The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection
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Movie Reviews of The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection
Movie Review: Aw, gee..another ripoff!!
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this mainly to replace my VHS tapes of the excellent Cabin
Fever Rascals collection with Leonard Maltin's brief but informative
introductions. I don't think I'll be giving those away just yet; not after
seeing this half-hearted effort. Yes, the collection includes all the
Hal Roach shorts, as well as three (only three?) silent shorts. But don't
fall for the "fully restored" claim. Some of the films look as tired and
worn as old Blackhawk Film versions of the shorts (oh, wait! That's
because some actually ARE the Blackhawk versions!) The DVD "bonus features" are shockingly skimpy: short interviews with a few of the surviving Rascals which are about as in-depth as the fluff pieces on "Entertainment Tonight." I've seen better bonus features on public
domain Rascals tapes that I bought for under $5.00 in discount stores
years ago. Each DVD boasts a special intro by one of the former Rascals
or a "film historian," each intro consists basically of the Rascal or
historian announcing something along the lines of, "Here's some more
Rascals shorts; they're really great, hope you enjoy them!"
The bonus booklet included in the collection is mainly a list of all
the shorts by title and pretty much nothing else; one exception is a
single page on the subject of "The Curse of the Rascals," a very short
list of a few former Rascals who died young; a few of the photos on the
page are misidentified (a mention of Scotty Beckett and his tragic death
is accompanied by a photo of Dickie Moore, who is not only very much
alive but is one of the Rascals who appears on the DVD set as one of the
hosts!) Apparently, the folks at "Genius," the company that put this
collection out, don't live up to their name.
A careless, sloppy effort.
Movie Review: sending mine back.unopened
Summary: 1 Stars
sorry to say i am returning this. i have been reading various discussion sites and this set seems to be a major dissapointment. issues include: at least 13 and counting shorts without original titles (blackhawk films reissues),sound sync problems on various shorts,scratchy prints on various shorts(worse than cabin fever releases.
booklet with misinformation(eg: dickie moore being beaten to death when he is alive and well and is even seen on extras)and other various problems.
genius products had their hearts in the right place but their brains were obviously up their butts.
i will stick with my cabin fevers which thankfully i transferred to dvd last year.
Movie Review: Not Exactly Complete as Advertised
Summary: 3 Stars
There are 221 episodes in the Our Gang/Little Rascals series. Included in this set are 89-149 & 151-169. If you are looking for the complete series, look elsewhere. I have most of them thru some misc. DVD sets and the Cabin Fever series.
When I opened this DVD set, I learned that the set was not really complete. The restoration in some shorts looks worse than the non-restored Cabin Fever VHS tapes.
If you are a collector, you need to continue your efforts and get them all - I feel that it is worth the time to view everything that this series has to offer.
Movie Review: DISAPPOINTING, BUT..........!
Summary: 3 Stars
Once again we the people who fund the film gods have been slighted! This is NOT as restored and remastered as we would all like it to be! On the plus side it's not horrible......if that's any consolation! The Little Rascals are one of the most important short film subjects in the history of film and they deserve better than this!
When I watched the first disc I thought this isn't that bad and I was hoping that the newer shorts would look better as they went along. This is not the case as some of the newer ones look grainy because of the source print being that of the Blackhawk release, which are missing the title cards! I could live with the missing title cards if the other prints weren't available or these prints looked better!....they do not!
Don't throw away you Cabin Fever VHS tapes, because overall I prefer them to this. There are some minor cropping issue also and I think I counted 16 or 17 Blackhawk shorts including one silent in this so-so collection.
The extras are cool, but there is even better stuff available! Oh why do they do this? If you compare the new Three Stooges DVD sets to these, they pale in comparison. Maybe someday on Blue Ray they'll do it right, but for now this is as good as it gets, unless you want to search for the best individual prints.....life is too short for this option in my opinion! The material is 5 stars the half a** job on these shorts bring it down two stars for a 3 star rating!
Movie Review: Confusing Source Materials
Summary: 3 Stars
The quality of this box set still doesn't match Cabin Fever's original release prints. It also doesn't match the few dvd releases by Hallmark.
Two additional Blackhawk prints, at least on my set, are "Anniversary Trouble," and "Little Papa."
Because of shelf storage challenges, I'm keeping this boxed set along with a number of dvds containing good prints of many of the titles replaced here by the Blackhawk prints. I've given away my bulky vhs copies as terrific as the prints were. Unlike the restored Three Stooges releases, the Hal Roach product seems to take a beating here in the states. Europe has greater respect. I saw some shorts in the UK release of the complete Laurel and Hardy. Germany and, I believe, the Netherlands have also done right by them. All we can do is hope that the Rascals and Laurel and Hardy will have restored issuings of their films in the future.