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Summary: Four Star movie -- one star DVD
Review: A disappointing release from Disney Home Video of a charming film with great stars and wonderful Sherman Brothers' music. The extras are nice: a short "making of" documentary and optional audio commentary. Why the one star? A poor pan-and-scan release with below par video quality are truly unacceptable in today's DVD market. It would be better for the Disney Company to slow down its release sechedule and take the time to create quality releases of these older title that appeal to "grown up" Disney fans and film students.
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Summary: Strange. . .
Review: Am I the only one who noticed the fact that the family is a band is not remotely pivotal to the plot of this film?
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Summary: Disney doesn't make them like this anymore.
Review: Family morals, family together and family love doesn't get any better than this film. This is a face-paced musical spectular with an all star cast. You'll even notice a very young Goldie Hawn and of course Kurt Russell. I only feel disappointed that they didn't release this in 5.1 because the movie was filmed in 4-track 35mm. Never-the-less you'll still enjoy this movie with a lot of top-tapping songs.
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Summary: Still one of the best kept Disney movie secrets!
Review: For some reason, most people don't know too much or have never heard about this Disney movie. And I don't quite understand why, since it rates in some of my TOP Disney movies. First off, it carries a cast of today's well known actors in some of their earliest roles ever. Kurt Russell as a kid (singing, dancing and playing a musical instrument at that!). Goldie "Jeanne" Hawn as a bit part. Not to mention Leslie Ann Warren, before she started playing loopy characters. Buddy Ebsen, John Davidson (very pre-Hollywood Squares). Walter Brennan. The story is about a musically talented family in which Grandpa organizes the family band to play at the democratic convention. But his grandaughter Alice's love interest, Joe Carder, a Republican, convinces the family of which most are Republican to head out to the Dakotas (at that point still just one state). The movie revolves gently around the politics of the Grover Cleveland re-election campaign against Benjamin Harrison with a focus on the comedy, the love quarrels and a ton of kids having fun. The climactic end takes place at the Republican primary if I remember correctly, where jsut about everything goes haywaire and unexpected. (Even as it did at the real election at that time.) It's nice getting the history lesson in without even realizing it! The songs are upbeat and memorable, aside from one lousy Leslie Ann Warren song early on, and are still fun to sing and dance along with many years later. My VHS of this movie has just about gone caput, so I'm very pleased that the DVD version is coming out.
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Summary: At last! Family Band on DVD!
Review: I am so thrilled that Family Band is finally being released on DVD! This, along with Happiest Millionaire were my all time favorite movies as a kid. I was devastated when I got older and found out that Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson were not, in fact, a couple. If you aren't familiar with this movie, don't waste your money renting it. Just BUY it - you won't be disappointed! Who invented music? We'd like to shake his hand...
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Summary: My Favorite Movie From My Childhood!!!
Review: I enjoyed watching this movie over and over again as a child!!! The songs are great! The cast is great! The costumes are great! I have searched high and low for this movie for years and to my great surprise it is coming out on DVD! I plan on having my mother, my niece, my siter, and her dog over for a rousing rendition of "Dakota"!
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Summary: It's About Time!
Review: I have loved this movie since I saw it on video as a little kid. I have been looking for a copy of it for years and I was ecstatic when I found out it was coming out on DVD! Everyone involved gave good performances in this movie, esp. Walter Brennan as the cantankerous grandfather. I am so glad that Disney decided to bring this movie out of the vault! It has been well worth the wait!
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Summary: You Better Get Readdy To Hear You Better Get Readdy To Cheer
Review: I have this VHS in the 1983 White Clamshell Release. And I was so happy when I found out that this was coming out on DVD. I Bought it off amazon.com along with 4 of the other July 6th Releases. This movie brings back such fond memories. I love the songs. Walter Brennan was so nice as Rencalid Bower. And Buddy Ebsen and Janet Blair shined as the parents. This is such a sweet kids movie. Full of great songs like 10 feet off the ground, lets put Grover Over Again, Bout Time, He Kept Drummin Drummin Drummin and many more. And who can forget Lesley Ann Warren as Laura Bower and John Davidson as Joe Carder. While the family is having a fun time. Laura and Joe are having romantic fun. I also loved the special features. The Family Band Album was very nice. Lesley,John, and Robert Sherman. Lesley talks about making the movie and how Kurt Russel hated the dancing. And John talks about everything in paticular and Robert Sherman talks about the music and how they made it without Walt. This is a great film that I highly suggest to all of you.
Buy a DVD tonight and share it with your family.
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Summary: LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!
Review: I just found out that Disney released this classic onto DVD. For the past year i had been looking for on the internet, and luckily grabbed the last copy on Ebay. Now, as it has just arrived, I will have to go out and buy it on DVD. It's worth every penny!!!
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Summary: Just a wonderful family movie
Review: I spent years trying to find a reasonably priced video of this movie as a gift for my wife. She has loved this movie since she was a little girl. I finally found one and now its coming out on DVD, that is WONDERFUL news. My children loved this movie and even a cynic like myself found this entertaining and the history lesson is an added plus. My biggest joy was watching a young Buddy Ebsen dancing and singing..never get enough of Buddy Ebsen. A must for disney fans and for all families.
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