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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Widow Dorothy McGuire has to grab her three kids and leave their neat home for a dilapidated house in Maine. Cue songs and eight hundred weight of syrup as Hayley Mills, Burl Ives and co work out this Disney adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel Mother Carey's Chickens. Yes a family film that is as safe as the house that Dottie and brood do up, yes I understand it's a kids film, and a musical to boot. But the screenplay from Sally Benson is as dull as dishwater and the cast are way too animated. Particularly Disney's safe card, Miss Mills. The songs from Robert and Richard Sherman are barely memorable, except for the Ives warbled Ugly Bug Ball. While the Technicolor looks off and not in keeping with the Disney stamp of quality.
Harmless is fine, most musicals are just that. But there's a ream of far better harmless musicals than this one. Certainly ones that involve the audience all the way thru the running time. Whatever the age and sex of the viewer may be. 3/10
Harmless is fine, most musicals are just that. But there's a ream of far better harmless musicals than this one. Certainly ones that involve the audience all the way thru the running time. Whatever the age and sex of the viewer may be. 3/10
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I bought this DVD for my younger brother who had it on VHS.We both saw it as youngsters at the movies and I owned the soundtrack album.I later passed this to my brother.Somewhere in the 80's he purchased the VHS and always lamented the fact that the song 'On The Front Porch' was missing from it.He maintained that as the picture of the house with everyone sitting on it was on the soundtrack cover it was not very short of criminal that it was omitted from the video.Anyhow before I gave it to him I had to watch it for old times sake and although sugary it still stands up as something that is missing today and that is good wholesome entertainment the whole family can enjoy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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My niece learnt the song The Ugly Bug Ball for her school concert and loved it. Ever since she wanted the song and video ever since. Good Buy.
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