Hong Kong Phooey - The Complete Series
by Charles A. Nichols
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Actor: Alan Oppenheimer, Don Messick, Lee Vines, Ron Feinberg, Scatman CrothersDirector: Charles A. Nichols
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 397 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of Hong Kong Phooey - The Complete Series
Movie Review: Cartoons I grew up with as a kid
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this DVD Box set. Hong Kong Phooey was a favorite while growing up and I was excited to see it on DVD. The content doesn't claim to be re-mastered or improved-but is still quite good considering the era when it was made. I purchased a copy for my brother also-and his kids enjoy watching the cartoons as well. Shipping was reasonable and fast-I would buy from again.
Summary of Hong Kong Phooey - The Complete Series
Hong Kong Phooey a somewhat inept super-hero and a master of kung fu and marital arts is always on alert for crime. He gets tip-offs from the police station where he works as Penrod "Penry" Pooch the mild mannered janitor. Whenever Penry overhears a call for help he quickly dives into a filing cabinet and changes into his karate outfit and then hops into his Phooeymobile. Despite his fallings and thanks to Spot his cat Hong Kong Phooey always manages to save the day. He is a beloved superhero to all who know him. These 31 classic cartoons from Hong Kong Phooey are now available for the first time ever on DVD!Running Time: 397 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 014764314327 Manufacturer No: H3143Fan-rrific! Hanna-Barbera's Hong Kong Phooey was the Saturday-morning cartoon answer to the mid-'70s martial-arts craze. Mild-mannered janitor Penry (voiced by Scatman Crothers) works in the police station alongside switchboard operator Rosemary (Kathy Gori) and beleaguered Sergeant Flint (Joe E. Ross), humans who never suspect that the diligent dog is actually "America's secret weapon against crime." Never mind that Hong Kong Phooey, although armed with his trusty book of kung fu and a Bond-meets-Wacky Races Phooeymobile, wouldn't even be able to get out of his quick-change file cabinet without a well-placed blow from his loyal cat, Spot (who's striped, naturally). The public is awed by him, Rosemary has a crush on him, and villains--including the Claw, the Giggler, Goldfisher, and the Gum Drop Kid--fear him, but no one notices that Hong Kong Phooey only succeeds through his own klutziness, Spot's help, or dumb luck. The two-DVD set (one single-sided, one double-sided) include all of the series' 31 episodes, though at only 11 minutes each, two of them were shown in its half-hour time slot. There's also a retrospective documentary, a storyboard of a complete episode run side-by-side with the final version, and commentary on three episodes by some of the original team: creative producer Iwao Takamoto and layout unit manager Willie Ito, and Warner animation producer-historian Scott Jeralds. Crothers also scatted the famous theme song: "Hong Kong Phooey, Number One super guy / Hong Kong Phooey, Quicker than the human eye / Chicky-chong chicky-chong / Chicky-chocky dooky-chong / Dooky-bop chop-choppin' / Da bow-wow-wow!" Hong Kong Phooey is harmlessly entertaining, about as harmless as Hong Kong Phooey was to bad guys everywhere. --David Horiuchi
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