Amazing Animals Video: Animal Families

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Customer Reviews:

This is a great way for Kids to begin learning about Animals [Posted on 2001-04-13]
Our family loves the Amazing Animal series! They are a wonderful way for young children to begin learning about the animals around us. Henry the Lizard is colorful and funny, and is very entertaining for children. It has lots of color, and comedy situations. You learn about many different animal families and how they live. The combination of Animation and real life Video keeps the kids interested over and over again. Our family gives this movie and all Amazing Animal movies a hearty reccomendation.

Could be a lot better... [Posted on 2004-12-12]
We recently purchased this video for our 3 year old son. He likes the video, and it does provide some good entertainment value. However, there is definitely room for improvement. We thought this would be a Discovery Channel-type show for young children. Instead, the video spends a lot of its time focusing on the antics of Henry, the animated lizard. Most of the sequences with Henry aren't funny, and his whiny voice quickly began to grate on my nerves. This video tosses in a few short segments showing different animal families, but each of them is very short, and doesn't impart much information. On top of it all, Henry makes wise cracks and complains throughout each scene, which may provide some entertainment to your children, but which also becomes very stale upon repeated viewing.

If you are considering making purchases in this series, I would recommend buying only one video at first. Then, see how you and your kids like it before investing any more. The series definitely holds promise, if only they tone Henry down and make him less of a whiner.

Not good. Definitely not good. [Posted on 2005-03-09]
For a nature video, this production sucked, in my opinion. Henry is supposed to be irrepressible and incorrigible, but he's actually annoying and stupid. The structure revolves around interactions between Henry and the narrator, who have some sort of simplistic storyline. Some scenes take place on a white background, which is also peopled by a seemingly random assortment of live-action animals, which wander in and out of the scene without comment. They are interspersed with two types of digressions; first, there is a series of animated shorts featuring cartoon animals which never speak. The second involves more traditional nature documentary footage, which is explained by Henry and the narrator. The character of Henry is spoiled and selfish. In this installment, Henry is bothered by his baby sister, and stressed out when he can't address all of her needs. Meanwhile, he has a birthday party coming up, and is completely focused on receiving presents. This isn't teaching kids anything positive, as far as I'm concerned. The documentary footage is exceedingly brief, rarely focusing on one animal for more than ten seconds, and often flipping through a montage of animals without even naming them, let alone explaining anything about them. The cartoon interludes are somewhat interesting in that the animal characters never speak; they have the feel of a wordless comic strip. But the point of them is questionable, and the educational value is nil. Visually, the video is somewhat interesting, but the mtv-theory of throw lots at the kids to keep their attention has taken over anything of value that this series might offer.

Animal Families [Posted on 2008-08-31]
Another great and entertaining episode of Henry's Amazing Animals. It is a great and educational video for both young and old. As usual, Henry has to learn a lesson.

And this time, it about family. A entertaining and great show that should be one DVD.

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