Customer Reviews

Disney Princess Stories, Vol. 2 - Tales of Friendship

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

I do not recommend the purchase of this dvd. We anxiously awaited its release as it was touted as having a new Snow White cartoon. Instead of creating a brand new cartoon, Disney used excerpts from the Snow White movie and rearranged them along with narration to create a new story. At times, the characters are pictured talking on screen in still shots with no mouth movements. There are some interactive features in the Snow White story which ask the child to make selections with the remote. My daughter is 4 1/2 and doesn't use the remote. I helped her make the choices, but she found it to be frustrating. The Jasmine cartoon is one that Disney still shows in The Aladdin cartoon series reruns. The Little Mermaid cartoon is also from the Little Mermaid cartoon series that still runs on Disney. My daughter had seen the Aladdin and Little Mermaid cartoons on television previously. This was a disappointing waste of money.

I agree with everything the previous reviewer said. The Snow White cartoon is nothing more than a few still frames thrown together to form a semi-interactive story about making pies. The other two cartoons are full motion, but they feel even flatter than the Snow White slide show. These look like the typical dribble of afternoon cartoons being cranked out by writers who lack the time, talent, or inspiration to put a decent story together. There's so little in common with the original productions, that its hard to believe you're watching Disney.

From now on, I'll stick to their movies.

I purchased this dvd at the store because I thought my daughter would like it.
What a horrific pile of crap this video is! Not only is the mouthing wrong (how could Disney get this wrong?!) but some parts, like the Ariel portion, are blurry-ish.
The voices are pretty annoying and the worst of all is Snow White. I had no idea it would be 'interactive'.
Don't buy this.

I do not have volumes 1 and 3 of the Disney Princess movies and I do not plan to buy them now that I've seen volume 2. The Snow White segment was the absolute worst. The so-called story line is very lame and the film makers simply stole scenes from the original movie and dubbed over them. My almost 4 year old twin girls have never asked to watch this video again after seeing it the first time.

I Definitely agree it could have been done much better and may be disappointing to older children, but to my three year old daughter, this is gold! It never fails to make her smile and she dances along with the song at the end. She enjoys it and that's all that matters to me. It was money well spent.

I am VERY sorry I didn't read reviews before buying this DVD. It's an absolute waste of time - with lame stories, terrible production value, and a VERY expensive price. They should pull these DVD's as they are so bad.

I agree with the other posters. This DVD was a waste of time and money. We had bought Princess Enchanted Tales with Princess Jasmine and Princess Aurora. We were really impressed with the quality of that production, so we decided to give this one a try. This video has 3 "stories" the first one with Princess Jasmine is really a story about Aladdin and his carpet. You barely see Jasmine and she plays almost no role in the plot. All my daughter cares about is seeing her favorite princesses, not some stupid story about a carpet. The second story is about Snow White and her pies. It is supposed to be interactive. Not at all fun, especially when we couldn't find the remote because the baby had run off with it ;). We got through a third of the Snow White "story" before I had to fast-forward because no one was watching it and the voice was making my skin crawl. The third story is with Ariel. It's supposed to be about her friendship with a girl Gabrielle, but Gabrielle doesn't say anything during the whole episode (which I had seen before on the Disney Channel). Besides, everyone knows Ariel's best friend is Flounder. All in all, a lousy video. Don't waste your money.

even worse than #1, my daughter sked me to turn it off and take it back the library. which I was happy to do.

We received this as a gift for my 2 1/2 year old and it is awful. I expected much more from Disney since they have always put out exceptional products and movies. The Snow White version reminds of watching Godzilla with the uneven lip movements to her speech. With today's technology Disney could have produced a much better DVD. Do not waste your money.

I truly expected a better effort from Disney. I am a huge Disney fan myself, my children love Disney films so we want to see that "magic" that makes their products famous.

The DVD has three stories. The first is more of an old Aladdin series tale than it is a princess tale. The story barely fits into the "tales of friendship" theme and quite frankly was a bit scary for little girls which is who Disney is trying to please anyway. Little spooky looking sprites that cause mischief and mayhem, fighting, chaos, and yelling that borders on swearing. The whole atmosphere is ridiculous and poorly animated to boot. I don't like the old Disney shows from the 90's but I also don't have anything against them. I just wish Disney had remembered that these DVD's appeal to toddlers and little girls, NOT 13 year old's!!!!!!

All of the above applies to the third tale of Ariel. Spooky, inappropriate and another story that didn't fit well into the aforementioned theme. I was also upset to find a story in which a maniacal Ursula uses Ariels' treasures to cause panic and mayhem and then assume the role of Queen in return for ending the spell. ONCE AGAIN....way too age inappropriate.

The reason for the three stars is because my daughter (2) and my 4 year old son beg me to play the Snow White portion of the DVD! Many reviewers were disappointed to find that the Snow White tale wasn't a newly animated story, I was too, at first. In all honesty the clips, and the story book animation are all very charming and the DVD is interactive but also plays by itself if you leave it. My daughter has just enough time to stand up and run to the screen to point to the correct answer before the DVD continues on with the story. I would actually buy a DVD that had 3-4 storybook tales with minimal animation and sound storytelling narration and presentation. This portion was created directly for little girls which makes the other two upsetting and poor quality stories even more of a mystery. Rent this DVD for your little girl and play the Snow White story, I assure you she'll love it. I played this and the best clips of other Disney films for the girls at my son's birthday party two weeks ago and the whole party ended up sitting down and requesting us to "do again, do again!"

If you are looking for a great princess DVD purchase for your little princess I highly recommend the sing along DVD's within this princess series. Those won't fail your expectations and will keep your children entertained and happy.