Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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

OneEightNine Media Disney joint. This film is about a shipwrecked family and etc. It is basically an entertaining waste of time and a history lesson in 60s family cinema. A corny but an enjoyable pre-CGI adventure flick

Mike McCurdy Per flagpants review:"What I found most disturbing, by today's standards, was the many examples of animal cruelty in the film. Including a tiger being harassed by 2 great dane dogs (potentially lethal for the dogs and distressing for the tiger), riding an ostrich and a zebra trapped in mud. All done with real performing animals."Me too. I was into this film as a kid in 1960 and was going to add it to my collection until we re-watched it and saw numerous examples (more than flag mentioned) of animals being mistreated for the various scenes in the film. I found myself rooting against the Robinson's after about 30 minutes and we cut our losses. Family film? No. Booo .....

TxMike Even though I was a teenager in 1960 I don't recall seeing this movie back then. We didn't go to the movies often and when I did, it was usually a "western" with Roy Rogers or Gene Autry. Anyway now it is available as a Netflix streaming movie and that is how I viewed it. The picture and sound are just fine for such an old movie.The basic story is a husband and wife want to get away from the rat race and are traveling by ship from their home in Switzerland to New Guinea to start a new life. But before they arrive they are caught in a bad storm and are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The captain and crew must have seen it coming and deserted early, leaving the family, with three sons, to fend for themselves.They do the best they can to salvage useful items and supplies from the wrecked ship and set about building their new home. It ends up being a quite elaborate 3-cottage cluster in a very large tree with nicely spread limbs. The family finds a number of animals, a Tiger, a small elephant, and several others that lead them to think it might be a land bridge, so they build a small boat and set sail to try to go around the island. Another shipwreck and an encounter with a band of pirates results in their rescuing a teenage girl as her grandpa is captured. In the end the pirates return, the Family Robinson work hard with improvised defenses to hold off the pirates and, when it seems the pirates will prevail a ship arrives and starts shooting at the pirates and their ship to save the day.When it was all over the parents decided they wanted to stay in this "New Switzerland" with the prospects of additional settlers, but the two older boys would likely return to Europe, one of them with the girl, for an education and a new start.

slapstck2000 I just downloaded this movie the other day, and really enjoyed this movie, it was good to see James Macarther(Hawaii 5-0 fame) I saw this once back in the 80s and only seen parts of it, but yesterday I got to see it all the way through, it is an awesome movie, the only spot I thought was a little cheesy was James Macarther and Tommy Kirk found the kid under the headband was a girl!!!!!1lololol I was dumb founded, I found myself talking to the t.v Hey guys you mean to tell me you just now figured that out?!!!!! I figured it out when her James& Tommy were running away from the Chinese pirates, going up the hill, I mean come on guys you cant see a woman when you see one???!!!!!!!!! and even THAT was hillariouse! I highly recommend Swiss family Robinson,Michael Smith