5/10
Even Dick wants the Duck.
7 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I've seen Ford and Clinton spoofed in cameos in comedies, and in this film, there's an unfilled actor playing President Nixon. It's obvious by the voice what Disney was intending, a nice funny little moment for the adults. Other than that, this is basically a film for juveniles, the 1970's versions, not modern-day ones. I was 8 years old in 1971 when my parents dropped us off while they did their grocery shopping, and we held in hysterics at the antics of danger zones and Sandy Duncan and their million-dollar duck who apparently can lay golden eggs. Of course is a mixture of nuclear contents and apples inside the eggs, and you wonder how a duck would feel laying something that was completely solid. Not very easy and possibly quite painful.

Of course, once news about the duck gets out, everybody wants a piece of the Donald or Daisy or Daffy, and that includes nasty neighbor Joe Flynn who has disliked Jones and Duncan up to this point, and for the dim Duncan, that's not hard to believe. She's ripe full of malapropisms, messing up easy sentences in the most hysterical of ways. Lots of Disney regulars have cameos including Edward Andrews and "Love Bug" villain, once again tangling with Jones. Tony Roberts, in his film devut, does a good job as Jones' friend.

Cute animated credits say without a doubt that this is a Disney film. The slapstick gets really outrageous Karma that one scene has Jones trapped on a fireman's ladder as it speeds down a country road. Duncan is truly a lovable, but did she have to be so airheaded? Their son is played by Lee Montgomery who is indeed adorable. Like most Disney films of the 1970s, you have to completely suspend disbelief with everything that happens, but I've seen much worse.
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