Brady
Bunch: The Complete Original Series (1969
- 1974/CBS/Paramount DVD Set)/Jackass:
Best and Last
(2026/MTV/Paramount Blu-ray)/Looney
Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume Three
(1930 - 1963/Warner Archive Blu-ray Set)/Scary
Movie 4K (2000/aka Scary
Movie One/Dimension/Paramount
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray w/Blu-ray)/South
Park: The Complete Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Eighth Seasons
(2025/Comedy Central DVD set)
4K
Picture: B Picture: C+/B-/B/B/C+ Sound: C+/B-/B-/B/C+
Extras: C+/C-/D/D/D Main Programs: B-/C-/B/D/B
Now
for all kinds of comedy, all revisits, old and new...
The
Brady Bunch: The Complete Original Series (1969
- 1974) gets one more round in its old DVD transfers we reviewed many
years ago and that have been in (and sometimes out of) print as fans
of the belated hit TV series are always there. We reviewed the
first, second, fourth and fifth seasons at the links here...
https://fulvuedrive-in.com/new/viewer.cgi?search=brady
As
we wait for a Blu-ray or even 4K upgrade to the show (it looks good
enough and was well-shot enough, being the first ever TV comedy
Paramount ever made,) highlights of the middle/Third
Season
include the cast in a multi-part opener set in Hawaii, Jan getting
sick of Marcia, Jan getting a lesson in looks with a great turn by
the legendary Imogen Coca, a visit from Davy Jones of The
Monkees,
Carol's car accident and the children forming a pop band. Paramount
was hoping more money in the show might mean higher ratings, but that
initially did not happen in its original run on ABC. Still, it all
paid off later when the show went into syndication and was a smash.
Extras
repeat the original sets.
Jeff
Tramaine's Jackass:
Best and Last
(2026) has the Jackass
franchise finally signing off. We have occasionally covered various
home video releases and you can read about them by linking to them at
this link:
https://fulvuedrive-in.com/new/viewer.cgi?search=jackass
Sadly,
it was a pointless last hurrah with no energy and only for hardcore
fans only, but at least the main guys made it to see the end for what
this is worth and except for a Digital Movie, there are
understandably no extras.
Looney
Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume Three
(1930 - 1963) continues the solid new series of Warner Archive
Blu-ray sets debuting some great new restorations and rarities. This
time, we get...
Disc
1 (First time on Blu-ray
or DVD remastered shorts)
"Billboard
Frolics"
has an Eddie Cantor knockoff among many inanimate structure of the
title comes to life and amusing as always.
"The
Country Mouse"
has the title character come to the big city to become a bigtime
fighter.
"Dog
Gone Modern"
is an early Chuck Jones short where two dogs take on a robot
sweeper, flawed but somehow as relevant as ever.
"Don't
Axe Me"
has Elmer Fudd and his wife having dinner, but he has to catch it
first, and it is... Daffy Duck!
"Don't
Look Now"
has Cupid vs. The Devil for the soul of a dog, so what choices will
he make?
"Feather
Bluster"
is a hilarious 'cheat' short where a very elderly Foghorn Leghorn
and Dawg play checkers while recalling how they tormented each other
in the past, sampling some great cartoons form the past with both
and we get a funny ending.
"A
Feather in His Hare"
gives us Bugs Bunny vs. Native American stereotype.
"The
Gay Anties"
has a cast of ants singing, et al.
"Horse
Hare"
gives us Bugs Bunny vs. Yosemite Sam with more Native American
stereotypes.
"Joe
Glow, The Firefly"
is black and white, simple, but interesting.
"Lady,
Play Your Mandolin!"
this first Merrie Melodie is also black and white, tasking on Mickey
Mouse in imitation.
"The
Lyin' Mouse"
does what he does to outwit lion who could easily end his existence.
"Mice
Follies"
is the final Honey-Mousers short, sending up The
Honeymooners.
