Christopher Carpenter

Fun movies, bad packaging, May 29 2004

Good news first- if you love the Ma & Pa Kettle movies, buy these immediately. They are very enjoyable little movies- corny, unsophisticated,formulaic, but good clean fun. The prints and sound are as good as one might hope for fifty year old films.

Now the bad news- and this is really more annoying than anything-the packaging is very sloppy: 1)the films are not in the right order, 2)the second film is called "The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle" on the box although the correct title is simple "Ma and Pa Kettle" and 3)The plot description given for "Ma and Pa Kettle" is completely wrong. These are merely quibbles, though. Overall, fans of the… Read more