Captain's Courageous (1996)

If you want to eat, you'll work

Captains Courageous DVD

Captain Courageous is updated version of a story by Rudyard Kipling"Captains courageous." (Kipling dollar library for young moderns). In the movie, staring Robert Urich as a fishing boat's captain, and Kenny Vodas as a young, spoiled rich boy who falls overboard from a cruise liner and is rescued by a fishing boat and is required to work if he wants to eat is a great story about growing up.


Highly recommended for any family who has a young teenage boy that is not use to minding his manners, respecting his elders, and doing chores as a responsibility.

Warning has a "tear-jerking" ending.

Gunner March, 2008
March 16, 2008

captains courageous

the remake has been a staunch family favorite since since we watched it some years ago at chritmastime. since then we look out for when it will be shown on tv as well as the remake of miracle on 34th street, a little princess etc. this year I decided to purchase the DVD.however when I purchased it thru a supplier listed on amazon I received a VHS item that was in a brown envelope with no proper packaging and the item was damaged. now I have to call barnes and noble.
amazon should be more careful about who they allow to promise products thru their secure website. January 19, 2008

I wasn't disappointed

I had very low expectaions for this film from the outset, and I was not disappointed. Kipling's classic is one of my favourite books, and the Fleming movie as well (but I have a few issues with that too). I don't get why every version of this film has to have people getting killed or maimed. This is the third version of this film, and each remake has been a step down from the one before. Sure, the best is the 1937 version...at least there's real fishing, and great sailing. The 1977 version had lots of potential, but it fell short in so many ways...this version didn't even try. I think Robert Urich could have made a very good Disko Troop (why Matt in this film?) if only he had been given a script and director/producer who had a clue about what Kipling was writing about. Instead he was dealt an appalling waste of ink and paper by some overpaid hack (if he was paid a nickel it was too much) and the whole show is a complete shambles. Even the poor "We're Here" is a lousy performer, she is obviously a yacht, and so far from an american vessel, to say nothing of a fishing schooner as to give me the screaming heebie jeebies. It is hard to convey the desolation of the Grand Banks when you can see mountains in the background. I have no experience in movie making, but I am sure I could make a much better film than this one...anyone who wants to fund the project can find out. I'll even write the script....it can't be worse than this. This film is a Hallmark of Shame production. March 7, 2006

This Is A Good Remake!

This remake of the original 1937 black and white Captains Courageous movie that starred Spencer Tracy is very good and I think Robert Urich was great and really played his part well and I also liked the rest of the cast, especially the child actor who played his son and the child actor who played Harvey. And this movie has inspired me to read the classic book that both movies are based on! October 7, 2005

Pure Crap - bring back the original.

The original movie (available on VHS I believe) is MUCH better than this remake.

The original shows how a pain in the backside kid gets 'straightened out' by fisherman who save his life in the 1930's (the sailing scenes are increadible)..

The remake is an aboniation - a ship full of touchy feely sweet and kind sailers that nurture the brat in to a more acceptable social frame of mind. BS!

The producers of this monstrosity should be shot. See the original if you want to see a good flick!

Eric R. Luna June 17, 2005

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