YMMV / Swiss Family Robinson

• Adaptation Displacement: The 1960 film completely stole the thunder of what was previously the best-known adaptation by RKO in 1940, despite that film notably featuring Orson Welles as the narrator, in his first film role a year before Citizen Kane. When Walt Disney decided to make an adaptation of it, he bought the rights to the 1940 film from RKO and confiscated all known prints to avoid comparisons with his adaptation. It's now available on Disney+.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Fritz and Ernst make fun of Roberta and call her a sissy when they think she's a boy because she acts effeminate. Tommy Kirk, who played Ernst, had a lonely youth because of his homosexuality and it would later end his career at Disney.

• Retroactive Recognition: Try to resist telling Fritz to book 'em.
• Values Dissonance: Humans showing up in a pristine natural habitat and promptly capturing a (baby!) elephant, a monkey, an ostrich and a bunch of other animals just does not have the same ring to it as it did when this movie was made, with nearly everything going extinct and huge problems with animal trafficking. Especially depressing with the elephant: when young Francis meets a baby elephant for the first time, he isn't even stunned, as any normal child would be. The first idea that comes to his mind is to figure out a way to tie it up and use it to carry stuff, to make it profitable.

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