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Summary: A Wonderful, Colorful, Musical Story
Review: This is a wonderful story with colorful characters, beautiful colors and good music. Well thought-out, it encourages interactivity. It is actively engaging. The musical concepts are explained well. For example, tempo is compared to the speed of a train. Children's comments: "I wanted to learn to make my own music." "Everyone has a good time with Blue. Steve always does something fun and you learn something too." It inspired kids to plan a show, starting with a checklist. "We want to write our own music and make our own tempo." Best for ages 2 to 5.
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Summary: Music Appreciation for Toddlers
Review: My 3 year old got this VHS video as a gift about six months ago, and it is still his favorite (he has an extensive collection -- for a 3 year old).
Well, this video is entertaining, even to adults. The plot has been explained by others, and the characters (especially Periwinkle, the kitten) are cute. The lessons are worthy, for example, dealing with disappointment. It merits five stars on that basis alone.
What's a bonus is that this video has helped to develop my son's music appreciation. He sings with all the songs, and he loves the Ray Charles as G-Clef interlude where G-Clef explains short and long notes, notes and rests (where kids are encouraged to clap), and tempo (where they act as slow or fast trains). My son now can recognize the classic "Kansas City" bass line from the number "Together" when he hears it in Buddy Guy or Lonnie Brooks numbers now. (I should mention that I now play it on my bass a lot, since he likes it, and it is a good "swing" exercise). In short, this video, which is about putting on a musical show, is making my son more of a "musician" per se. Blue's clues has always had interesting musical elements: the bass lines or guitar riffs or horn figures during the drawing of the clues and the "thinking chair" episodes, the songs, the sounds. This develops that even more. It has been said that exposure to music encourages kids to think (the Mozart effect). Waste no time if you have a 2 to 4 year old who likes Blue's Clues, or music, or both, and buy this video.
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Summary: Great DVD
Review: This was a wonderful movie. My toddler really enjoys Steve. ....
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Summary: Great For All Ages!!
Review: I bought this for my 7 month old daughter because the other videos appropriate for her age just wouldn't keep her attention for longer than 10 minutes. At first I thought this would be over her head a little and that she'd have to 'grow' into it. Boy was I wrong! There is so much action and singing that it totally keeps her attention for the entire video! Unbelievable! She even tries to sing and clap along with it. She even loves the music intensive section another reviewer mentioned. She is riveted to the t.v. the entire time. Another reviewer also mentioned that there was "too much" music and singing in the video. Maybe they didn't realize it when they bought it, but it does say "Big Musical", and all the MUSICALS I've ever seen have lots of uh.....MUSIC and singing. Anyway, I think it is worth every penny it cost. Especially the DVD, which is what we bought. The scene selection and special features are very convenient. I even enjoy them. My husband says that he thinks I enjoy this video just as much or more than our daughter does. He may be right!
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Summary: Blues Clues with lots of music
Review: This is a lot of fun for my daughter and me. An extended episode of "Blues Clues" with lots of extra songs (Silly Hat and Together are highlights), and Ray Charles! If you've watched "Blues Clues" it also wonders why Steve never finds the clues, and has a few other inside jokes for adults who've watched the show. If this movie just had Steve's Elvis impersonation, it would be perfect!
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Summary: Too much singing and a bit boring
Review: I love watching Blue's Clues with my son. This video is like one long episode of Blue's Clues to me except there's too much singing. My son got bored with the video after 45 minutes into it. Normally, his eyes is stuck to the TV until Blue's Clues is over. With this video, I thought it might be the same, but it's not.
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Summary: This tape is GREAT!
Review: My 15-month-old daughter loves Blues Clues, so when we saw this tape for sale we picked it up for her. Boy are we glad that we did. She LOVES the movie, and quite surprisingly, my husband and I love it too! The songs are very catchy, we find ourselves singing them all day! The plot is great too, and it has a sense of humor that will have kids as well as their parents smiling. My daughter will hardly go to sleep anymore unless she's watched this movie first, and it's so well done that we don't even mind having to watch it for the umpty-bajillionth time. As others have mentioned there are a few slow parts like a fairly intensive music theory section in the middle of the movie, but for our daughter these are perfect times for her to drift off to sleep mid-viewing :)Definitely a must-have for anyone with a little Blues Clues fan at home!
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Summary: Too musical !!!!
Review: As with any toddler,my kid is crazy about Blue too.But,I found that this movie is a bit too musical.It may sound silly 'cos afterall,its supposed to be 'Blues Big Musical movie'.But it has all those detailed rhythm,note and indepth musical basics which my 3 yr old found to be less interesting at times .Each kid is different,but just want to give my review too.The characters and the way they have dealt it is very good,but its been prolonged a bit and can sometimes make kids very restless as to 'when are they gonna find the next clue ?' Hope this was helpful.
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Summary: Great but there is just this one little catch :-)
Review: My 2 year old son loves to watch blues clues on T.V., so when I saw the DVD I decided to buy it for him... Just like I expected, he loved it! Now here is the catch I am not quite sure but there must be some kind of subliminal messages that only kids can pick up on because, that is all my kid wants to watch..how could I turn a kid down that says,"Daddy Boo's Coo's, Boo's Coo's" until he is blue in the face.. Anyway, I have grown quite fond of the tunes. They need to relese a new one soon, I don't know how much longer before my DVD has a melt down.
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Summary: best use of DVD technology
Review: If your child is like most and loves to watch the same video over and over- this dvd is perfect. It won't wear out like a VHS tape and you can easily and quickly jump from scene to scene if your kid likes a particular part or song. As is typical with Blue's Clues, the content is simply fantastic and easy on (even appealing to) adults. If your PC can run DVDs there are games included you can use in addition to the movie. The DVD comes with the movie, two music video sing-alongs, and a great "behind the scenes" look at production parents will get a kick out of. I can't think of a better use for DVD technology than for the pre-school watch-it-over-and-over crowd. Now if only they would put the regular episodes togther on a DVD!
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