Product Details

• Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Brooke Nevin, Boris Cabrera, Nadia-Leigh Nascimento, Christopher Ralph
• Writers: K.A. Applegate
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: February 16, 1999
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000G3I3
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,858 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review of Part 1, January 15, 2004

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This review is from: Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 1: The Invasion Begins [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this video 2 days ago and it fascinated me and my 8-year old son...the acting is good and these kids are more or less similar to the characters in the book but totally different. With books turned into a TV series, you cannot really expect a "literal" copy of the book to be turned into a TV series but it's still entertaining to watch. I just wish they have this series in reruns or something....and continue to fascinate young generations like my son.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ye Gods! How could anyone vote higher than 2 for this?, September 2, 2001

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Ryan Lohner (Sparta, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 1: The Invasion Begins [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This show is pure sacrilege to the book series, even more so than book 54. It might be interesting for those reviewers that say people must hate everything Animorphs if they hate the show to learn that K.A. Applegate hates the show, and even made fun of it in the books once! I can't remember which book it is, but she says in the introduction, "Controllers don't pull their ears or anything."

I only got through the first three episodes before swearing off the show forevermore, but what I can tell you is that it stinks. I'm not against original plotlines, but every time an episode is not based on one of the books it ends up a horrible mess. Even the episodes based on the books are terrible, from what I've gathered from episode guides.

Did the people at Scholastic actually go out of their way to find 20 year olds that looked nothing like the teenage book characters? Also, the Animorphs' personalities themselves are pretty separate, so it wouldn't seem very difficult to get the characters mixed up. For no apparent reason, Rachel's and Cassie's personalities are completely switched. Cassie's the belligerent mall girl, while Rachel's the messy pacifist. This isn't helped by the fact that a lot of the characters' trademark morphs are changed. Jake has a white tiger, Rachel has a lion, and Marco has a rat. Apparently, this is also just for the hell of it. Plus, they can now morph any kind of clothing, which takes away one of the biggest problems the Animorphs of the books had.

Also, although the first book was spread over three episodes, Scholastic then decided there would be one episode per book. This means that a 150+ page book is being constantly crushed into 22 minutes of air time. This would be a tight fit even without showing every other shot from three different angles in slow motion.

In short, read the books (possibly making up your own ending and skipping 54) and forget the show ever existed. You'll be glad you did.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Animorphs breaks out on video!, October 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 1: The Invasion Begins [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In part one of the four-part movie series, the video is exactly the same as book #1- The Invasion.In the first episode,"My name is Jake Part 1", the Animorphs recieve their Andalite powers. In " My name is Jake Part 2", the five teens get their first morphs- But Tobias is missing! The team re-enters the construction site in morph with a plan. It gets them a robotic alien disk. In the third and final episode, " The Underground", the Animorphs go down into the Yeerk pool and at the end, Tobias is missing AGAIN! Then they leave you hanging wondering if he's alive, but if you read the series, you know the truth.