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Rating:  - Chuck Jones Deserves More
Chuck Jones is an amazing director, but unfortunately this documentary is more a "celebration" of Jones--the kind of thing you might see at an awards show, only longer and more repetitive--than an in-depth look at his life or work. This DVD isn't worthless. You do get a couple of great cartoons and some mildly-interesting pencil tests. But your time and money would be better spent with Jones' own book (Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist) or with the cartoons themselves.
Rating:  - Chuck Jones - Extremes and In-Betweens, a Life in Animation
Peering inside the head of master animator Jones and revisiting sequences from some of his most famous shorts is half the fun of watching Selby's up-close-and-personal documentary. The rest comes from listening to what latter-day animators and comedians like Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg have to say about his influence on their own work, and hearing Leonard Maltin articulate what made Jones's cartoons funnier and more brilliant than anyone else's. Seeing the evolution in his style, from the cutesy Disneyfied knockoffs of his early career to his later triumphs with Road Runner and horny skunk Pepe Le Pew, is worth the price of admission alone. Plus, who can resist the array of rare, marvelously madcap clips?
Rating: - Tribute to a master
Great DVD, specially if youre into animation. Is really nice to see him talk about his work beacuse hes one of the greatest. Its also cool to watch the new animation masters like Glenn Keane and John Lasseter talking about the inspiration that Chuck Jones was for everyone...
Rating:  - Warner Brothers marketing of Chuck's Image(s) in one DVD
A definite "scrapvideo" for MOST Loony Tunes followers,"Chuck Jones - Extremes and In-Betweens, a Life in Animation" left me a taste of respect and motivation to Mr. Jones career through animation, fused with emptyness and frustration in some pointless interviews with Whoopy Golberg, Robin Williams, Matt Groening and Steven Spielberg (nothing outstanding, relevant, or even worth for the narrative context in this DVD).
Initially, the DVD structure looks quite ambitious through 21 of its 22 titles but, while watching the whole thing I got more and more convinced that most of the chapters were just too "light" to make a "one-of-a-kind" anything. That goes even to special features like the rush version of "Chuck Jones Tutorial: tricks of the cartoon trade" quite poorly edited and commented by some animators except Mr. Jones.
More like a Video Catalogue of Mr. Jones work at Warner Brothers, "Chuck Jones - Extremes and In-Betweens, a Life in Animation", pulls down Mr. Jones potential and appeal to a 90 minute commercial about shorts found in DVD collections and stories or books written by or about Mr. Jones (and...guess what? They are all for sale separately).
I also missed the complete versions of "High note" and "The Dot and the Line" (Even if this last one was done with MGM).
Rating: - 100 % pure inspiration!
Woow, what can I say? It is all about Chuck Jones!
Very inspiring DVD with a great interview and some commentaries from famous people. This stuff is totally inspiring for animators!
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