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Blythe Baxter and the pets from Mrs. Twombly’s day camp are back for five new sugary-sweet sweet-shop-themed adventures in Sweetest Pets, the latest DVD release of The Hub series Littlest Pet Shop.
In the first episode in the collection, “Topped with Buttercream,” the Sweet Delights sweet shop moves in next door to the Littlest Pet Shop. Along with it comes a new pet, Buttercream, a hyperactive bunny who takes the rest of the pets on a sugary field trip to the sweet shop’s pantry.
The rest of the episodes in the collection generally focus on the happenings at Sweet Delights—whether the pets are driving off in the shop’s new sweet truck in “Sweet (Truck) Ride” or Blythe (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) and her friends are racing to bake 200 cupcakes for the Biskit twins’ big quarter-birthday bash in “What’s in the Batter?”
Like the show’s earlier DVD release, Little Pets, Big Adventures, Sweetest Pets is another fun and fluffy (and sweet!) collection of cartoons, with characters who are brimming with both personality and imagination.
Blythe is a lovable teen (more lovable, in fact, than she was in the first DVD collection) who just happens to have the ability to talk to animals. She’s always there to help her four-legged friends, but she has plenty of close two-legged friends, too. And though they’re sometimes snubbed and slighted and bossed around by mean girls Brittany and Whittany Biskit, these smart, strong teens always seem to come out on top.
The animals, meanwhile, give the show its quirks. From vain pup Zoe to the new pet, Buttercream, the pets at Mrs. Twombly’s day camp have memorable personalities—and, together, they get into all kinds of wacky situations. Along the way, they also throw in plenty of pop culture references (like a Star Trek scene in “Sweet (Truck) Ride”) and musical numbers (like a ‘50s-style song in “Topped with Buttercream”).
At times, the action is a bit spastic—especially when sugar is involved—but, for the most part, Littlest Pet Shop is just another fun-filled cartoon that’s sure to keep young viewers giggling at the kooky characters and their crazy adventures. As I’ve mentioned before, the show doesn’t have the oh-so-sweet characters or the moral-loaded stories that you’ll find in some other current kids’ series, but it’s all in good, clean fun. So if your favorite little girl is looking for a way to unwind for a few minutes after another demanding day of school, she’s sure to enjoy the imaginative antics of Blythe and the pets at the Littlest Pet Shop.
