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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 20321
Released: May 4, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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!
Description of The Strongest Man in the World:
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
The Strongest Man in the World Reviews:
STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD DISNEY MOVIE 
2009-10-24 - I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS A CHILD IN VENEZUELA, IT BRINGS NICE MEMORIES TO MY MIND WHEN WE WENT TO THE MOVIES AS A KID IN VENEZUELA IT WAS MAGICAL BECAUSE OF THE COLORS,TV BACK THEN IN VENEZUELA WAS BLACK AND WHITE,I WAS HAPPY TO SEE THIS MOVIE BACK THEN,IM PROUD TO OWN IT AND HAVING IT IN MY MOVIE COLLECTION.
Classic
2007-09-22 - Like most Disney movies of its generation, this was a wholesome and fun G-rated movie that my whole family enjoyed seeing. I had great memories of watching this movie when it first came out. I really liked seeing my children (ages 7, 5, and 3) enjoy this movie as much as I did when I was their age. This would be a good addition for parents who are collecting wholesome and clean movies for their young children.
The Strongest Man in the World 
2007-07-11 - I was so happy with this movie.It came in a timely fashion and in exc.Condtion. I would highly recomend this to any family that enjoys good clean entertainment! Brought back some of my childhood.( LOVE IT)!!!!!!!
Enjoyable for kids
2007-07-07 - I saw this movie at the right time-when I was about 10 years old circa 1975. Wacky, silly fare about Kurt Russell as a college kid who comes across a weightlifting formula and the crooks who try to steal it.
Good goofy gags for the tot set, especially the guy whose arms turn to rubber when he tries to lift weights.
Adults will not want to bother with this unless they see it with kids or have nostalgia for seeing in their own childhood. With that said, leave your brains at the door and enjoy.
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!!!
