Customer Reviews

Baby Einstein: World Animal Adventure

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3 star:		(4)
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My daughter has enjoyed watching all the Baby Einstein DVDs since she was an infant. I wasn't sure this would do the trick, but I was wrong. I bought this a few weeks ago. She's now 20 months, and she watches the video the whole way through and loves to name all the animals. There's also a setting for older kids to describe what the animals are doing...Sheep running, etc. She watches this a few times a week and never tires of it.

I like this DVD because it has tons of animals, however one thing I bought it for was because supposedly it has a "grow with me" feature, meaning that when the baby is old enough they show and say the name of the animal, however no matter if I choose level 1 or 2, the dvd shows the word and says the animal's name, so there is no level 1! My son is 17 months old so it does not matter because we would not use the level 1 anyway. Another thing I did not like was that they are very specific about saying the name of the animal like: clown fish, I would prefer if they just said: "fish" and then they say: "snow monkeys" again I would have liked if they just said: monkeys.

I like this and enjoy quality time with my son as he gets a kick out of it and I like the fact that it is teaching him something at the same time. Thumbs up.

My nephews and nieces just love watching this. It is very educational and teaches a lot of vocabulary.

This is a great learning dvd to show more animals, images and videos are amazing too! def recommend to anyone whose child loves animals.

This DVD is very good. My kids loved it. It shows lot of animals in their natural habitats. I like the playing time options in the menu, a 5 minute segment and a 10 minute segment. It is very easy to restrict the viewing time this way. My kids watched this when they were about 2 yrs old. I didn't see any difference between the Regular and Grow with me option. My kids loved the World animal song also. They sing it even now.

I have a couple of complaints about the quality and effort put into this video. Like another reviewer noted, in some cases you can't see the whole animal. How is a toddler to learn what the animal looks like if they only show a part of it? It confuses them. For instance, they show a part of a chameleon, and my toddler keeps on saying "crocodile" or "frog" whenever it comes up becomes those animals are more familiar to him and since he can't see the whole animal, he can't tell the difference. On the same vein, they show a manatee, and even though they show the whole animal, my toddler says "seal". As yet another reviewer noted, they should have also kept it simple in naming the animals, as in "monkey" instead of "snow monkey". Also, there is a misidentification: What they call a "llama" is really a guanaco. So, on top of the poor editing and choice of nouns, they mislabel the animals. Having said all that, I gave it three stars because my toddler really enjoys this DVD and it keeps him entertained.

I got the Baby Einstein 26 DVD bundle from another place and that had the 2001 version of this DVD. This one is the latest video version and is highly recommended for kids. My 2yr old loves the video. Product is a bit overpriced (50% compared to price of 26 DVD bundle), but for now will rate only for the product and not for the price.

Our 18-month old has loved the World Music video for most of her life, so we were eager to get this one. However, she just doesn't enjoy this one as much. She doesn't really laugh at the puppet shows on this one--they don't really make sense. It just doesn't seem to display the level of thought and effort that the other video did.

She does watch this video, but it rarely keeps her interest all the way through the way World Music still does.

If all you want is a video full of bright colors then this is a great film. Otherwise the quality's not there anymore! The old Baby Einstein videos were of a different caliber. The wonderful music we all appreciated is gone & the puppets are so boring even my 18 months-old won't watch it!
I believe any T.V for children under 4-5 is harmful. So if I want to make an exception it's with a good quality product & this is far from being one.
The feature song is dull & the people singing it are mumbling.
Technically speaking, the filming is an aberration. Is this amateur filming????? Throughout the video you barely see ONE COMPLETE ANIMAL!!! Most of the time it's parts of animals: A fox without a head, the eye of... a lizard??? I don't know. Feels like someone patched together unused footages from another good movie.How can you introduce animals to toddlers with only parts of their body???? Even worse, they would name one animal & then skip the next three... Nothing in this video makes sense.
& let us not forget the french version: The lady speaking french has a weird accent. Avoid!!!
I truly believe the whole package is harmful & I'm surprised there's Disney's name on this one... It's an embarrassment! If I had the choice I would return it & for the rest of you, stick with the old B.E videos.