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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
4 Stars for an "Elmo" Video 0 Stars as a Retrospective, March 26, 2005
Plain and Simple - when a show hits 35 years the people that made the show should be smart enough to realize that Parents who saw the show as Kids want their own Kids to watch what they had watched - to share memories with them.
In this case, its yet another Elmo video. Fine, OK, things change. But don't misrepresent what you're going to see - I really wanted to show my boy Mr. Hooper, and the guy with the pies that slips down the stairs, and when they thought Snuffy wasn't real, and all the old characters.
The stuff is on tape Sesame Street Execs - can you please put out "Sesame Street - Best of Season 1, 2, 3? I'd buy everything from Season 1 - Season 6. I bet I wouldn't be the only one either....
Please put out some older Sesame material.... Don't slip in a few seconds of Mr. Hooper in an Elmo tape.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
my kids love it...thats all that matters, October 13, 2004
When this aired on PBS the whole family watched it and we taped it. However, the version you get on DVD is a bit different. On the original showing on PBS, at the end of the show you saw clips from the very first episode, to when Snuffy came to Sesame Street, to when Big Birds house was damaged by the hurricane. I truely thought that was a great segment to have all those little clips as a sort of time machine. However, the DVD does not have this scene in it. Don't get me wrong, there are still a good number of older skits and cartoons, but in all actuality it's pretty much an hour long Elmo's world. My kids happen to love Elmo, so they don't mind, however in my opinion, I thought the 25th anniversary video was better. All in all, this is still a great video and almost a must for any Sesame Street fan.
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26 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Caution: Commercials Ahead, October 17, 2004
This DVD is a repackaging of the TV special that ran on PBS in 2004 and still appears in reruns of Sesame Street. So if you can record it off TV, you'll basically have this DVD plus some really good clips at the end that didn't make it on the DVD.
We had this recorded on a VHS tape, but we bought this version for the ease and convenience of using a DVD. But it turned out to be much more of an annoyance. This DVD has a 2 minute Whoopi Goldberg advertisement for Sesame Workshop at the beginning. It cannot be skipped. It cannot be fast-forwarded. You cannot jump to the menu. If you press stop at any time, the whole thing starts over, making your child cry more. When you get to the menu, you have to press play again, effectivey forcing you to stand there watching this advertisement EVERY TIME you play this DVD for your child.
Most of us aren't too fond of ads at the beginning of VHS tapes, but they were easy to fast-forward past. Now that we have the incredible technology of DVDs, they have used this technology to lock out our fast-forward buttons. Well, if we're going to pay good money for something, I think we should be allowed to skip a commercial if we want to.
I like Sesame Street, and I think they do a lot of good things. Go buy the "Let's Make Music" DVD featuring Stomp - it's great. But mandatory commercials at the beginning of their DVDs is an annoying trend that needs to be stopped before it gets out of hand. Vote with your dollars.
In summary: skip this DVD like it was a Whoopi Goldberg commerical.
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