The Berenstain Bears: Christmas Tree

This is an "Emmy Award" winning half hour TV special. This VHS tape of the special was released in 1979, and is my favorite of all the Berenstein videos. It is out of print now, and has not been released on DVD as of the date of this review.In the story, it is Christmas time where the Bear family lives in a hollow tree, in a town of bears. The family wants to decorate a tree, with all their favorite decorations and star. It is time to get a tree before it is too late. Mom wants Poppa to get a tree down at Gus's lot, but Poppa Bear wants to go out and find a tree in the woods and take the little bears with him. Momma does not want them to, since a snow storm is moving in, but the bears trudge up the mountain anyway. They find several "perfect trees", but in each case they find that other animals live in these tree already. Some of the animals are scary and chase the bears away, some are tiny and afraid to lose their home. The bears have to decide what to do about this as the storm is coming soon.Produced in Canada, the character animation is smooth and well done. Voice actors were good. The art designs and backgrounds fit right with the story, and the bear home and town are really cute. I found that the music is well done, and fits the period the film was released. Overall a very nice addition to our own holiday show collection - a feel good story for all ages. It is a bit hard to find now, but I highly recommend a copy. I bought mine used from a third party seller here at Amazon.com and am very happy with it.

The Berenstain Bears: Christmas Tree is a GREAT video. The reason we picked it up is because we ran across the book and read it and loved it. The story seemed to be very similar to the Berenstain Bears Easter Surprise which we have on DVD. The Easter Surprise is one of our families ALL TIME favorite holiday videos so we were hoping the Christmas Tree one would be the same. IT IS!! and it follows the book perfectly and the style of the video is similar to the Easter Suprise. Now we have another holiday favorite! The voices of the bears are as I remember as a child--LOVED IT. However, on the DVD there are a couple other stories included...GREAT BONUS!!, but they are newer stories so they have little different voices on the characters. Not a big deal, but some people get weird about that...just don't watch that part if your looking for the old stuff. Otherwise, ENJOY...you get more stories for your buck!

Love it!Has the lessons on manners and strangers as well.

If you watched the Berenstain Bears Christmas special when you were young, you will not regret purchasing the DVD just for the dancing Christmas Tree song ("We Need! A Tree!") and to see Papa Bear get those "crazy eyes" again, then shed a tear when he looks in at the snowbird family's house (and yes, you will probably cry too). However, the quality of the DVD is not great. I have warm fuzzy memories of this classic, so that doesn't matter to me. But if you have no emotional attachment to Mama, Papa, Brother and Sister Bear, you might be disappointed with the quality.

Love it! It’s the old berenstain bears I remember as a child. We would watch every Christmas on VHS. So much fun to share with my children!

My son loves reading the Berenstain Bears books with me so I thought he might like having a Christmas movie to watch. Unfortunately this doesn't hold his attention to well. I'm not sure if it's his age (3) or if it's just not to his liking. I put it away for this year and will pull it out again next year and try again.

Love this video. My daughter grew up watching it. Now my grandchildren will.

This is a solid Christmastime release but not written or animated particularly well. The bears all speak in rhyme--obviously not easy to write this way and the story itself suffers. There is a nice lesson to be learned at the end. Doubtful that this one will land on any favorites list, but it's watchable enough.

I was so excited to have raised dvd to add to my Christmas collection. But the dvd arrived cracked and wouldn't. Don't bother.

I ordered 3 DVDs for Christmas presents -- this one, Frosty and Franklin's magic Christmas. The stories were great, but each video had an area that would not play and gave a notice on the screen that there was damage. It was disappointing and I will be returning them to Amazon

Excellent value movie for the kids this Christmas.A very rare and hard to find movie elsewhere.Great value for this DVD movie.

This was an old viewing of the bernstein bears, and my son didn't relate to it.Wanted to send it back but package was already open.

My grandaughters cand't wait to see these dvd's everytime they visit. Great investment.