Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

If you already own the previous DVD or Laserdisc releases of these great classic movies, you may want to think twice about investing more money for only 15 minutes total of "Today Show" interviews with Harpo, Groucho, and Harpo's son promoting their books. There is some fun here, but you want to kick the Today Show Director when they interrupt Groucho's story, after only 5 minutes, because they have other things to get to. Groucho really looks stunned and put out that he was stopped. There are also 3 trailers (Cocoanuts & Monkey Business have none) strangely tagged at the end to promote the MCA 1980's Home Video Tape release. I guess Universal forgot that they own the rights to the Marx Brothers half-hour 1950's TV special "THE INCREDIBLE JEWEL ROBBERY". This would have been a great addition to the box set! I have never seen this except for the old Castle Films home movie clip. Restoration? Well, Universal never used that word in their description, and they certainly didn't do it. The choppy splices are still there in several movies. The missing footage is still NOT there. Some reels are still out of focus. Some reels are still many generations away from the original negative and look very contrasty. Some reels still have a bouncy picture (warped negative). About 75% of the time the films do look good. This really looks like a quick patch-together box set by Universal (Owned by NBC, that is why their Today Show clips are used) to keep up with the competition (WB's DVD Box Set). BUT, if you never got the previously released DVDs or Laserdiscs, then this is a Must-Get box set!