I love it!

These DVDs are what real Saturday morning cartoons used to be! They bring back so many good memories. They are high quality and will give you hours of entertainment. I can't speak highly enough about this set!

A mixed bag

First off, the restoration looks very good. I've caught some of these recently on t.v. and they didn't look nearly so clean. Of course, with digital restoration comes some loss of the "film look" that these cartoons originally had. But this digital presentation is a great reproduction of what animated cells really look like so I'm not complaining.

On to the cartoons: By far the best of the four discs is the first. Why? It's all Bugs Bunny. I enjoy an occasional Road Runner and Daffy Duck was the star of "Duck Amuck," but Bugs is the face of Looney Tunes.
There are some excellent shorts presented here, BUT... there are some clunkers. While it may be impossible to please everyone with the selection, this set just tries too hard to please too large an audience. Let's face it. People want to see BUGS BUNNY. While Bugs is well represented, it would have been a far more effective strategy (or as Bugs might say, "stragedy") to compile a four disc set of the best of Bugs. Perhaps the most egregious omission on this particular volume is What's Opera Doc. This has been cited as the best cartoon short ever made by many sources. Talk about not putting your best foot forward. (What's Opera Doc is available on Vol. 2--which kinda proves my point.)

So, I have purchased the first two volumes of this series, but I stopped there because I am not happy about having to purchase volume after volume to get one more disc of Bugs Bunny.

While I am not particularly fond of Disney's "limited time" dvd marketing ploy, at least the "Disney Treasures" series has made available such titles as "Mickey Mouse in Living Color" and "Silly Symphonies." We weren't forced to purchase three discs of miscellaneous Disney shorts in order to get Mickey Mouse in the Band Concert on volume one. Then Mickey Mouse in Through the Mirror on volume two. We got two discs of the cream of the crop.

So if anyone at Warner Bros. is reading any of these reviews, please, please, please, please for the love of James Brown... compile a four disc set of Bugs.

THE PRIME COLLECTION OF CLASSIC WARNER BROTHERS SHORTS!!

Now that five volumes of restored Warner Brothers cartoons have been released on DVD, I decided finally to review each one in the light of each being a part of a continuing series.

This first volume, released in 2003, is in my opinion the strongest overall (as it had to be--the entire future of the series hung on the question of whether this set would sell. It did, and now the series is going ahead full-steam.) Each disc contains 14 cartoons, fully restored.

The first disc is Bugs Bunny, and contains mainly post-1948 cartoons, the majority of which appeared for years on the BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER or BUGS BUNNY & TWEETY shows. Disc two showcases Daffy Duck and/or Porky Pigs, and once again is made up of mostly post-1948 shorts. The third and fourth discs are a mixed bag containing classic cartoons featuring other Warner Bros. stars such Sylveter & Tweety, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Le Pew, and Speedy Gonzales, as well as more Bugs, Daffy and Porky. The majority of these, too, are post-1948 cartoons. So those of us which grew up watching these on Saturday mornings have a lot here that is familiar.