Product Details

• Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Brooke Nevin, Boris Cabrera, Nadia-Leigh Nascimento, Christopher Ralph
• Writers: K.A. Applegate
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: August 3, 1999
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767834607
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,753 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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As if alien invasion isn't enough to deal with, Rachel finds out her divorced dad is moving 1,000 miles away and wants her to leave her friends, mother, and sister behind and join him in "The Stranger," the first of three 24-minute episodes based on the Scholastic book series by K.A. Applegate. While she is mulling over Dad's offer, Rachel and the rest of the band of morphing teenagers face a tempting offer: stay on earth and fight what appears to be a losing battle to the invading Yeerks, or take refuge on a safe planet with their families. In "The Leader," parts 1 and 2, Jake and Marco are caught morphing into animals and launched into space to face a powerful new Yeerk leader, Visser One, who turns out to be the mother Marco thought had been dead for two years. The three episodes from Nickelodeon's prime-time series are sandwiched by extra footage of Marco first making his case to quit the teens' quest to save the earth and then, after discovering his mother's fate, vowing to fight until she is free. This well-produced adventure series combines domestic tales with science fiction geared toward ages 6-12. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Reviews

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars okay, December 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 3: The Enemy Among Us [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you ask me, you should read the books first, then watch the movies. The other way around kinda spiols it. I like how the movies are visual, I am a visual person after all (kinda). I still think that the books are better than the videos because they have a longer storyline and a really interesting one, not that I am saying that the videos don't, because they do, they are just kinda dilluting it, that's all. Read book #1, then go down to your local video renting store and check out the first video in the series and you'll see what I mean. The videos are pretty good though, beleive me. The books are better, however, if you want a really good book to read, choose the Holy Bible, God's word.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this movie, it was so awsome. You have to see it!, October 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 3: The Enemy Among Us [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Animorphs. Five normal kids with the power to become any ANIMAL they touch. Jake, Marco, Rachel Cassie, and Tobias are Earth's only HOPE against an alien invasion that's hit their neighborhood. But they're getting tired of saving the world... until a mysterious stranger shows what the FUTURE will look like if they give up. Then, when Jake and Marco are held hostae on the Yeerk space ship, they discover a SECRET that changes EVERYTHING.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A complete rip-off, July 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 3: The Enemy Among Us [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I personally think the show is a complete rip-off. It's just a show that the writers, publishers, and executives thought from out of thin air. The show has boring plots off an alien topic with the name "Animorphs" tacked on. Wait a minute, the name Animorphs is the name of my favorite book series. Sorry, but I wanted to illustrate how the show has almost nothing to do with the books. Why doesn't Scholastic have a TV show where the characters are animated yet actually look real (not like the blade ship from the first TV show episode). It sounds crazy, but if it looks good enough (easy with the modern technology available) they could follow the book series without limitations that occur with filming real people as well as follow the script and events better. And finally, make each book a couple of shows long instead of cramming it into one show. That's all I have to say.