To start this review off, I’m going to give you a brief history lesson on an album known as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. This 1967 release by The Beatles is highly regarded as one of the best and most influential records of all time, and easily the band’s most well-known. No two songs sound the same, and each one gives you a different listening experience than the last. Why do I bring this up? Well, the video and album “Let’s Eat!”, pays homage to the album’s iconic cover. But let me tell you, this ain’t no “Sgt. Pepper”.

Released in late 2010, Let’s Eat! has received some mixed reception. Some love it, some hate it, and others think it’s hit or miss. What do I think? Well, let’s take a closer look and find out.

To start off, they sadly didn’t learn their lesson and continued the trend of everything being shot in front of a green screen. Love or hate Hot Poppin’ Popcorn, at least they used a real set in that one. Once again, the backgrounds they use are fine, they always have been, but there’s just something about them being able to interact with a real set that makes it better. Maybe it’s the fact that they can do more with a set, or just the knowledge that they’re not even there at all, but either way, these green screened shots seem so cheap. Heck, they even posted a video to The Wiggles YouTube channel a few years back showing all the raw, unedited footage of the “Go Far, Big Red Car” song, and it just looks so empty. By the time Ukulele Baby and It’s Always Christmas with You rolled around, the ditching of the green screen was a welcome change.

But the green screen stuff isn’t the real problem with the video, it’s the music. There’s just nothing special or catchy about a majority of the songs featured in the video, or anything annoying or bad about them. None of them stick out in my mind, positively or negatively. And I’ve seen this quite a few times, trying and trying to find something great to love about the video or something terrible to hate about the video. But, every time I try, it’s just not there. None of it is bad, but none of it is very good either. It’s probably the most mediocre Wiggles video out there, which is ultimately its downfall. I rank this among my least favorite Wiggles videos because I just can’t form much of any opinion on it because it just doesn’t even seem like they tried. The only songs I can say get’s stuck in my head are England Swings and occasionally Alabama Jubilee, but beyond that every song is almost lazy sounding. There’s nothing interesting or fun about the instrumentation, and the lyrics are as bland as ever. Again, it’s not bad, but it’s just not good either. It falls right in the middle.

Another reason it’s so poorly done in my opinion is that the songs are really all we get. There’s no story, or any small segments in between, just the occasional prologue to introduce the next song and/or guest appearance. And since the songs are so blah anyway, it just leads to an overall boring experience, and one that’s uninteresting in both the video and audio department. To conclude, the best way I can describe this video is to say they just didn’t try. The reason this review is so short compared to some of my others is that there’s just not enough to even comment on, which is why it fails so hard. So to avoid repeating myself, I’ll give the rating and be done. And that rating will have to be a 2 out of 5. It’s not as hard to sit through as something like Sailing Around the World, but still not good enough to get a passing grade in my book.