The Elephant's Child, Told by Jack Nicholson with Music by Bobby McFerrin

I still enjoy having a story read
Jack Nicholson did a great job narrating. And I certainly enjoyed the story, it's nice to hear how things could have happened.

Great story
This is a great Rudyard Kipling story and the music for the story is infectious. I wish I could get just the audio.

This is the best Audio version.
My boys loved listening to this version of The Elephants Child. Jack Nicholson really tell the story dramatically and with humor.
I wish I could buy this version on CD. But it is now out of print and is a collectors item.

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The American Civil War (Videobook)

Full of inaccuracies
I got this set at Sam's Club for ten bucks and thought it would be some cheap educational entertainment. I was wrong.
The first half an hour or more is an overly drawn out history of slavery in the America's and much more than was needed to set the stage for war.
I've only watched the first two DVD's and don't know if I will waste my time on the rest. I don't understand how they can spend 15 minutes giving a detailed account of the Battle of Mill Springs but only a minute or so on Shiloh.
My biggest problem is with unforgivable historical mistakes. At first I wasn't sure. There would be little things I would hear and think, is that right? I wasn't absolutley sure until they continually labeled the Battle of Perryville as happening on October 4th 1862 when I knew for sure it was the 8th. It validates the questions I had on the accuracy of the account of Antietam, Perryville, and Fort Donelson. I really don't care enough to go back and double check. This is just a poorly...

Amateur Video
If you find it hard to believe that a 5 DVD set would cost less than $20, you'll learn why when you watch the first DVD. The visual portion consists mainly of spliced scenes from old movies, a wholly inappropriate way to present history. The narrative is informative if you are new to the topic, and the text contains a few moving moments, most notably when they imitate Ken Burns method of reading eyewitness accounts, but the program lacks a compelling dramatic structure, making the overall result unsatisfactory.

Adequate, but that is all.
This inexpensive three DVD set tries mightily to clone Ken Burns' masterful THE CIVIL WAR, but it falls far short. Made up partly of still graphics with voiceover recitations of wartime reports and correspondence and partly of filmed reenactments, THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR definitely will hold the viewer's interest, but it breaks no new ground at all in presenting the Civil War in word and image. Everything presented here has been presented elsewhere, and generally with better quality.

Beyond the obviously low budget with which the producers had to contend a number of irritating historical errors have crept in to this documentary. When discussing historical figures, a portrait of the named person generally appears onscreen. In the case of Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, his name is consistently misspelled "Wells." This is an example of basic fact-checking laziness, and is really intolerable. Worse yet, after the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg (July 1863) the...

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Key & Peele: Season One

Hilarious!!!!!
I don't typically write reviews. In fact this is my first. However, I was so surprised that there was not one review written for this DVD. So I decided to write one. This show is comprised of comedic shorts based on the observances of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. These are two very intelligent and funny men who are interracial. Their comedy styles are different but compliment each other giving each sketch a bit more than just the typical funny. The sketches range from the archetypal stereotypes to Obama to ultimate fighting to gay marriage and they are all very entertaining. I can't wait to see what these clever gents have in store for us in the second season!

A review of the show, not the dvd.
Sorry, I don't have the dvd YET, but I will say that this show is way funnier than I ever thought it would be. Key and Peele are both former MadTv alumni, and upon seeing the promos for the first season on CC, I had already written the new show as another broad sketch show (ala the somewhat funny MadTv and the almost-never-funny Mind of Mencia) trying to once again recapture the magic of Chappelle show. Boy was I wrong. These guys are smart, witty and the sketches are often laugh out loud funny. Their sketches on race are never so broad or lowbrow as to be insulting (or worse, unfunny) and are often pretty insightful. This is kind of a happy medium between a MadTv -type show and a full on in your face Chappelle-type show...which leans, in my opinion, closer to the latter than the former. The live inbetween bits aren't as raucous because it's basicaly two improv veterans riffing and being goofy, but the sketches are all gold so far. I seriously hope this gains enough of a following to...

Great stuff!
Really love these guys, they are so funny. I enjoy the "standup" type discussion they have between videos, just as much as I do the actual video part. Awesome stuff!

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