Bob Clampett's: Beany and Cecil
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Movie Reviews of Bob Clampett's: Beany and Cecil
Movie Review: Amazing discovery
Summary: 5 Stars
The only reason I bought this was to fill the $25 minimum requirement for free shipping, and it was the only cartoon in the 3.99 selection. What a score!! I had no idea who Beany and Cecil were, but they had a 4-5 star customer rating, so I figured either my 5-year-old daughter or I would like it. We BOTH love it! I am not big on TV, but to have this old stuff, with all the added "lost stuff" 30's, 40's to the 70's stuff--what a lesson. I seldom take the time for commentary, but it's a history lesson on this DVD. It was also neat to show my daughter how people (me included) were at one point limited to black and white television, yet alone the debut methods of animation. What a true treat, with a funky twist --certainly makes me ashamed of today's cartoons.
This is one of those cartoons that fits many an audience, for reminiscing if nothing else. Blow $10 on it if you get the chance, esp if you're an B and C fan. This is great.
Movie Review: AH'M COMIN', BEANY BOY!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh, Lord! What memories this brings back! Sitting in front of the Magnavox and eating Cap'n Crunch with my brother, as our parents were laughing out loud at the dreadful puns.
This DVD is full (FULL!) of material! Clips of rare material, photos of the many fans of the show (including more than a few celebs!), and commentary tracks by people who worked with Clampett, even back in the days of his live TV puppet show on the West coast!
My only complaint is that the entire series run wasn't included. Please, for people such as I who yearn to see this material again, please re-issue the series onto DVD!
"...and now here's Beany and Cecil iiiiinnnnn...a Bob Clampett car-toooo-OOOOOONNNN!'
(SCHLURP!)
Movie Review: I purchased the DVD as a fan and departed a spectator
Summary: 3 Stars
The collection of `classic animation' in our home keeps growing, and we all have opinions, likes, dislikes. When the B&C DVD arrived we watched as a family. The daughters left midway through the 3rd cartoon ("You used to watch this all the time?"); the wife went back to her reading ("This isn't very good."). After a while the constant grinning faces of Beany and the Captain became obnoxious, the limited animation made it difficult to warm up to any character or plot, and the frequent puns that were so entertaining in the past had become (shrug) `ho-hum'. Hearing DJ again was nice; hearing the theme and the Clampett name over and over again was not. Daughter #2 commented `Can we watch the Bullwinkle DVD instead?'.Browsed/skipped through the rest of the animation. Could not find Beepin' Tom, the flying saucer guy who spoke in rebuses, in any of the segments. Or maybe my memory of the character is faulty. Supporting segments on the DVD are interesting.
In summary the DVD is good documentation and worth the purchase price, but for this viewer the entertainment value is too diminished; I purchased the DVD as a fan and departed a spectator.
Movie Review: Thank God Beany & Cecil can be seen again
Summary: 5 Stars
As my daughter was growing up, I wanted her to see all the things that I loved as a kid, and it was enormously frustrating that Beany & Cecil cartoons were almost impossible for me to find. Perhaps the show was broadcast in other areas of the United States, but I couldn't find the show on cable and couldn't find any video compilations. At any rate, this DVD corrects the situation by making a number of classic Beany and Cecil cartoons available again.The Beany and Cecil cartoons were minimally animated, with few frames per second, little movement, and little background detail. Moreover, each episode was laced with one excruciatingly bad pun after another (ever since first seeing these episodes as a kind, whenever I hear of any atoll, I instantly think of the No Bikini Atoll). So what makes them so much fun? First, they knew many of the jokes were bad, but they kept throwing them at you, and in such a great spirit, that you couldn't resist the fun. Second, the voice-overs on the show were just great. Stan Freberg, one of the greats of the business, did a lot of the voices, including Cecil and the show's villain Dishonest John (who could ever forget that laugh!). Many of the other characters were voiced by various people over the course of time (Beany, for instance, was done by both Daws Butler and Mel Blanc). But whoever was involved, the voice talent was first rate. Third, the humor, though frequently intentionally bad, was nonetheless acute, and anyone watching the show will be consistently amazed by the wit and comedy. The one thing that I wonder about is the topicality of much of the humor. Will kids today know who Gina Lollobrigida is to get the joke about the low low bridge? Or do they know who Dinah Shore was for the singing dinosaur? I suspect that they will miss a lot that previous generations got, but I also suspect that it won't matter. Dishonest John's laugh and schemes are timeless.
Movie Review: I want More!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a longtime Beany & Cecil fan this DVD was awesome, if you loved the show go buy it! The rare photos and the "Time For Beany" puppet shows were a LOT of fun to browse through. I was born in 1961 and never saw these primative but very amusing shows that were the basis for the cartoon show. This DVD was a real labor of love. My only (little) gripe is that I wish it had a few more 60's cartoons. I have many of the VHS cassettes that were released in the 1980's and the compilers overlooked some great gems. Hopefully the compilers will be able to put together another great DVD in the future! I want another!