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Title: If it works, don't knock it
Review: Is this my favorite movie? No. Top ten? No. Top thousand? Nope. But I always enjoy watching it when I come across it. Robert Wise was no slouch; this is expert family filmmaking, funny and uplifting and even suspenseful. Sure, it's supposedly based on fact even while we know that no family with this many kids of this many ages could possibly get along this well. And sure, you can't expect complex moral dilemmas in a movie that posits, "Nuns, singing, and children are good; Nazis are bad." But no one approaches this movie without knowing what he or she is in for, and therefore I'd be amazed to find anyone who was genuinely disappointed by it. Let's just be thankful there were never any sequels or prequels. One is enough.
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