Tex Avery’s Droopy - The Complete Theatrical Collection

May 18, 2007

Rated: NR Runtime: 200 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

If not for Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner, Droopy would have been my favorite cartoon as a young boy. I loved that slack-jowled little dog and how he always managed to overcome the villain-du-jour (usually a lazy wolf or a bulldog named Butch) with his clever tactics and uncanny way of seemingly teleporting wherever he needed to be.

Tex Avery's Droopy - The Complete Theatrical CollectionAnd now that I’ve reached my fortieth year, Warner Home Video has released ALL 24 Droopy theatrical cartoons on one DVD collection. ROCK!

Well…not so fast. As I popped the first disc into the dvd player, I wondered if I’d find these cartoons as funny as I did as a child. I mean…I’m “all growed up now,” right? (well, mostly growed up) Unfortunately, I didn’t laugh anywhere near as hard as I did back then. Even the ones that previously made me laugh so hard that I stopped making noise and turned blue (such as Drag-a-Long Droopy, Deputy Droopy, The Shooting of Dan McGoo (shot ‘on location’ in Coldernell, Alaska), and Homesteader Droopy) only got a few chortles and giggle out of me this time.

Even still, it was a real treat getting into the wayback machine and re-living a great part of my childhood. You might just get the same warm feeling yourself and, if you have kids of your own, maybe they’ll do like I did back then and laugh til they can’t breathe anymore.

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