Rating: Summary: A big disappointment Review: This video was such a huge disppointment. My 17 month old will not even watch it and he is a true Wiggle-Head.
Rating: Summary: Good but not as entertaining as some Review: The wiggles are a favorite here but for some reason this one doesnt hold the attention of my son as much as the others. He does enjoy some of the tape like the hoop dee doo song (the first one), Captain's magic buttons,the farm song and Marie's wedding. This is a definite good buy but in terms of choosing your first couple of wiggly videos I would choose Toot toot, Wiggle time, or Yummy Yummy. These are excellent videos and my son just loves them.
Rating: Summary: Dissapointing for a Wiggles fan Review: Lets admit it parents: the glory days of the Wiggles are already over. Since getting more money and technology the quality of writing and choreography have gone down. My daughter loves all of the forst three videos - she doesn't even glance at the screen when I play "Hoop-de-Do". All of the computer generated backgrounds and kids dancing all over make it confusing to little kids. The dancing is lacking the creativity and enthusiasm of previous videos too. I love the Wiggles, but I don't recommend this one for younger fans like age 1-3. I HIGHLY recommend "Wiggle Time" and "Yummy Yummy"
Rating: Summary: My Children Love this Video Review: My 9 month old and 2.5 year old love this video. They BOTH dance to it -- and my 9 month old is absolutely captivated by the music and colors. It is even entertaining for the parents.
Rating: Summary: My son's ABSOLUTE favorite!! Review: This is my son's absolute favorite show, he watches it all of the time. My daughter is starting to enjoy the show more and more. They love to dance and sing with the shows.
Rating: Summary: Not one of the better ones Review: My son loves The Wiggles and has for some time. We have bought a lot of their tapes from Australia itself. We had the music CD before we had the DVD to this particular one, and we were disappointed when we saw this. My son does not hardly watch it at all, though he still likes the CD. He is only 4 and he even said "boring". He does like the dinosaur amination video but that is because he loves computer animated stuff other than that there are no real dance routines that made the other films so famous. I think we could have invested in saving for the next DVD instead of buying this one :(
Rating: Summary: Quite disturbing, yet fun. Review: It's scary to think that this is the Wiggles video "where they actually had a budget." While I sit in disbelief, my 2-year-old daughter loves it. And until now, she generally wouldn't pay attention to much on TV. (Not that we want her glued to the set, but a DVD she enjoys once in a while is a good thing.) The campiness of this DVD makes it great--the [bad] costumes, the [bad] "How to Make an Emu Costume" sketch and the subtle cultural differences. ("If you don't have a guitar, just use a cricket bat." Yeah, OK, Greg. Sure.) Nevertheless, you can't argue with what works, and the toddlers I know that have seen this thing can't take their eyes off it. Best description I've heard yet: The Wiggles are a cross between the Monkeys and Barney.
Rating: Summary: Our daughter's favorite DVD Review: I highly recommend this DVD. It is the only Wiggles DVD that we have and our daughter loves it. She likes the music and dancing the most. We often skip past the "talking" sections, between the dances. We bought this DVD (along with others) to keep our 14 month-old daughter's attention while we drove from California to Tennessee. She is now 17 months old and this is her favorite DVD. She has most of the Baby Einstein DVD's and likes them too...but she can dance to the Wiggles by following the children in the DVD. The only down-side is that we can't seem to find any other Wiggles videos on DVD that we like & we don't want to buy VHS. So we're still waiting for the others to come out.
Rating: Summary: It's great, but work up to it! Review: If you're new to the Wiggles and your children are 3 or under, start with the older tapes--"Wiggle Time" for example. I agree that for very young children these are more approachable, and that the dancing on the older tapes is great. But "Hoop-dee-doo" is lots of fun too, and if your kids like the older tapes this one will grow on them very quickly.
Rating: Summary: No more dancing! Review: The Hallorans are gone! They were the excellent dancers from the other tapes. Their Choreographer was Leanne Halloran, who played Officer Beaples, who is also gone. The contract The Wiggles had with the Donna Halloran School of Dance is over for good. The songs are wonderful, but the dancing is non-existent with the new Choreographer (who was Dorothy The Dinosaur) Leanne Ashley. Although she herself is an excellent dancer, as a Choreographer, she does not deliver and the pizzazz the Wiggles once had is gone. Still my 26-month-old loves this video a lot. My other complaint is all the songs, with the exception of Caveland, are performed on the same background stage. I liked the other videos where they go to the beach and to other locations for their songs. The songs are as good as they get and my child adores this tape, so that's all that matters I guess. I only wish Leanne Halloran and her daughters would come back! It was great seeing them all grow-up from Dance Party through to Wiggly Wiggly World. Now they are gone forever and it makes me sad, even though my daughter does not notice, it is obvious without the Hallorans, The Wiggles are lacking much of their magic. These songs are wonderful and follow the CD exactly except the Beach song is missing. I have all their CD's too and this one is the best along with Yummy Yummy. This is the only video that follows the CD closely. If you do not mind The Wiggles and the children dancers sitting around and occasionally waving their arms and wiggles their hips, instead of dancing, then this is a wonderful tape to own. The did skip something in thier artwork for this one though. Seeing that same stage on every song gets dull fast. The songs are so good you will be able to look past all the defects in this film and enjoy it, I promise you...
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