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LEGO Ninjago: Rise Of The Green Ninja, First 7 Episodes From Season 2 (Masters Of Spinjitzu/Warner DVD)/SpongeBob Squarepants: Extreme Kah-Rah-Tay (Nickelodeon DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: D     Episodes: C+

 

 

Even with the martial arts trend played out, there are still titles being released, including these amusing children’s titles that happen to be arriving within weeks of each other…

 

 

First we have LEGO Ninjago: Rise Of The Green Ninja, First 7 Episodes From Season 2 (Warner DVD) which is a simple, amusing, child-safe enough computer animated TV series that is part of a small cycle of programming connected to the enduring toy line that some feel may be robbing children of its imagination potential, but I don’t think a few shows or video games are going to harm the line and as long as they are of enough quality and the company does not overdo things, it is fine.

 

Even though I had not seen previous episodes, the teleplays are very simple and aimed at young limited attention spans that it is just enough without being too intense for young viewers.  Some may be a bit disappointed by the limited animation, but that is the point; simplicity.  Not my favorite variant of the toys in action, it has some fans and more titles are inevitably due in this series.  For more on animated LEGO programs, try our coverage of the Hero Factory: Savage Planet DVD at this link:

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/11260/LEGO+Hero+Factory:+Savage+Planet

 

 

With more laughs is SpongeBob Squarepants: Extreme Kah-Rah-Tay featuring eight related episodes of the big hit Nickelodeon TV show.  This includes an extreme sports send up and a spoof of the Guinness Book of World Records.  One of the more handy singles, even the cover is amusing and if you have aggressive and/or hyper children, this might be a nice distraction.

 

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image on both DVDs, plus select SpongeBob programs in 1.33 X 1 look pretty good for the format, though they can have softness in places and the latter has better color than the former.  The lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mix on LEGO and lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo mix on SpongeBob are all professionally recorded, but LEGO is barely better than SpongeBob because the surrounds are not engaged very much, but I did not expect that to be so since it is for young children and fans of the toyline.

 

There are no extras on either release.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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