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Summary: Disney DVDs are full of adds, the films get buried.
Review: Just like the other amazon reviwers say, the SHR films are loaded with about a dozen adds for other made for the Disney channel films, thatyou can not skip past to the main meneu. I like School House Rock, but this rather cheap/fast DVD that Disney put the films on with all these adds is just annoying and too much. I said once that Warners made cheap DVDs, WRONG. Disney is the all time king of cheap/annoying DVD productions and features,
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Summary: SchoolHouse Rock Helped Me
Review: "I'm Just a Bill" helped me pass my US Government test a year after ABC dropped the series. I still know the preamble to the US Constitution in truncated form thanks to "We the People." I'm not sure I would have passed the class without SHR swimming in my back brain.
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Summary: I Bought Two Copies....
Review: ....one for me. One for my 5yo. niece. Good educational stuff for her - just plain fun for me.Ok - they take me back to my youth, but I love "Interjections" or "Verb - That's What's Happening". I also like things more now than I did as a child ("Figure 8"). The menu is a bit cumbersome for a child (even a big one like me), but it's a jam packed set.
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Summary: "We found them and they found us and now they are ours...
Review: ...and we're so happy!" This DVD is a lot of fun. Being a 30 something myself, I grew up watching these on Saturday mornings. It's fun to review them now and to watch my son enjoying them as well. It's great family fun and education!
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Summary: Schoolhouse Rock ROCKS!!
Review: A good percentage of my childhood years were spent glued to the TV watching cartoons every Saturday morning and afternoon, but more than those, I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock! I can honestly say that I learned just as much (if not a bit more) from these classic episodes as I did in 8 years of Parochial school! While Schoolhouse Rock is not meant to be an alternative to a "proper" education, they succeeded in making learning a LOT MORE FUN! When I heard that Schoolhouse Rock was finally available on video, I practically rushed out the door to buy the DVD, and my fiancee and I spent the next few hours glued to the TV just like we were kids again! Classic episodes like "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly", "Conjunction Junction", and our all-time favorite "Interjections" filled us both with many wonderful memories, and we remembered the lyrics to EVERY one of the songs word-for-word without looking at the lyric sheet! It's amazing (but not surprising) how these things that we loved as children have had such a lasting impression and are still very much with us even into our adult years! We enjoy them even more now! Schoolhouse Rock is a bonafide classic that will never go out of style and transcends every generation...relive the memories you have and pass them on to your kids so that they too will make their own memories!
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Summary: Yay! It's on DVD!
Review: A wonderful DVD! Takes me back to my childhood - watching Saturday morning cartoons while eating bowls of Fruity Pebbles. Every song is here, including some that I had never seen before (mostly the "Money Rock" entries). They still hold up as being fun and informative, even today. Two minor quibbles:
1) The shuffle feature never worked on my DVD. The songs played in the same order every time - staring with "Unpacking My Adjectives" and then going through each section the same way. This may just be a glitch in my DVD. 2) Since the good people at Disney now own ABC, we are "treated" to eight - count 'em - eight previews for Disney videos, movies, and assorted junk. You can get past these by either hitting the "Menu" or "Title" feature on the remote or Chapter Advancing past them all. In spite of these, I would still recommend this to anyone feling nostalgic for their youth or needs to teach someone about civics or multiplication. (Come on, do you know anyone who can recite the Preamble to the Constitution WITHOUT singing the Schoolhouse Rock song?)
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Summary: The Good-For-You Cartoon DVD
Review: After hearing my preschooler memorize and recite pointless nursery rhymes, I decided to put her brain to better use. Enter "Schoolhouse Rock." Now, instead of hearing about four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, I'm hearing "12x8 is the same as 10x8 plus 2x8... 80 plus 16 is 96." Yes, really. Her grandmother was equally impressed when asked "What's a conjunction?" Schoolhouse Rock presents Multiplication, Grammar, American History, and Science and Computers in all it's emmy-winning glory. The music -- rock, jazz, bluegrass and country -- are masterfully produced and yes, danceable. The cartoons are hip, funny, well-crafted and support the curriculum well. It's education with attitude. Here's the best part: it is fun! Give your children the remote and let them repeat their favorites over and over again. Before you know it, they'll have a brain packed full of good stuff. I can't tell you how many grammar quizzes I passed by remembering the lyrics "Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here," "then I unpacked my adjectives," and "a noun is a person place or thing." Many of my friends hummed the tune of "the preamble" to the constitution during history exams. There is only one drawback -- some of the songs use improper English like "ain't." There is a jukebox feature on each component which allows you to select which tracks to play, so you can omit those if you like. I'd also recommend the CD Box Set or the individual CDs to reinforce the material, but not in place of the DVD.
