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| Baby Einstein - Baby Monet - Discovering the Seasons | 
 enlarge | Director: Jim Janicek
Actor: Baby Einstein
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (69 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2694
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 34 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936276350
ISBN: 078885836X
UPC: 883413438628
EAN: 9780788858369
ASIN: B0006L0L5W
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: February 16, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 doesn't hold my toddler's interest April 15, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
My 16-month-old son will sit still for all his Baby Einstein videos (Neptune, Galileo, Neighborhood Animals, and MacDonald), EXCEPT Baby Monet. After only a few minutes he wanders off to play. This one is definitely geared towards the younger set--not as many concepts or words are introduced as in the other videos. And I wish they'd used more pictures of kids or animals doing different seasonal activities than they used of trees, haystacks (muffins?), and zebras.
PS--what is the deal with the Little Einstein promo at the beginning? How stereotypical that the "leader" of the pack is a white boy and the "funny, musical" kid is the black boy named Quincy. I would have expected more from Disney.
 Not my favorite but the kids keep asking for it April 15, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Okay, clearly this is not like the other videos like Van Gogh or Neptune. The scenes were pretty and the boys (2 year olds) love the waterfall and the tree that changes colors. I'm not crazy about the video but they are constantly asking for the "new baby einstein". The part that I hated most was the preview at the beginning of the video. I enjoyed the fact that I did not have to fast forward through a commercial to get to the other einstein videos. Is this a Disney change??? What really counts is that the boys like it and they are learning about the seasons when we watch it together.
 Where's Julie? April 14, 2005
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
Baby Monet is miss, miss, miss and hit. There is some gorgeous footage of the changing seasons (where you see a solitary waterfall, or a tree morphing through the four seasons), but the rest of the DVD is a disgusting and painful wail of a flick. First of all Julie Clark gets underused. You briefly hear her little pixie voice, but she never gets to recite any of her whimsical, pretty, poetry. Then there are these less-than-cute zebra puppets. Their day glo colors are annoying. The tall zebra should have been paired with something friendly and small and round--instead of that horrible bird. Colorful zebras bouncing up and down are a bore. The puppets do this dated endless dance "with attitude" (yawn) toward the end of the DVD that will make you want to throw baby food at the television! The zebras are superimposed over gorgeous footage that gets soiled with their day-glo presence. Most of the puppet jokes are awful (especially the one with the blow dryer). The video has relatively few toys and mobiles in it and the footage it uses of babies looks like a string of the bad outtakes that should have been dumped in the waste can. The DVD also recylces old Baby Einstein music and mixes it with some ho-hum new stuff. For the sake of the series, Disney should give complete creative control back to Julie Clark for the next 3 DVDs, hire Markie Post to do the puppets again, and get Bill W. to do ALL the music. The credits at the end of this DVD are too long. Too many untalented people had their mediocre fingers in this mush of a pie.
 My daughter loves this! April 11, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
We have two Baby Einstein videos and my 23 month old loves them both. She likes the colors and puppets of this one - puppets who keep trying to dance around a maypole but it starts to rain, until finally they dress with rain gear; puppets who play in the sun but get burned, then put on sunscreen thick and foamy, then say "baa baa". It's funny! I love the nature footage, especially the slow motion of rain drops. Since watching this video she also now loves to paint.
I love it, but my daughter isn't in to it. April 9, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My 18 month old received this as a gift following her recent liver transplant. We are always looking for new movies for her to watch in the hospital, and to and from the hospital in the car. The Baby Einstein movies are usually a sure thing for her, but I think that I enjoy this one more than she does!
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