As if alien invasion isn't enough to deal with, Rachel finds out her divorced dad is moving 1,000 miles away and wants her to leave her friends, mother, and sister behind and join him in "The Stranger," the first of three 24-minute episodes based on the Scholastic book series by K.A. Applegate. While she is mulling over Dad's offer, Rachel and the rest of the band of morphing teenagers face a tempting offer: stay on earth and fight what appears to be a losing battle to the invading Yeerks, or take refuge on a safe planet with their families. In "The Leader," parts 1 and 2, Jake and Marco are caught morphing into animals and launched into space to face a powerful new Yeerk leader, Visser One, who turns out to be the mother Marco thought had been dead for two years. The three episodes from Nickelodeon's prime-time series are sandwiched by extra footage of Marco first making his case to quit the teens' quest to save the earth and then, after discovering his mother's fate, vowing to fight until she is free. This well-produced adventure series combines domestic tales with science fiction geared toward ages 6-12. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Rating:
Summary: concerned reader/watcher
Comment: The show is okay, but has no comparison to the book series. The books are more graphic, and funnier. Also, They twist the story around. Like in the reaction. Rachel is the one who has the allergec reaction, not cassie. The actors can't act either. The people who played Jake, Tobias,and Cassie are the only people that I have seen on other T.V. shows.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Read the books
Comment: Read the books. They are awsome one of the best book series ever made. This show is [is bad]. Morphing is only showed half the time. In the books there are intenes battles and an awsome story. In this show there are no battles just sneaking around. There are no Taxxons. The andalites look like weird mupputs and you never see there whole body at once. Ax and Visser three are always in human morph. The hork bajar look right but they don't move anywhere. They just stand there. Remember the witty and smart dialoge of the books replaced with stupid and unrehersed acting of the show. The charactors don't look like the book charactors at all. Read the books don't watch this [show].

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Enemy Among Us
Comment: This movie is great. The 4th one is the best but this one is right behind it. In the Stranger Rachel is offered by her dad to move 1,000 miles away with him. Then Jake, Rachel, Marco, and Cassie are warned by Tobias that Ax is in trouble. They attempt to save him but are caught in a net. Then the net vanishes. Tobias is in human form much to everyone's suprise. They are greeted by a being called the Ellimist. He offers them a chance to leave Earth with their families including a human Tobias, Tom, and possibly Marco's mom. He shows them what happens in the future after they are caught. Rachel is Visser Three's (now Visser One) best warrior and Tobias was roasted and eaten with barbaque sauce. Rachel takes a knife from her older self. The Animorphs refuse his offer. They are caught in the net. Rachel cuts it with the knife. Marco and Rachel save Ax and Rachel doesn't go with her father. In The leader Part 1 Jake discovers there is a second Kandrona at the EGS tower. They set out to destroy it. JAke and Marco are captured and taken to the Mother Ship where MArco discovers a suprising secret. In Part 2 Jake and Marco steal a Blade SHip and with Ax's help they get back to Earth. Marco now has a new reason to fight the Yeerks.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: okay
Comment: If you ask me, you should read the books first, then watch the movies. The other way around kinda spiols it. I like how the movies are visual, I am a visual person after all (kinda). I still think that the books are better than the videos because they have a longer storyline and a really interesting one, not that I am saying that the videos don't, because they do, they are just kinda dilluting it, that's all. Read book #1, then go down to your local video renting store and check out the first video in the series and you'll see what I mean. The videos are pretty good though, beleive me. The books are better, however, if you want a really good book to read, choose the Holy Bible, God's word.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I loved this movie, it was so awsome. You have to see it!
Comment: Animorphs. Five normal kids with the power to become any ANIMAL they touch. Jake, Marco, Rachel Cassie, and Tobias are Earth's only HOPE against an alien invasion that's hit their neighborhood. But they're getting tired of saving the world... until a mysterious stranger shows what the FUTURE will look like if they give up. Then, when Jake and Marco are held hostae on the Yeerk space ship, they discover a SECRET that changes EVERYTHING.

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