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Tweenies - Song Time is Fab-a-Rooney/Song Time 2
BBC/Roadshow Entertainment . R4 . COLOR . 98 mins . G . PAL

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In their second incarnation on region 4 DVD, those colourful football-headed youngsters, The Tweenies, present almost 100 minutes of singing, dancing and sticking a-rooney on the end of every sentence. Joining crusty old Max and his friend Judy at their playgroup for oversized youngsters are Jake and his yellow Mohawk, Fizz and her braided red dreads, Milo and his spiky black bristles, Bella the blue-headed pageant queen and Doodles the giant red pooch. And here they sing and dance up a storm, ignoring the other quite superfluous segments of their regular television appearances to concentrate only on ‘Song Time’. There’s no banter, no chit-chat, no let up; just a full-on dance party, a conflagration of music and movement, that doesn't stop for the duration.

Two former VHS releases in one, Song Time 2/Song Time is Fab-a-Rooney is guaranteed to overdose your 2½ to 5 year olds on noise, colour and movement better than a draught of extra-strength red cordial. Certainly, my young daughter can’t sit/dance/bounce off the walls through more than one of these 50-minute instalments in any one sitting – whether through over-stimulation or sheer exhaustion I still haven’t decided, and so this DVD is sure to provide hours and hours of re-watch potential. The songs, a combination of original and old favourites, are perfectly chosen for the target age group…

Song Time is Fabaroonie (00:50:28)
How Do You Feel Today?
Monster Nosh
I’m the Whoo Monster
Dinosaur Dream
Magic Mirror
The End of the Rainbow
Five Firemen in a Row
Odd One Out
There Were Five in the Bed
This Old Man
Do it Like Me
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
We All Clap Hands Together
I Am the Leader
Horsey, Horsey Don’t You Stop
The Foogly, Oogly Bird
Under the Sea
When Elephants Take a Bath
I Am a Lion
Penguin Power
How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Three Little Fishies
The One Man Band
Do As I’m Doing

Song Time 2 (00:48:23)
Can You Be What I Can Be?
Ten Fat Sausages
The Runaway Train
They Are My Shoes
We’re All So Different
Miss Polly Had a Dolly
There Was a Princess Long Ago
Come On Feel the Music
There Once Was a Mermaid
Out in the Rain
I’m a Little Teapot
Hot and Cold
Mousie Brown
A Boat on the Water
It You’re Happy and You Know It
I Went to the Garden
Two Fat Gentlemen
I’d Like to Be a Bubble
The Ally-ally-o
The Ant and the Elephant
Starship Tweenie
Riding in a Cardboard Box Train
Wooly Jumper Rock

Bursting with joy and enthusiasm, and with the confidence to think for themselves, The Tweenies are great for young kids; much more appropriate than the BBC’s programming for toddlers (Teletubbies). Despite the sheer number of songs on offer the choreography remains fun, easy and imaginative throughout, as does the quality of the music itself; ranging from simple nursery rhymes to original pop-songs. I haven’t met a child yet who didn’t connect with these bright big-headed youngsters and I recommend The Tweenies to anyone looking for a fun time-a-rooney for their children and a little time-out-a-rooney for themselves. Just remember to hide that red cordial...

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In keeping with the high quality that we have come to expect from BBC/Roadshow DVD releases in our region, Song Time 2/Song Time is Fab-a-Rooney features an anamorphic (1.78:1) transfer that literally leaps from the screen. The eye-watering colours are vibrant and well-balanced, blacks are effectively non-existent and, drawn directly from the video source material, the image displays no dirt or other telecine-related lewgies. Sharpness is good, with a little motion blur displayed when the camera pans - a legacy of the video source material – and a few jaggies that can to be seen during a number of blue-screen segments. Compression related artifacts, meanwhile, seem to have become a thing of distant memory.

The audio presentation, a Dolby Digital stereo affair in the original English, is in keeping with typical BBC ‘for-kids’ production values. Dialogue and lyrics remain clear and distinct from the centre channel, and while the majority of the music emanates from the front channels, my trusty Prologic decoder did manage to route an acceptable portion of it to the rear. My daughter, twisting and twirling around the lounge room, noticed none of this.

In terms of extras, there’s nothing on offer. But your youngster’s favourite songs may be accessed again and again via the navigation menus.


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  •   And I quote...
    "…guaranteed to overdose your 2½ to 5 year olds on noise, colour and movement better than a draught of extra-strength red cordial."
    - Gavin Turner
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