Blue’s Clues and You! Caring With Blue is coming to DVD this Tuesday October 6, 2020! It will feature four fun episodes and several special features the little fans will enjoy as they search, think, and solve Blue’s and Magenta’s clues.

The four episodes included on the Blue’s Clues & You! Caring with Blue DVD are:

• Laugh with Blue
• Getting Glasses with Magenta
• Sad Day with Blue
• Getting Healthy with Blue

The Blue’s Clues & You! Caring with Blue also includes fun special features:

• Silly Town Skidoo
• Skidoo to Blue’s School
• Josh & Blue’s Superhero Skidoo
• Josh & Blue’s VLOG!
  • Nursery Rhymes + Guessing Game!
  • Healthy Snacks Song + Magenta Gets Glasses!
  • Find the Snail + Play Time Sing Along!
  • Play Hide & Seek + Music Guessing Game!
  • Science Experiment + Sing Alongs!
• Learn Sign Language with Josh & Blue
• Learn How to Wash Your Hands with Josh & Blue

I got the chance to review the DVD and here is what I thought.

This DVD contains episodes featuring Blue and her friends. Like other episodes, the audience is taken on an interactive journey to find clues and solve the puzzle. Kids will love searching the bright and colorful scenery for the clues hidden in the background. They will also love assisting the characters with choices and finding specific objects. For example, in the episode “Getting Glasses with Magenta,” the audience helps Magenta pick out a lovely pair of glasses. Can you guess which pair?

Not only are the episodes interactive but they also teach valuable lessons and empathy. For example, in “Getting Healthy with Blue”, Josh gets the sniffles. To care of Josh, Blue takes the audience on a search for clues to figure out what Josh needs to feel better. The little ones learn to care for those feeling under the weather and to be kind.

These sort of lessons and interactions are what we have come to expect and love about Blue’s Clues and You especially with the “Blue’s Clues and You! Caring With Blue” collection, which really takes on the idea of caring for each other. I love the fact it teaches the audience to care. However, this is not what I love the most about this DVD. I actually love the special feature Learn Sign Language with Josh & Blue the most!

It has been a goal of mine to learn Sign Language. I have recently started learning the basic words like thank you, how are you, girl, boy, and all the letters. It has been a fascinating journey so far and has come in handy several times. When I saw that Blue’s Clues and You actually helps kids learn this indispensable skill, I was ecstatic.

What is even more amazing, is that the creators of the Blue’s Clues and You! Caring With Blue DVD included flash cards featuring some of the Sign Language used in the film! The flash cards include signing for the words sad, scared, excited, funny, eyes, glasses, see, and sick. If the flash cards are not enough, the special feature, Learn Sign Language with Josh & Blue, shows the audience how to sign the words.

I absolutely love all the interactions, learning , and of course the lessons in Sign Language. My family and I will be practicing these new words together. Hopefully we will get to use them in conversation soon. 5 stars!

Grab a copy of Blue’s Clues and You: Caring with Blue from Amazon.com and start the journey of learning with the little ones in your house.

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The Spy Racers are heading to Rio on October 9th in their brand new second season of Fast and Furious: Spy Racers. This time Tony and his crew embark on their first international mission to Brazil. Once in Rio, they discover that Ms. Nowhere’s latest recruit and formidable fellow racer, Layla Gray, is missing in action during an undercover mission. Unwilling to leave family behind, Tony and the Spy Racers don secret identities to find Layla, but end up uncovering a sinister plot that keeps them guessing at every turn. 

Inspired by Universal’s blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise, teenager Tony Toretto follows in the footsteps of his cousin Dom when he and his friends are recruited by a government agency to infiltrate an elite racing league serving as a front for a nefarious crime organization bent on world domination. 

Tim Hedrick and Bret Haaland serve as executive producers and showrunners. Vin Diesel, Neal H. Moritz and Chris Morgan also executive produce and serve as producers on the live-action Fast & Furious franchise. Fast & Furious: Spy Racers features the talented voices of Tyler Posey (Alone; Teen Wolf) as “Tony Toretto,” Charlet Chung (Overwatch; Chuck) as “Echo,” Luke Youngblood (Community) as “Frostee Benson,” Jorge Diaz (Jane the Virgin) as “Cisco Renaldo,” Camille Ramsey (American Vandal) as “Layla Gray,” Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton;  Altered Carbon) as “Ms. Nowhere,” and Avrielle Corti (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts) as “Rafaela.

In celebration Universal and DreamWorks Animation have released the second season trailer found below!

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs came out on DVD and Blu-ray Sept 22, 2020. This modern take on Snow White turns the story upside down. This time the princes are looking for a princess to save them, Snow White finds red slippers, and this story take us on a journey of self discovery.

I got the opportunity to watch Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs and here is what I thought. SPOILERS BELOW

The movie begins right in the thick of things as seven princes known as the Fearless Seven get cursed for attacking a fairy princess. Well, it was a lot more than that. They actually attacked the princess because they thought she was ugly and ugly means she had to be a witch. Imagine their surprise when they found out that a princess can come in all shapes and sizes.

Due to their arrogance, the fairy princess changes the Fearless Seven into little green dwarfs/. This curse can only be broken by getting a kiss from the most beautiful princess in the world. At this point, I am on the side of the fairy princess. Those seven egotistical “heroes” needed a good lesson…besides, it worked in Beauty and the Beast, why not here.

Similar to the Beauty and the Beast story, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs shares the theme that we shouldn’t judge by appearance because beauty is found within. Unlike Beauty and the Beast, Red Shoes expands on the theme exploring the fact that everyone is beautiful. Whether someone is big, little, tall, short, old, young, or even green, they are all sparkling gems.

