publication date: Sep 3, 2007
This DVD essentially contains
three adventures with a
birthday theme - each episode
features the gang
of heroes (aka
Little Einsteins) who set out to
solve a problem or
mystery with the help of
famous works of art, landmarks of the world and most prominently
classical music.
As a
parent, who's
keen for her child
not to watch too much "rubbish" on TV, this all
sounds very
edifying. However what this
actually means in
reality is that the elements of story and
character play a definite
second fiddle to the sledgehammer of so-called
educational element. Therefore the
Little Einsteins and their
adventures rapidly become rather
charmless, a bit dull and overall pretty
unengaging.
In the
absence of any interesting
characters, humour or even an
engaging big morality theme (as is the
norm in most
simple stories), one starts feeling rather
rebellious, as you start to
wonder why a
small child needs to
familiarise himself with the
notion of
"bowing a violin", Navaho
Indian art and any number of
Italian musical terms - whose
definition of
educative is this?
Little Einsteins are ultimately the
class swot - you can't fault their
content but you just don't like them very much
. But as my son
nodded along, repeated
phrases, grinned from
ear to ear and
participated as he was
encouraged to by the
characters, I realised my
opinion didn't matter
very much.
Little Einsteins Vol.1 - Mission Celebration [2006]
