The Color Honeymooners Collection 2
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Actor: Art Carney, Jackie GleasonDirector: N/A
Brand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 450 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
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- The Color Honeymooners (a/k/a The Jackie Gleason Show), a top-rated comedy/variety program aired, from the sun and fun capital of the world Miami Beach! on Saturday night from 1966-70 on CBS-TV. This long-running series marked the final weekly TV show for The Great One. Reprising their famous characters from The Honeymooners, the cast was led by Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden) and Art Carney (E
Movie Reviews of The Color Honeymooners Collection 2
Movie Review: Funnier than Vol. 1!
Summary: 5 Stars
Guess I'll be changing my title from Honeymooners Purist since viewing this 3-disc set. Of course, I'll take most of the '50s versions over the '60s recreations, but this set actually contains expanded remakes of '50s material which have even more punch.
The writers managed to improve the original scripts, and had the benefit of Broadway quality musical numbers - well, not exactly Lerner and Lowe, but nothing they wouldn't bend an ear to. The four performers sing sometimes in four-part harmony and add dance steps.
It seems that, just as in the '50s, they got better and better. The first few revivals in 1966 showed that perhaps their timing was off, along with the naturally expected slight drop in energy - 10 - 12 years is significant to physical actors - just as it is with professional athletes.
But these theatrical professionals got in the groove, got relaxed, and it is noteworthy that Sheila MacCrae really adapted well to the character that Audrey Meadows developed. She seemed almost a star-struck understudy in some of the MPI Volume One material - here, she does just fine.
"Without Reservations", I can say with a echo of the title, is much better than its' black and white antecedant, which had some uncharacteristic second-rate slapstick. Gleason and Carney flow as well as in the previous decade, and the laughs flow. Another remake, perhaps twice as good with the older and wiser (?) leads is "Movies Are Better Than Ever", a reworking of the 1955 "Kramden Versus Norton".
Another 1955 sketch revived for '60s color is "One Big Happy Family", title changed to "Flushing Ho" - a good script, with a predictable plotline about the families moving "uptown" and living together as long as the boys behave. Well, that was unlikely. Has some qualities of the "Classic 39", though, typically, has some tired slapstick, found in abundance throughout the live sketches, but very rare in those masterpieces filmed as a separate series: Ralph applies a fork to a problem toaster and Norton decides connect to the power source as a display of "teamwork" which was noticeably missing since the four moved in together, or at least since the *two* moved in. The current flows and Gleason does "electrocution" schtick. Not funny in 1955 *or* 1967. 2008? Should have been deleted.
I surely understand why a fan demands the kinescope editions, especially the musicals, which have quite mysteriously found a hiding place (maybe on the backseat of Ralph's bus). But these color renditions are very entertaining...even poignant considering that the characters are still stuck in neutral as wanna-be entrepreneurs; Alice still hasn't kept up with the Nortons, who have curtains on the kitchen windows.
Yes, and possibly 100% of longtime fans prefer Meadows and Randolph to MaCrae and Kean. But those fans should not turn away from collections like these.
I thought that a small booklet would have been great, especially with cast credits and histories, and with data regarding the songs.
Video and audio quality superb.
How Sweet It Still Was!!!!!
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