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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 21756
Category: DVD
Actors: Harvey Atkin, Karen Bernstein, Jill Frappier, Jennifer Darling, Melissa Fahn
Director: Tony Oliver
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 55 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1005282
ISBN: 079285831X
UPC: 027616896124
EAN: 9780792858317
ASIN: B0000YEEZI
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
Discover big fun with Hello Kitty in five larger-than-life adventures! "The Phantom of the Theater": Hello Kitty's theater is fun, exciting and?haunted? It looks like someone's been playing lots of spooky tricks on the furry-tale gang. But who could it be? The answer is purrfectly hilarious! "Frankencat": Dr. Frankencat (Catnip) creates a good-natured monster (Grinder) who befriends My Melody. But it's up to Hello Kitty and Constable Sam to save the friendly beast from a horde of angry villagers. "Catula": Catnip has gone completely batty! She's flying all over Catsylvania sipping everyone's favority frosty-cold drink. Thank goodness Hello Kitty has a secret plan and a few extra gallons of milk! "The Pawed Piper": Can anything make Catnip grumpier than sharing the spotlight with her pals? Yes?fleas! But even this fussy feline knows when to step aside ? and let Hello Kitty come in to save the day! "Rumpeldogskin": Once upon a meow, good King Sam and the lovely Queen Kitty rode into the sunset and lived happily ever after. Or, at least they were about to ? before a huge, magical troll (Grinder) got in the way!
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 Not age appropriate November 25, 2008
This DVD was given as a gift to our two-and-a-half year old daughter. Our daughter loves the Hello Kitty character and we, too, think it is very cute. But this DVD is definitely not for children under the age of 5. The stories are quite scary and a child at the age of our daughter cannot really distinguish between fiction and reality. The stories are rather for older kids but then the characters are not interesting for this age group anymore. So I think, there is no appropriate age group for this DVD. I cannot recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to buy it for kids. In fact, our DVD ended up in the trash.
No Series Opening Titles Or End Credits And A Missing Story! October 11, 2008
This is a review of a series of Hello Kitty DVDs released by MGM in 2003: HK Becomes a Princess, HK Saves the Day, HK Tells Fairy Tales, HK Goes to the Movies, and HK Plays Pretend. These five discs have also been bundled together into the Diamond Collection, as well as paired into a Plays Pretend/Saves The Day 2-Pack (alt url). Finally there's a "Triple Feature DVD Set" with the discs for Princess, Saves The Day, and Fairy Tales all in one case (this might be exclusive to Target). Whew! Amazon may display this review on the page of another version of this product, for which this review may not apply. After reading this review, please click on the link so that you can be assured that the product this review applies to is the same one you thought it was for.
For those who don't already know, contained on this DVD are stories from the 1987 Saturday morning series "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater". You wouldn't know that by watching the disc because there are NO SERIES OPENING TITLES and NO SERIES END CREDITS!!! Yes, you read that correctly. They left out one of the most significant parts of a television series. Remember the catchy theme song? Well, all you'll have are your memories because that theme won't be found here. There's a credits block on the back of the case that lists the voice actors and major crew, but it doesn't list the minor crew members. Pity all of the poor animators whose work on the series now goes uncredited.
The series consists of 13 half-hour episodes with 2 stories per episode (26 stories total). Yet only 25 of the 26 stories appear on these five discs. Keep in mind that's only 5 stories per each 10.00 disc (that's the original price). They could have easily fit the entire series onto two dual-layer discs for 20.00. So not only are you missing a story, and NOT getting the episodes in their original 2-story pairs with the original series opening titles and end credits, but you're being bilked for what little you DO get!
The previous VHS releases in the late 1990s (Wizard of Paws VHS and Kitty & The Beast VHS) were MUCH better than these five DVDs. Sure they only included four stories each, but they included the series opening titles and end credits, which makes them a vast improvement over these DVDs. I can only hope that someone at MGM wakes up and re-releases this series as a proper "complete series" set, but I doubt that that will ever happen.
 5 Hello Kitty cartoons not available since the 80's! June 23, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The cartoons are from the 1980's Hello Kitty tv series "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater," which are variations on popular fairy tales/movies. They feature Hello Kitty, My Melody, Tuxedo Sam, Chip, Catnip & Grinder, who are actors in the theatre. Each DVD contains 5 fairy tales, and each fairy tale is about 10 minutes long and has its own unique take on the familiar stories. They are also changed to be less violent, nicer and more suited for children (water balloon fights instead of guns).
The quality of the DVD's are more like TV broadcast quality and this is the reason I've given it 4 stars instead of 5. I think they could've enhanced the quality before putting it onto DVD. It is also not recorded in stereo sound. I already owned the 2 Furry Tale Theater VHS's (Kitty and the Beast, The Wizard of Paws), so I already knew what to expect.
I'm an adult Sanrio collector and I loved seeing these episodes, and I would feel good about letting my children see these too.
The following is the list of the episodes in this DVD:
"Hello Kitty Plays Pretend" contains The Phantom of the Theater, Frankencat, Catula, The Pawed Piper, and Rumpeldogskin.
This DVD contained 5 episodes which were not previously available on the 2 VHS's I had, so these were all new to me!
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