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Summary: This Is So Cool--Facts can be Fun!!
Review: And it's even educational! I was so pumped (now that I have a DVD player) to hear that they were releasing a big-time anniversary edition of Schoolhouse Rock in its entirety. I've had four of the videos for years, but this set is so much better. Disc One has all of the original songs--you can play them in order, randomly, just the top ten--and an all-new song about the Electoral College (inspired, no doubt, by the 2000 presidential election). The way you can navigate your way through any and/or all of the songs is very easy and great for when you don't just want to hear about grammar (or history, math, etc. . .). What really puts this over the top, though, is Disc Two, with a bucket load of extras: the lost "Weather Show," a new computer three-song set, a making-of feaure, top 20 countdowns, an interactive trivia game, music videos by contemporary artists, audio commentaries, Emmy Award footage, etc. . . . I can't wait to explore even more than I got to last night! This will be such a great tool for my 21-month-old daughter (who will know how a bill becomes a law and how to use a conjunction in a sentence!) and a ton of fun for me in the process. The video quality isn't MONSTERS, INC., but it doesn't have to be. The old animation holds up just fine, as does the audio, which audiophiles could probably complain about if they want to poop the party for the rest of us. What really stands up to the test of time, aside from the basic content, is the music. These guys (primarily) did some really good arranging, little of it in the rock 'n roll genre, ironically. Jack Sheldon delivers some spectacular jazz vocals on several of the more famous tunes. Complicated yet catchy melodies are the strength--that's why we all remember "I'm Just a Bill" and "Conjunction Junction"--with great backing vocals and instrumentation to boot. The contemporary artists' renditions didn't hold up to the originals, but they were pretty interesting to hear. The interactive stuff will be great for kids hearing these songs for the first time. The interviews and commentaries are really interesting, especially in hindsight. Great new additions, discoveries, and formats all add to the charm of the original forty-six songs. How they managed to get all of that factual information into essentially a music video, while keeping the kids (and me) entertained, is still a mystery to me. Bottom Line: You'll be hard-pressed to find a better combination of education and entertainment. If there are any factual inaccuracies, they are minor enough to overlook and could actually spark interesting conversations. The basic content is right on-the-money. The fact that they'll actually be talking about and be interested in the grammar, history, science, and economics is important enough to overlook any minor flaws.
The fact that my daughter, who two years (and a couple of months) old, actually knows that "Wow!" is an interjection, a fact that most of my juniors (I'm a teacher) wouldn't know off the top of their heads, speaks volumes. . . !
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Summary: HURRAY! HEY! WOW!
Review: Anyone that grew up in the 70s and early 80s will definitely remember SHR. I just got this DVD last night and started playing it. After skipping all the DARN! trailers and finding the jukebox, I selected "The whole enchilada" and let it play. OMG! I felt like I was 6 years old again! Most of the songs I could sing word-for-word. Those pseudo-hallucinogenic visuals and that jazzy rock beat put on by Bob Dorough and the gang brought back so many childhood memories of watching cartoons on saturday morning. As far as quality, it's mostly excellent. The only two films that looked weird were Electricity and I Got Six. Electricity was very grainy. Didn't look like MPEG2 commpression grain, this was actual film grain. I Got Six actually has a few glitches. The beginning measure of the song has a slight stutter and the first verse has one too. Besides those two problems, the entire DVD is a masterpiece.
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Summary: Still great after all these years!
Review: As a child in the early 1970's I eagerly watched Saturday morning cartoons AND Schoolhouse Rock. While I can no longer see what it is I saw in the cartoons (though I still think they are better than what is on today) I can clearly see why I loved Schoolhouse Rock (and still do)! I forgot all these tunes/cartoons when by the mid to late 1980's I was in college. One night over the dinner table my usual group of about 10 people stated "Hey, whatever happened to Schoolhouse Rock? I loved those songs?" We then all began singing our favorites and wishing they could still be seen. These songs allowed us all to know the difference between a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, to know about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the Revolutionary War, math, and even a little science. They are catchy, memorable, make learning fun, and best of all in today's ever popular "don't-put-anything-on-children's-television-unless-it-also-has-a-toy-to-sell" world, simply good for goodness' sake. I have seen other reviewers criticize this for not being 100% correct, well perhaps, but more importantly, Schoolhouse Rock may inspire children to want to learn more about the subject matter - a key step! The day my husband and I first discovered they were available in VHS/DVD was a great day. We can't wait for our daughter to be able to sing along with these tunes/cartoons.
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