The Strongest Man in the World

Starring:Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Harold Gould, Michael McGreevey, Richard Bakalyan, William Schallert, Benson Fong, James Gregory, Ann Marshall, Don Carter, Christina Anderson, Paul Linke, Jack David Walker, Melissa Caffey, John Debney (II), Derrel Maury
Director: Vincent McEveety
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

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Once again Dexter Riley (a young Kurt Russell) and his science lab pals astound and confound Medfield College's head dean when their latest concoction might either save the struggling institution from bankruptcy or get the top-level staff fired. In this third of the four Medfield films, Riley accidentally ingests a vitamin compound that gives him superhuman strength, leading to sponsorship by a cereal company and possible defeat of a rival university in a weightlifting contest. Although today Medfield's team would be disqualified for drug use, in this pre-steroid scandal picture it's the scheming adults who are the bad guys. Thanks to a Medfield Board of Directors traitor (an amusingly villainous Dick Van Patten), the competing sponsor sends a couple of bungling burglars (one played by Cesar Romero) to steal the formula. Kidnapping, hypnosis, and a down-to-the-wire weightlifting finale mark this 92-minute, G-rated film, which is short on subtlety but long on wholesomeness. Kids as young as 4 will enjoy the weightlifting and burglary antics, but the school politics and corporate warfare subplots will lose them temporarily. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Description

Medfield College science major Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box! After breakfast the next morning, Dexter is transformed, possessing a superhuman strength that levels lampposts and destroys doorknobs. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events. Ultimate control of the moneymaking formula rides on a weight lifting match between the pitifully small Medfield team and the superior State challengers. It's a mixture of fun, comedy, and adventure that will have everyone exploding with laughter!

Customer Reviews:

Silly But FUN!.......2007-01-03

This movie is typical of the live-action Disney fare from the 60s and 70s. Harmless fun based on a silly premise. Kurt Russell was always so fun to watch in his Disney movies. This is the type of movie that was on Sunday nights when I was a kid and afterwards on various local stations and finally on the Disney Channel before they started original programming and adding other shows of a dubious (but more "hip") nature. If you like silly fun for the whole family, check out this title or any other family movie that features Kurt Russell, Tommy Kirk, Fred MacMurray, Joe Flynn, Ken Berry, Keenan Wynn & Ed Wynn, Hayley Mills, Jim Dale, Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Robert Morse, Phil Silvers, or Mickey Rooney. You won't be disappointed!!!

Over-the-top cornball, good-clean-fun!.......2005-07-24

Forgetting the Disney corporate and technical criticism, the movie itself is thoroughly entertaining, good clean fun. It's full of great character actors from the 60's and 70's including a hilarious Joe Flynn. The movie is full of over-the-top cornball fun and thankfully it's devoid of profanity, flatulence jokes and violence found in so many movies geared at kids today. Great for kids and parents who enjoy innocent, G-rated entertainment.

Joe Flynn is funny!........2005-04-18

`The Strongest Man In The World` Is about the Funniest man in the world, the late Joe Flynn.

Disney Go Home.......2004-08-21

I keep reading that Disney might get swallowed up by a bigger corporation in one of the token buyout/takeovers that are so common these days. While I am not crazy about that particular phase of big business, I hope *somebody* with dignity would do us all a favor and do this to Disney. There are so many films like this one that I grew up with and would love to own, but I refuse to waste my hard-earned cash on inconsiderate shovelware with no care given to the restoration and presentation of the original film.

Walt Disney was nothing at all like the money-grubbing buffoons who run the show at Disney now. The soul of Disney's empire is long gone and the only folks occupying their offices are mindless, greedy, insensitive, corporate cannibals.

They may one day get some of my money, but not until they change their ways. Over 200 titles in my ever growing DVD collection and not one bears the Disney logo.

Something happened to Dexter.......2004-06-24

This is an enjoyable Disney romp with stars like Phil Silvers Eve Arden along for the ride and the return of Joe Flynn as Dean Higgins Cesar Romero as A.J Arno and Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley. The only disappointment is Russell's appearance is really pretty short with about 15 minutes at the beginning and another 15 at the end. But if you enjoyed The Computer that wore Tennis Shoe's and Now you see Him now you Don't this DVD is a must.

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