Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

vonnablady This movie (based on a book called Mother Carey's Chickens) is for anyone who spent their Sunday nights watching The Wonderful World of Disney while growing up and wants to share that same feeling with their own children. Turn on the closed caption, gather up your little girls and sing along with the movie.The Carey family is saved from having to live in "a hovel...that's not in a very nice neighborhood, either" by a mysterious "Mr. Hamilton" via the town postmaster/constable/general store owner Osiam Poppham. The eldest daughter Nancy's (Hayley Mills) boundless enthusiasm and interaction with a fun assortment of characters such as a homeless cousin that "Thinks she's the pink of perfection" to Mrs. Poppham (Una Merkle-whom Hayley Mills fans will recognize from the original Parent Trap movie) who believes in a "good solid black cloud with no silver linings"

sheila-hall60 I have just watched Summer Magic again,it has been many years since I first saw the film. I enjoyed the film when it first came out and I still enjoyed it again today. It was one of those enjoyable films with a story and sheer entertainment, no swearing and a delight to watch. Great names like Burl Ives, Hayley Mills, Peter Brown etc, well do I need to go on, they all made the film. I was much younger when the first came out and my friend and I thought how wonderful it would be to walk down some stairs and have the lovely Peter Brown waiting for you. As I said I was younger then, but when I saw Summer Magic again today, I still had not changed my mind about Peter Brown waiting at the bottom of the stairs for me! I would recommend this film to everyone to watch.

montypythoninlegos This movie had very little substance. Hayley Mills' English accent was not disguised at all and I was extremely offended by the song "Femininity." It was also very slow and didn't have the usual Disney charm. Trying to fill up space... this was a bad movie please take our comment seriously and don't watch this film. But, have you seen the movie Ten Things I Hate About You? It is very good. Loosely based on William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," it is very entertaining and has an incredibly gorgeous cast (especiually Heath Ledger). Not only that, but it can truly change your life. A friend of mine watched this movie and proceeded to become obsessed. She not only watched it hundreds of times, but began to emulate the main character, Kat. She became a vegetarian, renounced Abercrombie and Fitch, and started wearing glasses instead of contact lenses. She became interested in majoring in women's studies and going to Sarah Lawrence University. With her Abercrombie clothes banished to the garage, she is a better person because of this movie. Watch it instead of Summer Magic and your life could be changed too.

ducdebrabant This movie bored me when I was ten and it was new, and a second viewing doesn't improve it much. Oh, it's nice to see Una Merkel through adult eyes, knowing who she is, and the movie has a certain curiosity value as an example of Disney's early 1960's film-making. The fruit basket art direction, the mickey-mousy accompanying score, the sophomoric comedy, all are in place. There's an English sheepdog (same one they used in THE SHAGGY DOG?). But it's no POLLYANNA (which holds up), and its arch and rambling story -- and the unrewarding conceit of all those mediocre Richard and Robert Sherman songs that characters are always bursting into -- undermine the talents of some reasonably talented people. Hayley Mills is visibly tired of parts like this, and poor Dorothy McGuire -- unflatteringly coiffed but beatific as always -- has to open her mouth so some other lady can dub in the superfluous title song. There's no necessity, what is more, for the likes of Eddie Hodges or Deborah Walley in any movie whatsoever. Walley is an annoying actress playing a character who's suppose to annoy us. The result is exponentially irksome. This is based on the book MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS which Bette Davis went on suspension at Warner Brothers rather than do (they don't credit that book by title in the credits, and no wonder). But really, what is the point of a movie about Bostonians adapting to life in the country when Boston looks like a back lot, rural Maine looks like a back lot, and it all basically takes place in that don't-confuse-this-with-reality Disney world? It was perfectly all right for the island in SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON to look like a ride at Disneyland, because the whole thing WAS a ride at Disneyland (even the original novel). The nadir may be the time when Burl Ives sings a song called "The Ugly Bug Ball" with nature footage spliced in, all manipulated so that real insects seem to be dancing and playing themselves as orchestral instruments. If a ballet company came to visit this little Maine town and did a performance in tutus in the town square, or if war broke out in Cuba and Michael J. Pollard came home with a medal to be greeted by Sousa and his band, I swear you wouldn't be one bit surprised. This is the time when Hayley is experiencing her Spring's Awakening, and it's always interesting to see what sort of boy flesh they find as a love interest for her. In IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS it was Michael Anderson Jr. Here it's (you think at first) sexy James Stacy. Again, through adult eyes, it's strange to see the tragic Mr. Stacy at this age, being the ripe forbidden fruit and future hot bet. The guy she ends up with (sort of; he doesn't kiss her or anything) is professional beauty Peter Brown. But the movie is tiring, slow going, and it took all of my critical distance and personal nostalgia to get me through it.