Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Celebrity Home Enter
• VHS Release Date: February 20, 1991
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JXZO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,264 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for kids!, August 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Serendipity the Pink Dragon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've had this video for soooooo long! When I was little, I would rent this video A LOT! I just had to have it! I wanted to tell my friends about it I loved it so much! Now that I'm older, I can still remember the words to the song, although, I always wondered why the song said "pink dinosaur", and the cover and book say, "pink dragon"? The movie isn't like the book. There isn't a king dolphin or walrus, but the mermaid (Princess Laura) is cool, too. This show is really great for kids! All I want to know is who designed this cover? It's ugly! Nobody in the movie looks like that! Well, close enough.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Childhood favorite, August 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Serendipity the Pink Dragon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When I was 3 or 4 years old, this was my favorite movie. I used to have all the dialogue memorized and the theme song too. After not seeing it for years and years, all the memories came back to me. This is the PERFECT movie for kids. The songs in the movie are sure to have them singing along.
Serendipity guards the sea around the island with her friend, Bobby, a young boy who has been stranded. Together, they have many exciting adventures with the other unique and adorable characters on Paradise Island. This story is so fantastic, so please treat your kids to this movie. Heck, even adults will love it!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fond memories of this one, February 16, 2005

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Christopher Bubb "Proud to be ME" (Saline, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serendipity the Pink Dragon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

What you might not have been aware of when you first watched this film: it was Japanese in origin. This film actually is a compilation of a few episodes of "Serendipity Monogatari Yori: Pure Shima no Nakamatachi" (The Story of Serendipity: Friends of Pure Island), a TV series which aired in Japan in 1983. It was around six years later that the compilation was dubbed into English and released in the U.S. by Celebrity Home Entertainment. I had been under the impression that the show was conceived in America and the animation farmed out to a Japanese studio (since creator Stephen Cosgrove is American), but that isn't so. (Also, Bobby's name in the original version was "Corna.")
The basic story: Bobby's scientist parents have taken him along on an expedition to the South Pole. An iceburg breaks apart and separates Bobby from his parents, and Bobby ends up floating out to sea and landing on the lush, tropical Paradise Island, along with a large egg... from which hatches Serendipity. The inhabitants of the island, which is governed by Laura the mermaid princess, are initially hostile toward Bobby (distrustful of humans, if I remember correctly), but warm up to him after he helps them defend the island from the vile Captain Smudge. The most memorable character for me is Peela-Peela (sp?), a large parrot of sorts who serves as the source of a lot of comic relief. At one point in the film, Peela-Peela goes on trial for something (stealing fruit?), and both Serendipity and Bobby have to testify against their friend, who is put in chains as punishment - a lesson about the integrity of the justice system.
As I recall, the dialogue and the dubbing, in the English version at least, were pretty well done. And there are songs too, most of which tend to be somewhat corny (but this film is for kids; don't expect "American Pie"), with the exception of one, a ballad with sort of a Caribbean/island feel, sung by a female vocalist about "Paradise." Having never read the books, I can't testify as to how faithful the film is to Cosgrove's original story, but as a stand-alone piece, this movie is good entertainment for young children. Noticing that it was re-released on video in 1996, I think it's about time this film made it to DVD, especially since the books are still available and since anime has never been more popular in America than it is now.