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Spotlight
Reviews : John M Spangler
Looney
Tunes : The Spotlight Collection - Volume 2
"Be Vawy Qwiet, I'm hunting Wabbits"
- Kill The Wabbit - Kill the Wabbit!!! Watching and
listening to Elmer doing his opera routine is worth
the price of admission especially for fans of Looney
Tunes. With this DVD set, you get the best Looney Tunes
cartoon of all time "What's Opera Doc" The
downside is that What's Opera Doc is a bit out of place
compared to the rest of what is offered and some of
them are just not that fun at all.
This 2 DVD set includes 30 Looney collections from the
40's, 50's but mostly 60's. Disc one is 15 cartoons
with 75% Sylvester VS Tweety incarnations and a bit
of Porky Pig VS Daffy Duck routines. I was mildly surprised
to see one of the early black and white Porky Pig episodes
(Porky IN Wackyland) that mixed Live actors with the
cartoon characters and has been tucked away from Warner
Brothers for decades and was released in the 40's. Shows
and proves you don't need modern technology to make
quality entertainment.
Disc 2 is the big one, which includes the greatest Looney
Tunes cartoon ever, "What's Opera Doc". It
also includes the very entertaining "One Froggy
Evening" which made the little "non-speaking"
frog famous in one showing. The rest of the collection
is a bag full of Hollywood and show business spoofs
making fun of the famous faces in Hollywood taken from
the 40's, 50's and 60's. Most are entertaining enough,
but certainly lack the fun and spunk of the episodes
of Elmer and Bugs going at it. The famous Warner Brothers
characters are basicaly non-existent with the exception
of Bugs and Elmer in What's Opera Doc. Don't expect
big laughs from this 2nd rate collection that won't
appeal to the kiddies as well as it should. But be that
as it may, the cartoons, for what they are, and considering
how old they are, look and sound fantastic. Not up by
todays standards of digital movies, but remastered very
well, and they have withstood the test of time. If you
like Tweety VS Sylvester and have to own "What's
Opera Doc", you probably should load up on this
Part 2 collection. Overall it's great, but some of the
cartoons on here are not the best of what Warner Brothers
has done in other collections. |
