Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 3 Blu Ray Review
Like almost folks built-in during the final several decades, I grew up watching syndicated Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies whenever possible. These bite-sized cartoons gear up the bar extremely high for American animation during the 20th century, rivaled only by other long-running classics like Popeye the Sailor and Tom and Jerry. Utilizing a full studio orchestra, terrific sight gags, first-rate comic timing, versatile voices (most provided by Mel Blanc) and, of form, a gaggle of colorful and unique characters, these Academy Award-winning shorts have remained relevant for generations. In short, hearing this song pretty much guarantees you're about to forget everything else for seven minutes. Unfortunately, Looney Tunes' home video release strategy has been confusing at best and downright irritating at worst. Dozens of titles have been unleashed on DVD and Blu-ray thus far: Golden Collections, Spotlight Collections, Premiere Collections, character-themed piecemeal discs...and now Platinum Collections, each with almost random assortments of classic cartoons from the hundreds upon hundreds created as office of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies from 1930-69. Iv decades of material is a lot to dig through, and I certainly can't arraign Warner Bros. for fugitive chronological sets (at least from a business standpoint). This tertiary and terminal installment of the Platinum Drove line serves up another 50 shorts (150 total) with a fine assortment of vintage bonus features, merely there'due south a grab: like the first two installments, most of this material has been available earlier. Of course, now the classic shorts are in loftier definition and they await predictably amazing, but the paltry amount of "new" material here---one short, i audio commentary, and i documentary---runs for less than 45 minutes, which doesn't exactly stop this run with a bang. Simply hey, let'south focus on the positives: new or non, Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection, Book Three serves up roughly six hours of archetype shorts in 1080p. Warner Bros. has once again done a great chore in making sure they look great on Blu-ray, although their connected runway record of using lossy Dolby Digital audio ensures that these don't audio any better than their DVD counterparts (merely hey, at least we weren't saddled with five.i remixes like the Charlie Brown holiday specials). There's plenty of classic material to dig through hither: the best are over a dozen Bugs Bunny shorts, including a few team-ups with Yosemite Sam. Sylvester, Tweety, Daffy Duck and more are also well-represented, although it's obvious that some of these shorts (peculiarly those on Disc ii) don't stand for high points in the Looney Tunes library. But like before, you'll accept an awful lot of fun digging through this stuff, and the confidence that these are all presented in their original, uncut format is another small victory in the fight against hyper-sensitive outsiders. Not surprisingly, these classic shorts wait pretty darn skillful on Blu-ray...but if you've seen the first ii Looney Tunes Platinum Collections---or heck, even the Golden Collections on DVD---you lot shouldn't be surprised. Though an unavoidable number of source material problems are on display here (including plenty of dirt and debris, as well as an overabundance of grain on some shorts), they aren't at all distracting compared to older editions. Colors are bold and bright, paradigm particular and textures are extremely crisp, and no blatant digital imperfections could exist spotted along the mode. Brusk of a triple-checked, exhaustively detailed 4K restoration, I couldn't imagine some of these shorts looking much better than they exercise here...so if it weren't completely obvious by now, animation purists and even casual fans should be absolutely thrilled with the dependable, robust visual strengths of Looney Tunes on Blu-ray. The sound continues to slightly underwhelm, which may or may not exist entirely due to Warner'due south practice of using lossless, DVD-resolution Dolby Digital 1.0 tracks. A lossless presentation might beef up the experience a niggling...merely on the other hand, it might have just eaten upwards more disc space for minimal improvements. Looney Tunes has always sounded very thin and dated from an audio standpoint; a real shame, especially because the terrific orchestration and phonation work that went into each and every 1 of them. So while these shorts don't sound nearly as strong as they await, information technology'south almost impossible to decide if they can (or should) sound whatsoever ameliorate than they exercise here. Optional English SDH, French and High german subtitles are included, also French and German dubs during selected shorts. As for the rest, information technology looks to have been collected from various installments of the Golden Collections on DVD. This recycled material leads off with 26 Audio Commentaries (although i new runway accompanies "Honey's Money", which is new to either format) featuring the likes of managing director Bob Clampett, animators John Kricfalusi and Nib Melendez, historians Jerry Beck, Daniel Goldmark and Michael Barrier, writer Paul Dini, phonation actress June Foray, and more. We besides become nine Music and Furnishings sound tracks, eight "Behind the Tunes" Featurettes, four more Documentaries ("The Golden Age of Looney Tunes", " "Drawn for Glory", "Homo of a One thousand Voices", and "The Boys from Termite Terrace"), a Storyboard Reel for "Hair-Raising Hare", and 2 Storybooks past manager Frank Tashlin ("Little Chic's Wonderful Mother" and "Tony and Clarence"). This textile is good if yous haven't seen it all the same, but die-difficult collectors will be frustrated. If you favor new content over A/5 quality, Looney Tunes on Blu-ray has been a disappointment. This third and final Platinum Collection brings the loftier-def total up to 150 classic shorts and a mountain of bonus features...but those who already purchased most or all of the Golden Collections on DVD should be familiar with 90% of this content. To make matters worse, several hundred shorts from the Aureate Collections have non and will not make the leap to Blu-ray, while the not-linear organisation of Looney Tunes on both formats has fabricated if tough to weed out the missing, recycled, and exclusive content. But hey, three volumes are meliorate than two, so anyone who bought the start two Looney Tunes Platinum Collections will desire to selection this up if they haven't already. Newcomers should become either of those two first: this is the least essential book equally far as content goes, only it's still terrific stuff. Recommended. 
Randy Miller Three is an affable office monkey by twenty-four hour period and film reviewer by night. He too does freelance design piece of work, teaches art classes and runs a website or ii. In his express complimentary time, Randy besides enjoys slacking off, juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.
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