The Boatniks
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Movie Reviews of The Boatniks
Movie Review: A very funny Disney movie, if you like boats...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very funny movie for anyone who has a boat. Although a bit dated, it is very entertaining.Movie Review: Not 5, not 1 - good movie, bad tranfer.
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a Boater and this film goes over the top and makes me laugh out load (LOL). But 5 stars as the greatest movie of all time? Sorry, LOL. I agree about the Disney rip off. They really should put out a quality product. I've got a whole wish list on Amazon as # 5 - don't buy for me, waiting for a better transfer to happen before I buy them. Mostly from Disney! Disney, if your listening, don't worry about the next generation of this sale being widescreen. The next generation will be HD and then it will be HD on 3", etc. So Disney, you have lot of future releases available too make your money. If you still have customers! Until then, I guess I watch my VHS one more time.Movie Review: Par Sundberg (Tommy from Pippi Longstocking) reappears
Summary: 3 Stars
Trivia...
When the children are on the boat the toothy towhead (blonde) looks like none othr than Par Sundberg (Tommy - Annika's brother) from the Pippi Longstocking series.
Movie Review: Just not very funny
Summary: 2 Stars
Thomas Garland (Robert Morse)is the son of a World War two naval hero who gets his first Coast Guard command in Newport,California where he soon demonstrates a strong streak of accident prone-ness .Setting out to rescue a stranded rowboat ,he needs has to be rescued himself and put him behind the wheel of a car and fender benders are the least of your worries etc.He attracts the disapprobation of his Commanding officer (Don Ameche) an old friend of his fathers .He does however meet and fall in love with the beautiful boat rental boss Kate Fairchild (Stefanie Powers )
He becomes embroiled with a trio of jewel thieves trying to escape to Mexico with their ill gotten gains -these are played ,broadly and without subtlety ,by Phil Silvers ,Micky Shaugnessey and Norman Fell
The problem is that while attractively shot and professionally made the picture is simply not funny and the antics of the thieves as they struggle to master sailing techniques and a mini-submarine as well as seeking to dredge up their loot from a picnic basket at the bottom of the ocean are simply tedious .Norman Tokar was a good director of Disney live action comedies but here was not firm enough to rein in Silver's mugging which scuppers the movie badly
Morse and Powers are likeaBle and Wally Cox is good value in a cameo as a philandering Hugh Heffner type in a pemanently moored party boat
Disney did this sort of thing well at times but this is a rare misfire from them
Movie Review: Plain and Uninspired
Summary: 2 Stars
Eh. (shrug)
Typical run-of-the-mill late 60's-early 70's Disney tv production.
I believe this was one of the weekly episodic movies that ran as a Movie Of The Week a.k.a. The Wonderful World Of Disney (the given name during this time frame of 1969-1979).
Wasn't one of their top notch products intended for the theaters, just something cranked out to fill out a television schedule.
According to Wikipedia the anthology series is the second longest prime-time program in the US starting in 1954 and, depending on how you read it, finally came to an end around 1997.
Decidedly pedestrian and adequate fare for the type.