Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat

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We love Hello Kitty! But this one... [Posted on 2002-02-13]
I love Hello Kitty! I wanted to introduce her to my daughter, and so I was so happy to have found this video before Christmas.
But, like a few of the other reviewers..I was VERY disappointed they brought up the concept that Santa isn't real!!
For the little ones who aren't even beginning to think he isn't real, this could plant that very idea in thier head. Granted, it all works out in the end, and Santa is proven to be real by Kitty and Mimi...but still...I don't like that they even mentioned that Santa may not be real.
My daughter is too young to realize what they were talking about, but if she were a bit older, I think she would have been asking me questions about it..and then I would have been even more mad!!
I would say that kids over 7 or so could understand this video, but don't show it to the younger and still innocent set!! It may jade thier minds!
I will say if it wasn't for the "I don't believe in Santa" factor..I would have loved this video. The rest of it was very cute.
I hope Sanrio comes out with a better Christmas Hello Kitty video! For now I will just be buying another Hello Kitty video, and putting this one away for a long, long time.

mom [Posted on 2002-11-17]
Not a video for all ages (in my opinion). I saw this video a few years ago and bought a copy for a gift to someone and also a copy for me. I gave the gift and never thought much about it until a few years later when I had my own baby, and opened it up to watch it. To my surprise, it started talking about how Santa is not real. I felt so bad that I had given this gift to the girl I did at her age (5). Her parents must have hated me! It really should say on the back of the package what the theme of the story is to give parents a heads up. My daughter at age 2 loves the video because she is too young to understand, and just enjoys the scenes because she likes Hello Kitty. But I will be packing it away now for a few years.

***I think this is best to give to a child who is already starting to doubt Santa. It just might make them think - "hey, maybe Santa is real..." But I would not recommend this to young kids who have no doubts in Santa at all. It will only confuse them and make them start to doubt at a younger age. And that's no fun.***

It also shows a scene where the cats go onto thin ice to get Santa's hat, and it starts to crack. For young kids, we try and teach them not to go on any frozen ponds or lakes without an adult. So again - maybe fine for an older kid who knows it's just a story. But for young kids, who needs that? But now I am just getting nick-picky. All in all I tend to love Hello Kitty. And this video has great scenes and is cute, despite the above. For an older child it'd be great.

I COULD HAVE DIED!!! [Posted on 2002-12-05]
I couldn't believe this video wasn't properly summarized on the back for parents of preschoolers!!! When I started to watch this with my girls I almost fainted when the concept of 'Santa's not real' came up- My girls hadn't even considered he wasn't real. It sort of ends up ok- but there is some lying on the parents part that is introduced. I would NEVER buy this for a young child. In fact, I cracked the case and told my girls I accidently stepped on it so they would't watch it again. How sad!!!

WARNING- DO NOT BUY, RENT,VIEW OR GIVE THIS... [Posted on 2003-11-28]
tape to anyone where it may be viewed by innocent little children who still believe in the magic of Santa Claus. We just made the HUGE mistake of showing this tape to our 2,4,6, and 8 year olds. We are so careful about the videos and TV shows that our children watch, but who would have thought that we would have had to screen this entire tape for content before showing it to our little ones. Not only does it have a scene where school children are poking fun at Kitty for believing in Santa Claus, it then puts the idea in the children's heads that Mommy and Daddy just buy all of the Christmas presents when Kitty confronts her parents. At this point in the video, we couldn't even turn it off and leave this idea hanging, we desparately hoped that the video will work itself out. Then there was a scene where Kitty catches her Dad dressed up like Santa, leaving them presents, and his diguise gets uncovered when his hat blows off. He then confesses to his children, " Well I think your old enough now for me to tell you that there is no such thing as Santa." Sort of justifying the parental deception (believe me, it is worse than I described). I have got to beleive that every person that had anything to do with the creation, production and distribution of this video are TOTAL MORONS. Our daughter has alot of "Hello Kitty" products, I will NEVER purchase another thing from this company again. It almost seems that the Japanese firm that produces Hello Kitty sadistically put this video tape out knowing that it could destroy the belief in Santa Claus to thousands of American children. Because other than that, I can't possibly justify the stupidity of the people that work for this company. I apologize for being so negative, but I feel I have to warn other parents. The only thing I regret about this review is that you can't rate it lower than 1 star.

Great video [Posted on 2004-11-13]
My daughter and I loved this video. I am always baffled when parents get upset that this video "suggests" to their innocent children that Santa Claus might not be real. This concept is ubiquitous - havn't your kids ever seen a version of "A Christmas Story"? Santa Claus is not real, and why is it so important to you to perpetuate a falsehood as long as possible? Also, why would one reader immediately blame the country of Japan. This demonstrates extreme ethnocentricity, provinciality and ignorance. This DVD could have been made anywhere. One reader blamed Japan for trying to destroy thousands of american Christians [mis]beliefs. Santa was invented by the Coca-Cola Company. To think that it has a religious foundation at all is ignorant and degrades your religion. Anyway, it was a great video.

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