From what I've been able to gather, the revulsion you hear from the couple talking over the opening of this trailer pretty much sum up the critical reaction to 1964's "Father Goose," starring Cary Grant. Critics generallly panned the movie and criticized Grant for going against his more suave character, or at most damned the film with faint praise.
I thought it was a lot of fun, one in which Grant got to play with a less-than-wholesome character who at times channeled Mortimer Brewster from "Arsenic and Old Lace."
The plot is pretty good: An American drifter, Grant, is dragooned and marooned by the British navy into staffing a listening post in New Britain, passing along sightings of Japanese ships and planes. To motivate him, they damage his boat, bury his whisky all over the island, and promise to set him free after a set number of "confirmed sightings," a deal which, of course, changes at every step.
While on a dangerous mission to fetch his replacement, he finds instead a French woman in the company of a gaggle of young girls, trying to get out of the war zone themselves. Comical hijinx ensue.
It's a fun Grant vehicle and a film he ought to have been proud of.
On to Corner Gas: The Movie.
In 2014, this was a natural follow-up to the popular Canadian TV series, which I enjoyed quite a bit. They got to play with an extended storyline that culminates with an almost happy union with Wullterton [spit]. Seeing Graham Greene in his cameo was a hoot.
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