Together with Volume 5 of X-Men, Buena Vista has released the complete 1994 Iron Man animated series on DVD. For one reason or another, I never watched this show in 94 so I was very interested in seeing it. Unfortunately, the cartoon isn’t as coherent or watchable as the X-Men show. If you’re like most people these days and get your image of Iron Man from the new films, I’d stay away from this one.
Along with Spider-Man and Batman, the 90s animated X-Men cartoon has always been one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood. Back in September I reviewed volumes 3 and 4 of the show’s run on DVD, and now it comes to an end with volume 5.
I never really thought we’d get this many episodes of X-Men on DVD, so I’m pumped to finally have them all. Well, I’d still like to see the 1989 pilot Pryde of the X-Men get a DVD release, but maybe if we buy enough of these sets they will release it.
Volume 5 contains the following episodes on two discs:
Remember those awesome DVD sets of Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 60s and 70s I reviewed? Well, since I got my hands on those sets, my biggest hope is that we would get a 80s set, and thanks to Warner Bros we finally did.
Just like the last sets, there are some toons I’m familiar with, and some I’d never even heard of. To me, that’s a big part of the appeal of these sets.
Tom and Jerry Tales is a modern interpretation of the classic animated duo that ran on CW4Kids from 2006 until 2008. Warner Bros. has released previous DVD volumes of collected episodes, but this is the first time it’s been released as a season set.
The Complete First Season is a 2-disc set containing the first 13 episodes of Tom and Jerry Tales. The show is a throwback to the vintage shorts, each containing three shorter stories full of the violence and mayhem that we grew up loving.
The set contains 39 short stories in total, with a runtime of 294 minutes, so if you’re buying for your kids it’s a great deal. Overall it’s not the classic Tom and Jerry that we (and our parents) grew up with, but it’s a worthy homage.
Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season is available to own on DVD now.
Warner Bros. made their fair share of feature length mashups using classic Looney Tunes cartoons and some new filler animation in between. Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies is exactly that, a collection of shorts weaved into a new sublot where Bugs has to fill in for the Easter Bunny when he falls ill. I’m a huge fan of the Looney Tunes, and I don’t mind these long-form specials because it lets me sit back and watch a good hour’s worth of shorts all at once.
