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For the non-Australians out there, the Wiggles are a quartet of male songbirds reminiscent of the Monkees, but aimed at the Barney-watching set. The Down Under foursome sings about mashed bananas and hot potatoes, dances with the energy of fitness instructors, and makes mild attempts at being educational. (Three of the four met while studying early childhood education.) Their stab at multiculturalism results in the Jewish song "Havenu Shalom Alachem." Joining them are a big green dinosaur named Dorothy (seem familiar?), Henry the giant purple octopus, Wags the Dog, and a man in a pirate suit called Captain Feathersword. The songs are catchy, the dancing vigorous, and the outfits colorful approximations of the uniforms worn by the original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. A couple of the haircuts look like they might have been acquired on the spaceship as well. The 15-song video runs 33 minutes long and claims to be appropriate for ages 1-8, but will most likely appeal to preschoolers and kindergartners. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Dance Party
The Wiggles, that wacky outfit wowing kids from Down Under, welcome preschoolers for a lively, loopy musical fiesta on their sixth release, Dance Party. In addition to Murray, Greg, Jeff, and Anthony, Oz's answer to the Fab Four, chiming in on this 15-song charmer of a dance- and sing-along are the usual wiggly suspects--Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog, Captain Feathersword, and the remarkably light-on-her-feet hostess of the party, Dorothy the Dinosaur. Along with all the fancy footwork, expect the frenetic pace of all Wiggles offerings (nobody's attention span is apt to be challenged by a 15-segment, 40-minute video), but also expect a less polished production than in previous titles. The gang's unfamiliar hair styles and other telltale clues bear the trappings of an early performance. Which in no way dilutes the fun-for-all delirium. In fact, the goofier-than-ever gags and graceful child dance troupes featured on a couple of numbers here propel this tape into top-shelf Wiggles territory. Songs include "Can You Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist?," "Wags the Dog," "Five Little Joeys," "Di Dicki Do Dum," "I'm a Cow," "Do the Flap," "On Your Holiday," "Hat on My Head," "The Magic Bag," "Brown Girl in the Ring," "Georgia's Song," "Our Boat Is Rocking on the Sea," "Nicky Nacky Nocky Noo," "Dorothy's Dance Party," and "The Big Red Car." --Tammy La Gorce
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | Lyons / Hit Ent. |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Children's Video, Childrens, Gift Set, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 045986091208 |
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Customer Reviews of The Wiggles - Wiggly Party Pack (Dance Party / Hoop-Dee-Doo! / Wiggle Time)
We love it! I bought this for my 1 1/2 year old daughter. She is so addicted to it! It is obvious it is one of the earlier ones they did - much less "production" but we really prefer it that way. There are more children dancing and singing with the Wiggles than paid dancers.....and the songs are really cute and catchy. My daughter is not a TV buff at all but she dances along with the songs - it is adorable. We love this one! Their hair cuts do change throughout the video, but she could care less. We really love this!
Needs to be reproduced
The kids won't care that the quality isn't good or that this was obviously made at a time when the Wiggles had no budget. The problem is that there is no DVD menu. If you hit the "skip" button, the DVD does not advance to the next song, but rather to some random spot on the disk in the middle of a song. If your child is yelling to hear a certain song, there's no way to get to it except to FF visually. How much of a problem would it be to rerelease this DVD with the scenes properly indexed?
My son digs it, and that's all that matters.
If you want to see The Wiggles way back when before they had any kind of money to put into video production, then "Dance Party" is an amusing artifact. Most of this DVD (along with its same-titled CD) have been remade into the far superior "Here Comes The Big Red Car."
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>If you've seen such "early" Wiggles videos as "Yummy Yummy" and "Wiggle Time" and thought those were done on a bit of a budget, then you need to see "Dance Party" which looks like it was created on half a shoestring. Henry, Wags, and Dorothy have also come a long way, as you can tell by their early costumes on here. The set designs are sparse, and Anthony's hair is indeed a mess. Anthony performs as Captain Feathersword, as well as one other person (perhaps Paul Field), so yes, this is even before the days of Paul Paddick.
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>Bottom line is my 21 month old son loves this video and all the songs as much as any of his other Wiggles videos, and that's all that matters. Most people will probably want to pick up "Here Comes The Big Red Car," but "Dance Party" at its core is the same kind of fun, and certainly an interesting video artifact for hardcore Wiggles fan.