Big Bird in China

Pretty good, but not as brisk or engaging as the best Sesame Street specials. An hour and a half of nonstop Big Bird gets tiresome.

I recently rewatched this for the first time since childhood, and it wasn't as good as I remembered - relying too much on Big Bird being gobsmacked by foreignness, and making him whinier than he ever seemed to be on the show. That said, there are times when it hits a truly magical atmosphere, that makes China feel like both a real, living place with real, complex people, and a land where you can step in the wrong direction and run into a fairy tale unfolding.

Hooray for cultural diversity!