Barney's Great Adventure

(PolyGram)

Don't reach for the remote -- this Barney movie is a lot less grating than the TV series. Whereas the children on the TV show are painfully precocious, the three in Barney's Great Adventure are well-behaved, even likable. There's not much to excite parents here -- Barney still talks down to the kids and lacks the multiple levels that made Sesame Street so brilliant -- but they won't be nauseated, either.