Barney: The Best of Barney

Just Dreadful
A cynical mishmash of clips to celebrate (the latter part of) Barney's last twenty years. Highlights weak songs and weaker "new" characters. The scenes at the circus border on creepy. They're is even a hip-hop version of "Baa, Baa Black Sheep".....groan! Ignore the neat packaging and go find instead DVDs from the "Classic Barney" collection -- titles like "Barney Rhyme Time", "Lets play school" and "outdoor fun". The shows don't feel dated and they were made with a great deal more care.

Not quite the Best of Barney, but still "Super Dee Duper"
After being disappointed from Dino-Mite Birthday, I had high hopes for this DVD. And you know what? It was just as I hoped. I may spoil the video a bit, but the plot is pretty simple. Tracy brought souvenirs from her beach trip back for her friends, including Barney, so Barney gets out his memory box to put it in. However, the lid is stuck! After many attempts, the box explodes (or as they say later on, "kablooie!") open with memoric items galore. Barney through out the video looks back at great times those items remind him of. Like Sing and Dance with Barney, a few familiar faces appear. In particular, Stella and Mr. Boyd, to bring the nostalgia factor to older fans of the series or people who watched it with their kids in the 90's/early 2000's. Stella presents a book to Barney which features video clips of almost all the kids who have been on the TV show (even the original TV cast (Tina, Luci, Michael, Kathy,...

My son LOVES it!
I got the DVD for my son when we went away, to keep him entertained during four hour plane ride. He didn't care for it on the plane, but once we got home, all he was saying is "barney, barney" (and he doesn't speak English). He loves the songs and dances to it.

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