This Disney Romantic Comedy is just plain too long for its own good. Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman star as an Indiana couple finally getting their trip to Paris, but with three "kids" in tow. They get involved in all sorts of complications, especially with the older kids.
Amy (Deborah Walley) has met a rich young man (Michael Callan) who is also taking the ocean liner trip. She's a cold fish and he's a neurotic pain. Elliott (Tommy Kirk) is a sullen little thing, but he perks up when he gets to Paris and meets some girls. Then there's little Skipper (Kevin Corcoran) who makes some trouble for Dad.
While this could have been a fun film, it's so slow and draggy, the pacing kills it dead. Wyman and MacMurray have very little chemistry but go through their paces as the pros they were. Wyman is further hampered by those hideous mid-century clothes and hats.
Jessie Royce Landis provides a punch of fun and color as Callan's flamboyant mother. Ivan Desny makes for a dreary masher. A few other familiar faces like James Milllhollin, Howard Smith, Doris Packer, Max Showalter, and Richard Wattis, don't have much to do. Carol White, a British actress famous (later in the 1960s) for gritty British films like POOR COW, is oddly cast as one of Kirk's girl friends.
MacMurray does have a few good comedy scenes, but there's not enough punch to make this more than an extended sitcom. The film won Oscar nominations for sound and the hideous costumes.
Amy (Deborah Walley) has met a rich young man (Michael Callan) who is also taking the ocean liner trip. She's a cold fish and he's a neurotic pain. Elliott (Tommy Kirk) is a sullen little thing, but he perks up when he gets to Paris and meets some girls. Then there's little Skipper (Kevin Corcoran) who makes some trouble for Dad.
While this could have been a fun film, it's so slow and draggy, the pacing kills it dead. Wyman and MacMurray have very little chemistry but go through their paces as the pros they were. Wyman is further hampered by those hideous mid-century clothes and hats.
Jessie Royce Landis provides a punch of fun and color as Callan's flamboyant mother. Ivan Desny makes for a dreary masher. A few other familiar faces like James Milllhollin, Howard Smith, Doris Packer, Max Showalter, and Richard Wattis, don't have much to do. Carol White, a British actress famous (later in the 1960s) for gritty British films like POOR COW, is oddly cast as one of Kirk's girl friends.
MacMurray does have a few good comedy scenes, but there's not enough punch to make this more than an extended sitcom. The film won Oscar nominations for sound and the hideous costumes.