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Summary: ABOUT TIME!!!
Review: I have waited so long for this movie. No one seems to have heard of it, even the Disney stores. It brings back memories of when I was a kid and stole this movie from major video. Good times good times. I can't wait to watch this movie again. Everyone needs to see it!
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Summary: Pan & Scan blues
Review: I love this movie and would rate it 4 stars, except that this DVD is yet another example Disney's lamentable tradition of releasing most of its live action films in pan and scan instead of in the original widescreen format.Since I don't really want to buy the film twice, I will pass on this edition and patiently wait until Disney sees fit to do a proper release of this great family film.
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Summary: Just as Good as Mary Poppins!
Review: I was about 2 years old when this movie was released in the theaters so I didn't see it back then but I remember watching The Gnome Mobile on the Disney channel sometime in the 80's with my nephews and really thinking it was a cute movie and fun movie, it stars Walter Brennen in a wonderful dual role as a wealthy man named D.J. Mulrooney and as a Gnome named Knobby. It also stars Matthew Garber and Karen Dotrice from Mary Poppins as D.J.'s grandchildren Rodney and Elizabeth and they give very good performances. Also giving good performances in the Gnome Mobile are Ed Wynn also from Mary Poppins who plays Rufus, Tom Lowell as Knobby's grandson Jasper and Richard Deacon (The Dick Van Dyke Show) as Ralph Yarby. Also look out for Ellen Corby (The Waltons) as Etta Pettibone. (She played the Grandmother in The Waltons). I see that this adorable and underrated movie which I think is just as good as Mary Poppins is finally coming out on DVD. There isn't any info on if it's being released in widescreen or fullscreen but I sure do hope that the DVD will include a widescreen version instead of just pan & scan!
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Summary: Disney is disapointing
Review: I will pass on this one and all the other Disney DVDs until they do it right, not until I get the full aspect ratios of their films on WIDESCREEN will I purchase any.
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Summary: Me Johnson Car = Good, Pan-n-Scan = BAD!
Review: If I could stop singing "Me Johnson Car" for one moment, I would complain about the horrid pan-and-scan look of this movie...but I can't! "Me Johnson Car" is among the top Disney songs ever written, sung or produced and I'm very disappointed that a) no one in the Disney stores knows it when I sing it and b) it's not on ANY of the Disney song compilations.
Long Live Me Johnson Car!
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Summary: Excelente para ninos y adultos
Review: La primera vez que vi esta pelicula, tenia 10 años. Ya han pasado sobre 20 años y la recuerdo como el principio. La trama es de mucha accion, diversion y emociones.
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Summary: Again, the "new" Disney ignores their heritage
Review: No wonder the company is about to be taken over and broken up -- DVD was introduced to be an alternative to video, to offer more than video: better picture, more extras, and most importantly, more picture. Letterboxing. Widescreen. The complete image. And if you know anything about Walt Disney himself, you would know that he would have embraced the DVD format wholeheartedly -- the latest in technology was king to him. So what does the "new" Disney do? They take some of their most beloved live-action films such as this one, and dump it on DVD in full-frame editions. It's a crime against these wonderful films, films that are a credit to the "old Disney" -- the wonderful, family-friendly Disney. And what, exactly is the point of pan-and-scan? Who isn't used to widescreen DVDs yet? Why should I waste my money replacing my old Disney videos with the same crappy full screen image as before? Disney just doesn't get it, and their sales show it.
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Summary: Another disappointment
Review: Of all the movies of my childhood, there are few that I remember with such fondness as "The Gnome-Mobile". I recall my Uncle picking me up, sitting between 2 of my cousins in the theater munching on Milk-Duds. It was a wonderful day, and the film was absolutely magical.
I was SO excited to see that it came out on DVD - I wanted to share it with my own children. But then I looked at the specs, saw the aspect ratio and realized that it was yet another crappy Disney pan-and-scan hack job. The question I pose is this - at what point are the people at Disney going to have the RESPECT for their treasured films to release them in their entirety? Please don't support this horrible, thoughtless effort on their part.
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Summary: 4 star movie gets 1 star DVD treatment
Review: Once again, the folks at Buena Vista Home Video disappoint Disney fans and film scholars with a poor release of a Disney favorite. Why can't both versions of the film -- the "pan and scan" and the widescreen (original theatrical ratios) be presented on the same disc? The cropping is very distracting, especially with a film like this that has so many scenes inside of a car!!
While "The Gnome-Mobile" may not rate a "Vault Disney" or "Special Edition" release, the least Disney Home Video could do is release the film in its original format. Of course, this might present a little extra expense to the Company, and it's obvious that current management likes to keep profits up by cutting back any way possible. Walt's philosophy of "exceeding guest expectations" seems to have been forgotten. Hopefully, things will change soon.
Note to Disney Home Video: Treat your company's film heritage, and your customers, with some respect.
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Summary: A Car Load Of Fun
Review: Robert Stevenson's delightful little 1967 film deserves to be seen in a widescreen edition, but your kids won't really care. The catchy music and wonderful theme song, "In the Gnome Mobile" will have you tapping your foot for sheer joy, and perhaps you will be swept away in a wave of nostalgia at seeing the last teaming of Matthew Garber and Karem Dotrice, considerably more mature than they were three years earlier in Stevenson's MARY POPPINS. Robert Stevenson had a lovely way with directing children--he made Elizabeth Taylor a star in the Orson Welles JANE EYRE--and his touch is surefire with young Garber and Dotrice. Sad to think that this was his last film (he died in 1977) but it is a memorable one, not least for Walter Brennan's dual role--wonder if he got two salaries, he deserved them!
Watching the THE GNOME-MOBILE, even in its mutilated pan and scan version, turns into a whole snapshot album of treats. Fans with long memories will recall Sean McGlory from two classic John Wayne films of the early 1950s--THE QUIET MAN in which he played Owen Glynn, and also the rarely seen today ISLAND IN THE SKY, in which he played Wayne's co-pilot. Disney fans will recall he had appearances in both FOLLOW ME, BOYS and THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE. He died too soon, in 2003, without the Disney Legend status he deserved, but his performance here as Horatio Quaxton is filled with generous touches and a lot of old school hilarity.
The beautiful redwood forest at the beginning and the end of the film, shows a Disney comfortable with location filming. Wonder where these sequences took place? Must be somewhere in Northern California or Oregon?
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