DVD Review: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Five
Published February 15, 2008
Disk Two is called "Fun-Filled Fairy Tales" and its focus is on — you guessed it — animated takes on classic fairy tales. Highlights of this disk include "The Bear's Tale," "Goldimouse and the Three Cats" featuring Sylvester as the head of the family, "Red Riding Hoodwinked," which crosses over with The Three Bears tale, and "Tweety and the Beanstalk."
This disk's extras are:
- Chuck Jones - Extremes & In Betweens, a Life in Animation Pt. 2
- Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
- Behind the Tunes featurettes: Once Upon a Tune and Drawn to Life: The Art of Robert McKimson.
- Five commentaries and five music/effects tracks.
Disk Three carries the title "Putting a Bob Clampett On It." It takes a look at a series of Clampett directed shorts. I cannot say I would be able to tell a Clampett from a Jones or a Freleng, but the cartoons themselves are all great. Among my favorites are "Bacall to Arms" featuring an audience watching Bogie and Bacall on the big screen, "The Old Grey Hare," which sends Elmer Fudd "Far into the future" (the year 2000) for a final meeting with Bugs, "Buckaroo Bugs," and "Prehistoric Porky."
Extras included on Disk Three are:
- Behind the Tunes featurettes: Wacky Warner One-Shots and Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private SNAFU
- From the Vault:
- Hare Ribbin' - Director's Cut
- The Bashful Buzzard - Storyboard Reel
- The Bashful Buzzard - Original opening musical cue
- Alternate Milt Franklin Opening Themes, with an introduction from filmmaker Glenn Ford
- Private SNAFU shorts created for the US Army Signal Corps: Coming!! SNAFU, Gripes
- Mr. Hook shorts created for the US Navy: The Good Egg, The Return of Mr. Hook, Tokyo Woes.
- Nine commentaries
Disk four goes by "Early Daze." It goes back to the early toons produced by Warner. This disk includes some experimental work as the early years of Warner played with what could be done with animation. Highlights include "Eating on the Cuff," an early take on combining animation and live action, the weird exercise and singing video "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Scrap Happy Daffy" a propaganda film for WWII, and "Porky's Preview."
Extras on the final disk are:
- Unsung Maestros: A Director's Tribute
- The Looney Tunes TV Specials:
- Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
- Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
- Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over
Bottomline. What else can be said? This set is absolutely wonderful, as are all of the Golden Collections. You cannot call yourself a cartoon lover if you do not have these in your collection. The laughs hold up just fine. No worries about not finding the funny here! It is amazing how well they do hold up. Younger fans can learn a lot about what makes a cartoon funny by watching these. No one makes them like this anymore.
- DVD Review: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Five
- Published: February 15, 2008
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Comedy, Video: Classics, Video: Animation, Review
- Writer: Chris Beaumont
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Glad to help, Pete. If it helps, all of the Golden Collections are very much worth getting. Great stuff all around.


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Hi Chris,
Great review. I've been wanting to buy some of the Looney Tunes collections for awhile and was getting confused about all the different choices. Did a search, found your review and just ordered Volume 5. Thanks!
Pete