Not the best one, but still amusing and I enjoyed all the
installments.
"My
Green Fedora"
has lesser-known rabbits in an interesting romp, if not great.
"Nothing
But The Tooth"
gives us Porky Pig and Native American stereotypes.
"Of
Thee I Sting"
has mosquitos on the loose. Good color.
"A
Pizza Tweety-Pie"
has Sylvester hunting down tweety when he travels with Granny (et
al) and it results in them wrecking all of Italy in the process.
"Shake
Your Powder Puff"
is a knock-off of Disney's Goofy in black and white and watchable.
"Sinkin'
In The Bathtub"
has Bosko & honey singing many hit songs from Warner's hit live
action musical feature films.
"Sleepy
Time Possum"
is a full color one-off with a watchable title character.
"Slightly
Daffy''
remakes the earlier Scalp
Trouble
with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and yet more Native American stereotypes.
"A
Star Is Hatched''
sends up Busby Berkeley Musicals, but with only so much success.
"Tree
Cornered Tweety"
has Tweety tell his life of being chased by Sylvester in the style
of the hit radio and TV show Dragnet,
which works well unless that monotonous style annoys you. For me,
its as good as Dan Ackroyd at his best.
"Trick
or Tweet"
Sam the Cat goes after Tweety with Sylvester not far behind in
competition. Its fun enough.
"Tweet
and Sour"
has Sylvester fighting that red cat with an eye patch and Granny
threatening to send Sylvester to the violin string factory if Tweety
is even touched. Another good one.
Disc
2 (First time remastered in HD)
"Ballot
Box Bunny"
has Bugs vs. Sam for office and all kinds of stakes.
"Boobs
in the Woods"
has daffy driving Porky nuts when all the pig wants is a pleasant
trip through the title locale.
"Booby
Hatched"
features lesser-known animal characters battling it out in the
winter.
"Case
of the Missing Hare"
pits Bugs against a magician, maybe a stereotypical one, but you can
judge for yourself.
"Conrad
the Sailor"
"Daffy
- The Commando"
"Duck
Soup to Nuts"
are three WWII Daffy shorts.
"Fox-Terror"
has fun with a character from The
Jack Benny Show
(!!!) where Sheldon Leonard played a shady character giving Jack
criminal encouragements. Funnier if you know Benny and his gang.
"Foxy
by Proxy"
has a fox and Bugs versus a pack of dogs.
"Fresh
Airedale"
mocks a dog FDR owned and made the dog cynical and no good here as
the main character. Unusual one off.
"Goldimouse
and the Three Cats"
sends up the fairytale with Sylvester Jr. and more. Very funny.
"Herr
Meets Hare"
has Bugs taking on the Nazis.
"Holiday
for Shoestrings"
is musical shoes & elves entry nicely done.
"Hollywood
Daffy"
has the duck a mega-autograph hound with a cop in full pursuit.
With the current state of the town, more fun than ever.
"I
Got Plenty of Mutton"
is an early short that led to other key ones, but I will not leave
any spoilers here.
"Mississippi
Hare"
has Bugs go on a showboat and drive the owner nuts. Great animation
too.
"Mutiny
on the Bunny"
with Sam and Bugs sending up the famous hit movie.
"My
Favorite Duck"
is a solid, early Daffy and Porky short that works well.
"Pizzicato
Pussycat"
has cat pretend to play piano like a virtuoso, but his secret is
that it is actually a mouse doing this. How long can he fake it!
"Puss
n' Booty"
is the final black and white Looney Tunes short and foreruns
Sylvester & Tweety a bit.
"Rabbit's
Kin"
Pete Puma vs. Bugs and his nephew!
"Really
Scent"
reverses Pepe Le Pew's stalking of a female cat when she become the
chaser!
"Stage
Door Cartoon"
has crazy on-stage Bugs & Elmer pairing worth a look.
"A
Star Is Bored"
is a hilarious short where Daffy becomes Bugs stunt double in all
the films Bugs is making as the lead star. One of their best-ever
pairings.
