Strawberry Shortcake - Best Pets Yet
By Myra WolfeAverage User Rating:
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Strawberry Shortcake and her friends cavort with their pets and learn about sharing, tolerance and love.
With two stories, a music video, a "Berry Special Friends Game", and a tour of Strawberry's house, there's a lot to enjoy. The songs, sprinkled throughout the stories, are fun, and the case smells like strawberry bubblegum. This sugary DVD is bursting with kid appeal.
In "Here Comes Pupcake", Custard, Strawberry's pampered pink cat, is looking forward to the "Just for Custard Day" she'll spend with her beloved Strawberry. But plans are interrupted when Strawberry takes in a stray dog. The dog (who Strawberry names Pupcake) certainly is a disruption. He makes huge messes, won't let Custard nap, howls constantly, and gets a whole lot of Strawberry's attention. Custard is, of course, not pleased. ("If I was Custard," says my daughter, "that would really annoy me too.") Soon "Just for Custard Day" arrives, and it seems that Strawberry's forgotten. Angry Custard tries to make Pupcake lost in the woods, but they both end up lost. Pupcake's notorious loud howl gets them found, and Custard is properly ashamed of herself. Strawberry explains that she can love both of them, and Custard discovers that Strawberry hadn't forgotten "Just for Custard Day" at all -- it's tomorrow! Strawberry's found a babysitter for Pupcake, but Custard suggests they turn the day into "Just for Custard and Pupcake Day". Harmony is restored.
In "Peppermint's Pet Peeve", we meet the villain in Strawberry Shortcake's sweet, sweet world: Peppermint Fizz, who wants to prove that her pet, Cola Chameleon, is best. She suggests a pet show, and Strawberry seems skeptical, but eventually she and her friends agree. Lots of grooming ensues, to the bewilderment of the pets. The day before the show, Peppermint Fizz lets slip that there will be a talent contest. Cola, who seems to sing like Frank Sinatra but is secretly lip-synching, sabotages the other pets' acts, putting bubble gum in a tuba and biting through a shoelace. Pupcake's playfulness is their downfall. He finds Cola's tape player and seems to think it's a toy, biting it and tossing it about. Of course, the tape warbles, rewinds and speeds up, and everyone discovers that Peppermint Fizz and Cola Chameleon have been cheating.
It all ends with a speech from Strawberry ("We forgot that they're all the berry best, and we don't need a trophy to prove that!" and a love song to the pets, during which even Peppermint Fizz gets mushy.
