![]() ![]() The DVD, distributed by Paramount, retails for $16.99 but at present is a Target stores exclusive, though available elsewhere from private dealers at exorbitant prices. That's certainly true of my daughter: English is actually her second language after Japanese, and the wife and I have found Dora, along with a few standard-bearers like Sesame Street, a useful tool to encourage her to learn English at just a step or two behind her native Japanese. It's rigidly formatted and highly repetitive - you've seen one and you've truly seen 'em all - yet the series is fun and reasonably educational for the right kids at the right age. Such is the case with Dora's Ballet Adventures, a four-episode set derived from the popular Nickelodeon series Dora the Explorer (2000-present) - a show my three-year-old daughter loves but which isn't easily accessible here in Kyoto, Japan. Why's a movie historian-reviewer like me writing about a cartoon show for kids featuring ballet? In fact many DVD Talk staff reviewers have small children, and sometimes we'll snap up a title less for ourselves than for our kids.
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