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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…of re-issues, sequels and franchises but being very slim on truly well packaged disc releases or classic animation compilations. We were without the Looney Tunes Golden Collection for the first… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…came the kind of sensibilities that had carried Jones, Clampett and Avery through Warner’s Looney Tunes: smart, subversive anarchy with a real edge made for the animators’ own enjoyment (future… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…fairly well this year: Warner Archive served up a bunch of long-requested titles (Cats Don’t Dance, Gay Purr-ee, It’s Yogi Bear, more Looney Tunes), while Disney surprised with 4Ks for… |
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The Animated Seuss
…series of specials. This meant another Looney Tunes reunion, of course, as Friz Freleng himself was one of the head men at the studio. DePatie-Freleng churned out several Seuss specials… |
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Oscar interviews, site updates and new reviews!
…the respect it deserves on disc. Added to that, we’ve got a trio of looney archive reviews gone up, for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume One and its follow-up… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…they assembled. The scripting is credited to directors Bill and Joe themselves, who also produced with Alex Lovy and wrote with Looney Tunes’ Warren Foster (who, it’s said, brought another… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…and the first couple of volumes of their then-owned pre-1948 Warner Bros catalog, titled The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes. Even long after these sets finally become reincarnated on the… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…Looney Tunes for Space Jam. He also felt intimidated that he had to animate against a master like Glen Keane, thereby forcing him to put forth his best effort. What… |
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New twists on Oliver, Poppins, Peanuts and Bugs' Looney Movie!
…Friz Freleng’s The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie! Coming to DVD from Warner Bros. on April 28, it doesn’t look like there will be any new bonus features, but… |
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DVD news
…of some major DVD’s! (see “MORE” for disk listings) October 21, 2003 – \\Batman – Mystery of the Batwoman\\ – \\Space Jam\\: Special Edition October 28, 2003 – \\Looney Tunes\\… |
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Get those wallets out: more animation box sets on the way!
…is planning something to synchronize with the new feature in 2005″. – Popeye Cartoons: WHV are “in discussion with King Features Syndicate on the subject”. – Looney Tunes: Get ready… |
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Loonatics redone in response to online petition
…Adams began an online petition to “save” the Looney Tunes, which he felt had been converted into “scary” characters. Apparently Save Your Looney Tunes has made a positive effect, as… |
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Kids' WB! fall season to debut three new cartoons
…Salad Island, and Johnny Test. For a preview of each read on! Loonitics Unleashed is an “action-comedy-adventure” series that features descendants of the Looney Tunes. After a meteor knocks Earth… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…and Jerry have always been different from other chase-based cartoons. Looney Tunes perfected the genre with the comical and witty pairings of Bugs Bunny vs. Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam,… |
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Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume One
…the name Warren Foster ring a bell? Foster was a main writer on the Looney Tunes cartoons. Add in other vets like Alex Lovy, Dan Gordon, and of course Bill… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…the info. The price may make one pause, but it’s a similar price point to the first Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera sets, and this Popeye set will have 60 remastered… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…Watch those old vaudevillians like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Buster Keaton. Learn timing from those guys; that’s who the Looney Tunes guys and the Disney folks learned it… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…(both for Richard Williams), Aladdin, Hercules, Fantasia/2000 and Pocahontas (which he also co-directed) for Disney, and was director of animation on Looney Tunes: Back In Action at Warners. He has… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…grand affairs, counting among them sets devoted to the Happy Harmonies, Tex Avery, The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes and, of course, the celebrated team of Thomas, the cat, and… |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
Out February 12, the Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection presents the jewels from the crown of the Studio’s archive of classic cartoons, including shorts from WB’s own Looney Tunes… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…have to check my Golden Looney Tunes collection, but off hand, it’s fairly safe to say that this hasn’t seen the light of a restoration. The cartoon, about song and… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, among many others, and coined the phrase “What’s up, doc?” Although Frederick Bean “Tex” Avery’s contribution to the early Looney Tunes cartoons would later be… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…personality a corker, a great deal of these shorts get away from the straight cartooning of the Looney Tunes or even the comic escapades of Donald or Goofy. As with… |
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Space Ghost, Dino Boy and the great animation DVD summer!
…releases so strong that we are indeed struggling to keep up…and it’s only going to get more intense as the holiday giving winter months draw in, when more Looney Tunes… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…and attempted to compete with the now successfully independent Walt Disney, as well as the now legendary cartoons coming from Warner’s Looney Tunes unit and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, by introducing new characters… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…Read the full Animated View here! 4. The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five Warner Home Video (October 30 2007), 4 disc set, 417 mins plus supplements, $65 Possibly warranting… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…over again, and often at sci-fi and geek targets as opposed to the Looney Tunes feel of the earlier cartoons. But with great hilarity comes great responsibility and if Freakazoid!’s… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 2
…shared with their young audience. Here, they confront Mr. Bigot. Disc Two No Saturday morning worth its salt was ever complete without Looney Tunes cartoons, and for a number of… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…Tunes: Platinum Collection on Blu-ray, Young Justice, ThunderCats and The Looney Tunes Show – although again I suppose one can’t complain too much for the amount of content on the… |
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Home On The Range
…simpler, more angular look that’s more associated by most to Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes cartoons (the backgrounds, for instance, are very reminiscent of Chuck Jones’ Road Runner shorts). In fact,… |
