This story is a model of the powerful adventures we are living through a Swiss family who unfortunately wanders into an uninhabited island after the wreckage of a ship caused by the pirates. It's a new tragedy on board that island, where they must find all the way to survive. Maybe it will be very bad when that same family finds itself in an unrelenting struggle with the evil pirates aboard that island in a spectacular adventure.
It's no Pirates Of The Caribbean but the spirit of adventure, and Disney's high production values, means that there's still some fun to be had watching this wholesome family adapt to island life.
It's hard to imagine how the picture could be better as a rousing, humorous and gentle-hearted tale of family love amid primitive isolation and dangers.
Movie Metropolis
June 01, 2005
Classic family adventure with pirates and animals on an exotic island. What's not to love?
EmanuelLevy.Com
August 07, 2010
There's something for everybody in this Disney's live action adventure made for the entire family, which may explain why it was the most commercially popular film of 1960.
Chock-full of exotic locations and animals, desert-island DIY ingenuity, and high-spirited excitement, with a poignant subplot involving the rivalry of the two elder sons.
