Product Details

• Actors: Sarah Heinke, DeJare Barfield, Kim Jubenville Carlson, Nils Haaland, Anna Jordan
• Directors: Karen Hyden
• Writers: Carter Crocker
• Producers: Andy Tsao, Anne Michaud, Cindy Patton, Daisy Fang, Dave Polter
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: February 6, 2007
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000K7VHKA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,507 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
If you believe in your dreams, anything is possible.

Strawberry Shortcake has a dream of fresh new field of berry bushes - enough for everyone. But, when the greedy Peculiar Purple Pieman rolls into Strawberrry Land, he decides to steal Strawberry's dream - and everyone else's dreams, too!

In order to stop the Purple Pieman and his evil plan, Strawberry and her friends must travel to the Land of Dreams. Along the way, these special friends learn the value of working together to make dreams come true.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strawberry's First CGI Film --- A Different Take, March 6, 2007

By	George Buttner "Agent0042" (Dayton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

"The Sweet Dreams Movie" is the first ever CGI film for the "Strawberry Shortcake" series. It was shown in limited release in theatres and is now available on DVD.


Positives:

- To me, the CGI animation really isn't bad. Though I was thrown off by the look of it at first, I quickly grew used to it. I found some of it to actually be rather nice-looking. I also thought that the characters looked for the most part like they do in the TV show. Certainly a better effort to me than the CGI for "Clifford's Really Big Movie" (mediocre) and "Arthur's Missing Pal." (Not good at all.)

- Music and songs --- the best highlight of the film. "How a Garden Grows" is a fast-paced, standout song and very catchy. A couple of other fun songs include "All it Takes" and "The Land of Dreams." The songs overall are berry nice and drive the plot along.

- Characters - This film introduces a number of new characters to the series. Doing this sort of thing is always a bit of a tightrope, but I think all of the new characters work fairly well here. Raspberry Torte, works well as a reluctant protagonist (looking out for Lemon Meringue) and even though the series doesn't necessarily need villains to make it interesting, Purple Pie Man and his sister Sour Grapes fill the role well enough.

- Story - A decent enough plotline, though a bit slow-starting. The Land of Dreams was a fun place to visit and I wouldn't mind seeing it in the series again.


Negatives:

- No special features other than Spanish subtitles and previews for other releases on this DVD. Most of the other "Strawberry Shortcake" DVDs at least have a music video and other such direct-to-video (or near direct-to-video) DVD releases have managed to put together at least reasonably interesting special features, so there's no reason why this shouldn't have any.

- Strawberry Shortcake's sister Apple Dumplin' is once again absent-without-leave, a disappointment, as she is one of the best characters in the series. Huckleberry Pie and Blueberry Muffin are also nowhere to be found.


This film, per the closing credits, was dedicated with love to Pam Carter, who served as a voice director for the series.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Dreams Movie, February 23, 2007

By	Darcia Phillips (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this movie for my kid sisters and I was extremely disappointed in it. The characters in the movie weren't like the characters in the shorter videos like "Strawberry Shortcake In Ice Cream Island or Cooking up Fun." The appearance of the characters were more digital and phony. They appeared to have a latex type of face and body. They also didn't sound the same as they do in the other videos.

As far as the story it wasn't bad. The sleep bug was sooooo cute. You got to see the sandman and how he makes dreams. I think if they left the characters they same as they were in the other videos I would've enjoyed it more and so would've my sisters.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT AS GOOD AS THE DIC TV SHOW, July 10, 2007

By	Maria Delaar "ACENA" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

MY DAUGHTER LOVES STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, SHE WATCHES ALL THE EPISODES FROM BEGINNING TO THE END, BUT THE MOVIE LOOKS DIFFERENT AND SHE LOOSES INTEREST...SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THE TV EPISODES...