Customer Reviews

ABC's Sing-A-Long

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

If I could select negative stars I would!! This movie has brought shame to the entire children's movie industry. Even though the DVD case gives a clean, well-produced, educational video impression, DO NOT be so easily fooled!! The movie appears to be a collection of home videos of a group of kids who had a little too much of extra time on their hands. The children in the video do not even interact with the song playing over the audio; they do not dance to it on rhyme or even sing along with it. During story time, the story is read over the audio, but the 'storyteller' in the movie just moves her lips clearly not actually reading the story. As other reviewers have brought up, the face paint was too scary and looked out of place. I am horrified that I even purchased this video and I STRONGLY urge you to refrain from making the same mistake I did!!!

Worst kid's DVD I have ever seen. I could only make it through a few songs before ejecting it and throwing it in the trash. Poorly made (think home video camera) and as another reviewer said, the face painting is a little scary.

As others have said, I'd like to give this no stars. It is so bad I would feel guilty re-selling it at a consignment, so I'm throwing it away. I think the worst songs are the one where an old, scary man who looks drunk is chasing a girl with an umbrella. That's followed by video of the kids wearing fake beards while sitting around tables and swinging glasses like they are at a bar. And this girl wearing a clown costume laughs hysterically like she's drunk. I want to smack her throughout the entire video. The production quality is terrible. Don't waste your money like I did! What a joke!

While this is certainly not the best children's video, I'm not sure what the reviewers who are calling this the "worst" are expecting from a low-cost video designed for very young kids. First off, this video was originally recorded in the French, with English dubbed over. And while the dubbing is occasionally out-of-synch with the lip movements, most of the video is of song and dance only. The songs are common and the audio quality is fine.

The bottom line is this . . . my 2 year old loves this video. While the two long stories do not always keep her attention, she is fixated on the rest of the video. And I have no worries about the content she is viewing. There is no violence and no special effects. Quite simply, it is a low budget video with basic costumes, simple storylines primarily based on popular children's songs, and easy-to-mimic choreography. And while the "Vive la Compagnie" song does make reference to consumption of alcoholic beverages, children watching this are unlikely to make the connection to alcohol - unless that's what they see in their homes.

Regarding other reviewers' references to "creepy" clowns and "scary" make-up, it may frighten some children, but probably just the ones that scare easily. And to make the suggestion that the man with the umbrella chasing after the girl during the "Chasing the Kangaroo" video is perverse is simply an adult projecting their own perversions to a children's video. The scene was filmed following the words of the song. And maybe that man is the girl's grandfather. Would that be more acceptable? Nothing about this video is scary, creepy, or perverse. Get a grip people!

I recommend this video. For the price, if you feel that it's inappropriate, or if it scares your child, give it to someone else with your "warnings" and let others (specifically the children) decide for themselves.

I laughed until I cried at the other reviews, which are all true. This is a truly bizarre, outrageously awful movie. BUT--our 27-month-old son adores it and has learned the lyrics to all of the songs. He sits still and watches it and smiles and sings along--which he refuses to do for any other movie. I can't account for his taste--but he loves it. We bought it for 5 bucks and it's honestly money very well spent.

We've had it for a few months now--at first his mom and I "lost" the movie for awhile, since we just could NOT listen to it or see it one more time. Our toddler kept searching for it and requesting it for days on end. Finally we gave in to the dark forces and now we let him watch it all the time. It makes him SO happy--we just leave the room so we don't have to endure it again.

We thought it might have been filmed at a Romanian orphanage. After careful video review, we noticed a Quebec license plate. We continue to speculate about the people who made this--a religious cult? A discount orphanage? Who ARE these bizarre people?!

One other note--there is no conflict or violence in this movie, which is rare for kids' movies.

I compare this children's DVD to "Plan Nine From Outer Space" because it has to be the absolute worst children's movie ever made. It is trash, poorly made, insipid, teeth-grinding trash. I bought it on the cheap-o rack at ROSS. It should have been in the recycle bin. From the bored-as-hell kids to the fat chick in a clown outfit with face paint, everything about this video is creepy and horrible. YUCK!

After playing it for several minutes I had to pick my chin up off the floor.Unreal is all i can say!It's the weirdest home video/kid movie ever made and I swear the adult clown is totally drunk. It's worth a fewbucks just to get a good laugh at how bizzare this movie is, then toss it. It's like a bad trip.

Poor quality, no words for sing-a-long, lousy songs, lousy props. Dont waste a cent for this [...].

I have to admit we laughed through half the video saying What the heck is this? Thankfully we only borrowed this video and did not waste our money on it. I am starting to think if this video acctually made it to market I could make tons of money on my home videos! We laughed harder as we read through these reviews that made every comment we did. The face painting is apalling, the kids look like they were picked up in a park and given 5 bucks to try to look like they were having fun, not to mention the jumping over lit candles and the child molester looking guy chasing the girl in the "My uncle chased a Kangaroo song" The main girl in the very out of place wierd theme park looking dress should be embarassed that this video exsists! I also agree that the songs are also cheesy. I put up with a lot of cheese in my kids movies but this is so bad it could be UTUBE making fun of cheesy kids videos video. To the person who was grateful for the repeat, I leaped across the room to make it stop!! ICKY YUCKY AWFUL HORRID PUKE!!!

This movie is not a good movie for children who do not like masks. My children were so scared of the painted faces!