Bob the Builder:Snowed Under the Bobb

Rating:
Summary: Bad, Bad, Bad.
Review: Like the other reviewers I also have a 3 year old who is crazy about Bob; he must have watched 'A Christmas to Remember' a thousand times (me too!!). But this christmas effort is very disappointing. He was so excited by the online reviews and sneak peaks, but has never asked to watch 'Snowed Under' again since seeing it for the first time at christmas. Hated the 'team leader' personality given to scoop - very confusing for my children too. Scenes were stretched, unnecessary boring bits were used to fill the time and the overall pace was slow - nothing to capture a child's imagination and enthusiasm. And way too much yodling too. My 2 year old didn't sit still for more than 10 minutes. Shame.

Rating:
Summary: Choose another Bob Movie- Too much arguing and yodeling
Review: My 2 1/2 year old son loves anything to do with Bob the Builder. The new characters Bennie and Zoomer are great and my son likes the Zoomer toy. This movie is really too long and negative for a child his age. It is a full length movie rather than several short episodes like the other Bob the Builder DVD's. Scoop spends most of the movie arguing with or criticizing the other machines. Here are a few examples of the dialogue -- -- "We're here to work not to have fun," "You're just a show off," "You need to stop being such a know it all," etc. I believe they are trying to introduce the concept of teamwork, but I think it is introducing way too much corporate culture at such a young age. The yodeling may be very annoying for most as well. I would buy "Dig, Lift and Haul" instead of this movie.



Rating:
Summary: Horrible video
Review: My 2 1/2 year old son received this as a gift for Christmas - he loves Bob the Builder and we have a few other videos. In this story, Scoop becomes a egomanical paranoid freak, which my son finds confusing and upsetting. There are a few scenes where the machines argue and "camera" zooms in on close-ups of angry machine faces. This he finds very upsetting and yells for me to fast forward. It sends a terrible message to young children- that someone can treat their friends (co-workers, whoever) very badly, and then at the end, when that person messes up and needs help, is easily forgiven and it is all shrugged off. In addition, the foreign accents assigned to some characters are ridiculous and almost offensive (and again, confusing to my son) and the yodeling is a virtual nightmare. It is just so sad that HIT Entertainment did not produce a storyline with more empathetic characters, and involve more learning. It is a total waste.

Rating:
Summary: scoop struggles with his inner demons.
Review: this is a good show, fun seeing bob and the gang (including spud & pilchard, but not travis or farmer pickles) having an adventure abroad. lots of internationals (an australian, some french and german, swiss) and their fun expressions, even lots of yodeling (which my little boy is really keen on). bob and the machines, along with the help of benny (new to the crew) build the venues for the bobblesberg winter games. they ramp up the ski jump, build a log cabin, smooth over the ice rink and carve out the bobsleigh run. nice winter fun, great alpine scenery.
the only thing keeping this from 5 stars: scoop just drives me nuts. bossy, bossy, bossy, he argues and picks with muck, dizzy, roley And benny. but they all apologize and make up in the end, so it isn't all bad. and plus, with the dvd you can watch it in french-- scoop's voice isn't nearly as grating.
all in all, a good flick.
ps. my little boy has a Great time with the other new machine introduced here, zoomer (bob's snowmobile).

Rating:
Summary: Not the best Bob
Review: This was not a great Bob the Builder. My almost 2 yr old loves Bob the Builder but he lost interest almost immediately with this one. I don't blame him, so did I.

While we liked the new characters in this video, Zoomer and Benny, we disliked Scoop. We understand what the writers were getting at with Scoop and his attitude throughout the video, but it was a little bit much, maybe a little too harsh at times and possibly over a youngsters head.

The idea of the video was good but could have been better written.