The Princess and the Rooster: A Children's Guide to Really Good Manners!

In this stagey, stilted home video, Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale, "well known in European society" dresses in a diaphanous robe and entertains a group of children in a garden with a captive rooster in a cage. What does this plot device have to do with teaching children good manners? Good question. Turns out that the fast talking rooster is actually a prince who has been punished by the good Princess for being rude, and in a series of home video flashbacks, we see Mr. Rooster leading groups of children in misbehaving deeds. But how rude is it to turn someone into an animal in a cage instead of just telling them what they have done wrong, directly and on the spot? The Princess and the Rooster, which is, for the most part, incoherent and amateurish, is far more concerned with its elaborate plot devices than with imparting any true wisdom on the subject of manners. Not recommended. A much better choice here would be It's Just Good Manners (VL-1/96). Aud: K, E, P. (R. Ray)