Product Details

• Actors: Hal Smith, Bob Holt
• Directors: Alan Zaslove
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios Ho
• VHS Release Date: November 20, 2001
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005Q31B
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,891 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic journey into the birth of a child., November 7, 2001

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Jessica R. Kenyon "Young Adult Lit afficionado" (Chattanooga, Tn United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Seuss - The Hoober-Bloob Highway [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is fabulous. The cartoon is shown from the persepective of a child trying to decided whether or not it should be born. Dr. Suess' fun and intresting characters tell of all life's trials ans excitments with some really catchy songs. This movie would be an intresting alternative to watching the same old barney tapes for children, as well as a look back at childhood for adults. Heck I am 20 and I still love watching it. I hope you all enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A colorful and vaguely retro diversion for kids and adults, February 3, 2003

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Paul Brutscher Brutscher (Little Falls, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dr. Seuss - The Hoober-Bloob Highway [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I loved this when I was 4 because it was colorful and the sequences led into each other at such a speed. Sometimes you are just nutted out by the amount of crazy junk that is on screen at the same time. What it lacks in educational content it more than makes up for in sheer imaginative story telling.
What is with the mandolin with arms and legs? It has always my favorite character. It seems like its designers may have been influenced by the psychedelic cartoons of the seventies. Everything is, of course, from the mind of Dr. Suess,who had a mind only to delight children placing himself in a childlike state of mind. But I still love this thing at age 19 alongside the likes of Yellow Submarine and The Point for its loopy dreamlike qualities. Show it to your kids-imagination is sorely lacking in child media nowadays and this show certainly jump started mine.

My one question-if Dr. Hoober-Bloob spends this much time showing each newborn baby what their options are to live on Earth, how can he process so many?