1.0 out of 5 stars
Choose your fate: Golden Collection, or this, July 26 2005
I'd go with Golden Collection, no questions asked. Warner Bros. should leave the franchise alone. The Looney Tunes franchise, to put it simply, is DEAD. But the toons live on. Warner Bros. does a shameless attempt to resurrect the franchise with these new web-toons. Warner Bros. is doing us enough joy with our Golden DVDs, so there has to be some pain in between. This is it, folks.
Now to the shorts: The voice acting is nowhere near Mel Blanc's perfectionist style, in other words, atrocious. Bugs now sounds like "Whaat's uhp, Dawq?", rather than "What's up, Doc?". He's lost his charming Brooklyn accent that made him so damn enjoyable! THE HORROR OF IT ALL! The animation was literally pulled from Macromedia Flash shorts on the Looney Tunes site, and thus looks like.... well, there's no adjective to describe it, so I'll quote Spottswoode from Team America:
"Jesus T***y-F***ing.... CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!"
I still laugh at that scene. The 5.1 sound is atrocious, too. Avoid this rushed together, shameless, lame, stunningly bad excuse for a Looney Tune. Burn it. BURN IT. BURN IT!
BURN IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
What's going on?, May 6 2004
I just watched this dvd.
Or what I could endure of it!
The drawings are bland and generic, reminding me of the many
cheap mass produced cartoons and web toons you see,
Backgrounds have no detail, solid colourfills
ALL Colours are just plain fills,
Animations look like flash animations,
Sound effects seem like they ALL come from 1 sound effect cd and VERY poorly synchronized and mixed, for instance, if the same
event occurs 5 times in a row they just play the exact same
sound effect five times, no variations....
Music, not much of it, pretty generic, almost NO synchronisation
to action
Jokes... my little cousin didn't find them funny, neither did I,
and the comic timing is off, WAY off
Last but not least, the voice acting..... argg, the best would
probably be Daffy, the others ranged from bad to worse (even
worser and worsest...) with Bugs being pretty bad and Foghorn
absolutely taking the cake and biscuit and all.... sheesh
All in all, this is the one of the worst and most blatant attempts to cash in on a good franchise, why OH why couldn't they (WB that is) have put proper thought into this?
Oh, and one more thing, in one of the toons, they take Tweety/Sylvester into sadism with Tweety electrocuting Sylvester repeatedly in a electric chair execution chamber, not funny, basically disgusting, going from Looney Tunes style cartoon violence over to gruesome real life suffering (plus just not being funny in the least)
Verdict: guilty, one (1) star but only because I can't give any lower! I actually cannot find one (1) redeeming factor about this dvd (I looked). Avoid this release
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Would rate it lower if I could, Feb 5 2004
By A Customer
Concur with the other poor reviews. Bought this for my 3 YO expecting classic Looney Toons updated for 2004. Was sorely dissapointed. The animation is poor, the gags are non-existant on any level and the voices are poor imitations. Unfortunately I spent 17 potatoes on this junk at a major toy store. If I wanted some animation this bad I could have gone to the Joe Cartoon or Bullseye Art websites. No surprise there are lots of used ones for sale. For those of us who grew up with the originals, this was a wholesale letdown.
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