Product Details

• Actors: Baby Genius
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 30, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000067JHO
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,427 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
When drizzly weather keeps the toddlers indoors, A Trip to the San Diego Zoo will bring sunshine and smiles into their day. Produced by the multi-award-winning Baby Genius group, this 40-minute tour captures panda bears, monkeys, and tigers as they romp through their gorgeous San Diego Zoo environs. An equally spirited group of youngsters pets ponies in the Children's Zoo, plays chase with the polar bears (outside of their watery enclosure, of course), and giggles at the comical gorillas. Mild classical music accompanies this wordless show, making the whole effect more of a backdrop to toddler activity than an interactive experience. To break the trance, the occasional computer-generated tour guide--a 3-D cartoon character--slides into view, to wave at the audience or to introduce a new group of animals. A quiet review of the alphabet and a bonus sing-along complete the show. --Liane Thomas

From the Back Cover
With world-famous San Diego Zoo as a backdrop, children are introduced to the fascinating world of animals! Enchanting classical music plays as they meet Hua Mei, the first giant panda born at the zoo, and journey through Tiger River and Ituri Forest where tigers and hippos gather.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Worst DVD that I ever bought!, March 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby Genius - A Trip to the San Diego Zoo (DVD)

My 14 month old daughter loves animals and we have the entire collection of the babyeinstein series, which also teaches kids through music. This DVD was exteremely slow and the music was slow as well. This DVD was so slow, that they concentrated on the giraffes for 5 minutes and showed every movement of the giraffe's mouth, when it slowly chewed it's food. Likewise they did the same with the elephants and several other animals. The animals looked like they were taking a lazy afternoon stroll or getting ready to doze off. This DVD is more for putting a kid to sleep. My 14 month old could not sit still because of the slow paced video. I was looking for some lively music and some animals that actually moved or ran or did something, rather than stand and enjoy the lazy afternoon sun.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money, March 13, 2003

By A Customer

My 20 month daughter loves the entire Baby Einstein series and Bee Smart Baby series (Baby Bumblebee). She has been watching them since she was 12 months and can't take her eyes off them. I also bought several of the Baby Genius movies. None of them hold her attention for more than a few minutes. My complaint is that there is no speaking in them. They will show giraffes, elephants, etc but not say what those animals are. Another of the Baby Genius movies shows big numbers in bright colors but never says what that is.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible!, September 2, 2002

By	"lawatford" (Darlington, SC USA) - See all my reviews

The very first time we put this video in, our two year old was hooked. And to tell you the truth, my husband and I were, too! Our son loves animals and these in the video are so active and seem to be having so much fun. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has a child.