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It's a children's show that attempts to teach kids about art and music through fun adventures with it's four main characters.
The
episodes encourage a lot of audience participation and playing along,
and it seems to be pretty popular with the younger set.
The
show incorporates famous artwork and music into the fairly wafer-thin
plots and stories, yet it is a pretty generous source of culture
amongst the generally bland and worthless children's entertainment that
saturates television these days.
There is only one truly Christmas-themed
episode so don't buy this if you are expecting a Christmas sack full of
holiday cheer... for you will be cheerless.
Little Einsteins: The Christmas Wish features four episodes of the eponymous children's television program.
The episodes included are:
"Show And Tell" - in which the kids learn about Mayan architecture and the Carmen Suite No. 1 by Bizet. "The
Christmas Wish" - which focuses on Für Elise and Starry Starry Night
and is pretty much the only Christmas-themed episode here. "The Wind-Up Toy Prince" - featuring The Nutcracker Suite and Little Dancer by Degas. "The
Northern Night Light" - which teaches the kidlets about Flight Of The
Bumblebee and The Road in front of Saint-Siméon Farm in Winter by
Claude Monet.
Pretty heavy stuff, right? It's a long way from those halcyon days of watching Puddle Lane and Super Ted...
DVD EXTRAS
The DVD has a 'Fast Track' function, which plays all
episodes automatically after simply inserting the disc.
Handy for those "mums on the run"!
The
bonus material consists of a game called "Magic Mission Mode: Holidays
Around The World", and a special bonus episode of Winnie The Pooh!
Yep,
that Winnie The Pooh. Sweet.
From what I can gather, this is a
fairly reputable and popular show and this DVD does nothing to
denigrate it's reputation.
Let's face it, if I were still (physically) a kid, I'd be on this like white on rice.
Nice work, Disney.
Conclusion:
Movie 80% Extras: 80%
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