Good Housekeeping Kids: The Three Musketeers

Rating:
Summary: Not Good
Review: Animation is a lot of work. If you're not up to it (as the creators of this cartoon) you can just pan the camera around static pictures and make minimal bits of the scene change when absolutely necessary. And if you do go to all that effort to draw a few cels, doggone it, you're going to loop them for all they're worth. The colors also seem washed out -- nothing like the vibrant picture on the box. The picture quality and sound are poorer than what you'd expect from VHS, let alone DVD. The music seemed irrelevant.

But all this I could easily forgive if it told the story well. Unfortunately, the pacing is horrible, the plot is obscure unless you already know the story, and it is devoid of any real emotion -- either from the characters or the viewer. Wait until your kids are older and give them the book instead.