The mishaps of a family from New York buying a house in Connecticut, and finding it needs to be rebuilt. This film always reminds me of James Thurber's reference to " Blandings syndrome - the idea that anything that goes wrong around a house is funny." The Blandings keep changing their minds about what they want the house to be like, additions etc, then complain when it costs more money. Why wouldn't it? There are funny moments in this film (the scene with the painters is my favourite), but some of it I just find annoying rather than funny, so many problems they have could have been easily avoided if they used even a little intelligence. And why is Melvyn Douglas hanging around all the time? i find the ending a bit questionable as well, does the right person get the credit? Altogether, although amusing enough in its way, this isn't a film I find particularly enjoyable, a lot of it is heavy going, and the joke of everything being more expensive, taking longer, etc, wears thin pretty quickly.
