The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

I remember it being very good. Christians won't be offended. A missionary brings a man to Christ, and they do not make Christians appear to be idiots. A good adventure movie, with a tinge of action and adventure, though not violent.

Aside all mismatches in the plot this picture is plenty enjoyable for Disney patten, Elliott Gould was in the peak of his career, however starts running down the hill in slowing process, he was not in great shape anymore, a little fat for the role, the Canadian French ancestry Genèvieve Bujold was a little bit aged, in fact both around de forty years old, the highlight certainly is the child-star Rick Schroder that had a resounding success as T. J. Flynn at "The Champ" previously one year before, also the duo-comic Japanese Soldiers stranded in the island for 35 years long.

Elliott Gould plays a single pilot Noah Dugan that was in bit of a pickle for gambling on a wrong horse, pursuit by mobster for five grants, further there no jobs at sight, in a forlorn hope he looking for his old pal Stoney (Vincent Gardenia) who needs frantically a crazy pilot for a scrapyard of a cargo plane from WWII's era, Noah needs money but tries to flight this outdated giant plane to transport to south seas a load of living animals including a huge pair of bull & cow, chickens, ducks, pigs among others specimens, the crazy idea coming for a Reverend lady Bernadette Lafleur (Bujold) who is intent settle a small missionary in a isolate pagan island to help the natives.

He just accepts the job because have two mobster (Dana Elcar & John P. Ryan) at your neck, stealtily a couple of children come on board (Schroder & Tamin Laurie), Noah takes off the hunk of junk cargo, nonetheless Mrs. Lafleur tries help fly the airplane, unwittingly she puts a radio near the compass, through the radio's magnetism the route is change for a unknown south area, Noah got landing in a deserted island for lack of fuel, there they face two older Japanese soldiers from WWII, they stay there without known that the war is over, aided by the skillful craftsmen Japanese soldiers they made a raft using the old cargo upside-down trying reach somewhere or cross path with some ship around.

As I said early the premise is silly driven to family audience, let it see so easily, nostalgic picture for any age, I'd never watched this one before the DVD's advent, whereby I bought my original copy.

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First watch: 2010 / Source: DVD / How many: 2 / Rating: 7.

In fact, it wasn't Bette Midler who first brought new blood into the heavy-handed 7O's and 80's Disney productions. It was people like Elliott Gould who originally provided the shot in the arm that Disney needed. In this movie he lends his wise-cracking, go-to-hell character to the role of Noah Dugan and it's a joy to watch! The whole cast is great, and the whole movie is a delight from start to finish.

'The Last Flight of Noah's Ark' is average.

One of the reasons for that is the lacklustre plot, which is one we've practically already seen before from Disney in years prior - like 1960's 'Swiss Family Robinson' and 1966's 'Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.'. This isn't incredibly similar to those two, but they are certainly in the same ballpark.

The premise doesn't have much about it in terms of action or heart, the ending threatens to finish with a highly meaningful moment but instead bottles it in favour of a more happier conclusion. Elsewhere, you have a forgettable cast. Elliott Gould (Dugan) and Geneviève Bujold (Bernadette) are alright, though they lack the necessary chemistry together.

Close to being a good'un, but just misses out in my books.

While Vincent Gardenia and J.P. Ryan only appear in the film's beginning, they are pretty much in character. Gardenia wise cracking and Ryan playing a really small part as a "heavy" after Elliott Gould for money owed to his bookie. The story is rather "formula driven". Plane carrying animals goes down on an island. Japanese Soldiers appear, eventually making friends with Gould and Genieve Bujold. Two kids who were stowaways are the only reason this is a family film. I found them to be more annoying than anything, but obviously they were not going to go away. Once the plane is turned into a raft, we get the expected crisis of the minute, including a shark attack, and a storm. All ends well, and the movie is far from memorable, especially for adults. - MERK