Product: Sleeping Beauty [VHS] (1996)
Rating: 5.0
Wonderful to watch! Only 2 bad reviews from SAME person!
No one in our family is an expert. This is a pure entertainment value rating from a family that loves many types of music and dance.This tape, pluses and minuses, deserves 5 stars in our family, because it is simply so beautiful to watch, so engaging. It feels like a ballet AND a gripping story both, moreso than some of the other ballets we own, which can feel a bit like a plodding story as we wait for the next dance part worth watching. (La Bayadere comes to mind.) The minuses: well, the recording is old. (That doesn't bother us much.) The tape quality - Kultur Video! Shame on you! - is poor! Our new tape player can't seem to decide which way to automatically adjust this tape which "needs help" all the time, or so the system has determined! That DOES bother us! Hence, I am back here looking for this on DVD or anything better than our tape, because we love this production so much! And I am keeping my old VHS player for this tape alone, just in case I can't replace it.