Interesting Review of "Flintstones" DVD on Amazon.com

[Daniel P]

Get a load of this Amazon.com reviewer...


0 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/stars-1-0.gif Rip-offs, Meet the Rip-offs,, February 14, 2004
Reviewer: slim_shinji (see more about me) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A2KI9BG44SNF5S/1/ref=cm_cr_auth/002-5343239-2284001) from Newport News, VA United States
Jackie Gleason threatened to sue Hanna-Barbera over this show, and well he should have. So what if it was the first prime-time animated show in history? That doesn't change the fact that it's an uninspired, second-rate rip-off of the Honeymooners. It succeeded then because it was a novelty. Now that we have the Simpsons, who needs the Flintstones? Certianly not me; Warner Bros. needs to offer up some more Looney Tunes or Batman DVD sets instead of this prehistoric dreck.

[CookieS]

Wow, talk about being bitter! Like it or not, The Flintstones are part of American culture. They did make an animated version of the "Honeymooners" at Warner Bros. but that never took off. When Hanna-Barbera took the risk of making the Flagstones (original title) pilot, I think they worked the Honeymooners idea in as a tribute. The Flintstones later took a life of its own, not relying on Honeymooners situations later in the series. Becuse of this, I guess I cannot agree with the review.

[Jave]

I wonder what this guy thinks of Bob McKimson's "Honeymousers"... :mad:

I have to agree with Cookie that as the series moved on, it relied less and less on "The Honeymooners" as an inspiration, it was a show with a great setup and stories (courtesy of some well-remembered people at WB, like Warren Foster and Mike Maltese), and really likeable characters.

And like many of you, when I was little I had no idea the series was supposed to spoof a live-action show! :p

[Steve Carras]

Get a load of this Amazon.com reviewer...
Well, I posted a LENGTHY review there (I'm a registered member) and I defended the show but brefiyl (I listed a number of times the show's end credits got revised, a list of many writers, and guest voices, broken down into regular bvoices, character-ingenue performers and ultra special celeb, or at least then celeb guests (then reffering to such personas as SHINDIG's Jimmy O'Niell, the only celeb almost completely forggoten who did their own voice on the original show). (BTW Raymond Burr, RESPITE what some may say does NOT do his own voic eon Bamm Bamm';s debut, that would be goods ol' Don Messick, reprisijng his Ranger voice).,

[shogunthethird]

Yabba Dabba D'oh!

[nakak]

Now that's a bunch of shh-OUCH! (a bee stings on cbrubaker's finger)

anyway, I also wonder what he thinks of McKimson's "Honeymousers"

[Pietro]

I think this guy has way too much time on his hands...

-Pietro:daffy:

[Thad Komorowski]

Call me crazy, but I, for the life of me, would never buy one of the Batman sets he mentions of....


-Thad

[duck dodgers]

Call me crazy, but I, for the life of me, would never buy one of the Batman sets he mentions of....


-Thad
well,i love flinstones but i'm waiting for the batman dvd sets with more impatience

[Andrew R]

Get a load of this Amazon.com reviewer...I hardly like the Flinstones but if being a rip-off of something live-action makes a cartoon worthless half the cartoons we know and love would be defunct.

Not the least of which would be A Tale of Two Kitties!

[mobo85]

"Animation is based on plagarism. If it weren't for someone plagarizing 'The Honeymooners,' we wouldn't have 'The Flintstones.' If someone hadn't ripped of 'Sergeant Bilko,' we wouldn't have 'Top Cat.' 'Huckleberry Hound,' 'Chief Wiggum,' 'Yogi Bear...' Ha! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney!"
-Roger Myers, Jr., President, Itchy and Scratchy International
(from the The Simpsons episode "The Day the Violence Died")

[Brandon Pierce]

Well, I'm not a big fan of Flintstones myself, but I do too think he was being too harsh.

But, hey at least commented that WB should focus more on relelasing the Looney Tunes on DVD (more of them, I mean). You listenin' WB? Oh, that's right, if it concerns classic animation you tune us out, but if it it reguards recently made cartoons, then you're suddenly not deaf.

[Nelson]

I guess that idiot doesn't know that Jackie Gleason was a fan of "The Flinstones" when the show premeired back in 1960. duhhhh:rolleyes: