Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 70mm 144m
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Robert Helpmann
Synopsis:
An unsuccessful inventor turns an old motor car into an amphibious flying machine and sets off with his children and girlfriend to rescue his even pottier dad from a land of fantastic good and evil.
Review:
More like a narcotically induced fantasy than a coherent fairytale, the combination of Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl somehow failed to gel in the screenplay, but this is nevertheless a perennially popular part of most of our childhoods if we were born in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The songs are iffy apart from the title track, but the visuals and characterizations afford incidental pleasures.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 70mm 144m
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Robert Helpmann
Synopsis:
An unsuccessful inventor turns an old motor car into an amphibious flying machine and sets off with his children and girlfriend to rescue his even pottier dad from a land of fantastic good and evil.
Review:
More like a narcotically induced fantasy than a coherent fairytale, the combination of Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl somehow failed to gel in the screenplay, but this is nevertheless a perennially popular part of most of our childhoods if we were born in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The songs are iffy apart from the title track, but the visuals and characterizations afford incidental pleasures.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 70mm 144m
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Robert Helpmann
Synopsis:
An unsuccessful inventor turns an old motor car into an amphibious flying machine and sets off with his children and girlfriend to rescue his even pottier dad from a land of fantastic good and evil.
Review:
More like a narcotically induced fantasy than a coherent fairytale, the combination of Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl somehow failed to gel in the screenplay, but this is nevertheless a perennially popular part of most of our childhoods if we were born in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The songs are iffy apart from the title track, but the visuals and characterizations afford incidental pleasures.