Tom And Jerry: Complete Volumes 1-6 [DVD] [2006]

Great collection and such a nostalgic movie

Great value for a huge collection of classics. No political correct wokery so brilliant. Grandkids love it.

Great to have some brill episodes of some of my, and my grandchildren's, favourite cartoon characters.

Enjoyed them so much that I bought a second copy for my cousin.

Tom and Jerry legend.

I bought this set after I introduced my 4 year old son to Tom and Jerry on YouTube. On there, the best quality videos were just compilations on the Warner channel. It did my head in and I had to explain to my son that when I was a kid, we saw the whole cartoon and not just clips. The cartoons are great and my 4 year old loves them. He laughs big belly laughs at these classics. They are not properly remastered like the ones on the Warner YouTube channel clips though but they are still the best quality I have seen compared to anywhere else.The discs are double-sided. I have never seen DVDs like that before so I initially thought that the first 4 discs were missing the picture. And that some of the episodes were missing. Silly me. They are all there. The early ones, the best ones by Hannah-Barbera and Fred Quimby and also the later 60s Chuck Jones ones which I disliked but my son laughs loudest at!As far as I can tell, these cartoons are as originally shown and include the house keeper that frequently battered poor ‘Thomas’. As we know these cartoons were of their time and the Warner compilations on YouTube seem to have excluded her and other elements. I’m glad she’s in as she is part of the show. Some sequences in the cartoons probably would not get broadcast these days so it’s a good way of seeing them in their entirety.The set loses a star simply because the box broke really quickly and easily in the place where you open the box. And as you know with a 4 year old, you are going to get asked “can I have the one where...” so the box is opened and closed often.I recommend the set to anyone who loved Tom and Jerry when they were younger and if you want to show them to your own children.

First, to clear up any confusion, this set consists of the equivalent of 12 DVDs, which are recorded onto 7 discs, 5 of which are double-sided. That means that you get 14 hours and 48 minutes worth of cartoons or, to put it another way, a grand total of 159 of them. These are the originals, before they were made on a production line for television. In other words they are well-drawn, well-scripted and - most importantly - actually funny. My grandson loves them and, I must confess, so do I.LATER: Having now had chance to watch them all, we found volume 10 to be absolute drivel. Whoever was responsible had no idea of slapstick humour, none whatsoever about scripting, nor of appropriate music. All the episodes were atrocious. Volumes 11 and 12 are rather better, and certainly watchable, although not quite up to the standard of volumes 1-9. Still, that gives nine volumes directed by the great Fred Quimby and so makes the set a good buy by anyone's standards, even with the lesser stuff at the end.

I grew up in an age where it was recognised that cartoon violence was just that. Hours of mindless slapstick that still has me in fits. Not shown on TV these days, these DVDs take me back to when a cat and a mouse routinely tried to murder each other and it still hasn't turned me into a villain :)