4/11/2023 0 Comments The backyardigans dragon express![]() Nickelodeon, Monday night at 7, Eastern and Pacific times 6, Central time.Ĭreated by James Burgess Janice Burgess, Jonny Belt and Robert Scull, executive producers Pam Lehn, producer Adam Peltzman, head writer music by Evan Lurie and Douglas Wieselman Kay Wilson Stallings, executive in charge of production for Nickelodeon Preschool Television. It’s hard to say whether “The Backyardigans” is a fantasy for children or for their parents. And that suburban backyard, with its dappled grass and perfect details, makes a middle-class cul-de-sac neighborhood look positively Edenic. The rubbery, translucent egg bobbing down a swiftly flowing river makes for a scene so richly textured you feel as if you could touch it. The musical climax is Adam Pascal of “Rent” fame singing “Not an Egg Anymore” (soon to be available on the CD “The Backyardigans: Born to Play,” which will also have a song by Cyndi Lauper and another by Alicia Keyes).įor all the emphasis on music, this movie’s real delight is visual. Every few minutes a character breaks into music mode, and belts out a number that should be pleasing to children as well as adults nostalgic for three-chord rock ’n’ roll. ![]() The trajectory isn’t toward Thomas Malory, but to Miley Cyrus. Throughout, the constructs of the age of chivalry shrink to child size, digestible truisms: Knights are polite, brave and ultimately obedient. The trouble looks serious the questers dangle over a mile-high waterfall but it’s treated too lightly to frighten even a 3-year-old. The series, filmed in combined 3-D and CGI animation, has a distinctive look: goofy, cartoonish characters against a realistic backdrop. “Knights” opens with two “Backyardigans” characters, Tyrone, a moose, and Uniqua, a bug-like girl of indeterminate species, playing knights under a tree on the dappled grass near a picnic table.Ī pot of impatiens blooms by the back door mulch is visible around the bushes by the modest, well-kept house. Now this morning series, for preschoolers, has spun off a prime-time one-hour movie, “Tale of the Mighty Knights,” to be shown Monday night. Nowadays children don’t get out in the yard as much they watch those games being played on television.Ĭase in point: “The Backyardigans,” a series on Nickelodeon that starts every episode in a suburban yard, spins into a transforming adventure and ends, just like Dorothy, back home again. In the halcyon days of our remembered childhoods we played fabulous games of imagination in our neighborhood backyards. ![]()
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