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Mr Magoo: The Theatrical Collection (1949-1959)
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| Genre | Kids & Family, Animation |
| Format | Multiple Formats, NTSC, Closed-captioned |
| Contributor | Backus, Jim |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Discs | 4 |
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Since 1949, MR. MAGOO has bumbled his way to good fortune for more than six decades. His endearing misadventures in everyday life and his stubborn self-confidence have entertained generations. Voiced by the multitalented comedic actor Jim Backus, the nearsighted MR. MAGOO was an instant hit and went on to become a classic animated character starring in two Academy Award winning theatrical shorts, three television series and two television specials. This special collector's edition brings together for the first time on DVD all 53 theatrical cartoons, including 12 cartoons in anamorphic widescreen for the first time, and the feature film 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS, all in one deluxe collection.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 8 ounces
- Item model number : SFY13034DVD
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Closed-captioned
- Run time : 7 hours
- Release date : April 22, 2014
- Studio : Shout Factory
- ASIN : B0062KMDWU
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #14,010 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,184 in Kids & Family DVDs
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But it's the Mr. Magoo series that was the most popular with 1950s audiences. To me they are much better crafted and written then the cranked out Magoo tv show! RAGTIME BEAR started the series with Magoo being a grouchy old man in a W.C. Fields kind of way who sees the world out of focus but stubbornly refuses to admit that he's wrong about everything around him! He mistakes a banjo playing bear for his human nephew Waldo! Waldo winds up being the victim of his Uncle's nearsightedness. I wind up feeling sorry for Waldo many times through the series! The next cartoon, SPELLBOUND HOUND has an excaped criminal being persued by a determined bloodhound and Magoo mistakes the dog for his sad faced friend Ralph! A hilarious gag showing Magoo spinning a record turntable like it's an outboard motor on a boat really cracked me up!! Especially when the fast spinning record is playing "Frankie and Johnny" at a fast chipmunk sound speed! Of these early Magoo's FUDDY DUDDY BUDDY is one of my favorites with Magoo talking to his old pal Bottomly but then Magoo mistakes a Walrus for his tennis playing friend Bottomly! Well the Walrus's big tusk teeth do look like Bottomly's long white mustache! This is the one cartoon where Magoo is forced to face his nearsightness when the hotel's detective tells him,"that walrus is going back to the pond!" Magoo looked sad and momentarly depressed but then he smiled and said, " I don't care whether he's a walrus or not, I LIKE HIM!!"
This fine cartoon and others before this one were supervised by animater John Hubley, who had gotten his animation training at Walt Disney. He directed the RITE OF SPRING sequence of FANTASIA, my favorite classic Disney movie! After the 1941 strike many disney animaters left Walt and went in a modern art direction with backrounds and character design influenced by artists such as Picasso and other abstract painters. And so U.P.A. was born! The remastering shows off the backround art beautifully with bright swatches of painted color and sponged on paint textures for brick walls. Other favorites on this disc include HOTSY FOOTSEY, CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS and MAGOO'S MASTERPIECE. HOTSEY FOOTSEY has Magoo confusing a dance contest with a wrestling match with hilarious results! And seeing Magoo do the Charelston dance while Jim Bacchus sings for Magoo is just hysterical! In CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS Magoo is determined to catch the giant sailfish, Mighty Moe! And poor Waldo fell over board and Magoo has mistaken a seal to be Waldo! When the seal catches Mighty Moe by raising the anchor, hooking the sailfish Magoo of course takes all the credit and poor Waldo was left out on the water on a buoy and he's left out crying for his uncle,"HEY UNK! OH UNK!!!" Like I said I feel sorry for Waldo!
