The Ava Report: DARBY O’GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE

Not every old movie is a classic, but even the average films of the past sometimes deserve revisiting. Once upon a time, Disney cranked out moderately appealing family films absent farting dogs, pointless 3D shenanigans or, worse, John Travolta and Robin Williams cavorting. (Not only are OLD DOGS incapable of new tricks, they’re not very good at old tricks either… unless you consider career-implosion worthy of kibble and comic bits.) Thus, the pleasure of renting DARBY O’GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE, a tepid yet inoffensive depiction of Gaelic drunks, crafty leprechauns and an Irish Spring romance, featuring a young, tuneful(?) Sean Connery(!). Manly, yes, bit I like him too!

DARBY may not fully intoxicate, but certainly can take the edge off any family movie night. O, Disney, won’t you please return to this sort of fare rather than the hyperkinetic inanity of G-FORCE? And now, The Ava Report, as dictated by my six-year-old-daughter…

This movie was a good movie but in two parts it was a bit scary. (There was a ghost that showed up two times and a carriage that took people when they died.) In one part, Darby went to where the leprechauns live and he was trying to get a horse. The horse got startled and then Darby fell into a hole where the leprechauns lived and two of them took him to their King. Here’s another thing, leprechauns like three things: drinking, dancing and hunting.It was funny when Darby put a glass of whisky in the sack with the king of the leprechauns and the king (Brian) drank it and threw the glass back out. In another part, the King Leprechaun got drunk and Darby pretended to get drunk but he was not. It was an interesting movie. Even though I’m 6 and a half, I think the movie is good for kids 8 and older.