Animaniacs, Vol. 1
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Movie Reviews of Animaniacs, Vol. 1
Movie Review: It's time for Animaniacs
Summary: 5 Stars
-The show centers around the adventures of three siblings and others they come in contact with. they're called the animaniacs and they live in the WB tower which they're suppose to stay in and never get out but once in a while they break loose and then vamoose having all kinds of fun in the process. there are a lot of side characters that are all great and they include Pinky and The Brain, the sexy Hello Nurse, the Pigeon gang, the crazy Dr. Otto and many others that I'm too lazy to type. they all form this great dysfunctional satirical show that not only pokes fun at movies and TV shows but also the animated genre that they are inspired by.
-Nostalgia hits me like a ton of bricks every time I listen to the theme song from this show on my overpriced mp3 player. It takes me back to the time when I was a kid and didn't know I liked girls yet. good times. the main appeal of this show in my opinion is just how after everything is said and done it's just really funny and I find that now that I'm older but not wiser the jokes seem a lot funnier to me. when I was a kid I didn't get a lot of them due to how a lot of them made reference to the American film industry but now that I actually live here and understand the film industry a bit the jokes seem a lot of more better now. I also now get why they refereed to the sexy nurse as "Hello Nurse" and even some of the TV shows that they satire now makes a lot of sense now. the catchy little songs that they regularly sing is great too although I honestly can't remember all of them. I think my favorite one growing up was the song about Hollywood and sequels though I can't remember if that was from this show or from MAD TV.
-My favorite side characters in the show were "Pinky and the Brain" which tells the story of two lab mice that plot to take over the world. the whole concept is just adorable and funny because you see this little mouse with a giant brain attempting to take over the world and yet failing every time thanks to his simple minded sidekick. A lot of people will criticize Brain for not getting rid of Pinky since he mucks up everything he does but the truth is Brain needs him because without him he would be a very bitter and lonely person. I don't who voices Pinky or the Brain but they do a great job as with the voices for every character on the show. I know Rob Paulsen does the Yakko voice but that's about it. I do know that Tom Bodet does the dry sarcastic voice of the announcer very well and so does Ben Stein whenever he pops up in the show. till this day I can't figure out what Yakko, Wakko and Dot are suppose to be. they look like ducks sometimes but then other times look like mice so I'm guessing they're suppose to be a hybrid of the two Disney animals a mouse and a duck.
-If you don't like this wonderful show then you're probably dead on the inside or worse joined the Scientology religion but for those of us that actually have a soul this show was heaven.
Movie Review: Not a full season really, but still worth-owning the first 25 episodes!
Summary: 5 Stars
Yeah, it's a not really a full first season, but the first 25 half-hour shows is still a big number for a 5-disc set! I just can't wait to buy this for my siblings, because I loved the show as a kid, and nowadays, I still appreciate the zany Looney Tunes-esque slapstick antics, solid art style, and great voice-acting.
As listed on tvshowsondvd.com, the first 25 episodes are:
1. De-Zanitized, The Monkey Song, Nighty Night Toon
2. Yakko's World, Cookies For Einstein, Win Big
3. HMS Yakko, Slappy Goes Walnuts, Yakko's Universe Song
4. Hooked on a Ceiling, Good Feathers (pilot episode)
5. Taming of the Screwy
6. Flipper Parody, Temporary Insanity, Operation Lollipop, What are We?
7. Piano Rag, When Rita Met Runt
8. The Warner's Lot Song, The Big Candy Store, Bumbie's Mom
9. Wally Llama, Where Rodents Dare
10. King Yakko
11. No Pain, No Painting, Les Miseranimals
12. Garage Sale of the Century, West Side Pigeons
13. Hello Nice Warners, La Behemoth, Little Old Slappy From Pasadena
14. La La Law, Cat On a Hot Steel Beam
15. Space Probed, Battle For the Planet
16. Chalkboard Bungle, Hooray for Slappy, The Great Wakkoroti: The Master & His Music
17. Roll over Beethoven, The Cat and the Fiddle
18. Pavlov's Mice, Chicken Boo-Rhyshnikov, Nothing But the Tooth
19. Meatballs or Consequences, A Moving Experience
20. Hitchcock Opening, Hearts of Twilight; The Boids
21. The Flame, Wakko's America Song, Davey Omelette, Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago
22. Guardin' the Garden, Plane Pals
23. Be Careful What You Eat, Up the Crazy River, Ta Da Dump
24. Yakko's World of Baldness, Oppurtunity Knox, Wings Take Heart
25. Disasterpiece Theatre, Hercule Yakko, Home On The Nile, A Midsummer Night's Dream
In addition, you'll also get the extra: "Animaniacs Live!" where Maurice LaMarche, voice of Brain, along with Animaniac friends comment on the facts of Steven Spielberg's show. The audio, too, is presented in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound--can't wait to hear the theme song blasting through my Kenwood reciever system!
