Swiss Family Robinson
It was my Dad’s turn to choose a movie so as you can probably guess we watched another “classic”. Swiss Family Robinson is based on a book which is based on a true story, where a family is shipwrecked on a tropical island and attempt to survive. Whilst the movie is extremely far-fetched, and the characters are pretty annoying there are some bad things about it too. The movie is racist, sexist and abusive towards animals, so I'm not quite sure how it's still entertaining. A Swiss Family, the Robinsons, have been shipwrecked on an island which is home to almost every animal on the planet. The first wrong assumption you’ve already made is that the Robinsons would have a Swiss accent, or look Swiss. Well, they’re actually all clearly American, apart from one who’s British, and none of them attempt to hide this. The second assumption you made was that being shipwrecked on a deserted island, it would be hard to build shelter and survive. Wrong again, I’m afraid. They have a mu...