Product Description

Greetings, Looneytics! For all who rightly place Looney Tunes alongside Mom, apple pie and web-surfing at work as American institutions, this is your time to rise and shine and watch. Yes, here on 4 discs you'll find 60 more of the finest, funniest, bestest Golden Era cartoons from the feverishly bent artistic minds at Termite Terrace. Disc 1 showcases a certain wascally wabbit. The happiness of pursuit is center stage in Disc 2 and 3's respective batches of Road Runner and Sylvester/Tweety fun. Disc 4 is an all-star cavalcade of Hollywood parodies and more. All 60 toons are restored, remastered, uncut. And each disc is chock-a-block with bonus goodies. It's a 24-carrot gem of a collection. Anything less would be dethpicable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #495 in DVD
• Brand: LOONEY TUNES
• Released on: 2004-11-02
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 320 minutes

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• Greetings, Looneytics! For all who rightly place Looney Tunes alongside Mom, apple pie and web-surfing at work as American institutions, this is your time to rise and shine and watch. Yes, here on four discs you'll find 60 more of the finest, funniest, bestest Golden Era cartoons from the feverishly bent artistic minds at Termite Terrace. Disc 1 showcases a certain wascally wabbit. The happiness o

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Brash, fast-paced, and hysterically funny, the Warner Brothers cartoons rank among the undisputed treasures of American animation and American comedy. This second collection, a follow-up to Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, includes such gems as "Porky in Wackyland," "A Bear for Punishment," "Gee Whiz-z-z," The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," and "I Love to Singa." A short documentary about director Bob Clampett features several cartoon historians, animator Eric Goldberg, Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont, and Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi (enthusiastic but over the top). But Warners continues its scattergun approach to selecting films. There are only eight cartoons by Clampett in the set, plus three by Tex Avery and one by Frank Tashlin. "Rabbit Fire" and "Rabbit Seasoning" appear on the first set, but the third cartoon in Jones's trilogy, "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" isn't on either. More than two-thirds of the films are by Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones. That's not necessarily a bad thing. "Show Biz Bugs," "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," and the Oscar-winning "Tweety Pie" showcase Freleng's razor-sharp timing. "What's Opera, Doc," "The Dover Boys," and the justly celebrated "One Froggy Evening" rank among Jones's boldest experiments and most brilliant successes.

Volume Two includes some genuine rarities, among them, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" (1930), the first Looney Tune, and the Oscar-winning documentary "So Much for So Little." With 60-plus cartoons, transferred from good prints Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Volume 2 is a collection to treasure. (Rated G, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Directorial Information Organized by Disc
For those of you who have a favorite Director you may have found categorization by character quite frustrating. Personally I don't care for a whole disc of Bugs, or a whole disc of Daffy; I want a whole disc of Chuck or a whole disc of Friz. Even the fine episode lists above, which really do hold all the information you need, are not organized according to how the episodes appear on the discs in the collection. To remedy this problem I have the following list to provide you with the episodes, organized in the order they appear on the discs, and who directed them. I hope this proves useful to someone, and will save them from having to do this all over again themselves.

Volume Two: Disc One
1.The Big Snooze (Bob Clampett)
2.Broomstick Bunny (Chuck Jones)
3.Bugs Bunny Rides Again (Friz Freleng)
4.Bunny Hugged (Chuck Jones)
5.French Rarebit (Bob Clampett)
6.Gorilla my Dreams (Robert McKimson)
7.The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (Friz Freleng)
8.Hare Conditioned (Chuck Jones)
9.The Heckling Hare (Tex Avery)
10.Little Red Riding Rabbit (Friz Freleng)
11.Tortoise Beats Hare (Tex Avery)
12.Rabbit Transit (Friz Freleng)
13.Slick Hare (Friz Freleng)
14.Baby Buggy Bunny (Chuck Jones)
15.Hyde and Hare (Friz Freleng)

