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Disney's Little Einsteins - Mission Celebration
Starring: Little Einsteins Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 22, 2006 Running Time: 72 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 2005
Product Description: Every day's a celebration with DISNEY'S LITTLE EINSTEINS™. This remarkable series from Disney and the award-winning Baby Einstein Company launches preschoolers on thrilling music-filled journeys to real-world destinations where they'll help solve important missions and have fun learning along the way. Put on your hat grab your goodie bag and get ready to blast off! You're invited to a party where the guest of honor is YOU. Climb aboard Rocket with June Leo Quincy and Annie for a rootin'-tootin' time in the Wild West. Meet playful penguins in Antarctica as you search for runaway balloons and travel all the way to Italy on an expedition to bring home a magical machine that makes today everyone's birthday! MISSION CELEBRATION! is your invitation to the biggest best most amazing party ever.System Requirements:Running Time: 72 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 786936702644 Manufacturer No: 05039900
Amazon.com: Fine artwork, classical music, and destinations around the world are the order of the day for the Little Einsteins, a group of musically-minded children who travel the world in their trusty rocket ship looking for adventure. Each of these three CGI animated adventures encourages viewers ages 2 to 7 to get involved by clapping along and promotes the development of careful listening skills and an understanding of basic musical terminology. In "The Birthday Machine," June, Leo, Quincy, Annie, and Rocket can't wait to construct a birthday machine, but their quest for parts takes them deep within Michelangelo Buonarroti's painting "The Laurentian Library" and then on a gondola ride through the canals of Venice where they chase and order specific melodic fragments from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenberg Concerto Number 5." In "Go West Young Train," the group journeys to the American Wild West where they experience the art of Navajo basketry and the music of Georges Bizet while helping Little Red Train recover a bag of party supplies stolen by Big Jet. Finally, the group journeys around the globe from Seattle, Washington to the tropical rainforest of Henri Rousseau's "The Merry Jesters" and the ice floes of Antarctica in "The Birthday Balloons." Along the way, they pick out melodic fragments from Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and recapture a handful of runaway balloons. The DVD bonus feature "You've Got a Mission" gives viewers a chance to pilot Rocket on their own mission to gather party goods. --Tami Horiuchi
Love those Little Einsteins! Great videos on this dvd, my 3-year old loves it and I don't mind watching it with him over and over and over.
Great episodes My 15 month old loves this DVD because it has two of her favorite episodes. She loves to "conduct" along with Leo. I love the clever way these tapes teach about music and problem solving.
would've given this 5 stars except for one thing... My 2 year old loves this. She grew out of Baby Einstein and we bought her a few Little Einstein ones. She watches them all the time. We had to try to limit her DVD time everyday so that she has other things to do. But of all the DVD's this is quite educational (even for me as an adult!). The characters asked questions to viewers, guided them to imitate gestures and noises. I also like the real images in addition to cartoon images. For example, they flew over the real cities such as Venice or Seattle, and showed real animals like penguins.
My only complaint, and it's a big one, is that the kids are off tune. Annie (the blonde) is seriously off tune. It really bothers me when they sang together (that feeling is similar to someone who scratched a blackboard with fingernails). Complete dissonance in certain instances. At first I thought it was the composer of the tune, or believed it could just be my own problem and they were just singing with normal kids voice. But later confirmed with others that they were, in fact, out of tune. If they're trying to set examples for kids and teach them various things from fine arts to classical music to science, why not demonstrate by singing the tunes correctly?
Daughter loves this.... My 3 year old is a HUGE fan of the Little Einsteins. I picked up this DVD from my local library and my daughter watches it everyday. All the scenes are age appropriate for her and she loves the interaction with the chararcters. This would be a great purchase for preschoolers.
One major flaw outweighs all of the good qualities As a grandmother, I am always on the lookout for good, nonviolent videos for my two young grandsons. I was very excited when I started watching this one yesterday and thought I had finally found something good. The educational features are wonderful--world geography, introduction to classical music, physics, etc. However, in the second episode, "Go West, Young Train," I was absolutely sickened to see that the only villain in the entire DVD is a sneaking, thieving airplane that looks very much like a Blue Angels jet. This underhanded attempt to brainwash very young children into hating our military makes me furious. I had to explain to my very intelligent 3-year-old grandson that this is just a movie and when he sees airplanes like that, he needs to realize that their purpose is to serve and protect us, not to harm us as this one did, switching the track to make the cute little train plunge over the rim of the Grand Canyon. Parents, wake up! Know what your children are watching! I won't be watching these again, and it's too bad, because in all other ways, they are truly excellent.
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