ragpap93 Have you talked to Amy about 'things'? Have you talked to Elliot about 'things'? Just say sex Disney. Mr. Willard just does not understand his lousy kids. He is concerned about his fourteen year old daughter Amy attracting all kinds of boys especially within the ten seconds on the elevator; His son Elliot moping over the girl he left behind to go on this vacation until he immediately gets over it and sees girls everywhere he goes. So now he is concerned that his son is a playa; His son Skipper who is quickly growing up and maybe its important to have some father and son bonding moments. Skipper rather play with kids his own age. Mrs. Willard is easy-going until Elliot is seeing this Desi girl and her concerned father is spying too. Either you could think that she is racist or you could think she is worried her son might cause some heartbreak. The Desi girl's father has put his foot down. The guy Amy is seeing has finally started to raise concerns to Mrs. Willard as well. This French woman is flirting with Mr. Willard ooh la la. He says he is a happily married man ah aint that sweet. If anything the only problem with this movie is that it is too long.

morrison-dylan-fan Taking a look at the UK Netflix,I discovered a Disney /Fred MacMurray film that I've not heard about before.With there only being a few hours to go before the movie was to be removed from the site,I decided that it was the perfect time to say bon voyage!The plot:After delays from family and work,Harry & Katie Willard decide to go on their long-planned honeymoon to Paris,and to take their children Elliott/Amy and Skipper with them.Deciding to go via cruise ship to France,Katie and Harry soon find their dream honeymoon to take a wrong turn,as the "difference of opinion" that they have with their children start to appear upon the horizon.View on the film:For the adaptation of Marrijane Hayes & Joseph Hayes book,writer Bill Walsh attempts to give the title a light and breezy atmosphere.As Walsh starts building up the care-free moon,the 130 minute running time (!) blocks the lightness from the movie like a giant wall,as Katie & Harry's troubles with their children go round in repetitive circles which become increasingly worn down.Whilst the stretched Flubber running time keeps the movie grounded,Walsh does off a number of sweet funny set-pieces,which goes from the Willard's taking a tour of the Paris sewers ,to Harry getting in a fight with Rudolph the Red Nosed Hungarian. Filmed on location in France, director James Neilson displays the Paris location in elegant wide shots and casts the film in light blues and yellows which match the honeymoon romance that the couple are trying to create.Taking on roles that James Cagney and Greer Garson had turned down, the tension that Jane Wyman & Fred MacMurray had with co-star Tommy Kirk being gay steams across the screen,as Katie and Harry appear very keen to say Bon voyage to their little darlings.

mark.waltz This Disney comedy gets off to a roaring start when plumbing contractor Fred MacMurray, his wife Jane Wyman and their three kids try to get to a Battery dock to catch a cruise ship to France and are escorted by a very friendly and overly chatty New York cab driver. Like Spencer Tracy in "Father of the Bride", provider MacMurray is the most overlooked member of the family, unappreciated by his two sons and daughter and overshadowed by the compassionate mom, Wyman, who sometimes seems to take him for granted. He is forced to put up with Wyman's family and friends from Boston at a send-off party who don't understand why someone like Wyman would go off an marry some plummer from the mid-west. Then, on the ship, he finds himself overwhelmed by his youngest son when everybody goes off to do their own thing. He realizes that as the older children find themselves involved in their own young romantic problems, they prefer the tenderness of Wyman's motherly advice to his more direct approach in dealing with them. Daughter Deborah Walley falls in love with the neglected heir to a fortune who is the product of a broken home and prepares to have her heart broken while son Tommy Kirk makes plays for very single young woman he meets. Then, when they get to Paris, embarrassment after embarrassment befalls MacMurray, first being lost in the sewers (and seemingly never getting to the Louve), then dealing with a caddish Hungarian who makes a pass at Wyman. It all falls apart at a party that Walley's boyfriend's mother (Jessie Royce Landis) gives where MacMurray gets drunk on a liquorish liqueur, then creates a major disturbance in Monte Carlo that could result in an international incident.From the Absent Minded Professor to Son of Flubber to Father of Trouble, MacMurray was Disney's "every-man", expected to keep the family together without actually really having any say. That's the lovely Wyman's job, and she is the perfect wife and mom in every manner. MacMurray utilizes his massive talents of light-hearted comedy to keep your interest, but the episodic situations and predictable outcomes make this situation comedy like Disney movie an overlong precursor to "The Facts of Life Go to Paris". Disney seems to be taking over here where MGM had stopped after the last of the Andy Hardy movies were made several years before. Disney does raise a bit of an eyebrow by briefly introducing a character who is obviously a prostitute and a family of opportunistic Parisans who set their money-hungry eyes on the not quite so rich Americans. But when you put it altogether, what it seemingly comes down to was Disney was telling us that while it's nice to venture, there's no place like home, and the backyard you live in is the best place to hang your hat.

moonspinner55 Excruciatingly long and tedious comedy-drama from Walt Disney concerning "typical" Midwestern family on vacation in Europe. There's the worrisome father (Fred MacMurray, acting befuddled, like Jimmy Stewart); the giddy mom (Jane Wyman, dignified but dulled-out); the cold-fish daughter; the too-cool teenage son (in ascots!); and the mischievous little brother (named Skipper!). Directed by Disney mainstay James Neilson, whose pacing was always a little slow, the film is not only out-of-touch, but hammy and unfunny. It would make a torturous double-bill alongside another Disney teens-and-their-parents tale, "Superdad". * from ****