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Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (Looney Tunes Super Stars)

Description

Episodes: Tick Tock Tuckered, Nasty Quacks, Daffy Dilly, Wise Quackers, The Prize Pest, Design for Leaving, Stork Naked, This Is a Life?, Dime to Retire, Ducking the Devil, People Are Bunny, Person to Bunny, Daffy's Inn Trouble, The Iceman Ducketh, Suppressed Duck

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-09-01
Summary: "What were they thinking?????"

I had this and the Bugs Bunny disc on my wish list, but not any more. I will not be buying them. Cropping the image is disrespectful to the original work and shows no sense of respect to all of us die hard fans. Did WB really think that cropping the image would be a selling point? Let's face it, the majority of the audience for these are going to be older folks who are familiar with the originals. It boggles the mind! What were they thinking?!?!?!?!?!?

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-09-01
Summary: "amazing shorts... aweful treatment"

I own the entire Looney Tunes Golden Collection and I absolutely love it. Between the release of these six box sets and the release of these two new DVDs, Hare Extraordinare and Frustrated Fowl, something baaaad happened in Warner Brother's lab. These DVDs seem to have been sent in a food processor and 10 out of 15 of those shorts were "formatted to fit a widescreen TV".

For most of those widescreen shorts, I find them very annoying to watch, there is so much missing on the frame. I am not going to buy any further Looney Tunes if they get the same treatment.

I really, really hope Warner Brothers will soon be releasing a replacement disc, unformatted. If enough people complain to WB's customer service, maybe that will happen. Why not give it a try by sending them an email :

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-08-30
Summary: "These Are Cropped Amazon. Listen to complaints !!!"

These Are Cropped Amazon. Listen to complaints !!!
Dont you see people are returning them left and right ?1?
Change the format description !!

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-08-28
Summary: "Cartoons and customer not respected, not worth the money"

As said before most of the cartoons of this set are cropped and tampered with. The top and bottom of the shorts have been cut to adapt them to widescreen format. This makes them unwatchable as bits of the action and animation are missing, the image looks cropped and you keep concentrating on the missing parts. VERY UNCOMFORTABLE viewing. Plus I must say the image restauration doesn't look as pristine as the Golden collection series.

What is more unsettling is that Warner Bros keeps doing this all over again, tampering with content (censorship, cropping...) showing no respect at all for intellectual property but most of all no respect whatsoever for the customer. It is disgusting.

Sadly I can't recommend the buying of this product and its sister : the Bugs Bunny superstar. The viewing is really uncomfortable, and the fan and collector is not respected by Warner. The product is not worth the money it cost.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-08-21
Summary: "A Great Disappointment"

I just excitedly put Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl into the DVD player, and I tell you I couldn't put into words how shocked and disappointed I was to find these classic cartoons had been fiddled with, at first I thought it must be a faulty copy that slipped through quality control, which is why I came on to amazon.com to check if there had been a recall put out, only to be even more horrified to read this is how the distributors intended the films to appear. Surely not?! I'm still confident this was due to an error made in the production of this first release and a recall will be soon be announced.
Anybody seeing these cartoons presented in this skewed edited fashion will give the viewer a false, unfair and misleading impression, and lack of enjoyment they would otherwise experience seeing these cartoons as originally produced, at the cinema or back on Saturday Morning TV. Do you self and your family a big favour and steer clear of this release until it has been recalled and the cartoons restored to their original classic stature allowing them to be fully enjoyed and appreciated the way their original writers, directors and animators intended them to be.