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Looney Tunes - Stranger Than Fiction

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This is just a collection of the awful webtoons featuring the Looney Tunes characters. The animation is bad (the same clip-art poses you've seen before...) and the characters aren't acting like themselves. Why Warner Brothers is releasing this I do not know. Save your money for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection - 4 discs of uncut classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, with many extra features.

Not as good as "Looney Tunes: Reality Check," and not even remotely as good as "Looney Tunes: The Golden Collection," this set of 21 new Looney Tunes shorts are, for the most part, send-ups of science fiction and horror films and television shows. The animation is pretty bad -- it's clear that you're watching low-budget webtoons rather than the great stuff Warner Bros is capable of putting out, but the writing is pretty sharp and the characters are dead-on. I honestly don't know where some of the bile some reviewers have for this and "Reality Check" comes from.

It's not great by any stretch of the imagination, but it's okay. It would have been easier to swallow, however, if the WB had condensed this and "Reality Check" into one two-hour DVD instead of two one-hours DVDs.

True, this collection is not quite up to the standards of the classic clips. However, it's really not THAT bad. Even ok Looney Tunes are still far superior to most of today's fare, in my opinion.

Here's the listing of the nineteen clips, for those of you who are interested:
Sufferin' Sasquatch
Cropsy Curvy
The Bermuda Short
Who Wants to Be a Martian-Aire?
Gone in 30 Minutes
Window Pains
The Taming of the Screwball
Loch Ness Mess
Twick or Tweety
El Chupacabra!
Daffy's Meet Market
Hogs & Kisses
Satellite Sam
Island of Dr. Moron
Cube Wars
Tech Suppork
Planet of the Taz
Enough with the Planet of the Taz

Garbage, plain and simple. Simply product with no concern for quality or substance. Buy the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION instead. I only got a copy of STRANGER THAN FICTION because of the store coupon which enabled me to get it free. My five year old liked it. I'm not so sure she'll like it when she's six. I thought Disney watered down their product, but this is just embarrassing.

Don't waste your money on these badly-voiced, badly-animated, and very badly-written cartoons. It's hard to believe that Warner is actually releasing this...

If you want to see FUNNY cartoons AND get a good bargain, get the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. This DVD has less than an hour of material! And the material on it is really, really bad.

If you, like me, love the old ("classic" ?) looney tunes,
DO NOT BUY this one. I bought an earlier one (Golden
Classics or some such title) and I (and my wife and children)
loved (most) of the earlier DVD. We did not even finish this
DVD, and we will not. None liked it. It seems that there
was one (1) episode we regarded as almost ok, but that's it.

If you like whereever this stuff came from fine, but be
aware that this is lightyears differernt from the classics.

Hey Mr. WARNER, what's about a 2-DVD-set with ALL the "Modern Looney Tunes Shorts" from 1987 to 2004???:

1.-The Duxorcist (1987) directed by Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
2.-The Night Of The Living Duck (1988) directed by Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
3.-Box Office Bunny (1990) directed by Darrell Van Citters
4.-Blooper Bunny! (1991) directed by Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
5.-Invasion Of The Bunny Snatchers (1992) directed by Greg Ford & Terry Lennon
6.-Chariots Of Fur (1994) directed by Chuck Jones
7.-Carrotblanca (1995) directed by Douglas McCarthy
8.-Another Froggy Evening (1995) directed by Chuck Jones
9.-From Hare To Eternity (1996) directed by Chuck Jones
10.-Superior Duck (1996) directed by Chuck Jones
11.-Marvin The Martian In The Third Dimension (1996) directed by Douglas McCarthy
12.-Pullet Surprise (1997) directed by Darrell Van Citters
13.-Father Of The Bird (1997) directed by Stephen Fossati
14.-Little Go Beep (2000) directed by Spike Brandt
15.-Daffy Duck For President (2004) directed by Spike Brandt & Tony Cervone
16.-Whizzard Of Ow (2004) directed by Bret Haaland
17.-Museum Scream (2004) directed by Dan Povenmire
18.-Hare And Loathing In Las Vegas (2004) directed by Bill Kopp/Peter Shin
19.-Cock-A-Doodle-Duel (2004) directed by Peter Shin
20.-Duck Dodgers In "Attack Of The Drones" (2004) directed by Rich Moore
21.-My Generation G...G...Gap (2004) directed by Dan Povenmire
22.-A Very Daffy Christmas (2004)


All the cartoon are excellents but hard-to-find (only in old VHS or VCD) but ALL the fanatics of Looney Tunes want this compilation in DVD!!!!!!!!!

I think this is a Good idea...

That's all Folks!

My two little boys love watching these shorts with Mom and Dad, and we all find the vignettes hilarious. Daffy Duck repeatedly sputtering, "mysterious phenomena of the unexplained," the Planet of the Apes takeoff with its "Idiot Eyes" bit, and several other parts of this DVD provide some good, mindless laughs. Our family has a really good time watching it. Not sure what some of the other reviewers dislike so passionately, but I give this DVD all stars.

Both "Stranger than Fiction" and "Reality Check!" are being bashed to no end, however, it should be stated that these new web-only toons were the base of the slew of newly produced theatrical shorts, and part of the by-product of the new theatrical "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" (in theaters November 14!).

The tunes ARE well written, short, and to the point. The pairings in some of these toons; Yosemite Sam and Sylvester, with a cameo from Marvin the Martian, Sylvester Jr., Sylvester Sr., etc. are astounding! The amount of entertainment put on to this disc should not be underestimated, and perhaps those giving negative reviews should actually take a look at these toons before putting them down because they're "stupid web toons."

High on entertainment value. Very smart. All your favorite toons.

My daughter loves this collection of fairly recent truly oddball Looney Tunes, I believe, were created for online consumption originally. Not sure, but, fun, all the same, and fun to see my kid watching the same characters I grew up with.