Movie Review: United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama...
Summary: 5 Stars
A lot of people remember "Animaniacs," but not many people remember how popular it once was. In 1993, the year these episodes appeared on the Fox network, "Animaniacs" was the most popular cartoon on that network, and one of the most-watched cartoons on TV. It had a cult following like few other shows of its time; alt.tv.animaniacs was one of the most densely-populated groups on usenet. Adult and college-age viewers loved "Animaniacs" as much as, if not more than, the little kids; the obscure cultural references, double entendres, and good solid cartoon violence made it even more fun for an older audience.
Well, that was 1993, and over a decade later, how does this show hold up? Very, very well. All the things that made it so popular in 1993 -- the great lines, the imaginative visuals, the music (with the late Richard Stone leading a full orchestra, no computer-generated music allowed), the voices, the cultural references, the violence -- still work today. The anthology format, with each episode consisting of a mix of different characters and segments, gives the show a richness and variety that most cartoon shows don't have. And the characters are still as funny as they were in 1993: the Marx-Brothers-inspired Yakko, Wakko and Dot; elderly, amoral cartoon star Slappy Squirrel; Chicken Boo, the giant chicken forever passing for a human; and world-domination-seeking lab mice Pinky and the Brain (whose spinoff series is also available on DVD, separately).
The first DVD set contains the first 25 episodes of the series, out of a total of 99; if it sells well, three more volumes will be released. It includes some of the show's very best segments, like the encounters with Paul Rugg's Jerry Lewis parody "Mr. Director"; or Slappy trying to prove to her nephew that "nobody ever dies in cartoons" in the short "Bumbie's Mom"; or the elaborate mini-musical "Les Miseranimals"; or the Warner Brothers (and the Warner sister) helping Michelangelo "paint naked people all over a church." Plus the famous song sequence with all (or most) of the nations of the world set to the "Mexican Hat Dance."
Movie Review: Great Nostalgia
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember watching this show after school and on Saturdays and laughed out loud to the cultural references and bumbling violence. Even though I was around 11 I loved that it made fun of the movies, especially Batman. While I probably missed the double entendres and adult oriented jokes, I was tickled with glee just watching the violence and the slapstick jokes. I recently saw a couple of the episodes and they hold up really well if not better now that I know some of the movies that they were making fun of (ie Goodfeathers). However, the jokes are dated referencing movies and actors that are past their prime, but still funny none the less. They are still funny if you still remember the movies and peoplpe they make fun of which shouldn't be too hard. There were more songs than I remember but they are fun and some of them even teach you GEOGRAPHY. I still love the capitol of the United States song, I believe that's how I remember the capitals for a test.
Just imagine a show that has violence, slapstick comedy, cultural parody, and even a lesson to be learned, (albeit the wheel of morality jokes sometimes feel flat sometimes and were just random and funny the other times) and that is how Animaniacs come off as to someone longs for the carefree days. I still remember the universe song which stated that we're all really small. My only gripe with the disc set is the lack of season, instead they chose to lump shows together, but then again, its better than nothing. So if one would like to walk down memory lane with a big bowl of sugary cereal and some friends with some childishness, then get the dvd and make it a night, eh, weekend morning.
Movie Review: Helloooooo Nostalgic Delight
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember seeing the "night time premier" of Animaniacs with my best friend when I was in the 11th grade. We were hooked on the show and regularly watched episodes together, even if we had to tape them. (You know, that thing we did in the days before TiVO and Youtube.) Regularly we would challenge each other to find the "strange thing" in the credits. (Usually Kathryn Page's job title.) So when I found out that at long last the show was coming to DVD I had to have it.
(Funny enough, it was the same friend I would watch it with back in 1993 that got it for me. Friends who laugh together, stay together.)
I'm extremely pleased with this set as it has some of my favorite sketches from the show. For example the brilliant "Meatballs or Consequences" - a parody of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" that also took shots at Obsession ads, Union rules, and Spielberg himself. Or the Disney bashing "Bumbie's Mom" that took on trying to explain how tragic cartoons aren't real to a distraught (cartoon) child.
From the first episode to the last there is a smarter level of comedy than one finds on "Adult Swim," yet it is innocent enough that people of my generation can enjoy it along with their children. Though some jokes are dated for the younger generations (i.e. "That Urkle kid" or "Bill Clinton plays the Sax") it is still enjoyable after more than a (yikes) decade has passed.
Yes there could be more extras, but honestly at the current price of around $[...] [...] it's well worth it as is.
Now, when are they coming out with Tiny Toons on DVD already?