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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Devine Entertainment
Salesrank: 91270
Released: May 28, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.64 |
| Used Price: $4.28 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Anyone who's seen 1994's romantic I.Q. is familiar with the presentation of genius Albert Einstein as not only a living legend, but sweet and funny. This production, part of HBO's Young Inventor series, does nothing to dispel that preconception; it offers up a socially responsible, kind, charismatic, and thoughtful Einstein. The family-oriented film finds Einstein (Paul Soles) as a scholar and physicist at Princeton University. He befriends Lannie (Lataye Studwood), a 12-year-old African American, whose mother works at the university and whose father is an aspiring singer. Einstein offers to tutor Lannie, who's being shoved into a remedial class. Themes explored are intellectual freedom, racism, stereotypes, friendships, family, loyalty, and love. The Young Inventor series offers up excellent production values, strong acting, and powerful stories woven around true and historically significant tales. --N.F. Mendoza
Einstein: Light to the Power of 2 Reviews:
Fiction, not science. 
2006-04-28 - I don't mind blending a little fiction with a bit of science to make an interesting movie, but when you are making a biography of Einstein, it would be nice to at least get the explanation of E=mc2 right. In the movie it says that he proved mathematically that if mass moves at the speed of light squared it turns into energy! AARRGGHH! Just for the record, according to Einstein, nothing goes faster than the speed of light.
A Great Creation!! 
2001-04-19 - As an Einstein fan, I always try to collect the materpieces of his life, science and humanity. I think this DVD gives a very true insight of these facts. I would recommend any Einstein fan to watch this and discover this great soul.
Einstein: Light to the Power of 2
2000-01-25 - I was extremely pleased with how my 10 and 12 year old daughters were fascinated with this video. This video teaches about a love for learning. Teaches not only a bit of history mixed with fiction (I think Lannie is fictional), but teaches Math and Science as well. Excellent for ages 9-up. Not a factual account of Einstein's theories, but a delightful insight.
Very disappointing
1999-08-31 - I was looking for a video that would explain Einstein's theories. This video deals more with race relations. Title is very misleading.
