The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, 1980 - ★★★½

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, 1980 - ★★★½
REVIEWED

"God is my co-pilot"

Bernie (Bujold)

Hugely entertaining live action family adventure from Walt Disney. In order to runaway from his debts pilot Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) takes a job flying missionary Miss Lafleur (Geneviève Bujold) her animals and two kid stowaways to her new tropical outpost. Only they fly off course and are forced to land on a remote island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers who've been stranded since wwII, and still think the wars ongoing.

Not even the overtly Christian themes, dire repetitive theme song and teared up Ricky Schroder (this time doing his don't die champ shtick, only with his love for a yak) put me off enjoying this fun romp. If ever your stuck finding entertainment for children you could do far worse than slapping this in the old VCR. A rare treat to have such a remarkable ensemble of actors in a family movie. You expect Gould being great in everything, but its also Bujol's best performance I've seen her in, outside of her two medical shockers 'Dead Ringers' & 'Coma'.

[PRFR: Personal Reasons For Remembering]
The magnificent sight of the airplanes fuselage being turned into a sea worthy raft and rent a crier child star Schroder almost becoming shark bait.

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