Like Peter Seller's Inspecter Clousseu, the more Magoo goofs up the better things work out for him in the end! In MAGOO'S MASTERPIECE our nearsighted hero needed to do some sculpting to keep his hands busy at the advice from his docter. So he went to his artist friend's art studio to sculpt, but so has the Spirit criminal to hide from the cops! The Spirit disguised himself as a female model while Magoo got ready to "capture your Spirit in clay!" When the police showed up a wild chase ensued and Magoo felt, "Oh she has fainted!" and he threw wet plaster of paris on the Spirit to revive "her" and thus the Spirit was frozen as a lady statue for the police to take away and Magoo became a hero! Most cartoon characters when they mess up they end up being the losers. Not Magoo!! He wins for himself in spite of his mistakes! As is the case for any animated series some shorts are better then others but overall this is a funny, cool collection of 53 short subjects! The last Magoo short on disc 3, TERROR FACES MAGOO is a very funny parody of Ed Murrow's interviews of celebrities in their homes, remember Ed interviewing Ricky Riccardo in his apartment on I LOVE LUCY? But here Ed's cameramen interviewed Mr. Magoo in his mansion while a gorilla was trying to rob the place! Once again comic confusion resulted and Mr. Murrow stated, " We have to leave now, Mr. Magoo! There's TOO MUCH TOGETHERNESS for us here!" And Magoo commented, "I'm sorry Ed, but NOTHING much happens in Magoo Manor!!" And as Waldo was misstaken for the gorilla by the cops ( Waldo got covered by a bear skin rug) and he was arrested Magoo went back to watching the Tv but it's really the window and the gorilla was there with him as he said," you really need to shave Waldo!" for the punchline!
As an added bonus 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS, Magoo's first feature film is on the 4th disc! A DVD extra is the black and white movie trailer that shows Katheryn Grant performing her lines at a voice recording for the Princess Yasminda in 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS. Miss Grant played the Princess in love with Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) in Ray Harryhausen's THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD! Directer of ARABIAN NIGHTS, Jack Kinney is also shown listening to Katheryn and then watching the finished animation. And Jim Bacchus, voice of Magoo, narrates the trailer while the film shows character sketches and storyboard drawings of Princess Yasminda! Nice behind the scences peek of making of the movie!
It really made a differance seeing this movie on DVD without commercial interuption and uncut!I especially enjoyed the confrontation of Magoo(Jim Bachcus) and the Wicked Wazir (Hans Conreid) Both of those stars were old radio veterans so there was very good comic sparks between them! Apparently the handsome Alladin had a much better time with his Uncle Magoo then poor Waldo! It's obvious that the Disney Corporation "ripped off" art design ideas and character designs for their ALLADIN movie! Disney's Alladin and Princess Jasmine are closely similar to U.P.A.s Alladin and Princess Yasminda in both character design and costume, perhaps similar enough for U.P.A., if they existed today, to sue Disney enterprises for copyright infringement! I say "ripped off" since I have NO RESPECT for the "New" Disney!! I prefer the Genie in this U.P.A. film over the Robin Williams, run off with the mouth genie in Disney's ALLADIN!! The U.P.A. Genie looks like a huge, giant Sumo Wrestler!! Well that was a lot for me to say! Highly recommended! Now if the MGM Barney Bear cartoons DVDS would be released!
Needless to say, both the film and the shorts are dazzling. The initial shorts were directed by John Hubley, but most of the later ones are directed by Pete Burness, who also directed a 1952 short in a series of UPA one-offs known as Jolly Frolics UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection [DVD ]. But the most amazing thing is Jim Backus ad libbing through the shorts, making good use of his sense of humor and voice talent from radio. An early writer was Bill Scott, one of the main writers later on Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Magoo shorts really hit their stride under Burness, with sumptuous colors and modern design from former Disney animators, artists and designers, who eagerly fell in with the modernist motifs of UPA and producer Steven Bosustow. Since the stories are usually so much better, the Magoo shorts are, in many cases, more representative of UPA's intent. This is ironic, as UPA's initial idea was to make every JF short different, with no continuing characters. However, in the process, they created one that is still continuing today.
So popular was Mr. Magoo, that his second full-length movie, Mr, Magoo's Christmas Carol, was the first animated Christmas special (yes, even predating A Charlie Brown Christmas). Darell Van Citters has written a book about it (now unfortunately being scalped for way too much money) Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition , as well as interviewed principal players on the deluxe DVD reissue MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (2011) , MR. MAGOOS CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTORS EDITION BD/DVD COMBO [Blu-ray ]. In addition, his recent book on Jay Ward Studio animation traces some of the animators and artists from Disney to UPA to Jay Ward Studios The Art of Jay Ward Productions .
Guess who plays Aladdin in the film? Dwayne Hickman, and Shout has just released the box set of the entire series of his most famous and delightful show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis: The Complete Series . As one of the historians says in the documentary, the only thing missing from this Magoo set are the commercials for GE light bulbs, in which Mr. Magoo used to say, "it's easy to see, the best bulbs are GE."
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