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Ni Hao Kai-Lan - Celebrate With Kai-Lan (Fullscreen) |  | Director: Allan Jacobsen
Actors: Jade-Lianna Peters, Clem Cheung, Khamani Griffin, Angie Wu, Jack Samson
Studio: Nickelodeon
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $7.49
as of 7/30/2010 07:50 PDT details
Seller: inetvideo
Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD893024D
UPC: 097368930247
EAN: 0097368930247
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Celebrate with Kai-Lan February 6, 2010
Cocohatchee (Cleveland , Ohio)
My grandchildren love it. Each episode taught them some ideas & how to solve the problem. They know how to share book, toy with each other and learning some simple Chinese from video too.
grandson loves this October 13, 2009
Nancy Christensen (Kansas City, MO USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recieved this DVD from the seller quickly. My grandson is mesmerized by Kai-Lan.
Nancy
One of our new favorites! August 18, 2009
S. Veeman (Oregon)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My 4 and 6 year old love Kai Lan and her friends. They are always happy and learning to deal with feelings. Basic Chineese vocabulary is an added bonus! Also appropriate for younger ages.
 mediocre, upset my son! July 27, 2009
T. Yuen (PA, USA)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
We bought this DVD because we're Chinese American and wanted a product that would introduce our son to Chinese culture and language. We had been very satisfied with the Dora and Diego series and what it did for Latino/Hispanic culture. We were very disappointed. Evidently Nickelodeon used up most of it's talent and resources for it's money maker Dora the Explorer and Kai Lan seems like an afterthought.
Our biggest gripe is that each episode involves one of Kai Lan's friend's exhibiting some poor personal characteristic (selfishness, anger, etc) and upsetting their set of friends and generally disrupting whatever fun task they have that day (going to the beach, etc). The rest of the episode is then spent rectifying this problem and "teaching" everyone what attitudes are proper. In theory this is fine for older children who understand the concept that the show is imaginary and can distance themselves from the show. For younger children (like my son) it may be upsetting to see one of the central characters being angry, sad/crying or acting out (grabbing toys from other children, throwing tantrums). In one episode a character spends most of the episode depressed and feeling left out, my son actually cried. The happy ending was too little too late to make him feel better.
What we wanted was something fun and educational focusing on Chinese culture, not lessons in behavior and morality taught by intense emotional scenes and demonstrations of poor behavior. Older kids may be able to grasp and benefit the lessons and see it only at a show but the paradox is that this age child would probably not enjoy the show. I think the plot and "acting" of the episodes are too intense and abstract for the children Nickelodeon is targeting. As an adult I found the characters and their troubles actually very annoying. Others on this site have echoed this main complaint of mine, so rest assured it's not just me.
Additional brief complaints: the songs are not catchy and light years behind the music in the Dora and Diego episodes. The Chinese is also minimal (taking a back seat to each episode's morality lesson) and I would have liked it to be more of a focus.
On the positive side (what saved it from being just one star): In all fairness though you buy these DVD's to watch with your kids and provide a starting point for conversations and not to use it as a sole teaching method. So it would be a nice way to facilitate lessons in Chinese with your children and a good starting point. The pronunciation is correct and the portrayal of Kai Lan and her Chinese culture and ethnicity is great and authentic. The characters are cute and initially captivating, if it wasn't for their annoying behaviors my kid probably would probably love them.
The bottom line is that my Chinese-American son remembers more of his Spanish-centered Diego episodes (characters, plots, songs, etc) and has more fun watching these than theses videos about his own culture and about a language he hears everyday from his grandparents. It's a shame.
 Ni hiao Kailan July 9, 2009
Kylie Leung (Sydney, Australia)
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
I ordered this product to assist my children in learning basic chinese, however, as we live in Australia the product could not be played due to a mismatching regional code. We are very disappointed that we cannot use the purchase!!!
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