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By
FRANK BEHRENS
So what that I have several
credits above the Masters and am now old enough to
play older stage roles without makeup? I still
like Road Runner cartoons and I am not all that
ashamed to admit it. Having gone through the
"Looney Tunes Golden Collection" quite some time
ago (and that was 4 DVDs of nothing but cartoons
plus about as many bonus features), I have found
the perfect palliative to the rotten world
situation -- laughter -- in the Warner Bros. new
4-DVD collection " Looney Tunes - Golden
Collection, Volume Two."
The material is much better organized here than on
the first volume. Each disc holds 15 shorts and is
devoted, respectively, to Bugs Bunny, Road Runner,
Tweety & Sylvester, and All Stars, some of the
latter going back to the early days of the sound
cartoon. By far the best single cartoon,
unaccountably omitted from the earlier collection,
is "What's Opera Doc" in which Bugs and Elmer do
to Wagner what should be done to Wagner. Or
possibly a close tie is the famous "One Froggy
Evening" in which a talented frog ruins the life
of a construction worker. Both are gems.
Add to this tons of bonus materials such as
voice-over narrations, sequences from "The Bugs
Bunny Show" ("On with the show, this is it!" as
the theme song puts it), and even a Daffy Duck for
President newly created but alas too late for this
year! All kids will love this and so will closet
kids like me.
There is also a "Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection
2" which offers us 30 selections from the larger
collection, included several extras. You pays your
money, etc.
Thanks, Warner Bros., for the memories. |
