Pingu - On Thin Ice

Our family loves Pingu mostly because we have a penguin lover in the house. I know some people are not big fans of the newer style of animation, but its what my kids are familiar with and they enjoy it more. This is a series of shorter clips or stories about Pingu and his family. No one talks just jibber jabber noises. Pingu is a typical kid avoiding things like 'gross foods' and only eating the things he likes. He does fun things with his family like enter an ice sculpture contest. Overall, its good clean fun. Nothing too intense or scary. Some kid mischief, but things like hiding his vegetables and lying is later revealed and dealt with in the family.

I found Pingu clips online while looking for real penguin footage, and my six year old screamed with laughter. We got this and another Pingu DVD. Both are huge laughs, and we adults love watching them, too.I know some people complain about how the video starts, or the lack of extras, but my son is no cinema snob; he pops it in and laughs for half an hour or so. He likes to watch it again and again, it goes away for a month, and then comes out for a few more weeks. It is funny, well done, clean and there are no adverts.

Pingu is the silliest non english speaking penguin ever. His ordeals are real and relatable to toddlers. my three old laughs hysterically everytime he watches it. It's not just pure mindless entertainment, if you watch it with your child you will see it instills very good life lessons and family values along with it's funny nature. Although they speak some jibberish language the context is clear and fun for kids.

Everyone that has seen the first two Pingus movies (ages 3 to 52) has really liked them a lot. This new one wasn't recieved as well. Its much faster paced and Pingu is not as sweet as he used to be.

Mixed feelings on this. My son loves it, but I have a love hate relationship with pingu. While it's a cute and appropriate for young children film, there's no language, just jibberish. In that sense, I feel like it isn't teaching anything and certainly isn't encouraging language use in young children. No education value what so ever, but it does settle my son down before bedtime which makes it a must have for me.

this is a great character for little kids to watch- they don't speak any particular language but kids get it and seem to think they are actually real.

I used to Love watching this show as a kid growing up in Norway, surprised and extremely glad to find it on DVD in English in the US for my kids to watch:)

My granddaughter loves the show