"The
Windblown Hare"
has Bugs getting involved with the battle between the Three Little
Pigs and the Wolf, with classic results.
Another
solid collection, even after so many others, I expect this series
will continue for a while and we definitely look forward to more.
There are no extras, but for more just from this Looney
Tunes
series, try these links:
Volume
One
https://fulvuedrive-in.com/review/16648/Looney+Tunes+Platinum+Collection,+Volume+One
Volume
Two
https://fulvuedrive-in.com/review/16788/Chaplin's+Mutual+Comedies:+1916+-+1917+(Flicker
Keenan
Ivory Wayans' Scary
Movie 4K
(2000/aka Scary
Movie One)
was the original smash hit that accidentally launched an inconsistent
franchise. You can read about it when we covered the old Blu-ray at
this link:
https://fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6143/Scary+Movie+(One/2000/Blu-ray/Dimension
Still
as awful as ever, this reissue is happening because of the hit
revival earlier in 2026. To say it for fans only is an extreme
understatement, but it is not as impressive a 4K as I thought it
might have been, but more below on that. Extras include Digital
Movie,
whiel the disc recycles and adds a behind the scenes featurette,
original theatrical trailer and additional scenes not seen [back in
the day theatrically.
South
Park: The Complete Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Eighth Seasons
(2025) has us joining looking at the still hugely successful Comedy
Central TV series classic many, many years since we last looked at
the show. You can see all of our coverage over the years at this
link to more links:
https://fulvuedrive-in.com/new/viewer.cgi?search=south+park
As
crazy and politically incorrect as ever as they go after just about
everybody, cheers to the makers for not selling out their origins or
fans, no matter what anyone thinks or even threatens. The rest
speaks for itself and I just wish this had been a Blu-ray, while I do
not expect a 4K disc release on the series any time soon.
There
are sadly no extras this time around.
Now
for playback performance. The 2160p HEVC/H.265, 2.35 X 1, Dolby
Vision/HDR (10; Ultra HD Premium)-enhanced Ultra High Definition
image on Scary
Movie 4K
is an upscale that can be a little pasty and lack detail that the
1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image on the included Blu-ray
happens to have. As a matter of fact, it is the same exact disc we
reviewed way back in the day, with a solid PCM 5.1 mix that has some
sonic points over the new
DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix on the 4K disc. Now you
can compare for yourself, should you be so inclined.
The
1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer Jackass:
Best and Last
is a little on the weak side with the newer video and has many weak,
analog videotape moments, so to say this is inconsistent is putting
it nicely. The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix is also a
mixed bag, with the newest audio having the expected location audio
issues the show is famous for and some of the older audio barely
stereo. The combination is trying, yet the best this will ever be.
The
1080p 1.33 X 1 digital High Definition image transfers on Looney
Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume Three
can sometimes show the age of the materials used a little bit, but
these restorations are nice and usually
bring out the luster and fun of the dye-transfer, three-strip
Technicolor versions of the short films, while the black and white
shorts also have nice detail, nice Video White and Video Black. The
DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 2.0 Mono lossless mixes usually sound better
than they ever have for each short versus their previous video
releases in lesser formats. Overall, this is very well done.
The
1.33 X 1 image transfers on Brady
Bunch: The Complete Original Series can
show the age of the materials used as they repeat the old DVD
transfers, but the last two seasons are slightly weaker visually,
which is what we can say for the way the
lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono on the shows as well. Some restoration
work will need to be done for the 4K and Blu-ray sets whenever they
surface, but these will do, we guess, for just a little bit longer.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image on the South
Park
episodes have their amusing flaws almost on purpose and remain as
visually humorous as anything, though I bet a Blu-ray would bring out
more and more fun. The lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 are just fine for
what they are, sometimes with fun surrounds to add to the humor, but
this would work better in lossless form.
-
Nicholas Sheffo
