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 Collection And 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.

Posted by Alex | Filed Under 3 Stars, Comedy, DVD, NR, Voice of: Bill Thompson