Disney The Lion King: Read-Along

So excited love the movie

I thought "Read Along" meant a book - Not. It is a DVD "book" with subtitles on the screen, the characters don't talk or move, it only has a narator's voice and the pages "flip" on the screen. The whole story is over in 5 minutes. Most of the DVD is taken up with ads for other movies, and 3 music videos (Elton John, etc) which children aren't interested in anyway. Should be rated "fast reading adults only" who want a summary of the story at best.

This DVD was a real disappointment. It seems like it was thrown together at the last minute. The story, and even the songs, are nothing but a montage of still pictures. The only good thing about this DVD might have been that you can learn foreign languages from it. The story and a couple songs in German, Italian, Castilian Spanish, and French are included. However, even that isn't perfect. I can speak German, and I noticed that a lot of words in the German story and songs were spelled wrong, or even in some cases, words were stuck together because someone forgot to hit the spacebar. For a $14.00 DVD, they didn't even bother to spell-check. Which is a real shame, because this DVD could've been a great tool to practice a foreign language.

Disappointed as I though I was ordering the movie "the Lion King" only to find that I received a " Read Along DVD, stories and song in 5 different languages. :(

It was the wrong. One the kids. Didn't like it

I expected the DVD to carry the original Lion King movie/story. Instead, it is a modified story book edition with little if any animation, although the cartoons are all faithful to the originals. However, it really fails in achieving anywhere near the entertainment value, emotion and wonder of the movie or theatre performance. All in all - a big letdown. The only saving grace was that the price fell dramatically by shipment time and there are a couple of neat little inter-active games that keep young children interested for about 15 to 20 minutes. My suggestion - save your money; wait and see if they ever release the actual movie on DVD.

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