Volume Two: Disc Two
1.Beep Beep (Chuck Jones)
2.Going! Going! Gosh! (Chuck Jones)
3.Zipping Along (Chuck Jones)
4.Stop! Look! And Hasten! (Chuck Jones)
5.Ready, Set, Zoom, (Chuck Jones)
6.Guided Muscle (Chuck Jones)
7.Gee Whiz-z-z (Chuck Jones)
8.There They Go-Go-Go (Chuck Jones)
9.Scrambled Aches (Chuck Jones)
10. Zoom and Bored (Chuck Jones)
11.Whoa, Be-Gone! (Chuck Jones)
12.Cheese Chasers (Chuck Jones)
13.The Dover Boys (Chuck Jones)
14.Mouse Wreckers (Chuck Jones)
15.A bear for Punishment (Chuck Jones)

Volume Two: Disc Three
1.Bad Ol' Putty Tat (Friz Freleng)
2.All Abir-r-r-d (Friz Freleng)
3.Room and Bird (Friz Freleng)
4.Tweet Tweet Tweety (Friz Freleng)
5.Gift Wrapped (Friz Freleng)
6.Ain't she Tweet (Friz Freleng)
7.A Bird in a Guilty Cage (Friz Freleng)
8.Snow Buisness (Friz Freleng)
9.Tweetie Pie (Friz Freleng)
10.Kitty Cornered (Bob Clampett)
11.Baby Bottleneck (Bob Clampett)
12.Old Glory (Chuck Jones)
13.The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Bob Clampett)
14.Duck Soup to Nuts (Friz Freleng)
15.Porky in Wackyland (Bob Clampett)

Volume Two: Disc Four
1.Back Alley Oproar (Friz Freleng)
1.Book Revue (Bob Clampett)
2.A Corny Concerto (Bob Clampett)
3.Have You Got Any Castles? (Frank Tashlin)
4.Hollywood Steps Out (Unknown)
5.I Love to Singa (Tex Avery)
6.Katnip kollege (Unknown)
7.The Hep Cat (Bob Clampett)
8.The Three Little Bops (Friz Freleng)
9.One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones)
10.Rhapsody Rabbit (Friz Freleng)
11.Show Biz Bugs (Friz Freleng)
12.Stage Door Cartoon (Friz Freleng)
13.What's Opera, Doc (Chuck Jones)
14.You Ought to be in Pictures (Friz Freleng)

What an encore...
The marketing rep said last year defending the omission of "What's Opera Doc?" and "One Froggy Evening" from the first volume is that if they had all the best cartoons on the first set what will they do for an encore? Well, even without these two classics this set would still stand up as a great sequel to the first volume (Which was just as good despite the pedantic naysayers.)

Here some of the reasons why this set is worth your money;

First off the restoration job is just like the first set and it is all uncut, so the addition of all the material which Cartoon Network might deem improper for your child is included, but let's look at some of the best toons...

Porky in Wackyland
Great to see that they aren't afraid to stick a black and white cartoon in there especially this great surreal classic which introduced the Dodo bird.

The Dover Boys
The cartoon that introduced smear animation that was despised by the studio producers but is now used in practically all television animation. Especially Cartoon Network.

You Ought to Be in Pictures
Great one that has Daffy and Porky interacting with real people. The funny thing is the real people aren't actors. They were all workers at Termite Terrace.

Three Little Bops
Friz Freleng finally let loose a little with this highly creative swinging take of the three little pigs. I haven't seen this one in ages, it's practically Freleng's best work.

A Corny Concerto
Great parody on Disney's Fantasia by Bob Clampett. This set really pays tribute to him.

Of course that's barely even the tip of the iceberg of the quality of this set. All those Road Runner and Sylvester and Tweety cartoons might put some people off but I can't see why you shouldn't get this set if you aren't a fan... Unless you're broke I guess...

POST-THOUGHTS;
After seen the set I can say that Warner Bros. is very brave for including shorts like Have You Got Any Castles uncut. I thank them for that and I'd like to add that disc 4 is the best disc on the set with disc 1 in second place. Other highlights include; Ren And Stimpy creator, John K's commentary on The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, a dead-serious patriotic short by Chuck Jones called Old Glory and the cartoon that got Tex Avery fired; Heckling Hare. I'd also like to reiterate, these shorts are uncut and exactly how they were when they were released with the exception of the blue ribbon title cards. The abrupt ending to Heckling Hare was how that short was originally released and the footage that was meant to be there was gone because the studios didn't like it and this of course angered Tex Avery. So in case anyone was suspicious about that there's the explanation, so they are uncut from their original release date.

Overture, curtain, lights!
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.