This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Strong and Moving!

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Taking a look at the UK Netflix,I discovered a Disney /Fred MacMurray film that I've not heard about before.With there only being a few hours to go before the movie was to be removed from the site,I decided that it was the perfect time to say bon voyage!The plot:After delays from family and work,Harry & Katie Willard decide to go on their long-planned honeymoon to Paris,and to take their children Elliott/Amy and Skipper with them.Deciding to go via cruise ship to France,Katie and Harry soon find their dream honeymoon to take a wrong turn,as the "difference of opinion" that they have with their children start to appear upon the horizon.View on the film:For the adaptation of Marrijane Hayes & Joseph Hayes book,writer Bill Walsh attempts to give the title a light and breezy atmosphere.As Walsh starts building up the care-free moon,the 130 minute running time (!) blocks the lightness from the movie like a giant wall,as Katie & Harry's troubles with their children go round in repetitive circles which become increasingly worn down.Whilst the stretched Flubber running time keeps the movie grounded,Walsh does off a number of sweet funny set-pieces,which goes from the Willard's taking a tour of the Paris sewers ,to Harry getting in a fight with Rudolph the Red Nosed Hungarian. Filmed on location in France, director James Neilson displays the Paris location in elegant wide shots and casts the film in light blues and yellows which match the honeymoon romance that the couple are trying to create.Taking on roles that James Cagney and Greer Garson had turned down, the tension that Jane Wyman & Fred MacMurray had with co-star Tommy Kirk being gay steams across the screen,as Katie and Harry appear very keen to say Bon voyage to their little darlings.

BON VOYAGE (1962) is a curious, mildly entertaining live-action Disney artifact about a typical American family's long awaited trip to France, and an odd attempt at semi-sophisticated comedy from a studio not exactly known for the genre.In the mom-and-pop leads are the Disney period Fred MacMurray, a long way from DOUBLE INDEMNITY, and the ex-Mrs. Reagan, Jane Wyman, whose dignity manages to hold up better than Fred's. As the two sons we have Disney protégés Kevin "Moochie" Corcoran in a relatively tolerable appearance, and Disney maverick, Tommy Kirk, in a buzz cut that does nothing for him.For the young love interest daughter Deborah Walley and cynical playboy Michael Callen (Riff in the original stage cast of WEST SIDE STORY) are re-teamed after 1961's GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN. As Callen's expatriate mother Jessie Royce Landis does her best to bring a touch of giddy sophistication to her Paris soirée sequence.Around this time they used to say Disney got their live-action performers on the way up (Julie Andrews) or the way down (most of the cast here). It's also somewhat difficult to gage the target audience - adults, teens, family? - because there's not much here to hold a child's interest.Certainly interesting is the authentic (if brief) footage of vintage ocean liners and their NYC piers (including a comically confused boarding and departure sequence), and location shots of an early '60s Paris.Most curious sequence: MacMurray meeting what is subtly coded as a Paris street walker, played by the authentically French and rather grave Françoise Prévost, who seems to have inexplicably wandered in from a Godard film. Later she also picks up Kirk, an encounter dad is quick to defuse.So it's no spoiler to mention that American Family Values triumph at the end in spite of a climactic trip to the decadent French Riviera. On the plus side the film presents a generally positive, even admiring view of French life and culture.And Bunuel and Dali would surely love the extended sequence in which Fred MacMurray's wiggling finger protrudes from a street level Paris sewer lid.

This Disney comedy gets off to a roaring start when plumbing contractor Fred MacMurray, his wife Jane Wyman and their three kids try to get to a Battery dock to catch a cruise ship to France and are escorted by a very friendly and overly chatty New York cab driver. Like Spencer Tracy in "Father of the Bride", provider MacMurray is the most overlooked member of the family, unappreciated by his two sons and daughter and overshadowed by the compassionate mom, Wyman, who sometimes seems to take him for granted. He is forced to put up with Wyman's family and friends from Boston at a send-off party who don't understand why someone like Wyman would go off an marry some plummer from the mid-west. Then, on the ship, he finds himself overwhelmed by his youngest son when everybody goes off to do their own thing. He realizes that as the older children find themselves involved in their own young romantic problems, they prefer the tenderness of Wyman's motherly advice to his more direct approach in dealing with them. Daughter Deborah Walley falls in love with the neglected heir to a fortune who is the product of a broken home and prepares to have her heart broken while son Tommy Kirk makes plays for very single young woman he meets. Then, when they get to Paris, embarrassment after embarrassment befalls MacMurray, first being lost in the sewers (and seemingly never getting to the Louve), then dealing with a caddish Hungarian who makes a pass at Wyman. It all falls apart at a party that Walley's boyfriend's mother (Jessie Royce Landis) gives where MacMurray gets drunk on a liquorish liqueur, then creates a major disturbance in Monte Carlo that could result in an international incident.From the Absent Minded Professor to Son of Flubber to Father of Trouble, MacMurray was Disney's "every-man", expected to keep the family together without actually really having any say. That's the lovely Wyman's job, and she is the perfect wife and mom in every manner. MacMurray utilizes his massive talents of light-hearted comedy to keep your interest, but the episodic situations and predictable outcomes make this situation comedy like Disney movie an overlong precursor to "The Facts of Life Go to Paris". Disney seems to be taking over here where MGM had stopped after the last of the Andy Hardy movies were made several years before. Disney does raise a bit of an eyebrow by briefly introducing a character who is obviously a prostitute and a family of opportunistic Parisans who set their money-hungry eyes on the not quite so rich Americans. But when you put it altogether, what it seemingly comes down to was Disney was telling us that while it's nice to venture, there's no place like home, and the backyard you live in is the best place to hang your hat.

Bon Voyage Let's See. On board for 'Bon voyage' is my mother's favorite actor 'Fred MacMurray'. There is actress and Ronald Regan's ex 'Jane Wyman'. Disney maverick's 'Tommy Kirk' and 'Kevin Anthony "Moochie" Corcoran' are on board as well. And then there is Deborah Walley, who I never heard of before, but she seems like she's a good actress.OK, there is the wholesome Disney atmosphere, some wacky situations, one involving Fred getting lost in the sewers of Paris and other wacky things including Fred almost getting arrested from causing a scene at a restaurant. He has some other wacky conversations with some relatives who have never meet him, but think it's horrible that Jane Whyman's character has marred of all things 'A plumber'. He slyly reveals that he is the plumber much to their shocked snobbery surprise. Overall there is the interesting sitcom concept and premise of a family taking a vacation in Europe.This concept was used in 'National Lampoon's European Vacation' and produced a rather funny film. The concept used in this film produced a rather dull and boring movie. Despite the cleaner friendly film, it isn't a Disney film worth adding to your collection and I would have to say it isn't worth renting either. NLEV is crude in parts and is not worth letting your kids watch unless you find a way to severely edit out all the inappropriate parts.But 'Bon Voyage' is not the better equivalent. With Fred MacMurray you expect better work. His character is annoying. When a man hits on his wife instead of hitting him, he guzzles down booze and gets upset at his wife because a guy is flirting with her. He does finally sock the guy, so justice wins out in the end, even though you have to wait for it to happen while enduring his whining about it. The melodrama that bubbles up from this film is also annoying and leaves you wondering about the deeper storyline that they never reveal. Even if they did you probably wouldn't care anyway.The Disney magic does not flow upon everything that it does. This is not the worst film ever made or the worst film Disney ever made, it's just a rather boring dull film. So I say Bon Voyage 'Bon Voyage ( and don't come back)