Is "Somewhere In Dreamland" worth getting?

[Hippety Hopper]

I've been thinking of getting this set for a while now and I figure your the guys to ask wheather I should purchase this or not.

[mmm...donuts]

Yes, that's a pretty good DVD. It has got all of Max Fleischer's "Color Classics" but one that is not in public domain. Plus, 10 cartoons have got an audio commentary by Jerry Beck. Honestly, the picture quality isn't very good, but is the average quality of the PD material that you can find on other DVDs and videos. Some cartoons are very faded, with scratches and one cartoon has sound out of sync. But probably these are the only copies that can be found, so "Somewhere In Dreamland" is-for now-the most complete collection of Fleischer's "Color Classics" series.

[frizfrelengfan]

I have this set, and I echo what mmm...donuts says. I like most of it, but I find the Color Classics series to be inconsistent. Some of my favorites on the disc are "Poor Cinderella," "Play Safe," "Cobweb Hotel," and "Dancing on the Moon"; others are so-so imitations of Disney cartoons.

There's a bug in the DVD coding that causes it to repeat track 7 ("The Little Stranger") over and over again if you try to play all tracks in sequence, and you have to go to the menu to play the next track.

Now if only Paramount would release Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection on DVD...

[Der Captain]

YYYYYEEEEECCCCHHHHHHH!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!! Fleischer made a serious wrong turn when he tried to imitate Disney. I can't watch those films without saying "Max, Dave - Why?" :(