This week’s slate of home video releases offers a few blasts from the past, including three volumes from the Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoon Favorites collection and the first two seasons of the British animated series, DangerMouse. There’s also something more contemporary in the second season of the [adult swim] favorite, Home Movies.
Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoon Favorites: Extreme Sports Fun (Volume 5) offers the restored cartoons Canine Caddy, How to Play Baseball, The Hockey Champ, Double Dribble, How to Play Football, Mickey’s Polo Team, Goofy Gymnastics.
Titles listed on Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoon Favorites: Extreme Music Fun (Volume 6) are Mickey’s Grand Opera, Music Land, Orphan’s Benefit, Farmyard Symphony, Pluto’s Blue Note, How to Dance, Woodland Cafe, Donald’s Dilemma.
Eight more are offered with Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoon Favorites: Extreme Adventure Fun (Volume 7). Fans get Mickey’s Trailer, Good Scouts, No Sail, Hello Aloha, Old Sequoia, How to Ride a Horse, Trailer Horn and Two Weeks Vacation. The Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases all list for $14.99 on DVD.
DangerMouse: The Complete Seasons 1& 2 is a two-disc set containing 17 episodes of the animated series produced by Cosgrove Hall from the early ’80s to the early ’90s. A comic send-up of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, the show aired on Nickelodeon in the U.S., thrilling young audiences the adventures of an eye-patch-wearing rodent secret agent. Released by A&E Home Video, the eagerly awaited DVD set lists for $29.95.
Avid viewers of Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] block can pick up the new three-disc set featuring 13 episodes from the second season of Home Movies. Created by Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard, the show features the voices of Dr. Katz alum H. Jon Benjamin, comedian Paula Poundstone and Small playing himself as a child, making movies in the basement with his best pals Jason and Melissa. Animated by Soup2Nuts, the series ran briefly on UPN before being picked up by Cartoon Network.
Special features on Home Movies: Season Two include the winning entry in the”Small Shorts” Film Competition, animatics with crew commentary, cast and crew interviews and commentaries with Small, Bouchard and cast member Melissa Galsky. Also included are a featurette in which guest stars reminisce and a the audio anatomy of a scene. Issued by Shout! Factory, the set carries a suggested retail price of $34.98.
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