There's no doubt that The Andy Griffith Show was never what it was after Don Knotts left the series. In The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Knotts once again takes the character of a bumbling nerd with a good heart - trying to make a name for himself in Small Town America while not always noticing how much he is dismissed by his fellow citizens. Knotts pulls it off expertly, and his performance does not suffer from over-exposure in a full-length movie.
It's not an epic - the story is simple and innocent. The gags are not perfectly timed, but funny nonetheless. When Luther asks the town drunk what he is doing when he is supposed to be dead, it's the first of several memorable quotes the kids loved repeating.
The movie looks clean; the classic Technicolor filming gives the movie the feeling that it was put together by people who knew what they were doing. The sets are perfectly lit, and nothing looks phony. The cameras are all locked down or on cranes. Thankfully, freehand (shaky) camera work was not all the rage back then like it is now.
Overall, this is a fun film to watch in the afternoon when you are in the mood for AMC. Bring the kids in also; they will get a kick out of it if they are not already jaded by the sewage available on screen today.
It's not an epic - the story is simple and innocent. The gags are not perfectly timed, but funny nonetheless. When Luther asks the town drunk what he is doing when he is supposed to be dead, it's the first of several memorable quotes the kids loved repeating.
The movie looks clean; the classic Technicolor filming gives the movie the feeling that it was put together by people who knew what they were doing. The sets are perfectly lit, and nothing looks phony. The cameras are all locked down or on cranes. Thankfully, freehand (shaky) camera work was not all the rage back then like it is now.
Overall, this is a fun film to watch in the afternoon when you are in the mood for AMC. Bring the kids in also; they will get a kick out of it if they are not already jaded by the sewage available on screen today.