This lesson isn’t just for the little green men. Snow White must also deal with the never ending stupid thrown her way as she searches for her dad. In a world that only sees the outward appearance, she is a misfit because she doesn’t match the idea of beautiful. Most people won’t even help her in her true form. However, once she wears a pair of red magical shoes, Snow White goes from big to thin in the blink of an eye and everyone becomes accommodating. There is a scene where she takes off her magic shoes to escape her pursuers only to be teased and tormented for her weight. It is a sad reminder of what actually happens in the world today.

The audience of Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs gets to embark on the adventure to self discovery with the Fearless Seven and Snow White. From shoes growing on trees to monsters made out of wood, the magical journey reminds us that things are not always what they seem.

Putting the story, moral, theme, and journey of self discovery aside, I want to talk about the title of the movie, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs. That little bitty title had me confused beyond all reason. Why? Because how does one spell the plural form of dwarf?

When I first started getting info about Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, long before I saw the film, I immediately contacted a fellow writer with that exact question. I was certain that the creators of Red Shoes had spelled the plural form of dwarf wrong. Growing up in the age of Lord of the Rings and Tolkien, I thought the spelling should have been dwarves with a v. After a short discussion, my friend and I decided that both forms are correct.

What’s funny is our discussion somehow ended up on the big screen. The movie has the running joke on how to spell the plural of dwarf. I was laughing so hard. Is it DWARFS with an F or DWARVES with a v? Thank you so much Lionsgate for keeping us literary grammar nerds happy.

With a great message, wonderful action, delightful adventure, and a few hilarious jokes, I give Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (Dwarves) five stars.

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After seven years Dreamworks has announced a new Croods movie, The Croods: A New Age! My family watches and rewatches The Croods weekly; it is one of our favorite animated features. To hear that we are finally getting another Croods adventure is beyond exciting! Not only has the news been released but we also have epic images and a trailer! Get a first look with the information below and watch the hilarious trailer.

The Croods have survived their fair share of dangers and disasters, from fanged prehistoric beasts to surviving the end of the world, but now they will face their biggest challenge of all: another family

The Croods need a new place to live. So, the first prehistoric family sets off into the world in search of a safer place to call home. When they discover an idyllic walled-in paradise that meets all their needs, they think their problems are solved … except for one thing. Another family already lives there: the Bettermans.

The Bettermans (emphasis on the “better”)—with their elaborate tree house, amazing inventions and irrigated acres of fresh produce—are a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. When they take the Croods in as the world’s first houseguests, it isn’t long before tensions escalate between the cave family and the modern family.

Just when all seems lost, a new threat will propel both families on an epic adventure outside the safety of the wall, one that will force them to embrace their differences, draw strength from each other and forge a future together.

The Croods: A New Age features the voice talent of returning stars Nicolas Cage as Grug Crood, Catherine Keener as Ugga Crood, Emma Stone as their daughter, Eep; Ryan Reynolds as Eep’s boyfriend, Guy; Clark Duke (Hot Tub Time Machine) as Thunk and Cloris Leachman as Gran. They’re joined by new stars Peter Dinklage (HBO’s Game of Thrones) as Phil Betterman, Leslie Mann (Blockers) as Hope Betterman, and Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: Episode VIII-The Last Jedi) as their daughter, Dawn.

The film is directed by Joel Crawford, who has worked on multiple DreamWorks Animation films, including Trolls and the Kung Fu Panda franchise, and is produced by Mark Swift (Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted).

Be sure to grab the activities and coloring pages of The Croods to get ready for the new movie. You can create a Chunky the Death Cat, create Belt, color Eep, Grug, Sandy, Thunk, Uga, and Guy, get door hangers, print bookmarks, print masks, create and play a memory game and more!. Click the image below and let the fun begin!

September 22, 2020 marks the end of summer and the first day of one of my favorite seasons, fall. With the start of fall comes fun fall themed episodes from some of our favorite TV shows and cartoons. In anticipation of such a wonderful season, Nick Jr. compiled several fall episodes featuring some of their most loved characters onto one exciting DVD, Nick Jr.: Fantastic Fall . This DVD will be available September 22, 2020, which I find perfectly fitting!

My family and I got the chance to watch and review this collection and let me just say….awesome! This collection features The Paw Patrol, Blue’s Clues and You!, Blaze, Bubble Guppies, and The Bean Team. From trick or treating to Thanksgiving Day parties, the collection covers all that we love about fall.

The episodes included in the DVD are:

• PAW Patrol: Pups Save Thanksgiving
• Blue’s Clues & You!: Spooky Costume Party with Blue
• Blue’s Clues & You!: Thankful with Blue
• Blaze and the Monster Machines: Truck or Treat!
• Bubble Guppies: Trick-or-Treat, Mr. Grumpfish!
• Butterbean’s Café: Fairy Happy Thanksgiving!

After watching all the fall Halloween and Thanksgiving Day awesomeness, I discovered something. I thought I had seen everything animated cartoons had to offer; after all, most of the time the stories are repetitive just with a different franchise. It turns out, Paw Patrol likes to think outside the box. I have never seen a floating turkey bouncy house before. I never even knew I wanted to see one But now I find myself thinking…is it possible? Now I want to fly around in a bouncy house.

While the other episodes don’t contain a flying turkey bouncy house, they are still fun to watch. With strange costumes (especially in the new Blue’s Clues and You! episode) and thankful scenarios., the DVD is entertaining for the whole family even if it is meant for the younger audience. I give it 5 stars!

Nick Jr. Fantastic Fall can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com prior to the first day of Fall on Sept. 22, 2020. If you wish to try and win a copy head over to our giveaway by clicking the image below. Many will enter, only one will win.