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It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Mr. Hobbs wants to take a nice quiet vacation to the beach for the summer but Mrs. Hobbs insists on taking the whole family, daughters, son-in-law, grandchildren, cook and various drop ins, with them. There goes his peaceful trip. The kind of role that Jimmy Stewart could play in his sleep but he and Maureen O'Hara manage to make the material better than it should be. They keep the whole enterprise moving along with some cute side stories, Fabian is charming as a suitor to their daughter who is going through growing pains not helped by her new braces and the distinctive presences of John McGiver and Marie Wilson contribute a bit of spice in small scenes of a supposedly straight laced couple who hold the key to a new job for Jimmy's son in law, John Saxon-looking particularly handsome here. Harmless fun and if you're a Stewart fan irresistible.

Jimmy Stewart plays a St. Louis bank executive who goes on vacation with his wife(Maureen O'Hara) and children on a beach front house in California, where his planned romantic getaway with his wife does not go as planned, since the children get involved with their own problems(his lovelorn teenage daughter and young son who only wants to watch television, especially westerns!) On top of that, the plumbing does not work properly at times, especially a water pump with a mind of its own.Amusing comedy is quite warm and funny, with a charming performance by Jimmy Stewart as the harried father, whose attempts at sailing and bird-watching also meet with mixed results, but film remains a nostalgic comedy of a (sadly) bygone era, but one that can still be enjoyed on DVD whenever the viewer likes.

Mild account of Stewart, O'Hara an daughters taking a long overdue vacation to a seaside community where they mix (at times uneasily) with locals and entertain visitors in a vast holiday house on the beach. Domestic problems come and go, teenager Lauri Peters takes up with Fabian and his adolescent attempt at a beard, while John McGiver and wife Marie Wilson play a bland couple who spend a chaotic few nights with the Hobbs' with disastrous results.It's passive family fare, the most action you'll see being Stewart and his young son becoming lost in fog while enjoying a defining father-son bonding experience in a sailboat and a pre-dawn bird-spotting adventure. Generally good cast features Natalie Trundy playing one of the Hobbs daughters, while John Saxon has a small supporting role as one of the spouses.The film finishes where it began with Stewart back in the boardroom, but with closer relationships with his children as a result of the experience. Might be a bit dated for the contemporary family, it's very tame, inoffensive viewing ideal for the kids on a wet afternoon.

Stewart takes his family to the beach house; complications and hilarity ensue. This is a mildly amusing family comedy that plays like a sitcom. Stewart makes the most of his role while O'Hara is lovely as his understanding wife. Pop singer and teen heartthrob Fabian, inexplicably sporting facial whiskers, woos one of Stewart's daughters. In 1962, the year this film was released, Stewart starred in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and McGiver, who plays an unwelcome guest at the beach house here, appeared in "The Manchurian Candidate," arguably the two best films of the year. Unfortunately, none of the magic from those two films rubs off on this lame comedy.