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This four-disc set includes all 130 five-minute episodes, but the prints have faded badly and there's no evidence of any restoration work. Baby boomers (or Gen-Xers) who grew up on the program may get a nostalgic buzz from watching one or two episodes, but sitting through more than a few quickly cloys. Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse was never a great series, a fact that's more obvious four decades after its debut. Kane went on to develop a second spoof, the marginally superior Cool McCool (1966), a send-up of Get Smart. (Unrated; suitable for ages 5 and older: cartoon violence, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Sid Marcus, Reuben Timmins |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1960 |
| MANUFACTURER: | A&E Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Animated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Animation, Cartoons & Animation, Children's Video, Movie, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 4 |
| UPC: | 733961705805 |
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Customer Reviews of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse - The Complete Series
Courageous Cat& Minute Mouse Great print, and looks good on big 42inch TV. Friends and kids love it! <
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Too much of an OK thing
If Batman had been concieved for a "funny animals" comic book, this would be the result. It's not a spoof, so much as a shifting of the concept in a different environment. I find it fairly entertaining with a couple amusing gags in almost each cartoon, but it is severely hampered by the five minute episode format -- there just isn't much story that can be built up. It's a shame Bob Kane wasn't given a chance to work with somewhat longer stories to add a little depth. Still it is very interesting to see how Kane adapted his Batman concept to a totally different framework.
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>It's a shame they didn't bother to digitally remaster this material. It is watchable but the age definitely shows.
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>As other reviewers have said, it plays best if you watch only 2 to 4 episodes at a sitting. Of course, this is true of most short cartoons (Looney Tunes is the only series I can think of that holds up well to marathon viewing.) These cartoons were never intended to be watched for hours at a time.
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>My biggest complaint with this set is that it is just too much. Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse was a decent series and deserves release, but does anyone really need all 130 episodes? It wasn't that popular or significant. I think it would have been better served with a single disc "best of" collection.
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>One final quibble -- Minute Mouse's voice tends to get on my nerves. It makes sense for a mouse to have a squeaky voice, but his is just a bit too squeaky for comfort. Oh, well.
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They made 130 of these?!
I'm all for nostalgia and all but this DVD set does little to invoke any sense of it for me. About the best part of the series is the theme music and intro. I remember little else about the series, having last seen it nearly 30 years ago (!) in black & white. Watching these episodes again I find that instead of being fun, the series is ludicrous: the animation is bad, the plots are nonsensical, Courageous Cat's gun-for-every-situation is ridiculous and Minute Mouse is 100% useless; it almost boggles the mind that 130 of these cartoons were created. As another reviewer stated, these shorts can get tiresome quickly and watching no more than 3 or 4 at a time is recommended. Unfortunately, I rented the first disc from Netflix.com and, not wanting to hold onto the disc too long, am forcing myself to watch 11 shorts at a stretch (good thing they're only 5 minutes long) so I can send it back from whence it came as soon as possible. Feels more like a chore than a nostalgia trip.