When I was a kid I watched this film a few times on video and loved every moment of it. As a young adult it's still a great movie that has aged very well. My only quibbles is that the child acting isn't quite as good although not terrible and it does feel a bit derivative of Mary Poppins (the director for that movie, Robert Stevenson, also directed this). Everything else is great.
The story is very engaging and has charm (I am aware that it adapted the two books although I have yet to read them), the characters are likeable especially Miss Price and Professor Brown who they share some nice chemistry together, the cinematography is great as is the blending of live action and animation in the Beautiful Briny Sea sequence and the soccer match sequence, and the musical numbers from the Sherman Brothers are just as memorable as the other stuff they did in other Disney movies especially Beautiful Briny Sea, The Age of Not Believing, and Portobello Road.
Overall, this is a very underrated live action Disney flicks and everyone else should check it out. Oh and it's been 50 years since this came out. ;)
The story is very engaging and has charm (I am aware that it adapted the two books although I have yet to read them), the characters are likeable especially Miss Price and Professor Brown who they share some nice chemistry together, the cinematography is great as is the blending of live action and animation in the Beautiful Briny Sea sequence and the soccer match sequence, and the musical numbers from the Sherman Brothers are just as memorable as the other stuff they did in other Disney movies especially Beautiful Briny Sea, The Age of Not Believing, and Portobello Road.
Overall, this is a very underrated live action Disney flicks and everyone else should check it out. Oh and it's been 50 years since this came out. ;)