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Hello Kitty Goes to the Movies

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I'm a huge Hello Kitty fan and this is the first DVD that I've bought. I really like the DVD-ROM features like coloring pages and games. I thought that it was also a good value because it includes five episodes: K.T.-The Kitty Terrestrial, The Wizard of Paws, Kitty the Kong, Cat Wars & Paws-The Great White Dog Shark.

I bought "Hello Kitty Goes to the Movies" and "Hello Kitty's Paradise - Pretty Kitty". Myself, I like "Hello Kitty Goes to the Movies" very much and all my kids just adore it. I have twins (boy and a girl) 3 year old and 7 year old daughter.
It is very enjoyable to watch. My kids ask for it over and over again. It is one of their favorites. And I wish I never bought "Hello Kitty's Paradise - Pretty Kitty". (...)

The cartoons are from the 1980's Hello Kitty tv series "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater," which are variations on popular fairy tales/movies. They feature Hello Kitty, My Melody, Tuxedo Sam, Chip, Catnip & Grinder, who are actors in the theatre.

Each DVD contains 5 fairy tales, and each fairy tale is about 10 minutes long and has its own unique take on the familiar stories. They are also changed to be less violent, nicer and more suited for children (water balloon fights instead of guns).

The quality of the DVD's are more like TV broadcast quality and this is the reason I've given it 4 stars instead of 5. I think they could've enhanced the quality before putting it onto DVD. It is also not recorded in stereo sound. I already owned the 2 Furry Tale Theater VHS's (Kitty and the Beast, The Wizard of Paws), so I already knew what to expect.

I'm an adult Sanrio collector and I loved seeing these episodes, and I would feel good about letting my children see these too.

The following is the list of the episodes in this DVD:
"Hello Kitty Goes to the Movies" has The Wizard of Paws, K.T. the Kitty Terrestial, Kitty and the Kong, Cat Wars, and Paws- the Great White Dog-Shark.

If you are also a fan of Star Wars and the other movies parodied, then this is the DVD for you!

Okay - I am fairly new with the Hello Kitty series, but being that I have a 3 year old daughter, I am getting indoctrinated. This DVD is really cute and very funny because it contains Hello Kitty take-offs of very popular movies. My 5 year old son enjoys it as well - and it is not hard to watch (unlike some sappy princess things.) If you have to go with a Hello Kitty, and there may be a boy involved in watching, this one is decent.

Honestly, I haven't sat down to watch ALL the episodes on this DVD, but my 4yr old daughter loves it. It comes with the option to watch individual episodes, or to play all. The quality is old-school, but my daughter doesn't seem to mind!

Did not live up to expectations, drags a bit, hard for an adult to sit through and watch.

Got this for my daughter for Easter. She is 3, almost 4. She LOVES it. Has watched it over and over. It's not epic animation, and some of the jokes based on very grown-up movies from the 70's and 80's go right over her head. But not in a bad way. The cartoons are perfect for her age and not too negative, as some early cartoons are. My 7 yr old son also watched it, and thought it was okay -he was concerned it might be too girly- but it isn't especially. I thought it was cute, and pretty funny in parts. I particularly liked the Star Wars (May the Fur Be With You) cartoon. Overall, I'd reccomend it.

This is a review of a series of Hello Kitty DVDs released by MGM in 2003: HK Becomes a Princess, HK Saves the Day, HK Tells Fairy Tales, HK Goes to the Movies, and HK Plays Pretend. These five discs have also been bundled together into the Diamond Collection, as well as paired into a Plays Pretend/Saves The Day 2-Pack (alt url). Finally there's a "Triple Feature DVD Set" with the discs for Princess, Saves The Day, and Fairy Tales all in one case (this might be exclusive to Target). Whew! Amazon may display this review on the page of another version of this product, for which this review may not apply. After reading this review, please click on the link so that you can be assured that the product this review applies to is the same one you thought it was for.

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For those who don't already know, contained on this DVD are stories from the 1987 Saturday morning series "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater". You wouldn't know that by watching the disc because there are NO SERIES OPENING TITLES and NO SERIES END CREDITS!!! Yes, you read that correctly. They left out one of the most significant parts of a television series. Remember the catchy theme song? Well, all you'll have are your memories because that theme won't be found here. There's a credits block on the back of the case that lists the voice actors and major crew, but it doesn't list the minor crew members. Pity all of the poor animators whose work on the series now goes uncredited.

The series consists of 13 half-hour episodes with 2 stories per episode (26 stories total). Yet only 25 of the 26 stories appear on these five discs. Keep in mind that's only 5 stories per each 10.00 disc (that's the original price). They could have easily fit the entire series onto two dual-layer discs for 20.00. So not only are you missing a story, and NOT getting the episodes in their original 2-story pairs with the original series opening titles and end credits, but you're being bilked for what little you DO get!

The previous VHS releases in the late 1990s (Wizard of Paws VHS and Kitty & The Beast VHS) were MUCH better than these five DVDs. Sure they only included four stories each, but they included the series opening titles and end credits, which makes them a vast improvement over these DVDs. I can only hope that someone at MGM wakes up and re-releases this series as a proper "complete series" set, but I doubt that that will ever happen.

My girls have been asking for a Hello Kitty show for a while and I finally broke down and ordered these titles (Fairy Tales, Princess, Movies). The stories are very cute. The animation so-so. But when these go on, even my 8 year old son will pop in to watch. The episodes are based on classic tales that are "kitty-fied" with nothing violent or scary.

I loved this movie, this was a awesome movie that i really enjoy, i cant believe that anyone would ever pass up the opportunity to not my this movie. I started watching hello kitty movies at the small age of 2, but even now as i am turning 17 i still really enjoy these cassettes. I even bought a car with a video screen so i can watch them between classes. They are also really popular in school. My high school even has hello kitty clubs. We run around pretending to be the character and persuading others to join. In our club, which i proudly started we have a greand total of 2 people. Me and my friend hello kitty. well i guess to most people we only have 1 person, but in spirit,i know there r 2 of us.