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Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Vol. 6 (DVD)
Welcome back to their world, as fine a place as any to get away
from yours, and a fitting, fun-filled, 60-cartoon celebration of
the talents and zaniness of Warner Bros." Termite Terrace. Disc 1
Whoops it up with an all-star array of 'toons featuring Bugs
Bunny, Daffy Duck and more immortal Looneytics. Disc 2 features
our heroes in wartime readiness. Legends Bosko and Buddy get
their own long-overdue Warner compilation on Disc 3. And out of
the mailbag comes Disc 4's much-requested line-up of previously
unavailable favorites, including Horton Hatches the Egg.
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Fifteen cartoons dating from World War II give Volume 6 of the
Looney Tunes Golden Collection more focus than previous sets.
Many of the 1940's cartoons remain very funny. Bugs Bunny dresses
up as Brunnhilda and rides in to the strains of "Tannhauser" in
"Herr Meets Hare" (1945), a gag Chuck Jones re-used to greater
effect in "What's Opera, Doc" a dozen years later. In "Russian
Rhapsody" (1940) some of the gremlins who sabotage Hitler's
bomber are caricatures of the Warner Bros. artists. Chuck Jones
appears as a chunky, pinkish-tan homunculus swinging a mallet;
Friz Freleng is a little green man with a saw-like nose. Younger
viewers may find the references to wartime shortages puzzling--or
fail to recognize the caricatures of Hermann Goering, Hideki Tojo
and Joseph Stalin. Some of the other cartoons can still bring
down the house, including "Satan's Waitin'" (1954), in which
Sylvester manages to lose all nine of his lives in pursuit of
Tweety, and "Bear Feat" (1949), another exercise in futility for
Jones' Three Bears. The early musicals featuring Bosko, Foxy (or
Freddy Fox) and Buddy have not aged well. Created by Hugh Harman
and Rudy Ising, these characters were modeled on Felix the Cat
and Mickey Mouse, but lack charm and personality. Some more
recent films reveal how social attitudes have changed. "Wild
Wife," a spoof of a suburban housewife's tribulations, may have
seemed hilarious in 1954; today, it's just a laundry list of
sexist gags. Like the previous installments, Volume 6 comes
loaded with extras. The rarest are five shorts Friz Freleng
directed at MGM in 1938. Producer Fred Quimby lured Freleng away
from Warner Bros.--only to insist he adapt the comic strip "The
Captain and the Kids," Rudolph Dirks' version of "The
Katzenjammer Kids." Freleng correctly predicted the films would
flop as the characters were "the meanest little bastards in the
world," and soon returned to Warners. (Unrated, suitable for ages
6 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, mild risqué
humor, alcohol & use) --Charles Solomon
(1. Hare Trigger, 2. To Duck or Not to Duck, 3. Birth of a
Notion, 4. My Little Duckaroo, 5. Crowing Pains, 6. Raw! Raw!
Rooster! 7. Heaven Scent, 8. My Favorite Duck, 9. Jumpin'
Jupiter, 10. Satan's Waitin', 11. Hook Line and Stinker, 12. Bear
Feat, 13. Dog Gone South, 14. A Ham in a Role, 15. Often an
Orphan, 16. Herr Meets Hare, 17. Russian Rhapsody, 18. Daffy the
Commando, 19. Bosko the Doughboy, 20. Rookie Revue, 21. The Draft
Horse, 22. Wacky Blackout, 23. The Ducktators, 24. The Weakly
Reporter, 25. Fifth Column Mouse, 26. Meet John Doughboy, 27.
Hollywood Canine Canteen, 28. By Word of Mouse, 29. Heir
Conditioned, 30. Yankee Dood It, 31. Congo Jazz, 32. Smile Dam
Ya, Smile! 33. The Booze Hangs High, 34. One More Time, 35.
Bosko's Picture Show, 36. You Don't Know What You're Doin'! 37.
We're in the Money! 38. Ride 'em Bosko, 39. Shuffle Off to
Buffalo, 40. Bosko in Person, 41. The Dish Ran Away with the
Spoon, 42. Buddie's Day Out, 43. Buddie's Garden. 44.
Buddie's Circus, 45. A Cartoonist's Nightmare, 46. Horton Hatches
the Egg, 47. Lights Fantastic, 48. Fresh Airedale, 49. Chow
Hound, 50. The Oily American, 51. It's Hummer Time, 52. Rocket
Bye Baby, 53. Goo Goo Goliath, 54. Wild Wife, 55. Much Ado About
Nutting, 56. The Hole idea, 57. Now Hear This, 58. Martian
Through Georgia, 59. Page Miss Glory. 60. Norman Normal)