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Summary: As close to watching the actual show as a video gets!
Review: Both my toddler and I loved this video. For my toddler, it has several advantages: one, it's an hour long and can replace Sesame Street itself if you missed it that day (just get an Elmo's World tape to follow up). Two, it has a full cast that includes the newer characters who weren't around in my day: Elmo, Telly, Prairie Dawn and many others make an appearance. Third, the celebrity cameos are few and serve the storyline well.As a former puppeteer and avid Sesame Street fan, I really enjoyed watching it myself. It has old clips that have almost disappeared: the original "Rubber Ducky" with the floating bubbles, "C is for Cookie," "I'm an Aardvark, and I'm proud," and some of the letter and number clips you might remember as a kid. I also liked that the storyline was filmed outdoors, making the production values somewhat better than other Sesame Street videos. Having a store of all the "important" songs is really useful, too. Enjoy this video with your kids - and tell them about the "olden days" when Snuffy was an imaginary friend of Big Bird's and Ernie grew critters - what were those things called? - in his window box.
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Summary: What happened to Sesame Street?
Review: Personally, I hated this video. It was not at all the Sesame Street I was expecting. For one thing, given its retrospective theme, I would have liked seeing it take place on the Sesame Street set, and include more classic cast members and old Sesame Street cuts. I enjoyed the old songs, but not really the new ones. (Meanwhile my 2 year old son didn't enjoy the old songs as much because they are all unfamiliar to him and the old Sesame Street personalities aren't quite the same as what he knows.) If I want to introduce him to the Sesame Street songs I grew up with, I'd rather get a CD.
I know that it is meant to have a multicultural flair, but all of the non-puppet star performers are black, singing or dancing to rap, R&B, drums, or African music. All of the non-black people have big hair. So much plastic cheesy smiling, and kids rambunctiously playing in the background of every shot was too unnatural. The finalle was painfully cheesy and smacked of cultural "fishbowling". I must say, I am not entirely against the new Sesame Street. I think they have some great things, and my son loves it. I did enjoy the "Let's Make Music" video, which I feel works much better, even though it contains many of the same ingredients. This video doesn't cut it.
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Summary: Love Sesame Street, but was very disappointed with this DVD
Review: I was born in 1969 and very much appreciate the Sesame Street "classics" - the vintage "C is for Cookie" especially.
I was very disappointed with this DVD, however, and feel I was mislead by the title implying a sort of "greatest hits" compilation while it's not that at all.
I bought the DVD for my 18 month old son who is now into Sesame Street and loves the music.
I saw "Rubber Ducky" and other favorites listed in the song list and thought we'd have so much fun watching it and singing together. BUT, the "best" songs (in my opinion), such as "Rubber Ducky" are VERY, VERY abbreviated. (So, the song list is misleading, as well.)
We skip over many of the songs and I regret buying this one.
I don't recommend it, but will carefully look over other Sesame Street DVDs available - a truly great show with wonderful songs and stories for children (and their parents).
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Summary: Good but could have been better
Review: I love Seasame Street and wanted a good trip down memory lane. I want my daughter (she's only 3 months old) to grow up with my favourites. I was a bit disappointed in the dvd. I was hoping for a lot more "oldies" and I would have preferred to see the entire sequence for the rubber duckie songs. I was also looking for the words to help me sing along. Put in the lyrics please!
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Summary: My daughter's all time FAVORTIE!
Review: My daughter receieved this video as a gift when she was 7 months old and is in LOVE with it! She is 10 1/2 months now and STILL can't get enough of it. She loves something different about it everyday. At first I had to fast forward through some of the songs because she wasn't interested. Then a few days later she couldn't tear her eyes away from the same song! It is great to watch her watch this tape and move and dance to it. As soon as I turn it on and she hears the Sesame Street music she starts waving her hands and smiling and laughing!! I grew up with Sesame Street and it's one of the only shows we let her watch. It's good, wholesome TV and, thank goodness, our daughter loves it! We love the old Sesame Street AND the new Sesame Street that is on now. Old or new, Sesame Street is wonderful!
