The producers have once again loaded the discs with supplemental material, including "Point Food Rationing," a unseen short explaining wartime ration books; a BBC documentary on Chuck Jones; and interstitial animated sequences for The Bugs Bunny Show. "Philbert" ranks as the oddest of the extras: an unsold (and leaden) pilot from 1963, featuring live actors and an animated title character. Whoopi Goldberg introduces the set, explaining that some of the ethnic gags would no longer be considered appropriate. But she correctly adds that to remove them would falsify both the history of animation and American popular culture. It all adds up to a set every cartoon fan will want. (Unrated, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.0

Rating - 5 Date: 2009-01-07
Content: Better reviews and plenty of valid commendations have been given to this wonderful collection already so I will just add my humble two cents about one disc in particular.

After excitingly perusing the contents, I was eager to watch all cartoons immediately but the disc I expected the least from was the Porky Pig Disc as Porky never stood out in my childhood memories, always being upstaged by Bugs and Daffy...

BOY was I wrong!!! The Porky cartoons are AMAZING! Incredibly fast paced and surprisingly ahead of its time, they are laugh out loud funny and entertaining as ever. The highlight for me is Frank Tashlin's gem in which Porky and Daffy attempt to escape a hotel without paying the bill. Tashlin's filmmaking eye gives an extra dimension of humour to his cartoons and the comraderie created between pig and duck is awe inspiring and side splitting!

Bye Bye Blubeard is another SMASH, part of the humour being the fact that Blubeard is genuinely frightening, and I don't think I will ever laugh as much as I did with the pie in the face gag.

Porky's Romance (another Tashlin cartoon) is also worthy of praise as is nearly all cartoons on this disc, and all the cartoons in this collection.


Summary: Who needs Fort Knox when you have this Gold!!!

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-12-29
Content: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection series has been a godsend for fans, but only serious collectors will probably be enthralled beyond this third volume. There are still plenty of classics herein, including some of my personal favorites that were not included in the first two sets, and that makes this third set worth the purchase. But the "greatest hits" strategy of the Golden Collection, with the cartoon shorts compiled categorically rather than chronologically, inevitably runs out of steam with most of the funniest shorts piled up in about the first one and a half volumes. In turn, even the second volume had a fair amount of less-than-classic filler, and here in the third volume there are many early-period and late-period items that are outside of the Warner Bros. golden age and offer diminishing returns for fans of the classics.

For instance, there is a serious problem with Disc 2, a collection of Hollywood parodies, most of which are so old and non-character-driven that it's a real struggle to figure out the point of the parodies and who's being caricatured. This third volume is also showing some strain with the bonus features, though there is some historical interest in documentaries about the Warner Bros. efforts in WWII and some ancient treasures from the vaults. But fortunately this set is saved by a smattering of all-time masterpieces that were not squeezed into the first two volumes, and one overall redeeming feature here is a disc devoted to Porky Pig, particularly his early starring runs in which the Warner Bros. team experimented with many of the forms later perfected with Bugs Bunny,

And finally, I'm throwing in my hat with fans who are sick to death of the politically correct warnings from Whoopi Goldberg about those old unfortunate racial caricatures. We all know those caricatures were ignorant and sometimes they added objectionable prejudice to the classic cartoons that we love. But we don't need Time Warner to tell us what to think, and these warnings are tailored for people who would never even watch these discs - either humorless thought police or bigots who are stupid enough to convert ancient stereotypes into modern hatred. Whoopi comes on automatically with her paternalistic warning in each of these discs, but within one second you can hit the Menu button and navigate to the cartoons themselves. And despite the aforementioned problems with compilation, there are still enough classics in this volume to help you ignore what modern producers think about your love of the best American humor and animation. [~doomsdayer520~]
Summary: Crazy Idjits

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-13
Content: They just don't make cartoons like these any more. I laugh out loud when I watch them and this Christmas I am giving them as gifts for posterity!
Summary: Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Three

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-09-11
Content:
This is a great collection of Looney Tunes. Makes three of the five collections I own and a welcome addition. Recommend it highly.
Summary: Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 3

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-06-29
Content: Got tired of getting up on Saturdays with wierd cartoons on my TV. Said to myself what ever happened to bugs and daffy, well I found them.
Summary: Looney Toons vol. 3