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Curious George Comes to America

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This is absolutely one of the most delightful children's videos I have ever watched. While the Curious George tale is great, the Toad and Frog stories are even better. The animation is superb as is the presentation. But the best thing about it is that how it is entertaining while being something of a morality play. It teaches children and all of us the immeasurable value of friends and helps us see that our occasional thoughtlessness can cause us to inadvertenly hurt those who love us most.

This is a nice, classically animated DVD. However, I was disappointed that the majority of the DVDs running time is devoted to the "Frog and Toad" stories, with only one Curious George story included. This video should really be called "Frog and Toad stories, with a bonus Curious George episode".

If you are looking for a Curious George DVD from the cartoon animated PBS series, this is not the DVD for you. I believe the cover is misleading in this regard because it is actually a stop motion animation feature made in 1982. There are two Frog and Toad features, also stop motion, which are Frog and Toad Together and Frog and Toad Are Friends. These two appear to have been made in 1987 and 1985, respectively. It appears this DVD was packaged in 2004 by Sterling Entertainment, so the 2005 date listed by Amazon is based on the release date and does not reflect production dates.

This video is deliberately deceptive. It's stop-motion animation, not cartoon animation. Even the title "Curious George Comes to America" is a fabrication. This film was based on the original book written by the Reys in 1939. This book was simply named "Curious George". (It was the book Tom Hank's son carried around in Forest Gump. It was also the first book I ever checked out of the library in 1958.)

When I created the Curious George and Frog And Toad films in the early 80's, both authors, Margaret Rey and Arnold Lobel were still alive. Every effort was made to be true to their books - there was genuine respect for their work. The resulting films won many awards and were best sellers in their market. How does it come about that these films, considered classics by some, are now being used as fodder for the exploitation market? Is this part of the anything-for-money attitude that has dragged our country down? One thing is clear: SVE has no respect for authors or filmmakers living or dead. Shame on SVE!
John Clark Matthews April 14, 2009

The story follows closely to the book, and is very nicely done! Creative claymation.

This is not what I thought it was, I thought it was a cartoon as illustrated on cover but it was not,my granddaughter seems to like it, she has watched it a couple of times, however, I did not like it.

I loved this old style Curious George! Very reminiscent of when I was young! But the kids watched it once or twice and didn't ever ask for it again. When I said I was taking it to the resale shop, they just answered "ok"... so I guess they didn't think it was as neat as I did :-)

This was a very good DVD. My grandson enjoys it. Service was excellent.
Thanks.

I bought this for a coworker, her baby loves curious george, now while he watches she can sleep, then her husband sleeps, we work third shift, so it worked

The kids are bored to death with this video. It has a lot of stills where someone is reading and if you have hyper kids, this is not your kind of purchase!