Customer Reviews

The Mouse and the Motorcycle plus Bonus Story (Scholastic Storybook Treasures)

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I saw this movie 20 years ago as a kid with my mom. Never left my memories. At dinner we were talking about cherished times and she brought up this movie. I'm about to leave home so I bought this DVD so I can watch it with my mom one last time. She saw the packaging and sorta cried and I guess we'll watch it once I'm done with this review.
I watched a bit of it already. It's just as I remembered it! The movie itself is 41 minutes long. The video quality is decent. It's from 1986 afterall. There's also an 18 minute extra story call "Wee Gillis" about a Scottish boy in the country. Both stories have a lot of values so I recommend it for parents. I bought it new and there's a colorful 7-paged booklet inside that's like a checklist for all the DVDs in the "Scholastic Storybook Treasures" Series. :)
I also own the book and the movie is very faithful to it. One of the more annoying things is that when you start the movie, it defaults to showing subtitles. They claim it as "Read-Along" subtitles, so each word that's said on screen is highlighted in blue. Kinda like singing Karaoke. You can turn it off of course. Another downside is that there are no scene selection or chapter markings. Pressing the 'Next Chapter' button on your DVD's remote would only end the movie. It's cool though, I could care less. It's worth watching straight through. Overall, you'll love it! Take care! ;)

The exact copy of the original VHS tape that I could no longer get. Thank You!

I don't remember this at all from childhood, even though it is a couple of decades old, but it is such a cute movie and I'm glad I found it. My 4-yr old daughter loves it, as does my 7-year old nephew. I love all of the Scholastic movies, but I think the kids liked this one more than others because it's not animated.

Remember that great Beverly Cleary book in school? Remember being excited to watch the movie version? Well now you don't have to wait for an after school special or post Saturday morning cartoons (and you'd have to wait a long time because the late 80s are over) because your Mouse and the Motorcycle movie is now on DVD. Hooray!

just as my kids remember it...bought it for neighbor's 4 year old and he loves it!!

I read this book to my first graders and then showed the DVD. They really enjoyed it. Worth the money!

Very cute and filled with action. Based on the children's book of the same name by Beverly Clearly, the story is about a mice riding a child's toy motorcycle in a hotel. Parents may want to purchase other DVDs by Cleary or purchase the Cleary books to read to their children.(reading level 8 years & up).

My ds borrowed this from the preschool video library and has watched it pretty much every day since. This is on my to buy list!

I have loved this movie since I was a kid so I had to buy it for my son. He watches it multiple times weekly and sometimes multiple times daily! This movie is not at all annoying to have playing in the background even though he watches it alot! I recommend this movie for boys or girls (I am female and it was a fave) and for all parents who want their children to have the possibility to increase their imaginative skills while plopped in front of the tube!

This was my son's favorite story when he was a little boy. He loved the whole series both the books and the movies. I had tried to buy this years ago but it was not closed captioned so I passed on it. When I saw this on Amazon I was happy to see they had it as a read-along. My son is 26yrs old now but he was very happy to get this video; we watched it together and it brought back great memories. He said now he'll have it for when he has children some day! It was a good find!