Warner Home Video / Released November 30, 2010 / Not Rated
The Pitch
Looney Tunes Super Stars Foghorn Leghorn & Friends
Foghorn Leghorn, the overgrown, adult rooster with the strong Virginia accent and a penchant for mischief, is featured as the Super Star is these Looney Tunes cartoon shorts. Watch the diminutive Henery Hawk’s attempts to catch and eat Foghorn, Foghorns gags on his canine nemesis Barnyard Dawg and finally the overgrown rooster?s efforts to woo the widowed hen Miss Prissy in this collection of cartoon shorts. Additionally Foghorn is joined on the disc by some other Looney Friends such as Elmer Fudd and Two Crows. This second installment of the Looney Tunes Super Star series, prominently stars Foghorn Leghorn & some of his Looney Tunes friends’ Fans have been asking for more of Foghorn Leghorn so I Say I Say I Say Son here it is!
Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester
When Friz Freleng directed 1947’s “Tweetie Pie,” he may not have known he was making history. This, the first pairing of Sylvester the sputtering cat and Tweetie (later Tweety) the wide-eyed canary, won an Academy Award and united a duo that would appear in more than 40 Warner Brothers cartoon shorts by 1962. Sylvester and Tweety earned their studio another Academy Award for 1957’s “Birds Anonymous” and several other Oscar nominations through the years. Generations of Americans have grown up watching Sylvester’s classic, ever-thwarted attempts to catch Tweety. With two of the most famous voices in cartoons, both supplied by Mel Blanc, Sylvester’s sloppy “sufferin succotash” and Tweety’s baby-voiced “I tawt I taw a puddy tat,” Sylvester and Tweety are two of the most quickly identified characters in cartoons. This second installment of the Looney Tunes Super Star series, prominently stars one of the Looney Tunes franchise’s most popular characters, Tweety!
The Review
I decided to group these two discs together simply because of the sheer breadth of the quality of the releases.
Content wise, it’s all great.
Let’s be serious, these are classic Looney Tunes cartoons and are examples of some of the most entertaining characters and memorable shorts ever produced.
The Foghorn Leghorn and Friends dvd includes the following: All Fowled Up, Fox Terrier, A Broken Leghorn, Crockett Doodle Doo, Weasel While You Work, Weasel Stop, Little Boy Boo, Banty Raids, Strangled Eggs, Gopher Broke, A Mutt In A Rut, Mouse-Placed Kitten, Chese It The Cat, Two Crows From Tacos and Crow’s Feet.
The Tweety & Sylvester disc’s contents include Tweetie Pie, Bad Ol’ Putty Tat, All Abir-r-r-d!, Canary Row, Puddy Tat, Twouble, Room and Bird, Tweety’s S.O.S., Tweet Tweet Tweety, Gift Wrapped, Ain’t She Tweet, Snow Business, Satan’s Waitin’, The Last Hungry Cat, Bird Anonymous and Tweety and the Beanstalk.
Unfortunately, the majority of the issues are with disparity within the presentation of the material.
Looney Tunes Super Stars Foghorn Leghorn & Friends gets everything right.
The shorts are all arriving on dvd for the first time (with the exception of A Broken Leghorn), instantly making this a must have. More importantly, the viewer is given the option of watching the disc in it’s original full frame format or in a cropped “faux widescreen” presentation that actually cuts off some of the image. Although not every short in this collection is a classic, it’s definitely entertaining and a must have if you are looking to continue collecting cartoons from where the Golden Collection left off.
Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester unfortunately suffers from bad production choices.
First, all of the cartoons have been released previously in Golden Collection sets. Second, this follows the previous two Looney Tunes Super Star releases by presenting the material only in the cropped image, significantly altering the films. These are extremely poor decisions made by disc’s producers (and with the Foghorn Leghorn set, it seems to have been corrected).
That being said, if you don’t already have the Golden Collection and are just a fan of these characters, this would be an adequate, albeit, disappointing purchase.
Yay for the content, nay for the presentation. Neither disc features extras.
