Not even bad in a good way

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Overlong family film starring Don Knotts as the mild-mannered title character who wishes himself into a fish. An animated fish, to be exact. Then he goes on to have adventures fighting Nazi's in WW2. Live action parts are dullsville but the animated parts are enjoyable and endearing. Not sure why the subplot involving the wife and the best friend was included. It's like somewhere along the way they thought about making it something other than a family movie but wound up backing off of that a little. Still seems out of place. It's charming enough but don't expect much in the comedy department, despite Knotts' presence. It's much more of a "this makes me smile" type of movie than "this makes me laugh." See it for Ladyfish and Crusty the crab. They're the best parts.

This film takes me back many years to when I had an argument with a cousin who was into all things aquatic and he wanted to see this film. Being two years older and more mature about these things I scorned seeing The Incredible Mr. Limpet at the time when it was first out.Well almost fifty years later I can admit I was wrong. The Incredible Mr. Limpet which seems to have a dopey premise is a really charming mixed live action animation story which Don Knotts is perfectly cast in. And what's wrong with a film where a man achieves his life ambition, in this case to be a member of the piscatorial community.Don Knotts plays Henry Limpet, a shy bookish sort that years before Danny Kaye would have played who has all kinds of ailments including bad vision that keep him out of World War II, at least as a human. One day out at Coney Island, Knotts falls off the pier and drowns. Drowns as a human, but through an unseen power returns as a most unusual Mr. Ed kind of fish. Knotts keeps his nearsightedness and the glasses he wore as a human as well, but he's developed a kind of sonic blast that keeps predators like sharks away. It all proves most useful to the US Navy because even though Don Knotts is a fish, he's patriotic American fish.Carole Cook plays his frustrated wife and Jack Weston, Knott's best friend and man ready to catch Cook on the rebound as Knotts seems more interested life under the sea than the motion of the ocean with Cook.Despite these sly adult innuendos, The Incredible Mr. Limpet is a nice family film that holds up well after half a century. And Knotts finds true love in the ocean and by now there are untold thousands of Limpet fish in our sea world.At least I hope so.

I loved this movie as a young child. (I was born the year it was released.) I remember my parents taking me to see the movie. My four-year old grandson just recently discovered it and loves it also. He loves fish and boats and this has plenty of that. He asks if he can watch "Hengry". Last night we watched it twice until he fell asleep. I'm sure we will watch it again tonight and many nights to come. It's a great movie for big kids and little kids. Plenty of action and underwater adventure for the entire family. A refreshing change from most of today's movies. Good clean family entertainment. I wish there were more movies like this.

Kafkaesque nightmare or insane children's film? It's up to you how you view THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET. It's surely Don Knott's most outré movie vehicle. The combination of live-action and animation may not be that imaginative, but it's well-handled and a lot of fun. As a fish-loving nebbish who gets his wish and turns INTO a fish, Knotts has never been more appealing. OK, so he's never really been appealing, but he's at least bearable here. Living in the ocean, he falls in love with a lady fish named "lady fish," fights Nazis and meets an assortment of undersea characters. Garish looking Carole Cook is Knott's wife. She's really unpleasant. Jack Weston plays his not-so-best pal who moves in on Cook once Knotts turns into a fish. Not great but it rates higher than THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT.