Customer Reviews

There Goes a Helicopter [VHS]

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

MY 3 YEAR OLD SON LOVES THIS VIDEO.HE IS ALREADY A BIG FAN OF DAVE AND BECKY,AND THIS WAS NO EXCEPTION.THE VIDEO SHOWS KIDS ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF HELICOPTERS;POLICE,FIRE RESCUE,MILTARY,COAST GUARD.IT IS EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIVE FOR KIDS,AND OF COARSE,DAVE AND BECKY HUMOR TO GO ALONG WITH IT.

My little aviation nut adores this video. There are several types of helicopters featured (coast guard, police, military) along with lots of interesting information about how helicopters work. There are some rather goofy plot lines running with the main characters (looking for treasure, jokes on how long somebody is in the bathroom) which I found slightly annoying and boring, why not just stick to the live action shots of helicopters? But hey, mom's aren't the target audience though.....

We own 3 or 4 of these "There Goes a..." videos for our 2 year old. He enjoys them, but... Why does this series waste so much video on potty humor? At one point in this video the co-star is filmed, for what seems like over a minute, standing and waiting for her partner to get done going to the bathroom. Hey! I've got a 2-year-old that needs stimulation, not wasted time. This same joke is repeated two more times in this video (same with There Goes a Spaceship). The producers of the video got access to some extremely cool places such as the Coast Guard Station at San Diego and Camp Pendleton but they waste time on cheap laughs.

Both of my son's 4 and 2 years old, love this series of movies. The whole movie is packed with fun for the kids. The humor is corny but what children's things aren't? I give the whole "There Goes A ...." series two thumbs up.

My son is 15 months old and is mesmerized by this video (as well as a few others in the series: dump truck, fire truck).

My son just loves Dave and Becky.. And this is a very good, action, keep it moving video. I even enjoyed it too.. We watch this one a few times a week..

By the time the female co-anchor started complaining that she had to pee [while enroute to god knows where] and her male partner good-naturedly suggested she hold it in, we had seen enough to ask for a refund. Lotsa fun for NONE of the family. My son would have LOVED a half hour of helicopters taking off, flying & landing with NO comic relief, OR these two hosts. Good intent - Poor results. Sorry.

This is one of the better videos in the "There Goes A..." series. If you can get past goofball Dave and his sidekick Becky, it really is interesting and informative.

Our 2 1/2 year old has watched this many times and loves it...but Dad has to find something else to do now when its on. I wish that it didn't have the stupid "inserts" which try and give it a story or narrative quality. Helicopters, that's what we want! There are a good variety of Helicopters on the video, which makes it worth owning. There are Coast-Guard, Marine & LA Police Department helicopters. My son does seem to have learned a lot. He has a toy helicopter and he uses the string and hook on it to rescue people, like on the video. But the "explanations" on the video are simplistic in the extreme. They probably tried to accomplish too many things on this one video. My son would give it 4 stars at least, so that's what I give it.