Customer Reviews

Disney's Sing Along Songs - Sing a Song With Pooh Bear and Piglet Too

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"Sing a Song With Pooh Bear and Piglet Too" is a wonderful DVD featuring Pooh songs from all the back towards the beginning up to the still somewhat recent "Piglet's Big Movie." You get classic songs such as "Harvest What You Grow" and "Heffalumps and Woozles" as well as newer songs like "Sing Ho For the Life of A Bear (Expotition March)" and "With a Few Good Friends." These later songs, as well as some others are performed in part or whole by Carly Simon.

This isn't just some cobbled together sing-along thing. They actually went to the trouble of putting together a real story. Pooh is on a search for his song --- a special song to call his own. He searches all over the Hundred Acre Wood and discovers some of his friends' own special songs. Eventually, he ends up finding "My Song" --- a wonderful number and a great new song.

One odd thing about this here is that repeated lyrics don't show up on-screen, at least not in the normal sing-along font. Fortunatley, close-captioning and/or subtitles are available to fill in.

Overall, I think this is really great. Not only did they manage to pull up some really classic stuff that I'd never heard before, the more recent songs are great as well. A wonderful compilation of classic and new animation and voice talent. Piglet is featured here --- John Fiedler --- may he rest in peace.

This DVD also has some neat special features. The most interesting one is sing-along versions of all the songs except the Carly Simon ones in Spanish and, oddly enough, Italian. I say oddly because Italian isn't an option you would normally see. But it's quite nice to hear. The "Winnie the Pooh" theme song is also included with these, even though the English version on this DVD is a Carly Simon version. The Spanish and Italian version is in the classic style.

The "Word Time" vocabulary activity is so clever! The idea of it is that the viewer is given a word by the narrator and then they select the object on screen that matches it. But the real fun is in selecting items that don't match --- there's some extremely witty and fun commentary from the characters if you do this.

There's also a musical note activity in which short tunes are played on a xylophone and then the player tries to play it back. I don't think this one is too good --- it plays too quickly and you only get two chances --- worse, it's confusing because you end up forgetting where it was you messed up.


As for the quality --- I don't see any decline here. The quality is the same as ever, it's just different. Things change, things grow and Pooh is certainly bigger than ever. Sing ho for this DVD!


Great for kids (though not those who are too young to really understand or follow it yet) or any Pooh fan.

I would not recommend this video. Disney should be disappointed in itself for realeasing this substandard work. The animation was poor and did not seem to match in places--almost as if previous works were edited together with the new material surrounding the songs. The songs were not very cute and the characters appeared to have a hard time in singing and keeping in tune with the music. I have purchased other sing along videos from Disney and believe that these are put together much better than this Pooh video despite the fact that most of their material has been recycled from other movies and cartoons.

This Pooh Video Sing Along is perfect for entertaining kids. My 2 year old daughter loves this and never gets tired singing to "The Kangaroo Hop", "Winnie the Pooh", etc. The tunes are catchy and danceable. In fact, my daughter sings AND dances to the music!

My personal favorite is "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", fast and lively! I've almost memorized this song.

Recommended for kids 2 to 92!

I purchased this video for my 20 month old son. He is in love with it. He would like to spend his every waking hour watching "pooh". We have purchased some of the other Winnie the Pooh series videos, but he won't even sit through 3 minutes of them and cries until we put the Sing A Song with Pooh video in. I'v logged on here now to purchase a new copy, my sons love for the video has lasted longer than the tape could. Great Job Disney!

I purchased both the Lion King Circle of Life and this Pooh Bear DVD together for my 16 month old daughter. Initially she watched the Lion King video only and I thought I made a mistake buying this video. It has been about 3 months and this video is now her favorite. I wish Disney would make more of these sing-along videos on DVD. They are worth every penny.

My two triplet sons started watching this video when they were 18 months old. Now, four months later, they are still fascinated by it. Winnie the Pooh and his friends keep them entertained for short periods while their parents do other things. However, the joyful songs are fun for adults, too. The boys love to dance while I sing "The Kangaroo Hop" for them. I give a copy of the video to my friends who are new parents.

My 4 month old LOVES this video. We have it running over and over. Even in the middle of a big cry - he'll turn and watch Winnie. Its great for younger babies because its almost all music, which is essential for a short attention span. Its the best video we've bought for him!

I thought the songs in this video were great, classic Pooh songs I remember from when I was little. Sure, I could tell the animation was patchy, clips taken from other cartoons, but you know what? It was some of the best money I've ever spent, my 21 month old son loves it very much and that's what matters most! After all, I got it for his enjoyment, and as much as he watches it, I think it deserves 5 stars! :-)

I was a little disappointed with this DVD. The story/movie was great and had clips from "Piglet's Big Movie" but some songs were difficult to sing along accordingly. The original Winnie the Pooh song had a different style to it which is nice but you've gotta get used to it, the Tigger song and a couple of others were too fast to read/sing along so words just flash before your eyes. (I guess one advantage is that your child may learn to speed read.) If you or your child has the lyrics memorized then it should not be a problem singing along.

My 2-year old just started loving Winnie the Pooh, and Piglet's Big Movie is her favorite of all. This DVD includes all of the wonderful songs from Piglet's Big Movie, as well as some of the classics and new songs just on this DVD. It is worth it to be able to cue up a particular song that your child loves so they can sing along. The story follows Pooh as he tries to find his very own song.