‘The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Vol. 2’ Blu-ray Review
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn and many more were part of most of our childhoods. We grew up on the Looney Tunes Adventures. The fun these characters bring to the world still holds true even after all these years.
Warner Bros. brought us the ever-popular Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 1 on Blu-ray, and now we look at The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 2 in a 3-disc Blu-ray set. What an amazing upgrade to the previous DVD release!
Look whose back with more gags, more laughs and more signature showcases! Make way for Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 2 with 50 animated theatrical shorts remastered in stellar hi-def Blu-ray in all their stellar silliness.
Disc One:
Episodes: A Wild Hare / Buckaroo Bugs / Long-haired Hare / Ali Baba Bunny / Show Biz Bugs / The Wise Quacking dick / What make Daffy Duck / Book Revue / Deduce, You Say / Going! Going! Gosh! / Zipping Along / Scent-Imental Romeo / The Foghorn Leghorn / The High and the Flighty / Tabasco Road / Mexicali Schmoes / Porky in Wackland / You Ought to be in Pictures / Porky in Egypt / Back Alley Oproar / Lettle Red Rodent Hood / Canned Fued / Gift Wrapped / Birdy and the Beast / Home, Tweet Home
Bonus Features:
- Audio Commentaries
- Alternate Audio Programs
Behind the Tunes Featurettes (Disc One):
- Bosko, Buddy and the best of Black and White
- Man From Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett
- Leon Schlesinger: The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
Disc Two:
Episodes: Wabbit Twouble / Rabbit Fire / Rabbit Seasoning / Duck! Rabbit, Duck! / Drip-Along Daffy / My Little Duckaroo / Barbary-Coast Bunny / Tortoise Beats Hare / Tortoise Wins By a Hare / Rabbit Transit / Porky’s Hare Hunt / hare-Um-Scare-Um / Presto Change-O / Elmer’s Candid Camera / Bugs Bunny gets the Boid / The Bashful Buzzard / The Loin’s Busy / Strife with Father / An Itch in Time / A Horsefly Fleas / Hollywood Steps Out / Page Miss Glory / Rocket-Bye Baby / Russian Rhapsody / Dough Ray Me-Ow
Bonus Features:
- Audio Commentaries
- Alternate Audio Programs
Behind the Tunes Featurettes (Disc Two):
- Forever Befuddled
- A Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones’ Wabbit Season Twilogy
- Looney Tunes Go Hollywood
- A Conversation with Tex Avery
- Looney Tunes Go to War!
Disc Three: Featurettes and Bonus cartoons
Documentaries:
- King-Sized Comedy: Tex Avery and The Looney Tunes Revolution
- Tex Avery: King of Comedy
- Friz on Film
- Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons
The World of Leon Schlesinger
- Introduction by Martha Sigall and Jerry Beck
- Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid
- Sinkin’ in the Bathtub
- Crying for the Carolines
- It’s Got Me Again
- Haunted Gold Title Sequence
- Schlesinger Productions Christmas Party
- The Best of the Rest Tex
Friz at MGM
- Poultry Pirates
- A Day at the Beach
- The Captain’s Christmas
- Seal Skinners
- Mama’s New Hat
The Best of the Best of Tex
- The Blitz Wolf
- Red Hot Riding Hood
- Screwball Squirrel
- Swing Shift Cinderella
- King-Size Canar
- Bad Luck Blackie
- Senore Droopy
- Wags to Riches
- Symphony in Slang
- Magical Maestro
- Rock-A-Bye Bear
Private Snafu
- Coming! Snafu
- Gripes
- Spies
- The Goldbrick
- The Home Front
- Rumors
- Snafuman
- Censored
Mr. Hook
- The Good Egg
- The Return of Mr. Hook
- Tokyo Woes
All these cartoons, documentaries and featurettes have been transferred to Blu-ray in 1080p and are presented in 1.33:1 aspect ratio. There are two audio tracks: a Dolby Digital 1.0 English and Spanish track. There is also the option for English and French subtitles. Warner Bros. have done a tremendous job restoring these cartoons. Understandably, some of the older bonus cartoons may not look as great as some of the Looney Tunes. But anytime you can see classic cartoons in HD, it’s a win!
On the back of this Blu-ray cover it says there is a 28-page booklet with rare images and a cartoon guide. Well, sadly, you are not going to find that in this set. That is a massive disappointment. But when you see 50 classic cartoons and all these featurettes and bonus cartoons, including the Private Snafu cartoons, how can you be mad at this set?
So, if you already got Volume 1 of the Platinum Collection of Looney Tunes, what are you waiting for? Pick up The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 2 now. The massive amount of entertainment on these three discs will give you and your family days and days of Looney fun.
***** 5/5
The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 2 is out now on Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
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