MAGIC SCHOOL BUS RIDES AGAIN, THE; BLAST OFF! DVD

Great dvd

We use this for road trips and it keeps the kids busy during the long drives. Plus, I enjoy the educational value it has.

I was absolutely wowed with The Magic School Bus Rides Again Blast Off! This adventurous DVD collection kept me entertained, laughing and wanting more. You will ride along with crazy Ms. Frizzle and her lovable class on the adventure of a lifetime. 3...2...1 BLAST OFF!The Magic School Bus Rides Again Blast Off is a collection of four episodes: Frizzle of the Future, Space Mission: Selfie, Ready, Set, Fail! and Making Magic. Each episode has a new, exciting field trip to watch and enjoy. In this series you will travel from space to the Galapagos Islands while learning lessons about failure, teamwork, getting messy and having fun while doing it all! The kids and teacher you know and love are back and better than ever, so hop on for an experience you’ll never forget!While watching this DVD, many details stuck out to me. To start, the theme song is sung by Lin-Manuel Miranda! Not to mention that Ms. Frizzle is voiced by Kate McKinnon. Talk about some serious star power. On the topic of Kate McKinnon, she makes a great Ms. Frizzle, as she gives the character the craziness and yet, calm attitude that makes her really come alive. She isn’t the only voice actor that sticks out to me. Miles KV, as Arnold, conveys realistic emotion through his character by only using his voice. Even when listening, you can tell he is worried about Ms. Frizzle and her shenanigans. The animation in this show has a very interesting touch. While the character and objects remain cartoonish, the backgrounds look magnificently real, especially when the glass goes to space.The message of this series is: if at first you don’t succeed, try again. The kids learn this through trying to take the perfect space selfie, to getting a magical orb that seems to hold all of life’s answers. While doing these things, they figure out that failure can be a good thing, because you can learn from mistakes. They also learn that with good teamwork and a positive mindset, anything is possible.I give The Magic School Bus Rides Again Blast Off! 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it to ages 7 to 14.Reviewed by Allison B., KIDS FIRST! Film Critic. For more reviews by kids, visit kidsfirst online.

The Magic School Bus Rides Again truly captures the soul of the original series, in a format that generation Z and α kids can enjoy. Season 2 kind of seems better than its predecessor season, because there's a whole new set of unbelievable field trips, like inside the human eye (which they only did in the Cole/Degen book, Explores the Senses), being uploaded to the Internet, and even into the sewers (what?). If you're teaching computer science and you want to show your students an episode of Magic School Bus, use Nothin' But Net instead of Gets Programmed, as the latter is outdated. Also I'm glad to see that Amazon has better reviews for Rides Again than iMDB.

New Frizzle is not as good as the original.

My students were not able to see the video it would not load