| | |  | DVDs | Home » » Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird | | | | | | | Description: | | Follow that bird Big Bird, of course for an imaginative, magical treat starring the cast of TVs Sesame Street? in their first movie. Jim Hensons beloved characters Kermit, Oscar, Bert, Ernie and Cookie Monster plus other Sesame Street? regulars join Big Bird in a big-hearted, cross-country adventure. A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to live with a feathered foster family in Illinois. But try as he might, he doesnt fit in and runs away to return to Sesame Street?. Can his old friends find him before he runs "afowl" of trouble en route? Be on the lookout and be there for big entertainment from guest stars Chevy Chase, John Candy, Sandra Bernhard, Waylon Jennings and more. | | | Features: | |
• Follow that bird Big Bird, of course for an imaginative, magical treat starring the cast of TVs Sesame Street? in their first movie. Jim Hensons beloved characters Kermit, Oscar, Bert, Ernie and Cookie Monster plus other Sesame Street? regulars join Big Bird in a big-hearted, cross-country adventure. A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to live with a feathered foster family in Illinoi
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Joe Flaherty, Waylon Jennings | | Director:
| Ken Kwapis | | Format:
| Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Warner Home Video | | Run Time:
| 89 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 24, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 93 reviews |
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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 LovelyJun 21, 2005
By Margaret Dybala
"too many books, too little time"
I would like to recommend this movie to anyone who knows what it is to sit through 20 sequential showings of the same film because of a 5-year-old's obsession. This movie is the only one that none of us mind seeing over and over again. The story is genuinely funny and moving (Big Bird is taken away from Sesame Street and adopted by Dodos) and wants to go home. Meanwhile, the folks on Sesame Street are trying to find him to bring him home. And finally, a very funny couple of "Sleaze Brothers" have kidnapped him to turn him into the Blue Bird of Happiness for their 10-rate carnival. This is very well done and performed with genuine love by a very talented set of actors. See it -- enjoy!
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Big yellow bird at 1:00! (It's that late already)?!Jul 29, 2005
By L.C.
I loved this movie as a kid and still enjoy it even today! I remember watching this movie with my Mom and Dad and we all loved it!
The movie is geared towards children, but I can honestly say that adults will love it, too! There's a lot of funny moments in this video that my younger sisters and I still love! (And we're all older)!
For instance, the Dodo family that Big Bird goes to stay with say some hilarious things, such as, "You've got to come home before you can leave", and the two men who try to find Big Bird for their fun fare are really funny, too! They kind of remind me of the two villians in 101 dalmations because one comes up with all the ideas and the other one sort of follows along.
Kids who love Big Bird will love this movie! Big Bird, Snuffy, the count, Oscar, Bert and Ernie, Cookie, and many other memorable characters, including Bob, Maria, Linda, and Gordon come together in this delightful movie! Ernie and Bert make me laugh in this film, especially since Ernie is up to his old tricks by bugging Bert in this movie! I love how he tries to get him to fly an airplane! The songs are great, too, and it's truly a winner for the whole family!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 one of the best sesame street films ever!Jun 29, 2004
By M. M. Jones
"poetsheart"
I admit I'm 27 not a parent & still ove this movie. I saw it with my best friend when I was little. So it could be sentiment of that. You get to see the classic Charictors in some of their great momments! Including that it starts with the grouch national anthem sung by Oscar.
Its good humor, good songs ok quite corny at times but also quite sweet. It shows the whole gang out to help their friend find his way home. With a few embedded lessons like bad things can happen if you accept rides from strangers. Without terrifying them. Showing that family is not just who you look like but who you love. Especially good lesson for adopted children. that friends are valuable family too.
quite frankly I think that No elmo is a major plus! Remember when Kermit the frog was a big hit? Mr Sniffaluffagus & my personal favorite cookie monster. Those who remember those good old days will love this film.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Sesame Street At It's Absolute Best!Sep 20, 2002
By Emily
"odd_duck83"
Without question, this is vintage Sesame Street of the highest quality! As a child of the 80's, maybe I'm a little biased, but this is definitely a movie for parents and all fans of Sesame Street and/or Jim Henson and/or anything from the 80's!
This has been one of my favotite movies ever since I was five years old, and I still love it! (I am now 19.) I still feel so sad for Big Bird when he and the others sing "One Little Star", and I still tap my feet and sing along to "Ain't No Road Too Long."
This is a timeless movie with a sweet message that is still relevant almost twenty years later. It is also absolutely hilarious! Fans of Sesame Street will love the "inside" jokes peppered throughout the film.
Buy this movie! You won't regret it!
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
A show I enjoyed as a kid, still enjoyable today!Jan 16, 2005
By A. Congdon
A Blast from the Past: Follow That Bird!
I came across this video at a thrift shop and snapped it up for nostalgia's sake. It was Sesame Street's first full-length movie, "Follow That Bird".
I remember going to see the live drama production for my sister's birthday when we must have been somewhere between 4 and 8. We were so dazzled by it that I still remember it pretty well all these years later, after seeing it just once.
Often I find that movies I remember fondly from my childhood just don't stand up to rewatching years later, but this one is a noteable exception. I found that the story was well-told and interesting even this many years later. Of course, it helped that I was watching it with my own two- and three-year olds, who were glued to it and wanted to watch it again as soon as it ended.
One thing to note is that my 3 1/2 year-old gets very emotionally involved and gets a bit upset and scared if she watches this movie without an adult. So if you are watching it with young children, you will want to watch it with them and be sensitive to how they are responding. It is a rather emotionally intense movie for a young child, although I would still recommend it for all ages.
The girls and I really enjoyed this video. The basic premise is that the interfering Feathered Friends Society of birds decides to place Big Bird in a home with a bird family, since he "belongs with his own kind" and "can't possibly be happy" in a different kind of home.
Spoilers:
Big Bird misses Sesame Street, and when his new bird family won't allow Big Bird's best friend Snuffy to come and visit him because Snuffalupagus is not a bird, Big Bird decides to go home to Sesame Street.
He takes off walking across several states toward home, with Miss Finch from the FFS chasing after him to try to make him return to the bird family, The Dodos. Along the way he also ends up being chased by a pair of cheating carnival masters, who want to display him in a sideshow to make money.
Meanwhile, Big Bird's friends from Sesame Street head out in three or four different directions, determined to find him before Miss Finch does. Bert and Ernie in an airplane, Oscar the Grouch and Maria in the grouchmobile, and other amusing combinations of characters make for a fun and humorous ride.
End of spoiler
Admittedly, the movie is geared toward the under-ten crowd and a lot of the songs and jokes are a bit corny, but I enjoyed it immensely. For any adult who enjoyed Sesame Street as a kid, this is a movie you will enjoy reminiscing with. I laughed at the jokes, enjoyed the music and got a bit teary-eyed at the sad parts even as a "grown-up".
The message that sometimes interfering social agencies try to fix what's not broken and would be better off staying out of many situations is not lost, either.
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