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Summary: My 20 month old loves Barney at the zoo!
Review: My 20 month old loves Barney at the zoo. Any video with animals in it she just loves and I enjoy watching this one too. She'll walk around saying zoo everytime she wants to watch it.
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Summary: BORING!!!
Review: My 20 month old loves Barney but is bored to tears with this video. Within 5 minutes she has lost interest. Too much talking, not enough singing and dancing.
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Summary: BORING!!!
Review: My 20 month old loves Barney but is bored to tears with this video. Within 5 minutes she has lost interest. Too much talking, not enough singing and dancing.
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Summary: An Animal Lover's Favorite
Review: My 21/2 year old daughter watched this over and over and laughed again and again in spite of the availability of many other Barney choices. She joins right in and "talks" to the animals and has increased her vocabulary. A must for any child with a love of animals.
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Summary: Yes it is Barney, but minimal animals
Review: The songs are there and common characters, but there is minimal animal footage. The animal footage is boring and my daughter does not embrace this video as she does others. The worst is the DVD has no menu to skip to different parts or songs and takes quite an extended period before playing the actual movie. **Amazon staff, this is my fourth attempt to review. I beleive you are not being full,frank and honest in the opinion disclosure. Your loss of a sale is not worth misleading the public by only publishing favourable reviews, it is shameful and something expected of a lesser company.**
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Summary: My baby loves it!
Review: This tape is excellent! It took my baby several viewing to like it, but once she did, she really liked it! Barney, B.J. and Baby Bop go to the zoo and see many animals like Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Parrots, Tortises, Kangaroos, Hippos, Merkats and Bears. The songs are very good! Half are new and half are the same ones. I particarly like the Elephant and Tiger songs a lot. My baby loves The Wiggles and only one other Barney video, Sing And Dance With Barney. After several viewing of this tape she fell in love with it. Now she giggles at B.J. and Baby Bops anitics, as well as the puppet squirel guy. It is bright and colorful and fun to watch. Just like being at the zoo right along with them!
A very good tape and a must have for a active child who won't sit still for most tapes on the market!
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Summary: Barney let's go to the zoo
Review: What a disappointment. My children (17 months old) love Barney and the gang but no children were included in this video. They lost interest in it very quickly which is unusual for a Barney video. It was very boring.
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Summary: Only 5 minutes of animals other than dinosaurs
Review: What a letdown. I was looking forward to this because our baby likes Barney reasonably well, but the TV shows are not consistent and I had high hopes for a video that was not a rehash of previously broadcast material. In my view, this tape is actually weaker than the typical TV show.What our child likes about the Barney TV show is the interaction among the real live children; the singing and dancing; and to some extent, the silly stuff (like Scooter the Squirrel). At 18 months he is more patient with long sections of talk than before, but still, a child needs some stimulation. The regular cast of Barney kids are totally absent, as are most other regulars like Stella, et al. Just Barney, Baby Bop and BJ, and Scooter, along with some lady they meet at the zoo, whose dramatic purpose seems to be to explain things -- except that Barney explains things half the time anyway. They could have left her character out, because she just slows things down. There are ridiculous running "plot" lines, like BJ trying to take pictures that don't turn out. Wow, that's funny -- not. There's one scene that I thought was cute, where two kids visiting the zoo mistake Scooter for a monkey. It made ME laugh, but zoomed over the head of our child. Maybe such humor makes more sense for older children since it is rather verbally oriented. The reason I've given it a middling kind of rating is to allow the possibility that older kids might put up with it more readily. In any case, if you expect anything remotely resembling a regular Barney show -- OR if you expect to get a reasonably intimate visit with zoo animals -- you will be disappointed on both counts. They try to shove in a few songs like those in the regular shows, but it's a force fit. Above all, animals simply do not get a lot of screen time for such a long program. I would expect a couple of quick scenes where the stuffed characters move from place to place, maybe with a little banter or even singing, and then most camera time would be devoted to showing the animals. But it's nothing like that! Our son loves animals when they show up in other videos, so if this tape had spent more time showing and identifying the zoo creatures I'm sure it would have been better received. Instead, the adults have to fast forward through all the pointless banter or else risk having a very bored child crying for something else. My suggestions: Use Barney for the singing and dancing and socializaton skills that he's best suited for; and find some other program to show and explain zoo creatures in a more focused and coherent manner.
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