With a slew of famous actors on the great white way and the road seeing the invisible Harvey, why not the now grown up Skippy feeling the presence of an invisible stork? Jackie Cooper's been picked out in the stork lottery for a big bundle of joy to be delivered to him and wife Meg Randall, and Cooper seems to be losing it to wife Randall, mother-in-law Sarah Selby and boss Emory Parnell who runs a residential hotel where children are not welcome. Pushed to the brink by boss, family and friends, Cooper disappears and the hotel starts to suffer without him. Now it's only Cooper and the stork (voice of Stanley Prager), and Parnell finds his anti-child rules is costing him business.
Silly, outlandish and completely absurd, it's a delight irregardless because of its audacity to take fantasy completely serious. Cooper gets to lightly mock his early overly sentimental dramas with a mention of his 1931 tearjerker "Skippy", and Parnell is delightfully pompous. The unseen Prager seems to be straight out of those classic Warner Brothers cartoons with his sweet, innocent voice. The script in spite of its outrageous details is delightfully sweet which makes this fantasy comedy a complete surprise.
Silly, outlandish and completely absurd, it's a delight irregardless because of its audacity to take fantasy completely serious. Cooper gets to lightly mock his early overly sentimental dramas with a mention of his 1931 tearjerker "Skippy", and Parnell is delightfully pompous. The unseen Prager seems to be straight out of those classic Warner Brothers cartoons with his sweet, innocent voice. The script in spite of its outrageous details is delightfully sweet which makes this fantasy comedy a complete surprise.
