Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was released in 1968 with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Siblings.This movie was based on Ian Fleming's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Wondrous enchanting Auto. It starred Dick Lorry Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Actually Delicious . The film was directed by Ken Hughes. Irwin Kostal supervised and the musical numbers were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. Based totally on a tale by Ian Fleming ( of James Bond celebrity ), produced by Cubby Broccoli ( of James Bond celebrity ), and created by Roald Dahl ( who knew something about scaring kids ), this gadgety fantasy finds unsuccessful inventor Caractacus Potts ( Dick Van Dyke ) working on a supercar that will both fly and float while also looking after his dotty dad ( Lionel Jeffries ) and his 2 youngsters Jeremy and Jemimah ( Adrian Hall and Heather Ripley ). Also available, a potential love interest for Potts named Really Delicious ( Sally Ann Howes ), heiress to the Toot Sweet candy fortune.

When word of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( so named for the bizarre sound it makes ) reaches Baron Bomburst ( Gert Frbe... Of James Bond celebrity ), the repellent leader of the little middle Western european country of Vulgaria, he comes to a decision to kidnap the vehicle and its inventor, but he swipes Granddad by mistake, and the remainder of the clan races off to the dominion to get him back. What they don't understand is that the Baron and his spouse ( Anna Quayle ) have banned youngsters, and no sooner do Potts ' youngsters hit the ground then they're swept up and dragged away by the appalling kid catcher, a guy so frightful that pants must've been wetted all across America when he first appeared on screen. Potts and Truly will need to infiltrate the castle ( the excellent Bavarian 'Cinderella ' castle called Neuschwanstein ) in disguise ( with assistance from toymaker Benny Hill ) to save his youngsters and all of the other detained kids of Vulgaria.

It's quite an escapade, and it's interspersed with lots of tunes, some, most particularly the title track ( 'our fine four-fendered friend' ) quite familiar, others moderately lugubrious.It is too long and drags during some of the romantic bits. In fact, the problem of whether a fine young woman like Really could ever go for a lunatic like Potts won't interest the more youthful crowd. What's fascinating to notice from today's viewpoint is how Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is pretty much of its time, 1968 that is. This is one trippy flick, hallucinatory and groovy and like a genuine freakout, dude.

Come to think about it, it is like The Magician of Oz in that sense, too nevertheless it lacks a forceful Dorothy personality to root for. So stick this one in the DVD for the children, and leave them be with it.Just be absolutely certain you are around when they come running to you in a panic. The kid catcher is after them!