Title: Horrible video
Product review: My 2 1/2 year old son received this as a gift for Christmas - he loves Bob the Builder and we have a few other videos. In this story, Scoop becomes a egomanical paranoid freak, which my son finds confusing and upsetting. There are a few scenes where the machines argue and "camera" zooms in on close-ups of angry machine faces. This he finds very upsetting and yells for me to fast forward. It sends a terrible message to young children- that someone can treat their friends (co-workers, whoever) very badly, and then at the end, when that person messes up and needs help, is easily forgiven and it is all shrugged off. In addition, the foreign accents assigned to some characters are ridiculous and almost offensive (and again, confusing to my son) and the yodeling is a virtual nightmare. It is just so sad that HIT Entertainment did not produce a storyline with more empathetic characters, and involve more learning. It is a total waste.
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