Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection
by Tex Avery
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Actor: Bill Thompson, Paul FreesDirector: Tex Avery
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Fred Quimby
Writer: Heck Allen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection
Movie Review: I'm Happy With This Set!
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed watching all of the cartoons all over again on DVD. It looks so much better on DVD than on TV. It also includes a Tex Avery documentary which was pretty interesting to watch.
Summary of Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection
Droopy, a detective basset hound, lulls the bad guys into a false sense of security by acting slow and dumb when in actual fact he is a genius. The shrewd Droopy always outwits his enemies! Droopy Dog was a low-key animated movie character created by Tex Avery at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943, this mournful deadpan witty Basset hound detective who spoke in a jowly monotone voice and, though he didn't look like much, was shrewd enough to outwit his enemies - the conniving Butch the Irish bulldog and the thieving, nasty wolf and English Fox.DVD Features:
Documentaries:"Droopy and Friends: A Laugh Back" ? - a documentary retrospective featuring the highlights of Tex Averys iconic character and band of regular misfits, which made the collection so memorable and dear to our hearts. ? Peppered through the featurette will be moments reflecting on Texs early days, from inspiration, to his passions as an artist, entertainer and eventual auteur.
Gag Reel:'Doggone Gags" - a montage of great moments from the Droopy series, culled together in the fashion of a gag reel.
Frederick "Tex" Avery directed some of the funniest cartoons ever made, but he relied primarily on situations and moving graphics, rather than on the personalities of familiar characters. Droopy, the phlegmatic basset hound, was one of the few characters Avery used regularly: His?low-key presence was the perfect counter to the extreme takes, fast cuts, frenetic action, and general mayhem going on around him. Avery is also noted for "self-reflexive gags:" the characters know they're in a cartoon and often comment on the fact. In "Dumb-Hounded,"a sprinting wolf cuts a corner too sharply, skids past the sprocket holes at the edge of the film, and onto the blank screen. Droopy frequently turns to the camera and comments, "You now what? I'm happy." Some of the later films in the collection, made by animators Dick Lundy and Michael Lah, lack Avery's manic panache. The last cartoons in the collection were designed for the CinemaScope format: Droopy's pudgy form looks lost in those vast frames, and the flattened graphics pioneered by the UPA studio distort his rounded shape. But those are minor caveats. Fans have waited impatiently for Tex Avery's seminal cartoons to be released on DVD in the US, and this collection is a must-have for anyone interested in animation.(Unrated, suitable for ages 6 and older: cartoon violence, alcohol and tobacco use, risqu? humor) --Charles Solomon
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