Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection: Vol. 1-3 (Repackaged/DVD)

What can be said about Tom & Jerry that hasn’t already been said by thousands, if not millions, of other people? The gutbustingly funny cat and mouse duo, with their unique brand of hilariously brutal violence blended in with a tremendous jazzy music score, have truly transcended time and been cartoon icons for over 80 years. And besides the Looney Tunes, no Golden Age animated stars were ever as great as them.This is as close to a "Complete Series" DVD set for the original Hanna-Barbera run (AKA the most beloved era) of Tom & Jerry as we're ever likely to get, since Warner Bros. Home Video is too cowardly to ever release "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat" on physical media.This set does not include the audio commentaries from the original standalone releases of the three Spotlight Collection volumes of T&J whose shorts have all been bundled together here, but all the OTHER special features from those sets have thankfully been ported over. As somebody who doesn't care too much for traditional audio commentaries on any physical media title not either put out by Disney or a release of a Matt Groening show, the removals of the ones recorded for Tom & Jerry isn't really a loss for me.The new menus for this bundle pack have the same incredibly basic design as the ones used for the recent Diamond Collection reprints of Hanna-Barbera shows, just placing the listings for each "episode" (short) and the DVD set's cover on top of a black void.But hey, at least unlike those inferior H-B DVD re-releases, the special features from the original versions of the sets being reprinted (minus the audio commentaries) have been ported over, so it's not a bad deal at all! Quite the opposite really, especially since, as I mentioned earlier, this combo set is only $20, which is just $5 more than the amount of cash you would have to pay for a brand new copy of ONE of the individual Spotlight Collection volume DVD sets of Tom & Jerry.If you don't mind not having the commentaries (or the nostalgic ads for other old Warner Bros. DVDs) from the original Spotlight sets, either, it's a very easy and adorable way to get as much vintage Tom & Jerry as you can in just one fell swoop for a great price, AND in a very convenient package with some cool extras, to boot. I still recommend also getting the one and only Tom & Jerry Golden Collection on either DVD or Blu-ray if you have the extra cash or shelf space to double-dip, though, for its drastically improved picture quality (even on the DVD version) and unique extras.

Plenty of stories, and my child was giggling a lot during long distance drivings.The good thing about T&J is that the low volume of the sound is ok to watch. This item helped all of us.

This version of the spotlight collection is the best since no editing was involved which made the cartoons the best!

If you enjoy Tom and Jerry, and feel like MeTv isn’t showing enough of their 1940’s/1950’s classics, I can’t recommend this DVD set enough! This collects the three “Tom and Jerry Spotlight” volumes that Warner Bros. Released a decade ago, but it corrects some errors that those had.The three original releases accidentally included the 1990’s Cartoon Network “redubs” of several cartoons featuring Tom’s original owner, Mammy Two-Shoes, the maid and later home-owner voiced by actress Lillian Randolph. This re-release has the original soundtracks.It also removes the difficult-to-navigate “menus”, and just lets you get right to the cartoons.It’s “standard definition”, but in many cases, looks much better than the “high definition” versions of some cartoons that are on streaming services and blu-ray collections. (They used better-looking copies).The clincher? It’s got all of the T&J cartoons made by the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera between 1940 and 1958, save for only two. That’s 112 cartoons. And it’s 20 bucks on Amazon...less than the individual, partially redubbed sets cost back in the day.The only downsides: the cartoons aren’t all arranged chronologically, and there’s no track listing. Its discs are also annoyingly stacked on a single spindle in the case.Still, this is the best, most complete home video collection of Tom and Jerry available, and well worth owning.

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