Search - The Wiggles - Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's a Wiggly Party on DVD

Higher budget, lower entertainment value

Kathleen A Poe | Sacramento, CA USA | 10/22/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"My 16 month-old loves the Wiggles, and after a few skeptical viewings on Playhouse Disney, so do I. We have Wiggle Time and Wiggly, Wiggly World. My daughter is just getting to the age when she tries to mimic the dance moves and hand motions she sees. So it is somewhat disappointing to see less of the fun and easy choreography that marked the Wiggles earlier works. There is nothing for her to try and imitate, so she loses interest more quickly. It seems that most of the choreography is somewhat random, as there are many children of different ages and abilities throughout the video. The songs are lots of fun, however, and quite catchy (maybe moreso for me than for my kid!). The graphic backgrounds don't bother me as much as some other reviewers, although they do get repetitive after a while. And while I love Capt. Feathersword, he tends to get rather shrill sometimes. I think he's quite talented, but his voice can get an octave or two too high. Overall, I love the Wiggles' commitment to entertaining children. They always look like they tremendously enjoy what they're doing. And it is fun to try and pick out Greg and Murray's kids and Anthony's neice and nephew. But this video doesn't have quite the loopy joi de vivre that most of the others have. This may be better for older kids, but I don't think it will hold a toddlers interest as much."

Love the Wiggles, but this one is WAY too glitsy & intense.

Deanna Hockey | 08/05/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"We LOVE the Wiggles, but this video is WAY too intense and glitsy for the younger fans. We only let our 12-month old daughter watch a couple of videos, and always with us: a few of the KidSongs (e.g. Old McDonald's Farm) Videos and the Wiggles. We LOVE the WIGGLE TIME video so were stunned when we saw this, our 2nd Wiggles video. Part of the enjoyment is the purity and "campy-ness" of the first video. We very much wish the Wiggles had NOT gotten a budget! This video has FAR LESS DANCING by the Wiggles and their friends. The between-songs segments are confusing, DISTRACTING, way TOO INTENSE and GLITSY in COMPUTER-GRAPHICS, and are not thematically relevant. They really detract from the video. As parents, it hurt OUR eyes to see the brights, waving lines and zooming graphics in bright colors. Very, very, very unfortunate. Just like rap music (which I actually like ok and own several CDs of various artists of) has been found to distrupt normal wave patterns in infants and toddlers, I cannot help but think (as a clinical psychologist), that the intensity, speed, and bold, in-your-face colors in the graphics on this video are similarly disruptive. Yes, we think it is THAT INTENSE; it made us turn away from the t.v. Please buy and thoroughly enjoy the older Wiggles videos; they are wonderful. The graphics on this one, however, are far too much like the way-too-fast-paced video games of school-aged children. This is not good for the under 5 years old crowd, at the very least."