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Baby Einstein, Baby Van Gogh
Baby Van Gogh World of Colors features toys, artwork and everyday items set to music.  Includes * Baby Van Gogh World of Colors Video * Puppet Shows * Video Tutorial * Discovery Cards * Baby Einstein Catalog * Baby Van Gogh Toy Chest.  Kids First! Endorsement.
Blue`s Big Musical Movie
Blue`s feature length film. If you haven`t watched a Blue`s Clues before, get ready for some cute, cuddly fun. Blue and her friends solve riddles through clues that are left along the way for them (and that your toddler can easily figure out as well). Full of singing, audience participation, and well, blue dogs.
Disney`s Little Einsteins
Blast off with the Little Einsteins!  Created by Disney and the Baby Einstein Company, Little Einsteins takes children on adventures in a spaceship set to beautiful music and art.  The show`s `stars`, Leo, June, Quincy, Annie, Rocket, and your child will blast off an adventure that could take them over Niagara Falls, to butterfly a forest in Mexico, or inside a cave in Oklahoma.  The movie encourages your child to clap. sing, and participate with the movie`s characters while learning about geography, music, and art work.
Winnie the Pooh
Who doesn`t love the tales of Winnie the Pooh?  The movie brings you back to you childhood, with stories of Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit`s House after eating too much honey, flying around on a windy day, etc. A great feel good movie!
Beauty and the Beast
Delight in the story of Belle, a serious and smart young lady and daughter of a wild inventor who, through a series of twists and turns, ends up living with a cursed prince "The Beast". The Beast`s cold heart is melted by her kind one and when they fall in love, the Beast is turned back into a prince.  Wonderful animaton, music, and a lovely story.

The Best of Beakman’s World
A crazy scientist walks through a number of science experiments.

Disney Learning Adventures: Reading & Math Fun
Learning is woven through the classic MICKEY AND THE BEANSTALK
Disney Presents SCHOOL HOUSE ROCKS!
Special 30th Anniversary Edition:  46 songs that aired on TV in the ‘70s and ‘80s that teach elementary information.
High School Musical 2 (Amazon.com)
What time is it? Time for High School Musical 2, the sequel to the Disney Channel smash cable show. School is out, and Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) are looking forward to a summer to remember, but Troy also needs to make bank so he can go to college. As it turns out, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), the self-proclaimed primo girl of East High, has her eye set on primo-boy Troy, and gets him a job at the country club her parents own. It looks great for Troy when Gabriella and the rest of the Wildcats are hired also, but when he gets preferential treatment from the club manager (Mark Taylor) and others, it puts all of his relationships in hot water. Everyone`s back from the original movie, including Zac`s buddy Chad (Corbin Bleu), Sharpay`s brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), and Gabriella`s friend Taylor (Monique Coleman). And the songs on the hit soundtrack often parallel the originals and are just as catchy. The "let`s put on a show" angle ! is only a subplot and the romance is now front and center--which means High School Musical has lost a bit of its innocence. But it`s still wholesome viewing for tweens of all ages. Sharp-eyed Disney Channel fans will spot Miley "Hannah Montana" Cyrus as an extra. --David Horiuchi

Monsters, Inc. (Amazon.com):
The giant, blue-furred James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where the scaring of kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city running. Beyond the competition to be the best at the business, Sullivan and his assistant, the one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed "Boo," who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night. Director Pete Doctor and codirectors David Silverman and Lee Unkrich follow the Pixar (Toy Story) blueprint with an imaginative scenario, fun characters, and ace comic timing. By the last heart-tugging shot, kids may never look at monsters the same, nor artists at what computer animation can do in the hands of magicians.

Mr Magorium`s Wonder Emporium
Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) runs an incredible, magical toy store where the toys come to life for the children who shop there. Mr. Magorium sees that his time is `running out` and hires an accountant (Justin Bateman) to get his papers in order so that he can leave the store to his faithful cashier (Natalie Portman). This is a sweet story, but very sad!
My Fantastic Field Trip to the Planets
Includes talking planets and original songs that teach while entertaining.

Rock `n Learn Beginning Fractions & Decimals:
Fun animation and music used to introduce these mathematical concepts.

The Magic School Bus HUMAN BODY
Ms. Frizzle leads a field trip through the kids` insides!
This is America Charlie Brown:
The peanuts gang travels through time visiting important events in American history.
Bee Movie (Amazon.com)
There aren`t a lot of choices in a bee`s life: a bee attends a few days of school, graduates from college, and chooses a job in the hive that he`ll labor at for the rest of his life. Barry (Jerry Seinfeld) is different from his best friend Adam (Matthew Broderick) and all the other bees: he wants to see the world outside the hive and can`t begin to contemplate doing the same job for his entire life. Naturally, the life of the "pollen jock" bees appeals to Barry because it`s the only job that takes a bee outside the hive and into the larger human world. Once outside the hive, Barry breaks the most sacred bee law and speaks to a human named Vanessa (Renée Zellweger) in order to thank her for saving his life. A relationship quickly blossoms and leads Barry to the discovery that humans are stealing honey from the bees and selling it for their own profit. Vowing to hurt the humans the one place they’ll feel it, Barry brings a legal suit against the honey industry and the courtroom drama begins. Children ages 5 and older will love the bees` silly antics, though many of the jokes will go right over their heads and parents should be cautioned about some mildly suggestive humor.
Disney`s Learning Adventures Mickey`s Seeing the World
A great way to let your kids see the world from the comfort of home. As always a cute Mickey Mouse cast of characters, but with an educational piece. Mickey travels the world in 80 days and teaches kids "hello" and "goodbye" in a several languages.
Enchanted (Amazon.com)
Life is idyllic in the fairytale world where conflict is minimal and breaking into song solves every problem, but what happens when a princess from the fairy world gets magically transported into the real world? Enchanted begins in the animated fairytale world of Andalasia where Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) is destined to marry Prince Edward (James Marsden) and live happily ever after. Problem is, Edward`s step-mother Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) doesn`t want to give up the throne and will do anything to get Giselle out of Edward`s life. Queen Narissa`s solution is to push Giselle into a well that magically lands Giselle smack in the middle of the real world--the center of Time Square in New York City, to be exact. This launches the live-action portion of the film where Giselle immediately realizes that things are frighteningly different in this new world and that she is ill-prepared for the callous ways of the people who inhabit it. Giselle finds herself alone on a stormy night in the wrong end of town, but a chance encounter with Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his Princess-loving daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey) leads to a warm, safe place to spend the night and the beginnings of a complicated, yet compelling relationship. Ages 6 and older with parental guidance due to some scary images and mild innuendo.
The Game Plan (Amazon.com):
In this heartwarming family comedy, one of sports` toughest players ever takes on his biggest challenge yet -- fatherhood!  A superstar with an ego bigger than a football field, Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is getting ready for a run at the big championship game when the 8-year daughter he never knew existed shows up at this not-so-family-friendly bachelor pad.   As the big game gets closer, he begins to realize the most meaningful win he can achieve is the heart of the one little fan who counts the most.
Underdog
Mix a mad scientist and a police dog and some crazy stunts and you`re off on an adventure. "Underdog" finds his way into a home with a boy and his father (mother`s dead of course)-- and helps heal their silence and tough times. Underdog flies, talks, and protects `Capital City` through a variety of adventures and various happenings.
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