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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Theatrical Collection will lead to Warners’ promised collection of the other Avery shorts. Though there are some absolute gems here, and any Avery collection should automatically… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…It remains a cartoon for which not many words can be found. A complete opposite is unquestionably the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, Tex Avery’s 1940 A Wild Hare –… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…they beat the pants off the earlier shorts in the recent and disappointing Tex Avery’s Droopy collection. Although there are more than a few nicks and scratches earlier in the… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…serious appraisal of Avery’s work, even when debating the merits of giant canaries and wolf-whistle takes! In short, the inclusion of Tex Avery (later subtitled King Of Cartoons to tie… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…by Jones and Clampett) again features Beans, in Tex Avery’s first cartoon for Warners. The disc continues with more bacon: Pilgrim Porky, Wise Quacks and Porky’s Preview – Avery’s terrifically… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…– Theatrical (1987, 90 mins) Lightweight and completely different in tone to the first two films notwithstanding, Superman III was still a box-office hit, and the Salkinds were eager to… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…Wild Wild World, which places modern-day conveniences into a prehistoric setting, and a cartoon from MGM the following year, Tex Avery’s The First Bad Man, with designs by Ed Benedict,… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…release in the waiting there. In the meantime, Chuck’s cat and mouse collection is sheer bliss. Read the full Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection Animated View here! 6…. |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…minor interlacing issues. Inkwell Images released a previous collection, Alice In Cartoonland, in 2000. This 60-minute compilation of seven films offered up a brief documentary introduction with a narrated potted… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…double dip coming when baby Maggie’s “sequel” prophecy inevitably comes true. Ho-hum… Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete / Pixar Short Films Collections Some old and new in our choice of the… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…here! Read the full Kung Fu Panda Animated View here! 4. Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six – Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection Volume Two Warner Home Video,… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…Mouse Trouble – their second Oscar winner, from 1944 – is very much in the style of stable-mate Tex Avery’s films in terms of pace and gags. This time, Tom… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…any new releases of classic short cartoon collections on any format was sadly unfortunate. It’s been a terrific year for new theatrical animated movies too, where 3D has (sadly for… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…it’s back on Blu-ray without much fanfare, significance or, indeed, a reason for being, launching yet another Studio-branded line, the none-too excitingly packaged Signature Collection. The Sweatbox Review: Making a… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…dedicated units, which is why we now associate such names as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Robert McKimson, among others, with various styles. In the past,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…has been spread over three collections so far. Thankfully, Disney doesn’t leave us hanging, and The Complete Pluto, Volume Two concludes this mini-series within the Disney Treasures even though “The… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…way the elves manage to achieve their task, and although the set-up does suggest the kind of Tex Avery treatment that’s ultimately missing in favor of a more sweet, old-fashioned… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…companies, whose works have long resided in the public domain, although for hardcore cartoon buffs, Thunderbean’s DVDs have, along with those of Inkwell Images’ Pay Pointer, been mandatory purchases –… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…it was the first to use the later abstract opening for the Looney Tunes cartoons, and the soundtrack is often left silent for long stretches, recalling Sh-h-h-h-h-h, Tex Avery’s 1955… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…– another Oscar winner, and very much in the style of stable-mate Tex Avery’s films in terms of pace and gags. This time, Tom takes tips from the book How… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…Bunny Movie and Jones offering a more pragmatic view in his Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. With the death of Clampett, Tex Avery and Freleng, Jones became pretty much the sole… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…the hundreds of images, although some of the “stills” were actually video turnarounds of the maquettes…a nice touch. Many of these images made it into the already mentioned Cine-Explore, probably… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…the line has been utilized is with large groupings of legendary, but rarely seen, theatrical short subjects, with WB Archive multi-disc sets pulling together a host of collections featuring high-profile… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…have the later selfish character traits we associate with him (here he’s just a complete loon), the jet-black feathers and white collar make him instantly recognisable. Directed by Tex Avery… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…several fresh enticements, including new HD documentaries on Leon Schlesinger and Tex Avery, plus a vintage Avery profile that’s worth owning the set for on its own. We sincerely hope… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…Shorts Collection is actually perfect: with a slight unbalancing of art versus commerce veering towards the extensions of franchises and home video bonus shorts, closing the collection on the kind… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…Movie – Original Theatrical, Superman: The Movie – Expanded Edition, Superman II – Original Theatrical, Superman II – The Richard Donner Cut, Superman III – Original Theatrical, Superman IV –… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…Tex, who has just cheated his partner McBride and left him badly injured. Stampede transforms Tex into Tex Hex, now with a skeletal countenance and magical powers. Meanwhile, McBride is… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…their theatrical animated shorts units down, reasoning that they could recycle the previous 20-30 years’ worth of cartoons already produced for theatrical reissue or television distribution. The Disney Studio mostly… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…in cinema history), Little Red Riding Rabbit (simply a classic, with a truly Looney Red, and the closest Friz Freleng got to aping Tex Avery’s style), Tortoise Beats Hare (an… |
