The Adventures of Ma & Pa Kettle, Vol. 1 (The Egg and I / Ma and Pa Kettle / Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town / Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm)
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Movie Reviews of The Adventures of Ma & Pa Kettle, Vol. 1 (The Egg and I / Ma and Pa Kettle / Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town / Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm)
Movie Review: Thud
Summary: 2 Stars
As a boy, more than a half century ago, I liked Ma and Pa Kettle movies. I thought they were actually funny. Today I see them as real clinkers, movies with just one joke: lazy Pa and tough Ma living happily in squalor with 15 kids. Every bit of humor, such as it is, was based upon that, somewhat akin to the banal humor of the Beverly Hillbillies.
"The Egg and I," the movie that introduced movie goers to the antics of the Kettle Klan, was a big hit in its day. Today the hit is more like a thud. There is a series of episodes that add up to not much of anything. Fred McMurray and Claudette Colbert play city folks trying their hand at hard scrabble chicken farming. All the humor comes from their fish out of water adventures. There's a sequence of pathos that appears to have been thrown in late to round it out. The writing is bad and the acting is worse. All in all, the movie is not remotely convincing. Green Acres tried to revive the premise in after years and was just as silly.
The only reason to watch any of this is for the nostalgia. The movies elicit the smell of popcorn and the sticky floor of a movie theater decades ago. But I can't imagine young people buying into any of it.
Movie Review: The Adventures of Ma & Pa Kettle, Vol. 1
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I think this collection is great. We are both in our fifties and would watch these movies on TV. Now on the weekends we like to make pizza and watch the movies. We have done the one movie each Saturday night for the past 4 weeks. We are now ready for The Adventures of Ma & Pa Kettle, Vol. 2. We are also talking about watching them again on those long winter nights. Enjoy them.Movie Review: Ma & Pa Kettle
Summary: 5 Stars
These are some of the funniest movies you will ever see! They are just classic comedies and I have watched them so many times over the years whenever they were on and I had to buy to DVDs of them so I will have them to watch again whenever I want to.Movie Review: LOVE Ma and Pa
Summary: 5 Stars
I only wish they had done more movies, they are so wonderful! We enjoy watching Ma and Pa and The Egg and I over and over again! Thrilled they are on DVD and we can own them, doesn't bother us that are on one disk, just happy to have them. We own volume one and two. It's wholesome family entertainment!Movie Review: Ma & Pa Kettle
Summary: 5 Stars
I love all the stuff that ever came out about these two. It's too bad that there are only 2 DVD's available out on the market for purchase. I am hoping that in the future they come out with more.