Product Details

• Actors: animated
• Directors: Jonathan Gross
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Sisu Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 25, 2003
• Run Time: 36 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000VLA6W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,671 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #34 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > Hanukkah

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CHANUKAH ON PLANET MATZAH BALL - DVD Movie

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars My son likes it BUT..., December 12, 2004

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Kenneth D. Tucker "amy9769" (Ashburn, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chanukah on Planet Matzah Ball (DVD)

We got this video for our almost 3 year old son for Hanukah. He really likes it but I'm not crazy about it at all. I don't like it's portrayal of the Greeks and the whole thing about "pigstachio" ice cream is ridiculous and completely inaccurate. I don't know what the people who produced this video were thinking. The singing dreidyl is also annoying, but I can tolerate that part. I would not recommend this video to anyone.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars oh my, this was so bad it was funny, December 27, 2003

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katie Rains (Olympia, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chanukah on Planet Matzah Ball (DVD)

This is possibly the most inaccurate protrayal of Chanukah in kids programing to date. The movie starts with aliens on planet Matzah who found out they were jewish and who begin to chant 'we are jewish! we are jewish!' like it was some crazy cult. Then out of space comes this menorah that falls into their spaceship. This is fallowed by a song that goes something like "what do you do with a menorah? what does a menorah do? what do you do with a menorah? we all wish that we knew." Then in a quest to find out about Chanukah they uncover that the Greeks captured the Jews and made them worship a Greek god named "Ralph" instead of their own. Also they had a scene where the Jews go shopping in a Greek grocery store....and all they had were "pigstacio icecream" or "pig sount brussle sprouts" or "little pig cereal" point being the greeks made the Jews shop in their grocery stores where all they could eat was the forbidden pork. The movie ended with a song about Chanukah put to the tune of a Christmas song. I don't think an ounce of research was done for this film. I've concluded that the writer and the director of the puppets got together for a production meeting and someone was like "okay I have a friend who has this friend who had a cousin that married a girl who was once half jewish and the word on the street is that they have these things called latkes."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Entertaining!, December 11, 2004

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Nesikha (Tel Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chanukah on Planet Matzah Ball (DVD)

First of all, I'd like to warn everyone about Katie Rains review below - she obviously has no sense of humor.

This is by far one of the best Chanukah films made. I have been waiting all my life for Chanukah to get some attention. Who cares if it's not 100% accurate? Is every Xmas show 100% accurate?

It is such a cute show and brought to life maybe some new Chanuakh songs. There is no song that sings to an Xmas tune like the below review states.

It is simply a good family Chanukah film that children of all ages would love. Surely a new Chanukah tradition in my family.