Customer Reviews

Teletubbies - The Magic Pumpkin and Other Stories [VHS]

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This is a great production, with age appropriate lessons about seasons. It provides a good Halloween program that's not scary. It teaches please and thank you, and uses a Jack O'Lantern to teach the names of facial features. This video comes with a useful parents' guide. Smiles, laughter, clapping and bouncing by the children were abundant. "I want to watch it again pleeeease." "Now I want to make a pumpkin with leaves and glue." "I liked the way they made the pumpkin face." Best for ages 0 to 2.

My 2-year old granddaughter and I are great fans of the Teletubbies. Their programs on PBS and their video tapes which we have previously acquired bring continuous pleasure. However, in The Magic Pumpkin the producer/creators of things Teletubbian have bombed out. There is seemingly endless repetition of unstimulating sequences of foliage being attached to a pumpkin in vain attempts to decorate it. In addition to producing some very unattractive results it is repeated past the point tolerable even by a 2-year old. Worse still, when the pumpkin is delivered to Teletubby Land, the Tubbies never actually have contact with it. This is frustrating to the children who identify themselves with the Tubbies because they, the kids, are deprived of the vicarious experience of interacting the the pumpkin. Save your children and yourselves from this one. Spend your money elsewhere.

A good movie for the avid fan but where is the Noo Noo? Suprisingly, no one makes a mess in this movie. The pumpkin appearing and disappearing was a little disturbing for my almost 2 year old, especially when he seems to steal Dipsy's hat. It did help her learn that we have two ears, one nose ect. but you might want to hide the tape after several viewings. This is not my favorite of the Telletubby series but my daughter is a huge fan and asks to see the new movie at least once a day.

This is a great Teletubbies video with some laugh-out-loud silly moments and some touchingly beautiful moments, as well. There are some points of this video that make me realize how Zen the Teletubbies are and how wonderful it is that they have no hidden agendas; they simply enjoy life. La La feels like taking a walk and asks sleepy Dipsy to join her and when Dipsy says, "no", there's no offense taken; La La simply says, "okay" and happily goes on her way. There's a beautiful live action sequence where a guy takes a bunch of kids out to the forest to catch falling leaves. Dipsy trying to figure out how to get his hat back from the pumpkin is downright funny. This is a great show for both my toddler and his mama.

Not the worst Teletubies DVD, but not the best either. The cut scenes, (the bits where the teletubies show video on there stomachs) are very ordinary and good candiates for the fast forward button.

The best bit, however, is the pumkin scene itself. Towards the end the pumkin, magically obtains Dipsy's hat and is quite funny as the Teletubies try to get it back for Dipsy.

As a parent, I think this DVD attempts, in a small way, to teach the kids about ownership and sharing.

If you are looking for a fantastic Teletubies video and have a PAL capable video, then get on to the UK amazon site and get bedtime. I can't recommend this video enough and is clearly the best teletubbies video by a long way.

Mom son really enjoys watching the Teletubbies. This video is one of his favorites. It came on time and in wonderful condition. He can't wait to get more!

Purchased video for my son...Great buy for the price and they got the item right out to me. I received it in only a couple of days

This DVD came quicker than we expected it to. It plays just fine and we have used it over and over already. Good price for hard to find DVDs that PBS no longer broadcasts.

This is a very cute show! Especially for babies and toddlers, whenever my sister or cousin watches this show they crack-up, but most important they also learn a lesson. Just after a few Teletubby episode my one year old sister learned to be more polite and say new words,and has developed a love more the show. This is an educatinal funny show for young children with a lesson and laughs in each epeisode. I definetley reccomend this awesome show.
And, dont get me wrong, I understand that not everyone is going to enjoy this show, but come on, its for little kids!
This is an educational show because it shows children to be calm, polite and it starts their imaginations. There can also be humor found too, especially when they do silly dances.
But, the ten minute video of the children acan get boring, especially for a toddler with such a short attention span, that part is always fast forwarded.


( sorry for gramatical or spelling errors )

This is the cutest halloween vhs movie for a baby! My one year old loves the telletubbies, but when he saw this one, it was like it was showing him about halloween! He was amazed at the pumpkins, and all of the teletubbies! I will show him this movie all year round , its just sooo cute! Dont let halloween go by, without buying this for the little one in your life! They will love it!