The New Three Stooges: Complete Cartoon Collection

I recently ordered this as a way to complete my collection of Stooges material. Of course there's no way to compare these cartoons to the original Three Stooges episodes, since the audience they appeal to is much different. The best thing about the collection is that it's complete without anything missing. I was disappointed to find just how low the picture quality is - I know these cartoons were made long before CGI and HDTV, but the picture looks like it came from an old videotape (probably due to the fact that they compressed the material - The run time is long enough to fill 5 DVD's, but they decided to use only 4 instead). I doubt you would find another complete collection of Stooges cartoons - They're pretty much ignored in most box sets, and most Stooges box sets aren't worth the material they're made of (as you'll find when reading reviews, and as I found out the hard way a number of years ago), so if you want the cartoons this is the item to buy.

These old cartoons were never very good and the live action intros and exits were only a bit better. Everything is there, but these are not really restorations, just transferred prints from the mid 1960's and they are showing their age, with the live action bits suffering most; blurry images, fluctuating audio, etc. Still, if you are one of those folks who need to have everything the Stooges ever did, this is the complete cartoon collection, so you'll have to pony up and buy it.

I remember watching these cartoons in the mid to late 1960's mornings on WLS-TV in Chicago. There would be two episodes of The New Three Stooges mixed with two episodes of Roger Ramjet. I hadn't seen these cartoons since then except on a couple of five or six episode vhs collections. Could the quality of this release been better? Absolutely! As has been reported on here before Image/Madacy obviously did not have access to the original prints. There are plenty of signs of these being video tape transfers. I have also noticed the music on the ending credits does not conclude correctly. What this set does have going for it is that it is the complete collection and the colors are generally very vibrant and not faded at all. The bonus cd is also a nice little piece of nostalgia. Don't get me wrong, I really have enjoyed watching these cartoons again but I just couldn't give the set a five star rating because of the flaws. If you want all of the cartoons in one set I think this is the only place you will see them.

Good news this is the complete set as you remember seeing on TV that includes the live skits in between the animation.Bad news the audio fluctuates from scene to scene. The opening theme song clip is loud. Then the live skits are low and the animation is a little louder than the skits but lower than the opening theme song. So you might have to find a happy medium for volume.It looks like they didn't clean up the footage just recorded as is. But this is rare to have and pretty sure no one else is going through the trouble of putting it together.No bonus stuff other than 2 CDs of Three Stooges singing children & Christmas songs.Added option you can view all the animation w/out the live skits or view the live skits w/ out the animation. I like to view them as I originally did on tv w/ usually Moe introducing the next cartoon. So if you are a Stooges fan like myself I think you'll enjoy it w/ some of the defects.This would of been 5 stars if the volume was the same level and would of been 3 stars if it wasn't The Three Stooges.

awesome! had to get this for my vintage cartoon collection!! if youre new to this cartoon, its basically this... the stooges get into some pretty wacky adventures animated style but whats even better is that each episode has real video of the stooges setting up each cartoon while doing some zany stooge-esque scene. if you love retro stuff youll like this. i personally like the corny setup clips by the stooges.

I liked the product description, however, I'm shipping it to nieces & nephews in the Philippines !!

One of the best collections I could ever have and it made me laugh every episode. I could watch it over and over again. I love it.

It says on the back box these cartoons were introduced in 1969...LOL....right there sums up the quality and time put on this set!Glad to have the "complete cartoon" series with the live actions scenes but the "public domain" quality of the prints is a joke! Anyone with the prints transferred to their PC could have rendered a better job than whats on these DVD's!

as expected

Up until this collection came out I had only seen a handful of these cartoons. All of them had numbers at the bottom making me wonder how many were actually made and that I would lie to see all of them eventually, hopefully in one collection.At last, it seems my hope has come to pass as this is the complete series collection, that includes all of the live skits they performed ahead of each cartoon.These are largely not in numerical order, but unless your OCD it doesn't matter. I am more interested in something being complete rather than being in order.This is a wonderful addition to my stooges collection, I try to get anything available on DVD from these guys! I have many stooges movies, but certainly not all of them, so I hope in future to see a complete collection of stooges movies collated and released.Soitenly a good choice, great buy and great entertainment!

good product