 [Larger view] | Sesame Street - Sing Along
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 you need this video | |
| Our 18 month old son loves loves loves this video. He even signs "Sing" when he wants to play it. It's just a great all around sing (and sign) along without a lot of conversation. Get it! | |
 Simple, old-fashioned fun. | |
| There's not much plot to get in the way of the story: a batch of grownups and kids, and a few muppets, gather around a piano on the roof and sing songs. The efforts of Biff and Sully to fix a TV antenna allow for a number of classics from the show, such as "Rubber Ducky," "Doin' the Pigeon," and Grover singing "Be My Echo" with Madeline Kahn. It's charming, unpretentious fun to sing along with your kids. As other reviewers have noted, this one goes way back. How far back? If you remember David, you may be either pleased or a little nostalgic to see him singing with the gang; it looks like it was pretty close to the end of his years on the show. | |
 Not enough muppets | |
| This dvd was a bit of a disappointment. From the cover (showing Big Bird), I expected so see a lot more muppets than are on this dvd. It's almost entirely a group of PEOPLE from the neighborhood sitting around a piano and singing.
My son is very young (4 1/2 mos.) and he gets interested in the muppets, not so much the people - especially when the people aren't really "doing" anything but standing around singing. He much prefers the Sesame Street "Hoot and Holler" dvd, which is a lot of muppet animals singing songs and doing other things. That one keeps his attention and makes him smile! The other frustration with all of the Sesame Street dvd's is that, before you can select "play" or chapters, etc., they show an "ad" for the sesame street program that you cannot skip over or fast forward. So you have to watch it every single time, on every dvd, and wait for it to finish before you can actually push the button to start the actual play. Also, the function for selecting songs (chapters) only shows the first half of the dvd unless you fast forward to the middle first. |
