3/5 Fairly standard Mill Creek product
  by David Starner (Lowell, Massachusetts)
For anyone familiar with other Mill Creek collections, this is pretty standard. It's a collection of 600 cartoons, of frequently middling video quality and unknown provenance (i.e. you may being seeing the version originally shown, or the version edited for TV 30 years later). The collection is indiscriminate--"Destination Earth" is a propaganda piece by the oil industry, for example--but most of them are fairly typical cartoons. If you have other cartoon collections, this probably overlaps them, if it doesn't include them. Many of these cartoons are available online from legit sources.

Being familiar with Mill Creek, my worst problem with this set was organization. There's no good reason to spread series across several disks, mixed in with other cartoons. No disk is filled by cartoons with one character or by one series, and one typical example, the Popeye cartoons, have 30 cartoons on one disk, 6 on another, and one more on its lonesome.

Is it worth it? If you have to have just about every cartoon released in these "public domain" cartoon collections in one neat box, then this is your box. If you don't have any "public domain" cartoon collections and want to see one, this will begin and just about end your collection. You might want to grab a few DVDs at a dollar store first, to see if it's to your taste. If you're looking for a decent collection of almost any of the Warner Brothers or Disney characters, then don't look here; little of their work is available here, and it's not the good shorts. If you're looking for beautifully restored film, likewise, you need to look at pricier, smaller sets; this set averages okay with some pretty bad stretches, and at no point has seen careful restoration.

5/5 Three Cheers!
  by Bill (Southern Maryland, U.S.A.)
I've always been attracted to old cartoons. This dvd has lots of them and many great memories are here. There are cartoons by Paul Terry, George Pal, and others from the early days of movie cartoons. Cartoon characters include The Little King, Felix the Cat, Toonerville Trolley, Betty Boop, Popeye, Casper, Little Lulu, Farmer Alfalfa, and Dick & Larry aka Tom & Jerry (not the cat and mouse). You'll surely find some that you like. Nope...there aren't any Looney Tunes here, though.

5/5 Fun
  by Harold Tucker (Alabama)
I'm 57 years old so I grew you with these cartoon. It was fun revisiting old friends I grew up with as a child. And at ten dollars, it's a real bargain. Is the quality great, no. Is the animation fantastic, no. But it was a different time and era. For me, there're great.

4/5 Fantastic collection and outstanding value, but disc quality problems
  by Dance Day and Night (Montreal, Quebec Canada)
The pros:
This set contains an extraordinary amount of material -- more than 5 hours per DVD, and as such is an oustanding value for the price. The cartoons range in quality from execrable or grotesque all the way to breathtakingly beautiful artistic treasures. They also range in time from the 1920s to the 1950s, some possibly from the 60s. Even the poorer cartoons are interesting as illustrations of cartooning history. This is a wonderful set of cartoons!
The (only) cons:
The disks are cheaply made. Some are so poorly made that in one of my video players (a top-of-the line Pioneer stand-alone DVD burner with hard drive) the disks vibrated so much after loading that they came into contact with the optical mechanism carrier and accumulated more scratches with each loading. Not good. One disk refused to play altogether on my Pioneer machine, but did successfully load in a cheaper JVC DVD player. Ultimately, such disks would soon self-destruct from cumulative damage. This is unfortunate, as otherwise the product is attractively packaged, and even the disk labels are beautiful. The contents, as described previously, are beautiful and an oustanding value.
My suggestion is that this set is definitely worth buying, but that you should make yourself backup copies of the disks (provided that this is legal in your area) if you really wish to keep this material playable. Play the backup copies. I've never had any recordable DVDs vibrate or get scratched in any of my DVD players. A great little utility which permits making backup copies, even of copy-protected DVDs, is AnyDVD, in conjunction with a utility called CloneDVD. Both are available at a modest price from a company called slysoft. I've been using these for some years and have found them reliable and a great value. Please be aware that CloneDVD can't copy physically damaged disks, so make backups *before* your originals are damaged. Some DVD burning software (such as Record Now DX) is capable of duplicating slightly damaged disks.
Good luck and happy cartoon watching!

An update to my review: I went to Mill Creek Entertainment's web site, which listed email addresses for customers to contact, and sent an email to customer service describing the quality problems with their disks. I promptly received a very apologetic and helpful email offering to mail me replacement disks for any defective ones. They even said that I didn't have to mail them back the defective disks. They also stated that they would be contacting their manufacturer to investigate this disk quality problem.

How about that for old-fashioned customer service? Just try to get a replacement for a defective DVD from the bigger studios -- good luck; some don't even list any email address for their customers to contact them. Not only does Mill Creek produce DVD sets of cartoons and old movies, all of which are an excellent value, but they have demonstrated great respect for their customers -- all at a very modest price. In my opinion, this company really deserves our business.


4/5 well worth the price
  by P. WILSEY (Grand Island, NE USA)
I bought this dvd at wm for a little over $10. You may not know some of the cartoons. But that don't matter to my 2 yr old grandson. To me it is well worth the $10 I payed for it