[.ca] Elmo's World: Birthdays, Games & More (Sesame Street)

From Amazon.com:
While it's true that Elmo's World is one that most 2- to 5-year-olds wouldn't mind waking up to any day of the week, Birthdays, Games & More makes plain that, as far as preschool meccas go, this is as good as it gets. Here, the furry little red guy gets the festivities under way watching real, live kid friends festoon pretty packages with colorful bows (his way of answering the endlessly curious Dorothy's question about how to wrap a present) before tuning into the Birthday Channel for a whirlwind trip to Mexico, where ebullient kids whack away at a piñata, and Israel, where a dizzy gang dips to the ground, doing its best to put on hats sans hands. After a chat with a talking birthday cake, it's game time. A chubby baby gets his toes tweaked in a round of "This Little Piggy"; Ernie and his ducky stop by via e-mail to demonstrate hide-and-go-squeak; and a couple of kids crack Elmo up with their search for Thumbkin, first in English, then in Spanish. The games give way, in a third segment, to a pack of pets. Mr. Noodle the lovable numbskull tries to play fetch with a fish; Elmo's tricky drawer trots out a parade of lettuce, a tiger, and a Telly monster, hoping for some help with the question "What can be a pet and what can't?"; and friend Alisa shows off Fluffy, her cat, and dog Spike. Taken together, Birthdays, Games & More is 60 minutes of playful, furry fun destined to be dusted off for repeat watchings by all wannabe Elmo's World inhabitants. --Tammy La Gorce

My daughters favorite one!:
This video is by far my daughter's favorite Elmo video...I am not sure why - but the birthday segment really taught her how to blow out the candles on her birthday cake and the segment with Mr. Noodle wrapping a present had her wrapping everything in sight .."Tape, Mama, TAPE!"...she also learned how to play Simon Says from this video and Tag.....she loves the part where the kids play..... I think it is a good video as any from the Elmo series....

Good, but a copy from the tv show.:
This is a very cute video but don't buy it thinking that you're getting something new. This video is comprised of three segments from the show, pets, birthday parties and something else. It's cute and very nicely done, but when you've seen it rerun many times on television before, it gets a little boring for a toddler.

Elmo's World anytime you want:
I bought this video hoping it would inspire me with some ideas for my child's birthday party. It didn't help me for that but it is a cute video and my 21 month old likes it. It is 3 Elmo World segments from the Sesame Street tv show (birthdays, games & pets). It is not a separately made movie just copies from the show.

Elmo strikes again!:
My daughter is an Elmo (and Sesame Street) fanatic. She loves to watch this video and the others in the "Elmo's World" series over and over again. This video is great for Elmo fans. It only contains the Elmo's World segments from the tv show (3) and they are all one right after the other on the video. For kids who can't sit through Sesame Street long enough to get to Elmo's World, this tape is a must-have (along with the other Elmo's World tapes).

Elmo goofed:
I used to think Sesame Street is always very educational but no longer think so after sitting through this video (painfully, I might add). To put it mildly, it has no real content and not much worth to remember. Worse yet, it seems awefully long for a Sesame Street tape. The usually curious and lovable little furry red guy spends the entire time goofying around. Watching that stupid Mr. Noodle is most dreadful, boring and a total waste of time. I failed to see anything educational in this film. On the contrary, it sends the message to its young audience that having fun and being funny mean being brainless, silly and stupid. Even though it is supposed to be for 2-5 year olds, they are intelligent enough to know the difference between wit and stupidity, sensibility and absurdity.