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List Price: $64.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 741
Released: October 21, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
We’ve saved the best for last… more of your favorite Looney Tunes…your wish is our command. The concluding release from the Golden Collection Series is a 4-disc set with 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed. Plus, 15 bonus shorts to make this the biggest collection of Looney Tunes ever! Indeed, some have never before been on home video!
Description of Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6:
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 & tobacco 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 Beer 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)
Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6 Reviews:
Best collection ever! 
2009-12-23 - I have been a Looney Tunes fan ever since I was young, I am 20. When I saw the price of this collection I couldn't help but buy it. I am happy I did because this is one of the best sets I have ever bought. I own 4 of the 6 Golden Collections and am looking at increasing my collection to 5 after the holidays.
Some classics buried beneath mediocrity 
2009-12-17 - The sixth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a bit disappointing. While the cartoons that mock Hitler and are about World War II are pretty fantastic in their own right (like "The Ducktators" and "Daffy - The Commando"), there's a whole disc devoted to Bosko and Buddy cartoons. On one hand, it's amazing to have these classic gems on DVD, but on the other, the cartoons themselves aren't all that great. They were made during a time when seeing anything animated was an achievement in itself and these animated shorts prove that theory by not having much of a storyline and just kind of end without any sort of actual ending.
The extras are reason alone for the Looney Tunes lover to purchase this set. Some of the extra shorts are better than what was actually featured on each disc ("Chow Hound" by Chuck Jones is one of my favorite cartoons ever). Special features range from bonus shorts to television specials to documentaries highlighting producer Leon Schlesinger and voice actor Mel Blanc.
Volume six may not be the best Looney Tunes set to be released thus far, but it's still worth a watch. You just may want to rent it before blind buying it.
Golden Collection Golden
2009-12-08 - As the first 5 volumes, Volume 6 does not disappoint. I enjoyed this volume as much as the previous ones and look forward to Volume 7.
Not bad, but BE WARNED! 
2009-11-27 - I bought this through Amazon recently. I think Warner Bros. has just about exhausted material for this series, or else they don't care any more. More and more old, less funny stuff seems to be included with each new issue.
My biggest complaint with this set is that many of the cartoons have commentary over them, some guy talking all the way through! I have been unable to find any way to shut it off. How annoying! Just be aware that not all these cartoons will be as enjoyable to watch as past ones. It is really annoying that they couldn't have made it optional to hear the yakking.
GOOD, BUT ONLY FOR THE AVID COLLECTOR
2009-11-21 - This is a good collection, but it is only for the avid Looney Tunes and vintage cartoon collector, like me. Some of these shorts may not be interesting to some people, including children. Most of these cartoons are World War 2 propaganda, which were shown at movie theaters at the time, encouraging people to buy victory bonds for defense. There is also some violence.
I recommend the Spotlight Collection Vol.6 for those who want more of the cartoons that were shown on television. If you are not a collector of vintage cartoons of an era, than this collection is not for you.
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