Caillou - Caillou's Family Fun

My 2 yr.old Grand-Daughter loves Caillou. Amazon once again came through for me, having the D.V.D.'s I'm looking for.

My daughter loves Caillou, but has been very upset with this video. For some reason the producers decided to interweave narrative vignettes with puppets and live action -- my daughter spends the duration of each segment complaining that she wants Caillou, and I spend lots of time with my fingers on the remote. I wish the producers had identified the DVD content more clearly; we'd have bought something else.

Disappointed overall.

We love Caillou and this dvd is a great addition to our collection!

I felt my own distress level growing to an intolerable level as the poor little dinosaur realized that he came to Caillou with 'nothing', no family. I had to turn off the dvd. I am the proud grandmother of a 19 month old who was adopted at birth through an open adoption, a helpful aunt to a 19 month old nephew who was conceived with donor sperm, and friend to a 19 month old adopted girl who was born in China. In this day and age, when families are created through laboratory technology, surrogate mothers, donated sperm, open adoption, foreign adoption (isn't it wonderful!), I felt that this video's handling of a sensitive topic was intolerable. The animations and simple stories are just right for a young audience, but the handling of a sensitive topic by a set of puppets was downright distasteful. p.s. I am assuming that the issue of where the dinosaur came from was resolved in some way, but I couldn't watch to the end.

Video = 3 stars
DVD = 5 stars

My daughter enjoys this cartoon much more than any other video.

She doesn't particularly care for the puppets - but that is not a big deal - they are only about 30% or the show. The live action segments are pretty good. The Caillou parts (cartoons) are very good.

The DVD probably will cost you more but you get two vhs length show in one dvd.