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Summary: Great family film!
Review: This is a great family movie that my family and I watch every chance we get on the Disney channel. Dean Jones and his brood move from the city to the snowy slopes of Colorado to run a ski resort in dire need of repair. Do they get the repairs done? Do they raise enough money to keep the resort going? Do they have a lot of fun? (Hint: it's a Disney movie - what kind of ending can there be?) Plenty of humor also.
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Summary: Standroules Plumbarmacy?
Review: This is Disney at it's best. However, it isn't a recent film. It is one that is over 30 years old. It took then dipping into their regular actor pool to get Dean Jones, Harry Morgan, Johny Whitaker etc to make this classic. The movie and efects may seem old hat today but it has an ingrident that most of todays films don't. IT IS FUNNY. It is impossible to point out which scene is the funniest as they all are. Each sets you up for the next funny scene so well that I would wind up telling you the story and then you wouldn't buy the video. DIsney should make more films like this today and get Dean Jones and the others. If not as the stars then in smaller roles just to say thanks for making movies like this. Buy this film your kids and you will enjoy this G rated fun.
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Summary: Standroules Plumbarmacy?
Review: This is Disney at it's best. However, it isn't a recent film. It is one that is over 30 years old. It took then dipping into their regular actor pool to get Dean Jones, Harry Morgan, Johny Whitaker etc to make this classic. The movie and efects may seem old hat today but it has an ingrident that most of todays films don't. IT IS FUNNY. It is impossible to point out which scene is the funniest as they all are. Each sets you up for the next funny scene so well that I would wind up telling you the story and then you wouldn't buy the video. DIsney should make more films like this today and get Dean Jones and the others. If not as the stars then in smaller roles just to say thanks for making movies like this. Buy this film your kids and you will enjoy this G rated fun.
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Summary: What a blast from the past!
Review: This is good, clean family fun that takes you back. At least it took me back, because I was around when it was made. If you weren't and you're looking for classic Disney, then look no further. There are great little jokes, family feel, and loads of community togetherness. Couldn't we all use a little less of the violent, antagonistic fare available today? Thank you Disney for having the gumption to rerelease your greatest movies.
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Summary: Wacky Movie in Disney's Classic Family Style
Review: This movie is a fun family movie in the Disney style we remember so well. Nearly cartoonish and typically contrived, the movie remains a delight more than 30 years after it was first released.Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) is a faceless white collar worker in New York City. A barely remembered uncle leaves him a hotel with a fancy-sounding name in Colorado and Johnny packs up the family to run the hotel. Alas, the hotel's name is far fancier than the hotel itself, inhabited by raccoons and a codger (Harry Morgan of "Dragnet" and "M*A*S*H"). Johnny, his wife Sue (Nancy Olson), son Richard (Johnny Whitaker), and daughter Chris (Kathleen Cody) decide to make a go of the hotel, partially because Johnny has burned a bridge at his old job and partially because of his pride. Johnny tries to obtain a loan and quickly runs afoul of perennial Disney bad-guy Keenan Wynn, playing ruthless banker Martin Ridgeway. Johnny is able to borrow money from Ridgeway and fix the hotel to begin taking in paying customers, but as tends to happen in Disney comedies, Johnny tends to be prone to accidents. In this case the most serious accident comes in the form of a runaway steam engine. Johnny is placed in a position of having no paying customers and no money, and his next loan payment to Ridgeway is coming due. Johnny enters a snowmobile race with the help of a local "expert" who isn't, and with co-rider Harry Morgan. Some of the funniest and most unbelievable moments of the movie occur during the snowmobile race. The ending of the movie unfolds not quite as you might expect, so I'll leave the remainder of the movie for the viewer to discover. The special effects were good for the early 70s, but now appear substantially dated, with a few exceptions, such as the runaway steam engine. Children and those of us that saw the movie when it first came out will still find it enjoyable and very solid, safe family fare.
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Summary: Wacky Movie in Disney's Classic Family Style
Review: This movie is a fun family movie in the Disney style we remember so well. Nearly cartoonish and typically contrived, the movie remains a delight more than 30 years after it was first released. Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) is a faceless white collar worker in New York City. A barely remembered uncle leaves him a hotel with a fancy-sounding name in Colorado and Johnny packs up the family to run the hotel. Alas, the hotel's name is far fancier than the hotel itself, inhabited by raccoons and a codger (Harry Morgan of "Dragnet" and "M*A*S*H"). Johnny, his wife Sue (Nancy Olson), son Richard (Johnny Whitaker), and daughter Chris (Kathleen Cody) decide to make a go of the hotel, partially because Johnny has burned a bridge at his old job and partially because of his pride. Johnny tries to obtain a loan and quickly runs afoul of perennial Disney bad-guy Keenan Wynn, playing ruthless banker Martin Ridgeway. Johnny is able to borrow money from Ridgeway and fix the hotel to begin taking in paying customers, but as tends to happen in Disney comedies, Johnny tends to be prone to accidents. In this case the most serious accident comes in the form of a runaway steam engine. Johnny is placed in a position of having no paying customers and no money, and his next loan payment to Ridgeway is coming due. Johnny enters a snowmobile race with the help of a local "expert" who isn't, and with co-rider Harry Morgan. Some of the funniest and most unbelievable moments of the movie occur during the snowmobile race. The ending of the movie unfolds not quite as you might expect, so I'll leave the remainder of the movie for the viewer to discover. The special effects were good for the early 70s, but now appear substantially dated, with a few exceptions, such as the runaway steam engine. Children and those of us that saw the movie when it first came out will still find it enjoyable and very solid, safe family fare.
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Summary: Snowball Express-a Disney Favorite
Review: This movie is one of the best Disney movies ever made. Though some of the things that happened in it were kind of un-realistic, the movie is really just one big laugh the whole way through. Having just been handed a beautiful, $14,000-a-month-income hotel, Jonny Baxter (Dean Jones) loads up his family, quits his job and heads for the beautilul state of Colorado. No one is very pleased when they find the condition of the hotel (especially when Sue Baxter (Nancy Olsen) finds a racoon family living in the oven ).So through many money problems, they are able to get the hotel rolling.....untill trouble strikes again and Jonny Baxter enters a snow-mobil race!! One of the best movies made; make sure that you get one today!
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Summary: Snowball express
Review: THis movie is such a good and funny wholesome film. I would hope that this is produced again and please advice me if it is. We used to live in Colorado so it means a lot and I understand it ws filmed in Crested Butte, CO and we have been there.
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Summary: Fun Disney movie -- poor DVD release.
Review: This was one of my favorite movies as a kid -- the DVD release is a major disappointment. While I didn't expect that this film would receive the "Vault Disney" or "Special Edition" treatment, it would have be nice if it would been released in its original theatrical ratios (widescreen). Please, Disney, give collectors the option; put pan-and-scan as well as widescreen versions on the same disc!!!
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Summary: Simply a Classic
Review: When I was young and HBO first came on the air, I'd watch this movie evrytime I knew it was going to be on. I never got tired of it. Now it's over twenty years later and I want the DVD. It belongs in every Family Films collection.
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