Little Bill - Me and My Family [VHS] Overview
Gap-toothed 5-year-old Little Bill radiates with the sunny realism of his creator, Bill Cosby, but a Fat Albert redux this series is not. For starters, pull the strings on each episode's tidy package and you'll find more family than friends. Little Bill's New York apartment, not the local junkyard, is the nexus of his universe and where he works the kinks out of his kindergartner's world alongside his parents, older sister and brother, and the improbably named and ingenious Alice the Great, his great-grandmother. Inside, there's a whole lot of togetherness going on: Me and My Family's four episodes encapsulate a crowded car ride to Super Family Fun Land (a two-parter), the forming of a neighborhood cleanup committee tasked with clearing a trash-strewn lot, and the dusting off of a time-honored family tradition as Alice the Great breaks out her magic quilt to keep the bogeyman at bay. The look of this series also is something of a novelty--it shares the Colorformish quality of its sister Nick Jr. series Blue's Clues, an effect that adds to its producers' keep-it-real commitment. That said, anybody intimate enough with the realness of inner-city strife may not be blamed for criticizing the sedateness of this show. Otherwise, the youngster himself isn't the only likable part of Little Bill. This being a Cosby creation, there's music--vintage-sounding jazz melodies thread through each story, guaranteeing a finger-snapping good time for parents as well as their more preoccupied preschoolers. --Tammy La Gorce
Customer Reviews
First item on the agenda - the editorial "Reviewer for Amazon says that this show is set in New York. FALSE, Tammy is a show set Cosby's hometown, Philadelphia. Look at the buildings in the skyline shots and frequent figure it out. However, what you find is a middle class family in a middle class neighborhood to a city that is as racially diverse as the employment of children that we see in this exhibition. In other words, it is true to life.
It's really refreshing to hear a child animated characterhis voice (as I can tell) is actually performed by a child * *. Once again, it fits the reality. And behind all this is that the simplicity and credibility of the tram lines. Nothing to measure, or grandparents, but always fascinating and inspiring.
If I were to make a criticism, is that the show seems a lot of preschool children have information for a person who attends the school. That's why some episodes appeal to younger viewers than the others. Our child is almost 3-1/2 and developed aInterest in the show, but I do not think these are all the episodes as an appeal to young people. Time will tell if the stories remain interesting, as our child approaches age Little Bill.
But this is very thin, and is a critical weakness. In the meantime, I find it amazing that the same score jazz, which targets both for us as parents is next for our young viewers.
Yes, children of one race are fans of cartoon characters from a different race. Yes, a simpleAnimation style is enough to give life problems that are important for young children. Yes, children enjoy jazz soundtracks in their TV diet. Hats off to Cosby and his team, and Nickelodeon, to bring this to the screen.
Well, let's see more episodes on tape and DVD!
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