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Amazing Animals - Mini-Beastsx
  (1 reviews)
Best Price: $9.95
Based on the title, you might find yourself expecting to find the stories of wombats or maybe baby bobcats. But the video actually hangs its name on the "mini" part, as in itsy-bitsy bugs and tiny creepy crawlies--invertebrates that can't grow too big. After all, the little animals rule the world: the narrator tells us insects make up one-third of all living species on the planet. Lots of statistics are breezily dropped in, such as aphids can have as many as 50 babies a week. The most compelling reason to own this half-hour is because the kids are surely going to need to repeatedly watch the bizarre footage of two dung beetles fighting over a piece of animal waste before one wins, and rolls it on home. --Valerie J. Nelson
UPC: 790778195137
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Customer Reviews
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Far better than others in the series (but still bad)
By A25ACLV5KPB4W on 2005-03-09
When I first started watching this, I assumed it was a later version of the show because I enjoyed it so much more than the others I have watched. I was surprised to see that it actually is copyrighted a year earlier, so it must represent the quality work that gave the producers the license to turn out the later schlock. Not that this is of high quality; the cartoons are still incomprehensible, and the Henry character is still annoying rather than hilarious. But the nature segments were longer, more educational, and also of a high quality, although the subject of insects may have had something to do with it. The storyline between Henry and the narrator is diminished, and rightfully so. This is still far from a quality show though, with lame jokes and an insensitivity to footage that might be scary to toddlers (such as a seemingly giant tarantula squeezing into Henry's house, with the explanation that mini beasts love to live in our homes).
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