (particularly those with darker colored backgrounds). There's a considerable amount of what appears to be dust but could just be analog imperfections in the surviving negatives and prints generated from them. More than likely, many of these errors were there from the moment they shot the cartoons and were on the original animation background cels.

The set is flawed not so much by what is included but by what it omits; There's none of Tex Avery's formative Warner cartoons and Bob Clampett's wacky style is represented only by a couple of shorts (and his most zany Porky in Wackyland is MIA). While the set (like The Golden Collection) is heavy on Chuck Jones that could actually be a good thing. Jones' shorts were far and away the best the unit produced (outside of Clampett's) and also the most innovative. That's not to dismiss Friz Freleng's classics or Robert McKimson's best cartoons; Jones was more consistent and also pushed the boundary much more as a director. Much of his best work was done with Maurice Nobel and Michael Maltese and there's a couple of representative samples here as well (most notably The Fast and The Furry-ous).

If you purchase this set, though, be forewarned as a couple of Jones' best works are missing; Duck Dodgers, Drip-a Long Daffy, Rabbit Fire, Rabbit of Seville and the brilliant Duck Amuck are nowhere to be found on this set. The cartoons that are included including the brilliant Scaredy Cat are important works but this collection is a bit lite on Jones' best work.

Marketing is the key word here folks. Most stores that wouldn't carry a more expensive boxed set like Golden will cary the two disc sets like this. Hopefully both are well received so that the classics missing from this set will make it to a second or third one.