Customer Reviews

All About Airplanes/All About Helicopters

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is my (2 year old)son's favorite of the All About DVDs. This "airplane" topic is different from the one that comes on the other DVD (I think the other one comes with "construction" or "building"). Anyway, I recommend this one! My son loves it. It holds his attention very well. From the adult point of view, Backpack Jack (in the "airplane" portion)is easier to stomach than the cheesey overacting of Hard Hat Harry (in the "helicopter" portion), but the kids don't care at all. It's all very educational, paced well, and contains lots of cool action footage. There are also "big" planes and helicopters, which my son loves (to him, the bigger the better). The "airplane" topic explains airline travel, pilot training, aircraft inspection, aircraft controls and components, etc. The "helicopter" topic takes the kids on a tour of different kinds of helicopters (large military/ small civilian), introduces purposes of some of them (transporting troops, extinguishing fires, surveillance, commuter travel, etc), reviews some of the controls and components and aircraft inspection.

The only All About... that seems worth the money is Fast trains and Airplanes. I don't know why that one is different but this one is total junk. It's completely boring with a few scenes of real action. The actors babble on about magic and what not and there is no real entertainment here at all. The other reviewer loved it for his older children but I don't know too many kids who can just sit and listen to this without getting bored. I couldn't even listen to it while washing dishes. My three year old was completely disappointed as well.

We bought this DVD for my year old. The airplane chapter is ok. It's very corny and low budget but entertaining to my son. The Hellicopter segment is AWFUL. It looks like it was filmed with a VHS camera in the 80s. It has an awful storyline that makes no sense complete with bad acting. It's actually painful to watch. If it were not for the mediocre airplane segment, I would have asked for a refund. It's really that bad. I wouldn't recommend this DVD.

My 2 1/2 year old is obsessed with this movie, so I have to recommend it, but the quality is just OK. We have both learned new terminology from the movie, expanding both our vocabularies : )

My son enjoys watching it: the music can get a little annoying sometimes, but overall it is a pretty good kids show: we have several of these All About videos and Mighty Machines, and they are all pretty good, especially for the price.

We purchase this DVD for our 2 year old son. He is really into both airplanes and helicopters. He loves both programs. Somedays he watches Airplanes over and over and other days all he wants is the helicopter program.

As the adult, who has to listen to the DVD's, I prefer the airplane program over the helicopter program. But the helicopter program has grown on me.

I recently purchased this DVD for my twins, age 2. At approximately $5, it was an easy purchase decision for which I could forgive myself if the video wasn't good. Luckily, this video is 50% great.

My twins request "airplane show" multiple times daily, even over Elmo! They do not, however, request the helicopter show. This DVD contains both shows and I have to agree with the kids. The Airplane segment is well written and informative, and holds the kids' attention for the duration. The Helicopter segment is informative, but is distracted by talk about magic and genies and carpets and what-not. I assume this is because helicopters aren't nearly as prevalent in the skies above, and children are less likely to encounter helicopters on trips down to visit their Grandparents!

For 30 minutes of fun about Airplanes, and 30 minutes of snoozing about helicopters, $5 is a great bargain!

I ordered this DVD after previously purchasing the All About Dinosaurs and All About Recycling. My two sons, ages 6 and 9, both continue to enjoy the All About series. Hope there are more to come.

These "All About" videos are interesting for kids, but parents will be taken aback. They are "hosted" by the very creepy Hard Hat Harry; a strange genie who pops up in the middle of kids playing, and takes them on adventures. I certainly don't want my kids to wander off with some weird guy who invites them to look at trains/cars/etc. Honestly, he strikes my wife and me as a potential molester. Finally, the quality of the videos is lousy: many of them look to be filmed - poorly - in the early 1980's. We are not buying any more of this series, and now have to explain to our kids about talking to strangers.