Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Full Screen
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: September 7, 2004
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001I560A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,677 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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92 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely terrible - like a bootleg, November 22, 2004

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kresnels "kresnels" (Culver City, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney Princess Stories, Vol. 1 - A Gift From The Heart (DVD)

This is the first thing I've let my daughter watch that I actually felt guilty for letting her sit through - instead of being interested and active, she fell into this slackjawed stupor, and I can't say I blame her.

There are four stories involving Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, and Cinderella. Each uses a combination of repurposed animation and new art to try to muddle through a short story. Not to put too fine a point on it - it's for kids after all - but the stories are all confusing, and completely out of character for each character. This makes it difficult for kids to digest easily, and you have to spend time narrating why Jasmine did this, or what's happening with Belle, and you end up trying to help this whole disaster limp along to a quick end.

The art is terrible also, and the only reason this matters is that it's an official Disney product. All this would be excusable if it were in the 2.99 bin at the supermarket, but this is the lowest, most crass grab for consumer dollars by Disney that I've ever seen.

Don't fall for it - even Return of Jafar looks like a classic next to this. You're better off getting a storybook to read to your little princess than this piece of soulless garbage.

69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This was terrible!!!!!!!, November 5, 2004

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Mom of 2 (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney Princess Stories, Vol. 1 - A Gift From The Heart (DVD)

I cannot believe how AWFUL this DVD was!!! There were only two stories, which looked like they were taken from the animated series of Little Mermaid and Aladin (and very poorly animated, at that!) and two "read along" shorts (about 5 minutes each) that were not really animated but rather pictures with words on the bottom of the screen -- it looked like it was lifted right off an on-line interactive read-along, but without the interactivity. My 4-year old was confused and bored by the read-alongs, and frightened by the scary storylines in the two animated stories. And I don't blame her! The scariness was totally inappropriate and uncalled for! You think you're getting a nice little fluff movie and instead you get something that I would NEVER have chosen for my daughter, had I known what it was. My impression: Disney just doesn't care. They're out to make a buck in the easiest way possible. This was a total rip off. Don't waste your money. And please, Disney, don't let there be a "Princess Stores Volume 2"!!!!

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, October 21, 2004

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2 princesses mom (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney Princess Stories, Vol. 1 - A Gift From The Heart (DVD)

I am rather disappointed in Disney-they advertised this one for the longest time and my girls were soooo psyched to get it-I was going to wait till Christmas but I had a "$10.00 off when you spend $10.00" coupon-thank god I had the coupon otherwise I would have really been upset to spend the money on this. All Disney did was to transfer The little Mermaids Saturday morning cartoon from the Disney Channel onto the dvd and they did the same thing with the Jasmine story too.
They did a cut and paste of pictures for the "Cinderella Story and the Belle story-which is not even a cartoon but more of a read along with the pictures. There are supposed to be 4 stories but actually there are only 2 animated stories.
My girls do like it, but I could have just taped it on a vcr tape and saved myself the trouble and money. There is a craft on making a bracelet-but we could have done without that too. The new song by the Disney Princesses is great to listen to, but the video is also another one of Disney cutting up scenes from all the princess movies and pasting them all together to make the video. I would not recommend buying this dvd or vhs. You think that Disney would have done something new with the Disney Princesses...guess it is all about the money. Can you see the BIG "SUCKER" sign stamped on my forehead???? Well.... I would do (just about) anything for my 2 little princessess- except buy another Disney Princess movie unless it is a new princess they come up with.