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Summary: Mostly clips from 25 great years of Sesame Street
Review: Watching this video is very similar to watching an episode of Sesame Street on PBS...only not exactly the same Sesame Street that's on the airwaves today. It has musical clips from various episodes throughout the lifespan of Sesame Street and contains more clips of Bert & Ernie and Grover than you will see in a typical episode in 2001. It's not just a series of old clips, however. The clips and new material are woven into a story of Big Bird looking for LaLa-ers for the show that the Sesame Street characters are planning. Not everything fits just right, but it is fun to watch and sing and dance to. The most important reason for my high recommendation of this video is the fact that my 22-month-old son is FACINATED by it. It may not be teaching him his numbers or his alphabet, but he is starting to try to sing along. Not the absolute Best Video out there, but thoroughly enjoyable and worth the price.
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Summary: Don't listen to those who complain...
Review: This video is great! My 10 month old LOVES it, is glued to the TV when it's on. Someone complained the songs are short, but hello! Kids don't have a very long attention span. The songs are cute, and yes, they do get stuck in your head, but they love it! Cheesy, yes. Again, they love it! It seems the people who give this DVD a poor rating are doing so because it's not the sesame street they remember, or they don't like it. That leads me to ask the question, "Who is this video for?" If your child loves it, who cares that you don't! Boy, these parents are gonna have a hell of a time when their kids start liking all sorts of things they don't!
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Summary: MY KIDS AND I LOVE THIS VIDEO
Review: My kids and I LOVE this video. Starts out with En Vogue signing "Adventure" which is a great song to bounce around to. Big bird goes on a quest to find people to who can sing and in the end, learns that everyone can sing! Musical Celebration's got some oldies but goodies, Kermit signing "Bein' Green", Bert "Doin the Pidgeon", Ernie driving Bert nuts signing "Dance Myself to Sleep" in the middle of the night and some fun new stuff like "Happy Tappin with Elmo". Also four fun rubber duckie songs that are great to sing in the bath. "I'd like to visit the Moon", (sung by Ernie) is such a great song I memorized it and sing it to my 3-year old when she fusses in the car, she loves it. "Beautiful Skin" is a peppy song and ,true to Sesame Street style, this video features all skin tones from white to black to blue to green. This is a bright, fun, colorful, musical video, with not too much storyline to weigh it down. At the end of the video Big Bird, Elmo and a whole slew of muppet animals sing "We are all earthlings" which is a very pretty song. Then Big Bird realizes that in his quest to find singers he has been surrounded by them the whole time. A huge group of kids, adults and muppets (including Maria, Gina, a fabulous group of African singers, and two tapdancers) "Sing a Song". This is not so much an education video (as far as learning ABC's etc.) but it has a good message - That we are all one on this big, beautiful Earth and that if you look around, you'll find all the friends you need. Babies and toddlers will enjoy this video for the bright colors and fun, upbeat songs, especially if you sing along with them!
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Summary: Duckie Dive
Review: True, this DVD manages to capture the attention of my 14-month old for minutes at a time - more than any other video so far. So, on that level, let's give it five stars. However, on every other level it is a major let-down. There is no DVD menu, forcing one to start from the beginning every time it gets put in. Second, some of the best songs, including "Rubber Duckie" and "Happy Tapping with Elmo", are grossly abridged versions (yet we get a full-length treatment of "I'm an Aardvark." Go figure.) While we do get a full "Monster in the Mirror," that pleasure is negated by an incredibly weak performance by Kermit in "Being Green." Seems Kermit was having an off-day in the studio; his rendition on the Platinum CD is much more powerful. In short, this is not what is advertised. It's a cheap knock-off, with misleading packaging. Rather than a "greatest hits" it's a boring (even by children standards, ask the above 14-month old) frame story with edited songs.
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Summary: Good movie
Review: One of the better Sesame Street DVDs we have. The story line is Big Bird trying to find some "la la"ers for a musical celebration. There are little shorts of previous sesame street skits. It all ends with a grand finale of music and dancing. Good movie. My son loves it. (18 months)
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