Behind the Tunes: Too Fast, Too Furry-ous (2003 Video) User Reviews

If the Bible were self-explanatory . . .

[oscaralbert · 6/10 · 24 January 2016]

. . . then preachers would not need to unravel its meaning once a week in their Sunday Sermons. Likewise, watching one of these Warner Bros. BEHIND THE TUNES documentary shorts often is more of a Solipcistic exercise than a useful stab at True Enlightenment. Sometimes we get a tidbit of info from one of these Mini-Docs or the commentary track for an actual cartoon short that sheds some light upon the Looney Tunes, coming straight from the Roadrunner's mouth, to coin a phrase. When we learn that pencil pusher Paul Julian admits to violating Union Shop Rules to sneak in his sinister "Hmeep-Hmeeps" behind Voice Artist Mel Blanc's back, it's very telling. However, all the Looney Tuners voicing their geriatric takes here on happenings from the Distant Decades of Far Yesteryear is akin to asking Moses where Seth found a wife after the former gent's been wandering the Sinai Desert the better part of 40 years. If you have an archival artist interview taken when their creative juices are flowing mid-production, you MAY gain some valid insight into the meaning of their Art. (You are more likely to change the End Product itself, however, under one of the Heisenberg Principles which proves that looking at--or thinking about--something inevitable changes it.) But most of this Monday Morning BEHIND THE TUNES quarterbacking needs to be taken with a grain of Acme Co. birdseed!

chases and more chases

[lee_eisenberg · 7/10 · 30 November 2007]

One of the several mini-documentaries created for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 DVD set, "Behind the Tunes: Too Fast, Too Furry-ous" focuses on Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. Like the other mini-documentaries, it basically assumes that the viewer knows absolutely nothing about these cartoons. Still, I should admit that I'd never totally understood the idea that Wile E. always comes just close enough to catching Road Runner so that he believes that he'll succeed the next time. As Chuck Jones once explained, worse than the physical pain that WEC experiences with every failure is the humiliation at knowing that he has failed.

Anyway, it's worth seeing. I wonder whether or not that guy Jerry Eisenberg is related to me.

Short, But Informative Feature

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 2 March 2007]

Being a fan of "Wile E. Coyote" and "The Road Runner," I was interested to hear what was said in this short feature on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume One DVD.

"Actually, there is such a bird as a road-runner, but he doesn't look anything like the cartoon character and he doesn't go beep-beep," explains Jerry Beck, historian.

"With no dialog, they (these cartoons) were truly international and could be shown all over the world," points out Jerry Eisenberg, Looney Tunes animator.

Interesting observations like this, and some by Chuck Jones, Robert Givens, Corny Cole and others made this "documentary" very good and recommended. If you get this DVD, don't pass up short features like this one.

Just as basic as pretty much all the others Golden Collection Volume 1 shorts, I just rated it highly because Wile E. Coyote is my favorite Looney Tune

[movieman_kev · 8/10 · 2 November 2005]

This short five minute featurette, which can be found as an extra on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1. It's nothing more than a basic primer about the Wile E. Cayote & Road Runner, I'm thinking, with an eye geared for newbies to the classical Looney Tunes. It details the various standout cartoons they teamed-up in and tells the basic rules adhered to in the shorts.. This is really REALLY basic stuff (the same can be said for pretty much all the other Behind the Toons feauterettes that are on Volume 1, fortunately the Behind the Tune features would get so much better starting with the ones found on volume 2).

My Grade: B